6 This is what the Lord says—Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies:

“I am the First and the Last;
    there is no other God.
7 Who is like me?
    Let him step forward and prove to you his power.
Let him do as I have done since ancient times
    when I established a people and explained its future.
8 Do not tremble; do not be afraid.
    Did I not proclaim my purposes for you long ago?
You are my witnesses—is there any other God?
    No! There is no other Rock—not one!” (New Living Translation).

”These verses give the very essence of these chapters, with their emphasis on God as Israel’s champion (Redeemer,6;cf. 41:14), their explicit monotheism (6b,8b), their stress on prediction (7b) and their reassuring tone toward a diffident Israel” (Derek Kidner: ‘New Bible Commentary’, p,658.

Once again, fulfilled prophecy is produced as evidence for the reality of Israel’s God and the falsity of all other idols. Who of them are able to accurately foretell the future? This is a repeated theme in Isaiah.

”The fulfilled prophecies of the Bible. We could just believe that the Bible is the Word of God on this one point alone. This is staggering. Say, do you realize that at the time the Bible was written 27% of the Bible was prophetic?

There are some 1,817 prophecies of some nature in the Bible at the time the author wrote the Scripture. A prophecy is pre-written history. Only God knows the future and the reason that God knows the future is because God has foreordained the future. God’s not looking down the tunnel of time to see anything because God already knows everything. And God has already foreordained everything. And He records some of it for us in the Scripture.” Steven Lawson.