Verse Isaiah 6:6. _A LIVE COAL_] The word of prophecy, which was put into the mouth of the prophet. _FROM OFF THE ALTAR_] That is, from the altar of burnt-offerings, before the door of the temple, o...
THEN FLEW - Isaiah is represented as standing out of the temple; the seraphim as in it. HAVING A LIVE COAL - The Vulgate renders this, ‘A stone.’ This is, probably, the original meaning of the word; s...
CHAPTER 6 The Prophet's Vision and New Commission 1. _The time of the vision (Isaiah 6:1)_ 2. _Jehovah of hosts (Isaiah 6:2)_ 3. _The prophet's woe (Isaiah 6:5)_ 4. The cleansing ...
ISAIAH 6. THE CALL OF ISAIAH. This chapter contains Isaiah's own account of his call to the prophetic office. Presumably it was written down some time after the event, but the interval need not have b...
FLEW. Compare "ran" (Luke 15:20). THE TONGS. Reference to Pent, (Exodus 25:38; Exodus 25:37; Exodus 25:23 ("snuffers")....
The ceremony of purification is in many respects unique, and seems to involve several ideas: (1) It shews that contact with the fire of the divine holiness is not necessarily destructive even to man....
DISCOURSE: 866 ISAIAH’S VISION OF CHRIST Isaiah 6:5. 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 ha...
THEN SAID I, &C.— The second part of this vision contains the sanctification of the prophet for the undertaking of a great prophetical office, and consists of two parts: the first describes the prophe...
b. THE GRACE TEXT: Isaiah 6:5-7 5 Then I said, 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...
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: THEN FLEW ONE OF THE SERAPHIM UNTO ME. The seraph had been in the temp...
THE PROPHET'S CALL This c., which recounts the prophet's call and commission, would stand first in a chronological arrangement of the book. The opening words remind us of the vision of Micaiah (1 King...
LIVE COAL] Fire is the symbol of purification: cp. Malachi 3:2; Matthew 3:11....
But God has work for Isaiah to do. The action of a *fiery *angel convinces Isaiah that God has forgiven him. So Isaiah is now able to do what God asks. GOD’S HARD TASK FOR ISAIAH V8 Then I heard th...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 6 GOD CALLS ISAIAH V1 In the year when King Uzziah died, I s...
THEN FLEW ONE OF THE SERAPHIMS. — In presenting the vision to our mind’s eye we have to think of the bright seraph form, glowing as with fire, and with wings like the lightning-flash, leaving his stat...
וַ יָּ֣עָף אֵלַ֗י אֶחָד֙ מִן ־הַ שְּׂרָפִ֔ים
CHAPTER IV ISAIAH'S CALL AND CONSECRATION 740 B.C. written 735? or 727? Isaiah 6:1 IT has been already remarked that in chapter 6 we should find no other truths than those which have been unfolded...
A CALL TO HEROIC SERVICE Isaiah 6:1-13 Kings die; Jesus lives. See John 12:41. We are here reminded of Acts 22:17-18. How great the contrast between the worship of these seraphim in the Unseen-Holy...
We now begin the second part of the first circle of prophecy, which contains the prophecies during the reigns of Jotham and Ahaz. When Uzziah died, Isaiah was called to the exercise of a larger minist...
Then one of the seraphims flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the (m) altar: (m) Of the burnt offerings where the fire never went out....
_Coal. "Carbuncle," (Septuagint) the word of God, (St. Basil) spirit of prophecy, (St. Jerome, 142. ad Dam., &c.)_...
Reader! do remark with me, the infinite grace of the Lord! see how, amidst all the sanctities of heaven, the case of a poor sinner upon earth was taken notice of, and provided for. Depend upon it, the...
6._Then flew one of the seraphim to me. _The Prophet shows what kind of relief was brought to him, when he was so terrified as to think that he was a dead man; and this confirms what we have already s...
But it was in the counsels of God that His presence should be established in glory in the midst of His people, and this will be accomplished in Christ at the end of the age. Hence the testimony of the...
THEN FLEW ONE OF THE SERAPHIM UNTO ME,.... When the prophet had confessed his sin; for upon that follows the application of pardon; and when the seraph, or minister of the Gospel, had an order from th...
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: Ver. 6. _Then flew one of the seraphims unto me._] _Relinquit chorum il...
_Then flew one of the seraphim unto me_ By God's command; _having a live coal in his hand_ Both a token and an instrument of purification, as the next verse explains it; _which he had taken with the t...
JEHOVAH REVEALED IN HIS GLORY...
Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar, the altar of incense evidently being referred to;...
HAVING A LIVE COAL: _ Heb._ and in his hand a live coal...
1-8 In this figurative vision, the temple is thrown open to view, even to the most holy place. The prophet, standing outside the temple, sees the Divine Presence seated on the mercy-seat, raised over...
THEN FLEW ONE OF THE SERAPHIMS UNTO ME, by God's command, _having a live coal_; both a token and an instrument of purification, as the next verse explains it. FROM OFF THE ALTAR OF BURNT-OFFERING, whi...
Isaiah 6:6 one H259 seraphim H8314 flew H5774 (H8799) hand H3027 coal H7531 taken H3947 (H8804) tongs...
YAHWEH'S CALL TO ISAIAH (ISAIAH 6:5). As Isaiah stood, or possibly prostrated himself, before the wonderful vision of resplendent holiness, it was all too much for him as he was made aware of his own...
Isaiah 6:1 I. Consider what the prophet saw. He sees Jehovah as Ruler, Governor, King; He is upon a throne, high and lifted up. It is the throne of absolute sovereignty: of resistless, questionless su...
Isaiah 6:5 These verses teach us the essentials of true worship and of acceptable approach to God. And they seem to indicate these essentials as threefold, involving: I. A sense of personal wretchedn...
Isaiah 6:6 There must be a relation between prayer and action: between prayer, which is the soul of the inward life; and action, which is the substance of the outward. I. Prayer is the preparation fo...
Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died_ You remember him, that leprous king, that king who had thrust himself into the priests' office, and was smitten of leprosy, and shut up in a separate h...
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. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with...
CONTENTS: Isaiah's transforming vision and his new commission. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Those who are to teach others the knowledge of God must themselves have the vision of God. Those a...
The excellence of the prophet's labours during the war with Pekah and Rezin, seems to be the cause why this vision occupies but a secondary place. God gave it to console the church on the death of so...
_Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand_ THE LIVE COAL FROM THE ALTAR These words seem to address themselves in the way of encouragement and consolation-- I. TO THE MI...
_Then said I, Woe is me!--_ THE MORAL HISTORY OF A RISING SOUL; OR, THE WAY UP FROM DEPRAVITY TO HOLINESS Whilst holiness is the normal, depravity is the actual state of man. A restoration to his s...
_In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord_ THE STORY OF THE PROPHET’S CALL--WHY INSERTED HERE Why the narrative of the prophet’s call was not, as in the cases of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, a...
A SIGHT OF GOD AND A SENSE OF SIN Isaiah 6:5. _Then said I, &c._ Visions of the throne of God were given to Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel among the prophets, and to John among the Apostles [748]. [748...
THE PROPHET’S CALL Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died, &c._ We have here the history of Isaiah’s call to his great life-work. Perhaps in a modern biography this chapter would have been pl...
ISAIAH’S VISION Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord, &c._ [712] [712] God is invisible; yet in that heavenly world in which He has His special and eternal residence He...
THE MORAL HISTORY OF A RISING SOUL Isaiah 6:5. _Then said I, Woe is me, &c._ Whilst holiness is the normal, depravity is the actual state of man. A restoration to that spiritual condition is his prof...
THE SERVICE OF THE SERAPHIM Isaiah 6:1; Isaiah 6:5. _I saw also the Lord, &c._ In that perfect prayer which our Lord bequeathed to His disciples we are taught to ask that God’s will may be done in ea...
SECTION III. ISAIAH'S VISION OF GOD UPON HIS THRONE (Isaiah 6:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 6:1 THE VISION
By Chuck Smith Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah, chapter 6, as Isaiah records for us his commissioning by God for his ministry. Now you remember in chapter 1 that Isaiah tells us that his tim...
Acts 2:3; Daniel 9:21; Ezekiel 10:2; Hebrews 1:14; Hebrews 1:7;...
THE LORD HIGH AND LIFTED UP Isaiah 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is a twofold vision suggested in the first verse of our study. "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a t...
Flew — By God's command. A coal — Both a token and an instrument of purification. The altar — Of burnt — offering....