You alone are holy

"Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name?
For You alone are holy.
For all nations shall come and worship before You,
For Your judgments have been manifested.”
Rev 15:4

God and God alone is the holy one. He is independently, infinitely, and immutably holy. In Scripture one characteristic that is often used to describe God is 'holiness.' This attribute is clearly revealed throughout the canon of Scripture.

The Bible contains some wonderful pictures of a heavenly worship service. There are two specific spots I am referring to in the Bible. In these angelic worship services we find holiness to be the great theme of the angels singing. In the book of Isaiah we find a miraculous event that transpired before Isaiahs very eyes. The Heavens were opened and the Seraphim bursted forth a Heavenly anthem:

"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of
hosts;
The whole earth is is full of His glory!"

Or towards the beginning of the apocalyptic book of Revelation John recalls the vision he had while being in the Spirit on the Lord's day. Again the angels stayed focused on this same theme:

"Holy, holy, holy,
Lord God Almighty,
Who was and is to come!"

So, we must conclude a couple of things from these worship services. The first conclusion we certainly must make is God is holy. The angels sang about it as it is an essential characteristic of the Lord. Secondly, we must conclude that it is an important attribute of God. For there could have been many other attributes the angels sang about but in both of these accounts they were found praising His holiness.



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