Isa.6:1 – In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.
In the gospel of John (Jn.12:41) Jesus said that Isaiah saw His glory. He came out and said that it was Jesus whom Isaiah saw sitting on His throne. Think about this for a moment, the Lord is raising up a prophet, Isaiah, and giving Him a revelation of Christ for all ages. Isaiah spoke of His virgin birth (Isa.7:14), he spoke of His eternal nature (Isa.9:6,7), he spoke of His messianic right (Isa.9:7), he spoke of His crucifixion (Isa.53), he spoke of His anointing (Isa.61:1,2 – ), of His miracle ministry (Isa.35:5,6), and His eternal reign (Isa.9:7). This prophetic revelation came when He saw the completion of God’s plan of redemption, the crucified, resurrected, and glorified Lord seated at the Father’s right hand. No wonder Isaiah cried out “woe as me, I am undone, I am a man of unclean lips”. Isaiah saw the glory of the work of redemption when He saw the Lord on the throne, high and lifted up; this revelation is where all of Isaiah’s prophetic ministry flowed from. Here is how Matthew Henry describes this.
“See God upon his throne, and that throne high and lifted up, not only above other thrones, as it transcends them, but over other thrones, as it rules and commands them. Isaiah saw not Jehovah—the essence of God (no man has seen that, or can see it), but Adonai—his dominion. He saw the Lord Jesus; so this vision is explained John xii. 41, that Isaiah now saw Christ’s glory and spoke of him, which is an incontestable proof of the divinity of our Savior. He it is who when, after his resurrection, he sat down on the right hand of God, did but sit down where he was before. Isaiah saw the Lord sitting. See the sovereignty of the Eternal Monarch: he sits upon a throne—a throne of glory, before which we must worship,—a throne of government, under which we must be subject,—and a throne of grace, to which we may come boldly. This throne is high, and lifted up above all competition and contradiction.”
When we see Jesus high and lifted up as portrayed in the scriptures we are undone like Isaiah, all that is left for us to do is worship and yield to His plan. Look at what Matthew Henry said was our response:
WE WORSHIP HIM AS SOVEREIGN KING
2. WE SURRENDER BECAUSE HE IS LORD OF ALL
3. WE CAN COME BOLDLY BEFORE THIS THRONE OF GRACE