Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. (v. 2) The throne room of God is a busy place. The King’s angelic attendants are seraphim, which means something like “burning ones.” They are living flames of pure, nuclear-powered praise. They are sinless, yet humbled before God because, as A. W. Tozer reminds us, We must not think of God as highest in an ascending order of beings, starting with the single cell
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