In The Year That King Uzziah Died.

The vision of Prophet Isaiah is just one of the many visions of heaven written in the Bible. Others have seen visions of heaven too. For example, Apostle John saw the vision of heaven whilst he was in exile on the Isle of Patmos. This is well documented in the Book of Revelation. Also, Prophet Micaiah had a glimpse of the Court of heaven in 1Kings 22:19-23. Similarly, in the Book of Job 1:6-12, we read of how God was presiding in heaven and the angels and even Satan came and presented themselves before the Lord.

What makes the vision of prophet Isaiah so unique is that he was given a commission to Judah and Jerusalem, but he himself was unclean and needed to be purged before he could take on the assignment. He was given specific instructions to give a message to the people.

So, who was Prophet Isaiah? Why did God wait until after the death of King Uzziah to speak to him? What was the commission given to Prophet Isaiah? Why didn’t God send his angels to give this message to his people?

Prophet Isaiah is one of the major prophets in the Old Testament and is believed to have written the Book of Isaiah. This book is considered to be a “mini-Bible”, as it has 66 chapters, just like the Bible. It is also the most quoted book from the Old Testament in the New Testament. It contains several prophesies, especially about the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ. For example, in Isaiah 7:14:

“Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel”. NKJV

In Isaiah 53:1-6:

“Who has believed our report?And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,And as a root out of dry ground.He has no form or comeliness;And when we see Him,There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men,A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely, He has borne our griefsAnd carried our sorrows;Yet we esteemed Him stricken,Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions,He was bruised for our iniquities;The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray;We have turned, every one, to his own way;And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all” NKJV.

As for King Uzziah mentioned in Isaiah 6, he was the King who reigned at the time of Isaiah. As a matter of fact, Isaiah was a prophet during the reign of 4 kings- Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah.

King Uzziah was 16 years old when he became king after the death of his father, king Amaziah. He started out as a good king in Judah and reigned for 52 years. He was very popular because he did the right things. However, somewhere down the line, he became proud and puffed up.

At the beginning of his reign, the Bible records in 2 Chronicles 26:5:

“He sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God; and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.”