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| 1 In the year of the death of king Uzziah I see the Lord, sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is filling the temple. |
The Lord – Adonai, Christ.
Sitting upon a throne – He has come to reign.
Train – This word (Strong's 7757) in every other case is used as Hem or skirt. The thought here seems to be that the full number of the body of Christ has been completed. In other words, we are looking from 1881 forward.
Filled the temple – "Ye are the temple of the living God." (2 Cor. 6:16) This seems to support the use of the word hem (train) in this verse as indicating 1881. |
| 2 Seraphs are standing above it: six wings hath each one; with two [each] covereth its face, and with two [each] covereth its feet, and with two [each] flieth. |
Seraphims – The four attributes of God. This becomes evident both by their description and by what they say.
Each one had six wings – The same as the four "beasts" or "living creatures" of Rev. 4:8 which picture the four attributes of God.
Apparently in the original Hebrew text the phrase "six wings" is actually doubled, i.e., "six wings six wings."
With twain he covered – Covering with wings reminds us of the protection from the Father and the Son indicated in scripture. See Ruth 2:12; Psa. 17:8; 36:7; 91:4; Matt. 23:37; Luke 13:34.
His face – His favor. This is hidden from man (covered) to such an extent that many look at Jehovah as being a cruel God and they look to His Son as being the one who is on their side, intervening with God and assuaging His wrath against man. These do not see the true loving God that the Lord's people are privileged to see, thus His face is hidden from them.
With twain he covered his feet – Two possibilities here (both could be true).1) The feet members of the body of Christ are protected. 2) All the members are protected, as new creatures, in order to walk the narrow way (indicated by the 'feet').
This could also indicate that the 'feet' members are hidden (covered) from man.
Another possibility is that the feet is representative of the fact that God has, through His son, opened a new and living way in which the followers of Jesus can walk the narrow way - indicated by the feet. As these feet are covered by two wings it indicates these are hidden from sight. Even so the New Creation walking the narrow way are hidden from the sight of the world.
With twain he did fly – (Possibly) Old and New Testaments. God's word. |
| 3 And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: 'Holy, Holy, Holy, [is] Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth [is] His glory.' |
One cried unto another – This would seem to be two of God's attributes. We may not be to sure here but one logical conclusion seems to be that these are the attributes of love and power. This is arrived at by the fact that the attributes shown in the ark of the covenant that are represented by the two cherubim (who also have wings) are love and power.
Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts – This is exactly what the 4 living creatures of Rev. 4:6-8 say. This confirms that the seraphim here represent the 4 attributes of God.
This three-fold expression gives extreme force to their declaration of the true character of God's holiness. This holiness is manifest by the complete cooperative work of His 4 attributes of justice, wisdom, love and power.
The whole earth – Organized society under religious restraint. See R498
Is full of his glory – It is full of his glory because Christ has returned. There is nothing here that says the whole earth recognizes this fact. The glory of the Lord is (primarily) The Truth, i.e., that which gives God the glory, or that which reveals His glory. Nothing does this like Present Truth. |
| 4 And the posts of the thresholds are moved by the voice of him who is calling, and the house is full of smoke. |
The posts of the door moved – This indicates the entrance into the temple has moved. St. Paul declares that when something is so shaken it signifies the removal of that thing (Heb. 12:27). The door to the (nominal) temple, that which had been up to that time, the "gateway to God" has been be moved.
Prior to this time one could come to God through the nominal temple, but no more. For one to come to God they must go to where He has put His spirit. The Truth (power of spirit-begettal - James 1:18) no longer eminates from the nominal temple.
The voice of him that cried – Note here it is the voice of him, not them. In this context, who cried? It was one seraphim crying to another.
The house – The nominal temple, the nominal church.
Filled with smoke – From the Glory of God, the truth. The old saying is a good fit here, "Where there's smoke there's fire." The old order of things (and especially the religious element) is being burned up. The resulting smoke causes much confusion. This is easily understood when we realize that it is the spread of Present Truth that causes the keepers of the old doctrinal errors to have to try to come up with new ways to keep their patrons from leaving. As they attempt to combat the truth, the confusion (smoke) of error becomes more and more manifest. |
| 5 And I say, 'Wo to me, for I have been silent, For a man unclean of lips [am] I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.' |
Then said I – Isaiah here pictures the Lord's people. When the saints see what is going on (as described in vs. 1-4) they realize the magnificance of the plan of God. What follows is the characteristic reaction of all the Lord's people when they come to this realization.
Mine eyes – Which are able to see with the eye of faith.
Have seen the king – Our Lord at His Second Advent. |
| 6 And flee unto me doth one of the seraphs, and in his hand a burning coal, (with tongs he hath taken [it] from off the altar,) |
One of the seraphims – One of the Four attributes of God (see Additional Comments vs. 3), i.e., Justice (as in Rev. 15:7,8; Eze. 10:14.) |
| 7 and he striketh against my mouth, and saith: 'Lo, this hath stricken against thy lips, And turned aside is thine iniquity, And thy sin is covered.' |
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| 8 And I hear the voice of the Lord, saying: 'Whom do I send and who doth go for Us ' And I say, 'Here [am] I, send me.' |
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| 9 And He saith, 'Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye to see, and ye do not know. |
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| 10 Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.' |
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| 11 And I say, 'Till when, O Lord ' And He saith, 'Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the ground be wasted a desolation, |
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| 12 And Jehovah hath put man far off, And great [is] the forsaken part in the heart of the land. |
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| 13 And yet in it a tenth, and it hath turned, And hath been for a burning, As a teil-tree, and as an oak, that in falling, Have substance in them, The holy seed [is] its substance!' |
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