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Excerpted from: Holiness (Part 2)Here is a man who is confronted by holiness of an awesome power, and lived to tell about it.
"Holy, holy, holy" the seraphim said. In English, when we want to emphasize something, we underline it, or we "bold" it, or we put an exclamation point after it, or we write it in italics. In Hebrew, what they did was repeat it. Here "holy" is repeated three times, and that raises it to the superlative. That attaches to it a super importance. Only one characteristic of God, in the entirety of the Bible, is elevated to this transcendent level—and that is His holiness. Never is God called in the Bible, "Love, love, love." Or, "peace, peace, peace." Or, "justice, justice, justice." Only one characteristic is raised to the superlative. God is holy, holy, holy.
When Isaiah was confronted, what did he do? He pronounced a plague upon himself. "Woe!" You are familiar enough with the prophecies to know that is the word the prophets used to indicate that a plague from God was coming upon a city, or upon a people. "Woe unto Bethsaida! Woe unto Chorazin!" Jesus said. Isaiah said, "Woe is me, for I am undone!" He knew that he was in the presence of something [or, Someone] that was so distinctively different from what he was, he unraveled. He became unglued. He came apart at the seams. Isaiah caught a glimpse of the Holy One of Israel, and immediately his self-esteem was shattered. In a brief second, he was made to feel naked, exposed before the absolute Standard of holiness.
So, Isaiah said, "Woe is me, for I am undone!" He immediately recognized his filthiness and said, "I am a man of unclean lips." You know, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. And Isaiah knew his heart was not like God's.
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