But these mighty servants of God didn’t leave Isaiah in his state of desperation. The seraphim helped Isaiah see the holiness of God in such a way that it exposed the deepest, darkest places of his own heart and woke him up to the stark reality of his own inadequacy. “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” ( Isaiah 6:5). At the sound of the seraphim’s collective voice, the doorposts and thresholds shook, the entire temple filled with smoke-and Isaiah was undone. Not even the earth could remain still at such a proclamation. The seraphim’s revelation of God’s holiness elicited a physical reaction from everything around them.
#ANGEL WINGS AND HALO FULL#
And they were calling to one another: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty the whole earth is full of his glory’” ( Isaiah 6:1-3). 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. “ 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. This revealed glory gives us a sacred glimpse of a holy God. Through the seraphim’s super-natural perspective, we can see that God’s glory is so infinite, so indescribably valuable, and so powerful that it can’t be contained in a single realm His glory bursts through Heaven unfolds through the spiritual realm and overflows into the whole earth. When the seraphim say, “The whole earth is full of his glory,” they are revealing a first-hand account of what they witness from the pinnacle of Heaven. The significance of the seraphim’s proximity to God in conjunction with their revelatory praise cannot be overstated.
During this perpetual worship, they call out to one another, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty the whole earth is full of his glory.” In fact, the seraphim spend day and night worshipping God for His holiness. The fact that seraphim must cover their faces to protect themselves from the blinding light of God’s presence proves that their sinless nature is nothing compared to the Lord’s transcendent purity. God created seraphim as sinless creatures, but they are not to be equated with God. The name may also hint at the seraphim’s role as purification agents ( Isaiah 6:6-7). The word seraph comes from the Hebrew verb sarap, which means to literally burn with fire-or more specifically, destruction by means of fire. These angels may have the appearance of burning flames. Each set of the seraphim’s wings serves a different purpose one set covers the face, denoting reverence and awe and acts as protection from the radiance of God’s glory-another set of wings is used for flying, to aid in their swift servitude-and the third set is used to cover the seraphim’s feet so that they can humbly conceal their unworthiness, while in God’s holy presence ( Isaiah 6:2). These six-winged angelic creatures continually attend God at His throne.
Seraphim are super-natural beings who were created by God to serve and worship. If that’s the case, seraphim are among the top-ranking angels. The theory is-the closer to the throne of God an angel serves, the higher that angel ranks. Some Biblical scholars believe a hierarchy exists among angels, though Scripture doesn’t make that explicit. Hebrews 1:14 further defines angels as, “ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation.” On top of these basic duties, each class of angel serves and worships God in unique ways. The Greek word angelos, from which the word angel is derived, suggests that angels are messengers. Like humans, these spiritual beings vary in appearance and were designed by God to fill different roles. He goes on to say that Revelation 5:11 records the number of Angels as: “Ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands and thousands.” But not all angels are the same. Roger Barrier, in 17 Things the Bible Says about Angels. Scripture suggests that “the number of angels is incomprehensible.” Says Dr.
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