Isaiah
The prince-prophet of Jerusalem who saw the LORD on His throne in the year Uzziah died, wrote 66 chapters that mirror the 66 books of Scripture, and prophesied the Suffering Servant and the New Creation with more clarity than any other Old Testament prophet.
The Evangelical Prophet
Scripture: Isaiah 1-66
The Biblical Record
Isaiah's call is the most theatrical in Scripture. He sees the LORD high and lifted up, the hem of His robe filling the temple. The seraphim cry Holy, holy, holy. The doorposts shake. The temple fills with smoke. And Isaiah says: 'Woe is me, for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.' A seraph touches a burning coal to his lips and says: your iniquity is taken away. And then the voice of YHWH: 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?' And Isaiah says: 'Here am I. Send me.'
Isaiah in the Sanctum
Isaiah is the figure of the prophet who sees glory before he speaks judgment. The 53rd chapter — the Suffering Servant passage — is the single most-cited Old Testament text in the New Testament. The Sanctum treats Isaiah as the hinge between the Old Covenant and the New, the prophet who saw Christ most clearly from the farthest distance.
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