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Within these chapters it tells a story of God’s communication with His people who were being disobedient. The Book of Isaiah shows Israel’s refusal to notice God’s will because of their rebellion and self-will to establish some type of government on their own terms. Isaiah 6:1-13 is told in first-person as a narrative monologue. Within this chapter, Isaiah claims divine authority he declares the condition of spiritual anguish that will come against the land. Isaiah 6:1-4 talks about Isaiah’s vision of God and claims to present specific words from God stemming from a face-to-face encounter. Isaiah experiences a sense of unworthiness in 6:5-7 and recipient of God’s commission in 6:8-13. After reading the first five chapters of Isaiah you could consider chapter 6 of Isaiah as the beginning of a fresh set of prophecies separate from Isaiah’s chapters 1-5, but joining the next set of prophecies, Isaiah’s call to minister to Israel becomes elevated and critical to the development of the