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11-4-2018 Weekly Message
The meditation of the week: Psalm 99:1-9
Main scripture: Isaiah 6:1-13
The title of the Word: The last generation that can not see and hear with eyes and ears nor converted

The prophet Isaiah witnesses what he saw and heard. He saw the Lord sitting upon, a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. He also saw the seraphims with six wings each side that were same as the beasts that Apostle John saw when he was  lifted to heaven. The Apostle John testified of them:

” And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

7And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast waslike a flying eagle.

8And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. ‘ “(Revelation 4: 6-8)

When the prophet Isaiah cried out three times, “Holy! Holy! Holy“, he  cried out saying, “Lord God Almighty,” the whole earth was filled with His glory, and the pillars of the temple were shaken by the earthquake, and the house was filled with smoke.  A  psalmist prophesied that the whole earth shall be shaken when the Lord come to this earth and set up his kingdom. He also testified that at that time he would come with cheruphims with four wings on each side:

” The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.

2The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.” (Psalm 99: 1-2)

Like Gideon, Daniel, and John the Apostle, who saw God’s glory, realizing that they  were  filthy sinner standing in the glory of God, they cried that they were  already dead. That’s right! Only the  that sees the glory of God shall realize that he is a filthy sinner. In order to use Isaiah in his ministry, God put the charcoal from the altar on his mouth and cleansed him from his sin. God is still cleansing the one that  confesses as  a sinner and giving him the Holy Spirit when he  believes in Jesus who shed the blood and died on the alter(the cross) of God, and rose again the third day.

After he cleansed Isaiah, he called him to his ministry saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” At this time Isaiah answered the calling immediately. “Here am I, send me.”

Apostle Paul testified that even  these days, he also call upon them that he foreknew and  predestines  to be in conformity with the image of his Son, and  justifies them who were  called, and  he also glorifies them. (Romans 8: 29-30). In other words, God calls them His glorious ministry.

To Isaiah who answered God’s call, God said:

” And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. “(Isaiah 6: 9-10)

      Isaiah asked the Lord saying,  how long will the people to be so miserable. The Lord answered to him saying,  they shall be destroyed by Babylon, and that only a very small number shall survive:

” Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

12And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

13But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. “(Isaiah 6: 11-13)

         When the Lord God, who spoke to the prophet Isaiah, appeared in the flesh in the name of Jesus, the people of Israel were still unable to see, hear, and convert, as the Lord spoke through the prophet Isaiah. After Jesus uttered the parable of the sower, he said to the  disciples:

” Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:

15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

17For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous menhave desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.“(Matthew 13: 13-17)

             Jesus told the disciples who asked who is the great one in heaven. The heaven they speak is about the kingdom of heaven  that will come when Christ’s kingdom comes to the land of Israel in the future:

” Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 18: 3)

           Through Apostle Paul, the Holy Spirit has warned pastor Timothy that the churches of God will soon become spiritually worn out like the stubborn Israelites, and that they will not be able to see and hear and not be converted. He spoke to this generation ahead of the time of the rapture of Christ in the air and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords,

“  I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

5But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

6For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.   “(2 Tim. 4; 1-8):

Amen! Hallelujah!