King of Glory

My mind has been in Isaiah 6 over the past couple of days.  I gave you a bit of what Isaiah had seen.  Verse one tells us that the train of the Lord's robe filled the temple.  What a vision of splendor and majesty.  I imagine this beautiful and luxuriant purple robe, swirling and cascading down from the high throne where my Savior is seated.  I wonder if Isaiah was in the earthly temple when he was transported by a way of a vision into what appears to be the heavenly temple?  Now, my friend Orange is much more studied on the New Jerusalem and the heavenly temple than I am, but I also can't help but wonder if this is a glimpse for us of the future.  Certainly we will see the Lord Jesus, on His throne, in the heavenly temple, after the heavenly city has come down out of heaven.  (By the way, I do think the New Jerusalem will be on the earth during the millennium.  Orange has presented the scriptures in such a way on his blog and in the discussion room of Fulfilled Prophecy, that I think he makes a very strong case for it.)

Will we actually see the seraphim?

Why not?  We are told that angels will be at the gates of the New Jerusalem.

Do me a favor just now.  Read Psalm 24.  Yes, right now.  Done?

Can you even imagine what it is going to be like to see Jesus enter the New Jerusalem?  To see Him take His throne after He has finished pouring out His wrath and put down His enemies?  Will there be an actual coronation?  (I could sit here and day dream all day long, but then my dishes wouldn't get done.)  Here is a good place to take a look at Revelation 11:15-19.

It has been getting a little easier over the last two days, to think of what it would be like to be one of the seraphs, that has the absolute and most wonderful and astounding privilege of calling out the holiness of the Lord, over and over and over again.  Can you imagine how beautiful his voice must be?  So clear, so pure?  "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!"  Then another clear, pure voice returns with antiphonal praise the declaration of the most magnificent truth in all of the universe.

Sigh...

You know what, my friends, this is exactly what we should be doing here, and now.  Declaring to a lost world that Jesus is holy, holy, holy!  ...and we are so not.  We are sinful.  We are in need of the righteousness of this holy Savior.  It can be ours.  If we bow the knee to the God of the universe, agreeing with Him that we are sinful and He is so not.  If we believe that He came to this earth two thousand years ago and died on the cross, and rose again, in payment for our sin.  We can get over the fear of what this message often makes us look like to the world.  We have the God of the universe who's glory fills the whole earth residing in us!  We are His temple!  The way to get over the fear is to fill your mind with His majesty and splendor, with His greatness, and then act on the courage that will come flooding into your heart.

Oh Lord Jesus, I can't wait to see you someday...can't wait...