Worship is noisy!

There are many traditions for worshipping God within the church today. I was reading Isaiah 6 one day and realized that worship in heaven is NOISY!

Isaiah 6:1-4 (NIV) In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another:

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”

At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

That’s a powerful shout, if it’s enough to shake heaven’s doorposts.

The above passage was set about 740BC, according to the NIV Study Bible. If you fast-forward about 835 years to 95AD, the seraphs are still at it:

Revelation 4:6-8 (NLT) In front of the throne was a shiny sea of glass, sparkling like crystal.
In the center and around the throne were four living beings, each covered with eyes, front and back. The first of these living beings was like a lion; the second was like an ox; the third had a human face; and the fourth was like an eagle in flight. Each of these living beings had six wings, and their wings were covered all over with eyes, inside and out. Day after day and night after night they keep on saying,

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty— the one who always was, who is, and who is still to come.”

We also see 24 elders speaking and the throne thundering. In Revelation 5, we see the elders with harps singing, and millions of angels singing loudly. They were declaring the worthiness of the One on the throne and the Lamb. Let’s let our own worship do the same thing.

Doug