Remember Isaiah’s vision of the King? It was a frightful event filled with rumblings, smoke, and the refrain, “Holy, holy, holy” (Isaiah 6). The most shocking feature of the scene was the seraphim, a representative of the King, coming on the King’s behalf to touch Isaiah’s tongue with a live coal, which symbolized his purification. The people of Israel had come to expect God to be close—but not too close. Certainly, no one expected to touch God or be touched by him. Certainly no one would eat with God. But Isaiah was pointing to the time when God would come closer than we could imagine. And
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