With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles at the Kebar River, the heavens opened and I saw a divine vision.

No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ's glory, and spoke about him.

He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.

Sitting

This is what the Lord says: "The heavens are my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where then is the house you will build for me? Where is the place where I will rest?

Micaiah said, "That being the case, hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the heavenly assembly standing on his right and on his left.

As I watched, I saw on the platform above the top of the cherubim something like a sapphire, resembling the shape of a throne, appearing above them.

"While I was watching, thrones were set up, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His attire was white like snow; the hair of his head was like lamb's wool. His throne was ablaze with fire and its wheels were all aflame.

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

I will grant the one who conquers permission to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Immediately I was in the Spirit, and a throne was standing in heaven with someone seated on it!

Then I saw in the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne a scroll written on the front and back and sealed with seven seals.

They said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,

For this reason they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and the one seated on the throne will shelter them.

High

At that time you will say: "Praise the Lord! Ask him for help! Publicize his mighty acts among the nations! Make it known that he is unique!

For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: "I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

He says, "Stop your striving and recognize that I am God! I will be exalted over the nations! I will be exalted over the earth!"

Rise up above the sky, O God! May your splendor cover the whole earth!

Who can compare to the Lord our God, who sits on a high throne?

This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms

Filled

Once the priests left the holy place, a cloud filled the Lord's temple.

and the temple was filled with smoke from God's glory and from his power. Thus no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues from the seven angels were completed.

General references

Azariah passed away and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Jotham replaced him as king.

In the year King Ahaz died, this message was revealed:

Then I said, "Lord, from the very beginning you have been seated on your glorious throne on high. You are the place where we can find refuge.