Isiah6:1 What was The Lords Train?

Question

What is your understanding of this verse?In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne,high and lifted up,and his train filled the temple.

Psuns: The King James Version.

Efin:That was very good and right.I`m leaving the question on for another day to see what others might have to say.A simple question with more then just the visial meaning.

J and J D.:Great answer it truly is his Glory.

Answer 1

To understand this passage, we have to understand who Isaiah was and what his relationship to the Lord was like. Isaiah ( a prophet) was one of the most important voices of the Old Testament.
Isaiah expressed the promises and warnings of God to the people of Judah for close to 50 years -from about 740BC to nearly 690BC. A king by the name of Uzziah was in power when Isaiah began his ministry, and under this good king the nation enjoyed generally peaceful and prosperous times. But the spiritual decline began during the closing years of his rule accelerated under his successors. God responded with humiliating military defeats and economic distress.
The history of the times does not make pleasant reading. The society of Judea was marked by terrible injustices as the rich and powerful exploited the poor. Immorality was rampant as the people (inspite of Isaiah's messages and the evidences of God's displeasure) adopted the corrupt practices of pagan idollatry. Meanwhile, the unbelievably cruel Assyrians and Babylonians brought suffering, death, and devastation as they invaded the land. In bothe Judah and her enemy nations, the dark side of the human race was on full display.
We may think that our advance in scientific knowledge and technology have made us morally superior to the people of Isaiah's day. Some of us view ourselves as above pagan beliefs and practices. But isn't it possible that people today are just as proud, selfish, and cruel as the ancients? We may be shocked at what the Assyrians and Babylonians did to their enemies. But we must remind ourselves of our own evils of our own times. The Nazis slaughtered more than six million Jews, and millions from other ethnic groups. Regimes in China and Russia have brought about the death of more than one hundred million people. Today, Christians in Indonesia, Ethiopia, and other countries are being tortured and killed by the thousands. Official and unofficial ethnic cleansing continues unabated all over the world.
Many of us who live in prospering countries are wasting our non-renewable resources, fouling the air and water, and ignoring the fact that one-third of us are over-fed while two-thirds live in hunger and squalor. It's not uncommon for us to be more concerned with improving our own living conditions than in making sacrifices to improve the lives of the poor and oppressed.
Human nature hasn't changed much since the time of Isaiah. And neither has God. He is still the God who cares for those who have not yet discovered that real satisfaction and peace of mind are not found by living for ourselves. Real satisfaction is found by learning from our God how to live for the needs and for the good of others.
Isaiah painted a beautiful portrait of this unchanging God in his book. Isaiah opens his book with five summary chapters in which he introduces the " Holy One of Israel ". The prophet views the " Holy One " as that awsome being whose greatness and moral goodness is beyond our human comprehension. Limited as we are by time and space, how can we grasp the concept of His eternal self-existence and simultaneous presence everywhere in His universe? Living as we do in an ever-changing world, how can we conceive of a being who always remains the same? Existing as we do with a mixture of good and evil within ourselves and everything around us, how can we understand absolute moral integrity?
The Holy One of Israel, whose greatness and perfection are beyond our understanding, is knowable and near. Isaiah presents Him as reaching down to us, making Himself known to us, telling us what He expects from us, and relating with us when we humbly trust Him. He is knowable and near and available. The truth of God's transcendence ( not bound by time and space) and immanence ( everywhere present) is expressed beautifullyu in Isaiah 57:15.
The passage you refer too is Isaiah describing the scene he saw when he received a vision from the Holy One.
When the good king Uzziah died after a long rule of 52 years, God gave young Isaiah a vision in which He revealed something of what it means for Him to be called The Holy One, the one being in all the universe who is incomprehensible and uncompromised in His greatness and moral goodness.
Isaiah was overwhelmed at the sight of the angelic beings covering their faces to shield their eyes from the blinding brightness of the throne and the sound of their chant. He was afraid he was going to die on the spot and was filled with a profound sense of his own sinfulness and that of his nation. (v 6:5).
In the Bibe those who have been given a vision of God's majesty always react with awe and fear because they are overcome with a realization of their own weakness, their smallness, and their sinfulness.

Answer 2

well its part of His Robe. The verse in the NASB says "In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple." Now if I'm right, the train of a robe or dress as on weddings in the part behind the the person wearing it. You know how in wedding when the bride wears a huge dress she has to have people holding the back of it so it doesn't get dirty, well thats the train, and robes have the same thing.

Answer 3

Lord Voldemort was a dark and tortured soul. His potty training was not neccessary, since his magic siphoned off the urine.

Answer 4

It's part of a garment, like on a wedding dress.
On the other hand, a lot of people think Isaiah is all about aliens, so....

Answer 5

What bible are you reading that from? The NIV says "the train of HIS robe filled the temple"

The Blue Letter Bible confirms that it is indeed the "train" of his robe.

Answer 6

lol, its like a long garment, not a form of modern transportation.

Answer 7

his glory