Isaiah 6 is written here to confirm the beginning of the great ministry of Isaiah. This is an awesome text that stands alone and unique in relation to the tremendous vision Isaiah writes about.
Isaiah's life is about to change...
The actual setting for this chapter is around 742 B.C. King Uzziah had just died, and now his son, who was wicked, was about to take the throne.
Uzziah had been regarded as a good king of Israel, but during the latter days of his life he had become a proud man...to the point he usurped the role of a priest, which could only come by a special anointing. As a result, that didn't work out well for King Uzziah, for God struck him down in the midst of his attempt to fulfill the role of a priest.
Now, matters were only to get worse for Israel as Uzziah's son became king, and his heart was given to evil, and not to God.
Meanwhile, Isaiah was given a vision that was about to change his entire life. Isaiah beheld the "Holy One"...the Great God-of-the-Angel-Armies...seated on His throne...in all His Glory...
Gleanings from Isaiah 6: 1-7
"It was in the year King Uzziah died...that I actually beheld Him...the Holy One...the Lord Himself! He was seated on His throne, and it was a lofty throne. His throne was high...and it was lifted high into the heavens, and the thing that struck me was the length of just the skirts of His very robe!...it was so long and wide the ends of His robe filled the entire Temple!
Above the Lord, in flight around Him, were these seraphim...these "burning ones"! Each seraphim had six wings: two were used to cover their faces, two more were used to cover their feet, and two wings enabled them to remain in flight around the Mighty Throne of God Himself.
These seraphim were calling out to one another: " Holy...Holy...Holy...is the God-of-the-Angel-Armies...for the entire earth blazes with Your Glory!"
Now, while all these seraphim were announcing these proclamations to one another of the Greatness of the True Holy One...the very Temple was beginning to shake, right to its foundation. I watched as the door posts, the thresholds, the whole place shake, and while this was going on...the entire building was filled with smoke!
Then, I spoke,"It's all over for me! I am as good as dead! Everything I say is nothing more than perverse and sinful to You, O Holy One! There is no friend to call upon, no relative, whether distant or close at hand, no one who has ever lived or no one who will live...there is simply no one who can stand before the Great and Holy One...for we are all unclean...before You!
Yet, in the midst of all this....I have been given great favor...for my eyes have beheld the Great King!...the God-of-the-Angel-Armies...and...I have seen Him, and the Glory about Him!
Then, almost out of nowhere, one of the seraphim flew directly to me. He had a live coal in his very hand, one he had picked up with tongs from the altar. The seraphim then took this hot coal that was in his hand and put it on my very lips...then said to me," You see, this living coal has touched your lips; this enables all your iniquity...all your sin...to be removed. Now, your sin is forgiven...to be remembered no more."
A Couple of Notes to Ponder:
1. The hot coal is like a fire of God's judgment upon mankind...which culminated in His Son Jesus, who went to the Cross for each one of us. God's fire of judgment did not harm Jesus, but instead burned away sin...all sin...our sin.
2. The idea of recognizing we are sinners, like Isaiah cried in his vision, equally awakens us to the reality of how much the Lord Himself hates sin..all sin that has invaded our very lives.
Isaiah's life is about to change...
The actual setting for this chapter is around 742 B.C. King Uzziah had just died, and now his son, who was wicked, was about to take the throne.
Uzziah had been regarded as a good king of Israel, but during the latter days of his life he had become a proud man...to the point he usurped the role of a priest, which could only come by a special anointing. As a result, that didn't work out well for King Uzziah, for God struck him down in the midst of his attempt to fulfill the role of a priest.
Now, matters were only to get worse for Israel as Uzziah's son became king, and his heart was given to evil, and not to God.
Meanwhile, Isaiah was given a vision that was about to change his entire life. Isaiah beheld the "Holy One"...the Great God-of-the-Angel-Armies...seated on His throne...in all His Glory...
Gleanings from Isaiah 6: 1-7
"It was in the year King Uzziah died...that I actually beheld Him...the Holy One...the Lord Himself! He was seated on His throne, and it was a lofty throne. His throne was high...and it was lifted high into the heavens, and the thing that struck me was the length of just the skirts of His very robe!...it was so long and wide the ends of His robe filled the entire Temple!
Above the Lord, in flight around Him, were these seraphim...these "burning ones"! Each seraphim had six wings: two were used to cover their faces, two more were used to cover their feet, and two wings enabled them to remain in flight around the Mighty Throne of God Himself.
These seraphim were calling out to one another: " Holy...Holy...Holy...is the God-of-the-Angel-Armies...for the entire earth blazes with Your Glory!"
Now, while all these seraphim were announcing these proclamations to one another of the Greatness of the True Holy One...the very Temple was beginning to shake, right to its foundation. I watched as the door posts, the thresholds, the whole place shake, and while this was going on...the entire building was filled with smoke!
Then, I spoke,"It's all over for me! I am as good as dead! Everything I say is nothing more than perverse and sinful to You, O Holy One! There is no friend to call upon, no relative, whether distant or close at hand, no one who has ever lived or no one who will live...there is simply no one who can stand before the Great and Holy One...for we are all unclean...before You!
Yet, in the midst of all this....I have been given great favor...for my eyes have beheld the Great King!...the God-of-the-Angel-Armies...and...I have seen Him, and the Glory about Him!
Then, almost out of nowhere, one of the seraphim flew directly to me. He had a live coal in his very hand, one he had picked up with tongs from the altar. The seraphim then took this hot coal that was in his hand and put it on my very lips...then said to me," You see, this living coal has touched your lips; this enables all your iniquity...all your sin...to be removed. Now, your sin is forgiven...to be remembered no more."
A Couple of Notes to Ponder:
1. The hot coal is like a fire of God's judgment upon mankind...which culminated in His Son Jesus, who went to the Cross for each one of us. God's fire of judgment did not harm Jesus, but instead burned away sin...all sin...our sin.
2. The idea of recognizing we are sinners, like Isaiah cried in his vision, equally awakens us to the reality of how much the Lord Himself hates sin..all sin that has invaded our very lives.
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