Adonai is the supreme Master over all authorities and over everything...yes EVERYTHING! If you have been born from above, twice born then you belong to HIM and you are invited to an intimate relationship with our sovereign Lord. Paul's words in 1 Corinthians come to mind, "Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body" 1 Co 6:19-20.
As we recently noted Yahweh is typically translated "LORD," Adonai is most often translated "Lord." Adonai is more of a title and Yahweh is God's name (Exo 3:15). In Isaiah 6:1 Isaiah says that "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne." There is much that could be said about King Uzziah, he is one of the few kings that it is written in God's Word that he "did what was right in the eyes of the Lord," 2 Kings 15:3. King Uzziah's life ended in tragedy because he became filled with pride...apparently from the prosperity that the Lord gave Uzziah. We are told in 2 Chronicles 26:5 that "as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper." Let that be a word of blessing and warning to each of us!
For Isaiah King Uzziah had proved to be a stabilizing force for most of his reign as king...you and I might read it this way...in the year the stock market failed, in the year our financial institutions died, in the year my marriage failed, my health failed, in the year I lost my son or daughter...I saw the Lord seated high and lifted up! Isaiah uses the title Adonai here...in the year my security failed I saw Adonai! Sometimes Adonai is translated "sovereign." How awesome to be in an intimate relationship with the Sovereign King of the universe and to know that when your world crumbles around you that NOT only is HE with you, but HE is in control and sovereign over everything that is happening. In the midst of the crumbling world our responsibility is to KEEP OUR EYES ON HIM! You can do no greater thing for yourself or for those around you...lead them to fix their eyes on Jesus!
Isaiah 6:1-8 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord [Adonai] seated on a high and lofty throne, and His robe filled the temple. 2 Seraphim were standing above Him; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another:
Holy, holy, holy is the LORD [Yahweh] of Hosts; His glory fills the whole earth.
4 The foundations of the doorways shook at the sound of their voices, and the temple was filled with smoke.
5 Then I said: Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, ⌊and⌋ because my eyes have seen the King, the LORD [Yahweh] of Hosts. 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken from the altar with tongs. 7 He touched my mouth ⌊with it⌋ and said: Now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, and your sin is atoned for. 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord [Adonai] saying: Who should I send? Who will go for Us? I said: Here I am. Send me.
Isaiah was transformed from his encounter with Adonai, we could say Moses was transformed, John, Peter...Paul, how did Paul put it in 2 Cor 3:17-18? "Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 We all, with unveiled faces, are reflecting the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit."
Just who did Isaiah see? Adonai? Yes! Yahweh? Yes! Jesus? Absolutely, yes!
John 12:41-43 Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke about Him. 42 Nevertheless, many did believe in Him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so they would not be banned from the synagogue. 43 For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
Yahweh, you and you alone are my Adonai...LORD Jesus thank you, thank you, thank you...for opening the way (you are the way) for me to know you and be transformed by being in relationship with you! You and you alone enable me to gaze upon the very face of God and be transformed! 2 Co 4:6 For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness” —He has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
I love you because you first loved me,
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