Isaiah Chapter Six

Well, we made it to 2009. You have seen a lot of changes in the world during your life. It would take a long time to try to list all the change, wouldn’t it?

It kind of makes me think about Isaiah chapter six. “In the year that King Uzziah died…”

Isaiah was living through many changes when he wrote that. King Uzziah had a good start as king. He trusted in God and made a lot of changes to suppress idol worship. He reigned for 52 years. He submitted to teaching from Zechariah in how to worship God rightly. God gave him engineering genius. He made ballista and catapults that defended Jerusalem. We think that the Roman military invented those weapons, but King Uzziah had them 700 years before the Roman empire! 2 Chronicles 26 tells about his reign.

It must have been a golden era, to live in the first thirty years or so of King Uzziah’s reign. The legal system was cleaned up. Criminals were in jail or left Israel. False prophets and false religions were not welcome. People went to temple and worshipped together, and all was well, as long as King Uzziah sought the Lord.

Isaiah also witnessed the time of departure, the time when the King, full of his victories and power, stopped seeking the Lord. With that change, came many old vices and troubles which have been common to people though time. I wondered if Isaiah had some intense prayer times, interceding for his country? He would have witnessed a cooling of devotion for the Lord from the government and also in the people.

At such a time as that, Isaiah was met by the Lord in a rare and precious way. Chapter 6 begins, “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: with two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.’”

God was still on the throne at a time of spiritual decline and social decay when Isaiah saw Him. God is still on the throne in this day, too. There may be many things trying to distract our attention from seeking the Lord today. There are earthquakes, hurricanes, global warming, wars and rumours of wars, a general cooling of hearts from seeking the Lord, and a soft economy. Still, the Word tells us that “He has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love, power, and a self discipline.”

God is still on the throne. The Lord Jesus is coming back, and soon. I am not anxious about the change that is coming, for my feet are standing on the Rock.

“So, hurry back Lord Jesus. Shake your church. Shake the governments. Shake the earth! You are still on the throne and right on schedule.”

Perhaps you believed that you would live to see His return during your life.
You may be right!
He is coming soon.