Isa 6 Prelude - God's original plan for a nation of king/priests

This week 4 podcast is an intentional full-session bunny trail to dig into God's desire for a dual-mantle-wearing nation of king/priests, first revealed and offered in Ex 19:3-6 and finally fulfilled in Christ, declared by Peter (1 Pet 2:6-12) and then trumpeted in Rev 1:4-6.

Powerful stuff. Powerful call. Huge potential. Huge responsibility. What we are called into as New Testament saints is, in the true biblical sense of the word, awesome.

When the prophet Isaiah (6:1) marks the year of his calling as "the year that King Uzziah died", I believe God offers the inquisitive reader understanding into some of the profundity of that timing. NEXT Saturday our plan is to look back into Uzziah's life and ministry, and then forward (finally!) into Isaiah 6.

There's innumerable king and priest stories chronicled in scripture, so that we might learn from real examples, both right and wrong. We need to unlearn what world-royalty and world-authority looks and behaves like, and we want to learn heavenly authority, as modeled by our King. As Paul tells us:

1 Corinthians 10:11
¹¹ Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the end of the age has come.