Isaiah 6:5
5 Then said ['amar] I, Woe ['owy] is me! for I am undone; [damah] because I am a man ['iysh]
of unclean [tame'] lips, [saphah] and I dwell [yashab] in the
midst [tavek] of a people [`am] of unclean [tame'] lips: [saphah] for mine eyes [`ayin] have
seen [ra'ah] the King, [melek] the LORD [Yahovah] of
hosts. [tsaba'] KJV-Interlinear
5 Then
I said, "Woe is me, for I am ruined!, Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;, For my eyes have seen the King, the
Lord of hosts." NASB
The picture shifts
quickly from the angels to Christ. We know very little about the angels, but
that is not what we are supposed to learn from the Bible. One day we will be
with the angels in heaven and there we will learn all that there is to learn
about angels, but for now, the Seraphim fade into the background. Their secrets
will remain so for a time. For now we are to focus on the secrets (spiritual
information) which are revealed by the prophets in the scriptures. That is our
priority.
One would think that
Isaiah would be ecstatic over seeing what he sees in this vision, but the
opposite occurs. Realizing the phenomenal appearance of Christ and the scene in
front of him, Isaiah sees his own flaws and weaknesses. God is so infinitely
superior to man that we cannot even begin to imagine the vastness of Gods
glory.
Isaiah felt as though he
were nothing, now that he was in the presence of God. He felt that he was done
for, like a worm under the foot of one who would step on it. A sinner was
Isaiah. He is human after all, but then we are all human and therefore sinners
and unworthy of anything from heaven. There is an infinite distance between God
and mankind.
Undone, ‘damah,’ means to
be a sinner, to be miserable, to be pierced through, to be unworthy, to be
destroyed.
Unclean lips, ‘tame,’
means defiled, unclean, polluted. The
lips speak the words that are the expression of ones mind, which contains the
thoughts, which is from the essence of the soul, which is what each person actually
is. What you think is what you are. And man is sin through and through, and
therefore, unworthy.
We all live in this world,
which contains people. All have failed
and fallen short. All are unworthy. There is not one single person in this world that
is worthy by any standard. And yet man
comes up with innumerable standards and awards and celebrations of his own, for
his own self. None of which are anywhere
near being legitimate.
The King, the Lord of Hosts, identifies only one single
person who is the second person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ.
When the glory of God is
seen, then the infinite worthlessness of oneself makes that difference far more
than obvious.
Look up at the night sky
sometime and imagine the infinite universe that we live in.
Our own galaxy is
insignificant within the universe. Our
solar system is insignificant within our own galaxy. Our planet is insignificant within our own
soar system. Our own self is
insignificant within our own planet.
Gods glory far exceeds
that of the entire universe.
So why is that even
important to know?
Well you have to know
your place, your subordinate place in all of existence, before you can even
begin to appreciate all that God has done for you. To know your worthless place, to know Gods
infinite glory, and then you can at the very least begin to understand the
enormous and phenomenal blessings that God has made available for you.
In this day of welfare
programs, far too many people expect a life that they believe is owed to
them. They reject responsibility, they
reject accountability, they reject any obligation whatsoever on themselves much
less toward anyone else.
But didn’t we just finish
a study the other day, wherein we all have a responsibility to advance
ourselves in order to be prepared to be of assistance to others?
When you conform to this
world, you subordinate yourself to this world.
You will never be autonomous, never be independent, never be unchained
from the world.
Only through doctrine can
you gain real freedom and liberty and independence from an evil world. But first you have to learn, understand and
then become wise, and that all starts with your understanding just exactly
where you stand in this world, relative to God and truth.
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