WTW 2021
February 6
Isaiah 6
Adonai & YHVH Sabaot
In the year that King Uzziah died
Selah.
Pause & reflect.
When man’s kingdoms fall. When man is no longer on the throne. When man is removed from the throne…then is revealed the ONE Who sits upon the eternal throne, both WHO HE is and that it is HE WHO sits upon the throne.
The Vision of Isaiah
HOLY HOLY HOLY
KADOSH KADOSH KADOSH
In the year that King [melech] Uzziah died, I saw the Lord [Adonai], 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 they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy [kadosh kadosh kadosh] is the LORD Almighty [YHVH Sabaot]; 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 [melech YHVH Sabaot].” 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 [Adonai] saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” He said, “Go and tell this people: “ ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.” Then I said, “For how long, Lord [Adonai]?” 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 [YHVH] has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken. And though a 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.”
Wisdom in the WORD 
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It was such a significant time together in the WORD again this morning on zoom with a number of the brothers of WTW. We launched out from Isaiah 6 into a powerful time in reading, study, discussion & prayer. JM mentioned an illustration of how the same agent can have the opposite impact on two different materials. He referred to rain and that rang a bell as a potent illustration I had just heard from a dear seasoned sister only a couple months ago. I couldn’t quite place it, and I couldn’t quite make the connection with the rain illustration so I did a couple searches now and found this which fits more closely to the same illustration I recall. Both have the same illustrative power as contained in what JM shared on this.
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Billie Wilcox, on the lessons of a disaster: While my husband Frank and I were living in Pakistan many years ago, our six-month-old baby died. An old Punjabi who heard of our grief came to comfort us. “A tragedy like this is similar to being plunged into boiling water,” he explained. “If you are an egg, your affliction will make you hard-boiled and unresponsive. If you are a potato, you will emerge soft and pliable, resilient and adaptable.” It may sound funny to God, but there have been times when I have prayed, “O Lord, let me be a potato.”
Excerpted from mid-page:
http://www.sermonillustrations.com/a-z/s/suffering.htm
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There were so many noteworthy points in our time together on zoom this morning. Not all can be recaptured. One light expression came to life in our discussion and was repeated many times. JE used the expression “mushy headed” referring to what we sometimes call nominal believers. It brings to mind another quip nearly a year ago now on which CM waxed eloquent in one of the early WTW zoom meetings. That quip became the inspiration for the current WTW logo now familiar even right here on this blog. Perhaps the expression JE used this morning will be the inspiration for yet another WTW logo.
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A few other notes from 2/6/21 zoom meeting
RD referenced v 6; JM referenced v 7
1 Cor 4:6-7
Do not go beyond what is written.
What do you have that you did not receive?
JE referenced
Jn 3:27
A man can receive only what is given from heaven
RJ referenced
Num 21:8-9
Seraph: “fiery serpent”
Nachash: serpent
See Gen 3:1 nachash
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On nachash
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I called our dear seasoned saint sister LM and she reminded me of the allegory
Rain on both the just and the unjust
Also sun on both the just and the unjust
Sun shines and makes clay hard
Sun shines and makes wax melt
Then I talked with PO and he noted that
Lawns with clay soil need daily water
Clay soil becomes hard without daily water
Hard soil takes more time & water to soften
Water will run off hard clay soil
Lawns in clay soil stay green with daily water
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Nachash – serpent, snake
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/5175.htm
Saraph – fiery serpent, viper
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/8314.htm (8313-8316)
Tsepha – serpent, adder
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/6848.htm
Ophis – snake
https://biblehub.com/greek/3789.htm
Echidna – viper
https://biblehub.com/greek/2191.htm
Proverbs 23:32
In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.
https://biblehub.com/interlinear/proverbs/23-32.htm
Isaiah 14:29
Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken; from the root of that snake will spring up a viper, its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.
https://biblehub.com/interlinear/isaiah/14-29.htm
Kerub – cherub
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/3742.htm
Malak – angel
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/4397.htm
Angelos – angel, messenger
https://biblehub.com/greek/32.htm
Psalms 104:4
He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants.
https://biblehub.com/interlinear/psalms/104-4.htm
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HOLY HOLY HOLY
Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “ ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’ who was, and is, and is to come.”
Revelation 4:6-8
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AD 70 &c.
During another line of discussion in the 2/6/21 zoom meeting, application was made from Isaiah 6:1 regarding the death of Uzziah and the question of the correct understanding and application of prophetic scripture. One item in this matter raises the question if & how we are to relate scriptural prophecy to present day, and in particular, personal life circumstances. This question applies with great significance to specific times such as recently and presently taking place in this very nation and time in which many of us now live. Many things were mentioned in short order on these matters. One of these which just came back to mind, prompting this followup here now, was as follows. JM mentioned hearing, albeit with his acknowledgment of having no independent verification, that no Christians remained in Jerusalem at the time of Titus’ destruction of the Temple in AD 70.
For closer attention to that, it came to mind to investigate somewhat into my bedside paper copy of Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History (ca AD 325) which can most easily be accessed as linked here below.
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Here is Book 3, Chapter 5 in its entirety on the matter, excerpted from the online page containing all of Book 3 at
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/250103.htm
Chapter 5. The Last Siege of the Jews after Christ.
1. After Nero had held the power thirteen years, and Galba and Otho had ruled a year and six months, Vespasian, who had become distinguished in the campaigns against the Jews, was proclaimed sovereign in Judea and received the title of Emperor from the armies there. Setting out immediately, therefore, for Rome, he entrusted the conduct of the war against the Jews to his son Titus.
2. For the Jews after the ascension of our Saviour, in addition to their crime against him, had been devising as many plots as they could against his apostles. First Stephen was stoned to death by them, and after him James, the son of Zebedee and the brother of John, was beheaded, and finally James, the first that had obtained the episcopal seat in Jerusalem after the ascension of our Saviour, died in the manner already described. But the rest of the apostles, who had been incessantly plotted against with a view to their destruction, and had been driven out of the land of Judea, went unto all nations to preach the Gospel, relying upon the power of Christ, who had said to them, Go and make disciples of all the nations in my name.
3. But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella. And when those that believed in Christ had come there from Jerusalem, then, as if the royal city of the Jews and the whole land of Judea were entirely destitute of holy men, the judgment of God at length overtook those who had committed such outrages against Christ and his apostles, and totally destroyed that generation of impious men.
4. But the number of calamities which everywhere fell upon the nation at that time; the extreme misfortunes to which the inhabitants of Judea were especially subjected, the thousands of men, as well as women and children, that perished by the sword, by famine, and by other forms of death innumerable — all these things, as well as the many great sieges which were carried on against the cities of Judea, and the excessive sufferings endured by those that fled to Jerusalem itself, as to a city of perfect safety, and finally the general course of the whole war, as well as its particular occurrences in detail, and how at last the abomination of desolation, proclaimed by the prophets, Daniel 9:27 stood in the very temple of God, so celebrated of old, the temple which was now awaiting its total and final destruction by fire — all these things any one that wishes may find accurately described in the history written by Josephus.
5. But it is necessary to state that this writer records that the multitude of those who were assembled from all Judea at the time of the Passover, to the number of three million souls, were shut up in Jerusalem as in a prison, to use his own words.
6. For it was right that in the very days in which they had inflicted suffering upon the Saviour and the Benefactor of all, the Christ of God, that in those days, shut up as in a prison, they should meet with destruction at the hands of divine justice.
7. But passing by the particular calamities which they suffered from the attempts made upon them by the sword and by other means, I think it necessary to relate only the misfortunes which the famine caused, that those who read this work may have some means of knowing that God was not long in executing vengeance upon them for their wickedness against the Christ of God.
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RJ said on 2/11/2021
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;
John 3:14
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 Corinthians 5:21
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:56-57
God used a serpent to save people from the serpents. Even so, Jesus became the vileness of sin (serpent) for us, that we might be saved from the sting of sin.
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RD noted
It is as though Yeshua became the saraph of Isaiah 6
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See Isaiah 14:29
https://wtw.family.blog/2021/02/14/isaiah-14/#comment-98
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