1632. The Earth Full of Glory

The Earth Full of Glory

"About it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried onto another, and said, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory" (Isa_6:2-3).

There can be no doubt but that the vision of Isaiah and the cries of the seraphim are prophetic of a coming day. The earth has never yet been full of the Lord's glory.

When we read, however, of the millennial reign of our Lord, of Israel's national redemption and restitution and of her world-wide ministry, we read also that the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

When the Redeemer comes to Zion, and turns Jacob from his transgressions, and puts His Spirit upon him, then will Israel's Light have come, and the glory of the Lord will rise upon her.

The world is fast entering an era of darkness and of night. But the Lord shall rise upon His people Israel and His glory shall be seen upon her.

"The nations shall come to Thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising" (1911 Bible).

How happy we should be as we anticipate the day when the seraphim will see their prophetic vision, which Isaiah told forth, fulfilled.

It is quite wonderful when we remember that the cry of the seraphim, "Holy, Holy, Holy" is again taken up in the Book of Revelation, by the four living creatures as the Lord Jesus Christ is preparing to open the Book, to pour forth His judgments upon the inhabited earth, and to take His kingdom.

The cry of these holy ones by day and by night is, "Holy, Holy, Holy." The words doubtless refer to the glory of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost; but the remarkable thing is that, both in Isaiah and in Revelation, the vision has to do with the Lord Jesus Christ, His Advent and reign, for it is then, and then only, that the glory of the Lord which now fills the Heavens, will flood the earth.

In that day the whole earth will be full of the glory of the Lord.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR