Prophecy: Isaiah 1-6

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Highlighted Verses:

• Isaiah 6:2-4 (New International Version, ©2010)

  ² Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. ³ And they were calling to one another:

     “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;

     the whole earth is full of his glory.”

   ⁴ At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

My Take: I tried to read the first 5 chapters, but the first 4 were Isaiah's condemnation of Judah and Jerusalem. Straight doom and Gloom. Chapter 5 picked up with the song of the vineyard where we hear Isaiah sing of his love of for God, which were so pretty awesome correlations between a vineyard and God's love and desire for us to be next to and near to him. However, I won't lie, I was here for Chapter 6. Chapter 6 dealt with Isaiah's commission, and I can only tell you I know of this chapter from several of my friends, including Justin Johnston, who told me this story one summer while he was leading worship in Anahuac, Texas. The highlighted verse that I mention in today's reading was one of the biggest verses that has stayed with me over the years in my sparse bible verse memorization. I think it is because shows the awesome and amazing power of God in a way that I can't even imagine. We first have these Seraphim's who had six wings, they were heavenly beings that are not mentioned anywhere else in the bible. They covered their face because could not gaze directly at the glory of God. They covered their feet with two more wings, presumptively because they were unclean. The last two of their wings they used to fly.


So let's put 2+2+2 together. This creature that had six wings didn't want look at God because it felt it was so inferior, it didn't want to show it's feet because it felt that it was unclean, and it was flying! To make the cherry topping on the cake, when they called to one another their voices shook the temple that they were and filled it with smoke. THESE WERE POWERFUL CREATURES!!! 


Yet they feared God, they were infinitesimally more powerful than us but understood that their power was nothing to the awesome and often uncomprehendable power of God. 


I pray that we fully understand the radical power of God, that we fully realize how much he put everything that we have in it's place. How he caused even these heavenly beings to tremble!