I have reserved to myself 144,000 who will not bow to the image

Isaiah 43:10 says: “Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me (Isaiah 43:10).”

There is no doubt that this passage is speaking exclusively of God the Father and is also speaking of the children of Israel who are the witnesses and servants of the Lord God.

They have witnessed and can testify that he alone is God, the Supreme Being of the universe, and that there is no other God. There never has been and never will be.

What was it that led Israel to this knowledge?

“I have declared, and have saved, and I have showed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God (Isaiah 43:12).”

This text is saying, “First I predicted your deliverance; I declared what I would do, and then I did it—I saved you. No foreign god has ever done this before. You are witnesses that I am the only God.”

Israel had an experience with God, and through the mighty experiences of deliverances they had, they came to know that he is the only true God.

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