Isaiah was a Hebrew prophet who was believed to have lived about 700 years before the birth of Jesus Christ. Born in Jerusalem, Israel, he was said to have found his calling as a prophet when he saw a vision in the year of King Uzziah's death. Isaiah prophesized the coming of the Messiah Jesus Christ.
The theme of this book predicts imminent judgment for the people of Judah and Jerusalem, but also eventual restoration. Isaiah wants the people of these two places to hear his words, the words the God has given him, see that they are leading double lives (being hypocrites) and change what they are doing. (Decide to commit to faith or commit to unbelief.. stop being warm water, stop being on the fence.)
So knowing this information, let's look at the words in chapter 6 of the book in Bible that he wrote.
Isaiah's commission.
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two wings they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were called to one another:
"holy, holy, yahoo 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 love among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty."
then one of the seraphim 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."
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
And I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
He said, "Go and tell this people:
"'Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'
Make the hearts of this people calloused;
make their ears dull
and close their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear tight their ears,
understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed."
Then I said, "For how long, Lord?"
And he answered:
"Until the cities lie ruined
and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted
and the fields ruined and ravaged,
until the Lord has sent everyone far away
and the land is utterly forsaken.
And though and tenth remains in the land,
it will again be laid waste.
But as the terebinth and oak
leave stumps when they are cut down,
so the holy seed will be the stump in the land."
I think these words can be applied to what our world is going through today!
A lot of people who claim to be followers of Christ are NOT following or doing what the Bible is commanding.
There is so much "false prophet" calling out, and New Age thought processes, and different types of living that are being accepted: but God clearly states in the Bible what is sin and what is not, what is right and what is wrong.
There is only one truth and there is only one way and there is only one Jesus/Savior/Christ.
We are going to be our own ruin if we do not carefully guard our hearts and minds.
There's a reason why he says "make them unable to see, unable to hear, unable to understand..." because if people with the wrong mindsets and the wrong motives and the wrong perceptions think they are going to do good for the world, it will create more chaos and confusion. If people with wrong beliefs and wrong disciplines and views of justice come into what they think is correct understanding and correct views and they go ahead and influence people about the wrong ways.. destruction is imminent.
This would be like a YouTube or an Instagram Influencer who are not Christ followers speak about something that THEY think is right, sharing opinion as truth, sharing information that they are researching as fact, their followers aren't going to know right from wrong. They are going to take that opinion as "real" and "right" and carry it on to other people. It's like the telephone game from childhood.. in the end, nobody is going to get it right. But when you start the line with words that are incorrect in the first place, you're just headed for disaster.
