Isaiah 6

The Christ who sits upon his throne, that Jesus is ultimately going to win.

the lamb will overcome them you and i are on the winning side if you look at a dragon about ready to approach a lamb who does it appear will win the dragon of the lamb the dragon but in this battle who's going to win jesus the lamb now go back to isaiah keep your finger in revelation because we're there at revelation 18 but go back to isaiah chapter 6.

Isaiah sees Jesus on his throne.

Isaiah knows he's on the winning side.

He sees beings around the throne singing, holy, holy, holy.

Verse 3, and Isaiah says that these beings say, holy, holy, holy, the whole earth is full of his glory.

In the final analysis, Revelation chapter 18, verse 1, Revelation 18, verse 1, church and state will unite.

The God who is on his throne will pour out his spirit mightily upon this earth.

The holiness of God is a huge theme and a consistent theme throughout Scripture, and it's so vitally important that we understand it.

The prophet Isaiah famously had a dramatic revelation of the Lord in his holiness at the time of his commissioning as a prophet.

In chapter 6 of his book, he had a vision of the Lord, and this is his own account, and just try and picture this as I read a few verses of it.

Isaiah 6 in verse 1, the prophet writes, "...in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne," and just try and picture this, "...sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of his robe filled the temple." Above him stood the seraphim.

Each had six wings.

With two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

For I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

Well, here is a dramatic vision of the Lord in his holiness, high and exalted upon his throne, surrounded by angels who cover their face and their feet in his presence, in a sense, shielding themselves from the radiance of the holiness of God, crying out, holy, holy, holy.

This echoes the most glorious passages of the Old Testament.

Isaiah 6, Exodus 33, for example.

Isaiah 6, when Isaiah sees the glory of God and he ends up with a statement, here I am, send me, which we're going to be studying.

And Exodus 33, where Moses asks God to see his glory, which is another one we're going to be looking at.

When the glory of God is so potent that we can't gaze upon it, upon fear of death.

God is living inside of you.

The temple, the totality of what you read in Isaiah 6 is inside of your heart, in case you don't know.

The totality of it, even the part of it that you don't understand, is inside of your heart.

Hallelujah.

The lesson actually summarizes in a very interesting way.

We see that both in the book of Numbers and Isaiah, Numbers 12, 6 and Isaiah 6, 1 and 8, it tells that the prophet will receive the revelation of God through visions and dreams.

Yes, visions and dreams.

And then they also will receive the message, the inspiration of God through the Holy Spirit as eyewitnesses of the events.

I'm sitting up going, what is going on? And the Lord speaks to me.

And he says, open your Bible and read Isaiah 6, verses 6 and 7.

So open my Bible, and it says...

And the angel of the Lord flew to me and took a hot coal off the altar and flew to me and touched my lips and said, see, your guilt is atoned for and your sin is forgiven.

Their purpose is to worship God.

In Isaiah 6, we meet the seraphim, which is an angel, and their job, their whole job is just to praise.

Constantly singing, holy, holy, holy.

That is their role.

The whole earth is full of His glory.

It's that Isaiah 6.

In Hebrew, it's called a super superlative.

God is not holy once or twice, but thrice, which is not a word I use often.