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“GOD’S HOLINESS COMMANDS HEADLINE ATTENTION.”
“Yahuwah is not Holy. He is not Holy, Holy. He is Holy, Holy, Holy”. (Max Lucado). Repetition in a Hebrew word brings emphasis to that word. The first song ever written in the bible magnifies God’s holiness. Ex 15:11 says, “Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? The final song in the bible also magnifies His holiness. Rev 15:4a says, “Who will not fear You, O Lord, and bring glory to Your name? For You alone are holy…” There is no other attribute of God written in the scriptures that brings so much emphasis. Our Almighty Creator Himself is Love. His faithfulness is flawless.His greatness is unrivaled. However, the bible does not mention anywhere else that He is love, love, love, or mighty, mighty, mighty, even though we know He is. The reason is because God’s entire attributes exist in holiness. His love is holy. His greatness and faithfulness is holy. Holy in Hebrew is called “qadosh”meaning distinct or separate. Indeed, we do agree that His love, grace, mercies,faithfulness, holiness, etc. is matchless and unique!! Isaih 6 talks about how the seraphim cry continuously unto one another; “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory”. These seraphim have six pairs of wings. As they beheld God’s holiness, two of their wings covered their faces, two their feet and they did fly with two. Isaiah saw them stand in His presence (Is 6:2a), but later mentioned that they did fly with two of their wings. Perhaps the sight of His holiness brings such wonder and excitement that they had to fly as they stood worshipping our Holy God. As we truly worship God, we just
Why did the angels cover their feet? Is 52:7 says, “How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news …who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” These angels certainly qualify to have beautiful feet, but yet as they beheld God’s beauty and holiness, they had to cover their feet! They were in other words saying; “our beautiful feet is nothing compared to God’s beauty and glorious holiness”. When we worship Him, we know that any beauty or wonder about us is from Him. We are nothing in ourselves but He is everything!! Why did the angels cover their faces? Isaiah probably could reckon with them because he could not bear to look at the King of glory either. He fell on his face crying, “Woe is me…a man of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts”(Is 6:5). Our God is so holy that even the sinless angels cannot look at Him. He told Moses in Ex 33, that no one can behold Him and live. He therefore covered Moses in the rock as His glory passed by and allowed him to see His back. Though he only saw Yahuwah’s back, he had to put a veil on his face after his encounter because the Israelites were afraid of him. Moses’ face shone like the sun! At this point, the song “I can only imagine” by Mercy Me comes to mind. Brethren, can you imagine what we’d do on that day when His face is before us? What a privilege it would be to behold Him!! What would it take to see Him? Heb 12:14 states that we should strive to live in peace with everyone and to be holy, because without holiness no one will see the Lord. Jesus Himself gave a hint in Matt 5:8. “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God”. No wonder He says in Lev 11:44-45 that we be holy for He is holy. No wonder 1Jn3:2 adds that when Christ appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is”. I pray our Refiner’s fire purifies our hearts and souls until that perfect day. I pray that He finds us spotless and holy when He comes again.
February - March 2014
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