“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies!
The whole earth is filled with his glory!”
What must the armies of Heaven be like? Isaiah was in the Lord’s presence grieving over a lost friend focused on the might of the Lord. He sees the Lord of Heaven’s Armies…he is blown away. His perspective is broadened for he sees things that human eyes normally don’t see. We believe by faith that he saw the Lord high and lifted up. He describes with certain accuracy the awesome nature of God in all of His glory with the use of limited words. Words can only partially describe his wonder and awesome nature. He saw the God of Heaven! It moved him deeply.
Last night on the news they were interviewing a Marine who was in Afganistan. 4,000 soldiers are there and one of our soldiers died while on the mission. It is an awesome thing to see the might of the most powerful military in the world. Think of the ability that we have in sending a missle from one of the submarines in the middle of the ocean and have it land in the window of a store front. People with that kind of power can be ultra destructive. We are watching carefully what Korea can do with a nuclear weapon used with a long range missle. They are a timebomb. I understand that Hawaii is carefully watching what can happen as they plan a suspected launch on the 4th. We can only watch. Iran and Korea all trying to become powerful.
However, in this passage the words that leap off the page for me were “…the LORD of Heaven’s Armies…” I guess that what startled me was that if we knew just how massive and how powerful the LORD was not to mention the armies of Heaven, we would change our perspective of WHO we would fear and respect. God can breath on America and we would dissapear. He can take Korea in all of her pride and power hungry pursuits and dry the country up like a desert. He must sit in the heavens and laugh at what we call “power”.
He spoke a word and it all started. He will speak a word and it will end.
Thank God we are under the guidance and protection of “…the LORD of Heaven’s Armies!”
