In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne: and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: two wings covered their faces, two wings covered their feet and with two they were flying. And they were calling out to one another:
"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty; the whole earth is filled with his glory."
What they actually looked like other then what scripture says about them, is anyone's guess except for those that may have seen them in visions as this account in Isaiah tells us. It is what God created them to do, that is most important.
And that was to worship him.
One thing that is interesting about these angels, apart from their reason for being, is in verse 4:
At the sound of their voices the door posts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
These angels voices were not just fluttering about, quietly calling out that God is holy, and the earth is filled with his glory.
No, they were loudly and maybe even screaming it out in whatever kind of heavenly voice that God had given them. Proclaiming his holiness so that the doorposts of heaven shook! That had to be very loud for all of heaven to hear.
Isaiah was terrified at seeing all of this in his vision, Because he knew he had just seen God.
"Woe to me!" I cried, "I am ruined! For I am a man with unclean lips, and I live among people with unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty!" (verse 5)
He knew he was a sinner and because of seeing the Lord, he was probably in deep trouble. But, he was not without hope at all.
Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the alter. With it he touched my mouth and said, "See this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for." (verses 6-7)
It was then that Isiah began his prophetic ministry. God needed to send someone and he had said, "Send me!" He would be foretelling the birth of Jesus Christ hundreds of years before Jesus was to come.
Before he could do that though, God showed him a picture of heaven. And Isaiah realized that in his own self that he was sinful and had no right seeing what he had seen.. The seraphim that had been giving God worship and praise stepped in to do the will of God by pressing the coal to his lips and absolving it. Christ had not come yet. There had to be other ways to deal with the sinfulness of human nature. And this was how it was done for Isaish, so that he could go on to do the work of the Lord. What does it take for you and I to be deemed holy enough to enter God's kingdom? Nothing? Everything?
We don't deserve it. There is nothing in ourselves that we can to do deserve it. We however, can obtain salvation only by admitting that we have sinned, that Jesus is Lord, and ask him to come into our hearts and lives and forgive us. That will reserve our place in heaven so that one day we will be able to worship and praise God with all the angels that he created and everyone that has gone before us, whose sin he has forgiven.
October 2, 2019 Promise: It is written: What no eye has seen, what has no ear heard, and what no human mind has conceived, the things that God has prepared for those that love him." I Corinthians 2:9
Angels, heaven, those things that we only see in pictures or the movies. Man on earth has no understanding of what they are really like until we who love him, get there. Then we will know God and his creations in full glory.
Thanks for coming by today Friends. God be with you and yours today and everyday!
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