Isaiah 6                                                                Book of Isaiah  

 

Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

• King Uzziah = Contrast this leprous king with the glorious king
• Died = In a separate house. This completes the contrast.
• I saw = to see clearly.
• Isaiah 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

• It =  the throne. seraphims = burning ones. No Art. Celestial beings, named but unexplained.
• Name used of the serpents because of the burning effect produced by them, just as nachash was used of a snake.
• Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
• Because of its shining skin = Numbers 21:9  And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
• As well as of the shining one of = Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
• Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
  7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
  8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
  9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
• Sept. reads "and seraphs stood round about Him".

3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

• No matter how bad things become, don't ever forget this verse.
• Father's glory fills the whole earth. He is on the throne, and His very elect feels His presence.
• We feel His protection. He communicates His plan to us. We hear our  Father.

4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

• Uzziah was a king who died with leprosy.
• Your Father is a King who is eternal.
• Israel had fallen away from God . They were not hearing our Father.
• Undone = dumb, or lost.
• The essence of true conviction is a concern for what I am, not for what I have done or not done.
• King = Contrast "king Uzziah",

6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

• The live coal was taken from the alter of God.

7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

• The fire of God cleanses us of sin. Did the fire from God's altar harm Isaiah? Absolutely not.
• The fire of God won't harm you either, if you are serving Him.

8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

• Isaiah was a willing servant. Are you?

9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

• Because they live as the world

10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

• Very few today listen to God. Even fewer hear with understanding.
• Some can't hear for their own protection.
• They remain innocent, if they don't understand.

11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

• God's children, for the most part, are biblically illiterate. God will let them destroy themselves spiritually.
• It continues even unto today. How many people do you know with whom you can have a reasonably intelligent biblical discussion? There aren't many who are hearing our Father.
• When = Christian will not stand up for God
• How long? = Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.
• Wasted = desolate.
• Without = for want of man.
• Desolate = Isaiah 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

12 And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

• Note we are talking about the land.

13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

• A plot of one tenth of the land is set aside.
• The oak and the teil are mentioned, because you can cut them down, but they will sprout a sapling from the roots.
• So it is with God's elect. They will continue from generation to generation.
• The holy seed keeps sprouting out. The elect hear our Father, and then share His truth with others.

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25