Hope for a Future Christ

Day 148: Isaiah 5-8

Isaiah, the prophet, communicates here how God's anger burns against his people, the Israelites, for all the sins they have committed. They leave and deny God again and again, and his hand remains upraised.

Yet still, Isaiah prophesies about what he sees. Isaiah 6:1-7 contains beautiful imagery and prophesies about the redemption that Jesus Christ will bring:

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."

At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

"Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."

Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for."

What beautiful hope is found here.