I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
The speaker declares Himself to be Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, its Creator and its King, with the wisdom of the Infinite at His church's command. It is Jesus Christ speaking through Isaiah, so these titles form part of Isaiah's prophetic testimony about Christ. The opening self-declaration of I am expresses eternal presence, meaning that past, present, and future are alike to God, who sees the most remote events of past history and the far distant future as clearly as things transpiring daily.
It is the same great name given to Moses, which Christ used to express eternal presence when He declared His existence before Abraham, revealing that fifteen hundred years before laying aside His royal robe and kingly crown, leaving His position of honor in the heavenly courts to assume humanity and walk as a man among men, Abraham saw His day and was glad. The verse belongs to a section spanning Isaiah 41 to 45, in which God very fully reveals His purpose for His people and directs them to seek wisdom from Him rather than turning to finite human beings, a section that should be prayerfully studied. The chapter is the Lord's declaration of assurance containing precious promises for believers in the latter days, and those who meet its conditions may trust that the Lord will do what He has promised.
God's people are His servants who will not be forgotten, whose transgressions are blotted out and who are redeemed to return to Him, and they must look to Him alone for salvation, righteousness, and strength rather than turning from His wisdom to look to finite man. The surrounding chapter is connected with prophecy that God's people would be robbed and spoiled, trapped without a deliverer, imprisoned and oppressed when the Lord's law is made void. That prophetic message is fulfilled, with its fulfillment placed in the last days. Those prophecies about God's people being robbed and imprisoned will be fulfilled.
As Israel's Holy One, Creator, and King, the Lord owns each person as His property and appoints him steward over sacred trusts of mind and soul. The work taught by the chapter is guarding every avenue of the soul against Satan, keeping the mind free from rubbish and open to the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness in order to see God, faithfully using all entrusted faculties, being faithful over little things and following the Lord's plan without defeat or failure with well-cultivated intellect and well-disciplined character, presenting to the Lord a well-cultivated and beautiful vineyard while ever extending its domains by planting, sowing, and working new lands.
The speaker declares Himself to be Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, its Creator and its King, with the wisdom of the Infinite at His church's command. It is Jesus Christ speaking through Isaiah, so these titles form part of Isaiah's prophetic testimony about Christ. The opening self-declaration of I am expresses eternal presence, meaning that past, present, and future are alike to God, who sees the most remote events of past history and the far distant future as clearly as things transpiring daily.
It is the same great name given to Moses, which Christ used to express eternal presence when He declared His existence before Abraham, revealing that fifteen hundred years before laying aside His royal robe and kingly crown, leaving His position of honor in the heavenly courts to assume humanity and walk as a man among men, Abraham saw His day and was glad. The verse belongs to a section spanning Isaiah 41 to 45, in which God very fully reveals His purpose for His people and directs them to seek wisdom from Him rather than turning to finite human beings, a section that should be prayerfully studied. The chapter is the Lord's declaration of assurance containing precious promises for believers in the latter days, and those who meet its conditions may trust that the Lord will do what He has promised.
God's people are His servants who will not be forgotten, whose transgressions are blotted out and who are redeemed to return to Him, and they must look to Him alone for salvation, righteousness, and strength rather than turning from His wisdom to look to finite man. The surrounding chapter is connected with prophecy that God's people would be robbed and spoiled, trapped without a deliverer, imprisoned and oppressed when the Lord's law is made void. That prophetic message is fulfilled, with its fulfillment placed in the last days. Those prophecies about God's people being robbed and imprisoned will be fulfilled.
As Israel's Holy One, Creator, and King, the Lord owns each person as His property and appoints him steward over sacred trusts of mind and soul. The work taught by the chapter is guarding every avenue of the soul against Satan, keeping the mind free from rubbish and open to the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness in order to see God, faithfully using all entrusted faculties, being faithful over little things and following the Lord's plan without defeat or failure with well-cultivated intellect and well-disciplined character, presenting to the Lord a well-cultivated and beautiful vineyard while ever extending its domains by planting, sowing, and working new lands.