These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him. 

John 12:41 

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. 

Isaiah 6:1 

Christ appears throughout the Old Testament. As John writes his gospel, he quotes the prophet Isaiah in the passage that precedes our text. Our text, while it seems to be a simple aside, is full of implication. He says Isaiah saw ‘His glory.’ He has been speaking of Christ. In the verses leading up to our text there is no other person in view other than Christ. Therefore, when John says, ‘These things said Isaiah when he saw His glory and spoke of Him,’ he is, of necessity, speaking of Christ. What is even more significant is that Isaiah declares unequivocally that he saw the LORD, which is the name Jehovah, as the Old Testament uses it. Therefore, John is implicitly asserting the deity of Christ. As he will say later, ‘but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.’ The term Son of God is the statement of Christ’s essential, eternal deity. The Jews understood it as such and were prepared to stone Christ for using it in reference to Himself. We are abundantly blessed to have the New Testament writers confirm what the Old Testament writers asserted. Christ is the message of the Scriptures from the beginning to the end.  

Our Great God and our Savior, 
we rejoice that You are Jehovah. 
We praise You that, You being God, 
have come to us in human form. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning

These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him. 

John 12:41 

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. 

Isaiah 6:1 

Christ appears throughout the Old Testament. As John writes his gospel, he quotes the prophet Isaiah in the passage that precedes our text. Our text, while it seems to be a simple aside, is full of implication. He says Isaiah saw ‘His glory.’ He has been speaking of Christ. In the verses leading up to our text there is no other person in view other than Christ. Therefore, when John says, ‘These things said Isaiah when he saw His glory and spoke of Him,’ he is, of necessity, speaking of Christ. What is even more significant is that Isaiah declares unequivocally that he saw the LORD, which is the name Jehovah, as the Old Testament uses it. Therefore, John is implicitly asserting the deity of Christ. As he will say later, ‘but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.’ The term Son of God is the statement of Christ’s essential, eternal deity. The Jews understood it as such and were prepared to stone Christ for using it in reference to Himself. We are abundantly blessed to have the New Testament writers confirm what the Old Testament writers asserted. Christ is the message of the Scriptures from the beginning to the end.  

Our Great God and our Savior, 
we rejoice that You are Jehovah. 
We praise You that, You being God, 
have come to us in human form. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning

These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him. 

John 12:41 

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. 

Isaiah 6:1 

Christ appears throughout the Old Testament. As John writes his gospel, he quotes the prophet Isaiah in the passage that precedes our text. Our text, while it seems to be a simple aside, is full of implication. He says Isaiah saw ‘His glory.’ He has been speaking of Christ. In the verses leading up to our text there is no other person in view other than Christ. Therefore, when John says, ‘These things said Isaiah when he saw His glory and spoke of Him,’ he is, of necessity, speaking of Christ. What is even more significant is that Isaiah declares unequivocally that he saw the LORD, which is the name Jehovah, as the Old Testament uses it. Therefore, John is implicitly asserting the deity of Christ. As he will say later, ‘but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.’ The term Son of God is the statement of Christ’s essential, eternal deity. The Jews understood it as such and were prepared to stone Christ for using it in reference to Himself. We are abundantly blessed to have the New Testament writers confirm what the Old Testament writers asserted. Christ is the message of the Scriptures from the beginning to the end.  

Our Great God and our Savior, 
we rejoice that You are Jehovah. 
We praise You that, You being God, 
have come to us in human form. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning