Commentary on Isaiah 43:

(1) But now thus says the Lord, your creator, oj Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel,  “Do not fear, I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!”

Comment: Jesus Christ is the Creator, per John 1 and Hebrews 1.  Jesus Christ is the Redeemer.  And Jesus Christ re-named Jacob as Israel

“So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved.” Genesis 32:30.    We know that “no man has seen the Father,” This was Jesus Christ that Jacob saw — God.  Jesus Christ shared the glory of the Father even before the world began (John 17:5)

(3) For I am the Lord you God, the holy One of Israel, your Savior.

Comment: There is no Savior of Israel other than Jesus Christ.

(10) “You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He.  Before Me there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me.”

Comment: This is Jesus Christ.  The Israel of God are His witnesses.  He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.

(11) I, even I, and the Lord and there is no savior besides Me.

Comment: No Christian can possible dispute that there is a Savior other than Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the God of Israel and the God of Isaiah.

(12). It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed, and there was no strange god among you; So you are My witnessed,” declares the Lord, “and I Am God.”

Comment: Christian are the witnesses of Jesus Christ. We testify/witness that Jesus Christ is the Resurrected and only begotten Son of God.  We testify that He is God the Creator, One with the Father, in whom the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, the exact image and representation of God the Father.

(13) Even from eternity, I am He, and there is non who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?”

Comment: This is the Alpha and Omega, the origin and source of all things, the purpose and destiny of all things.  Jesus Christ is the Word, who was with God, and who Is God, the Creator of all things.

“All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.”  (John 1:3)

(14) Thus says your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.”

Comment: There is no Redeemer other than Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ is the Holy One of Jacob of whom he testified “I have seen God face-to-face.”

(15). I am the Lord, your Holy One. The Creator of Israel, your king.”

Comment: Jesus Christ is the Creator.

(25) I, even I, and the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, I and will not remember your sins.

Comment: It is Jesus Christ who wipes out transgressions.

“You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.” John 5:45

“Not that anyone has seen the Father, except One who is from God; He has seen the Father.  Truly I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.  I AM the bread of life.” John 6:46-48

“No one has seen God (the Father) at any time;

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.  Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in Him and he in God.  1 John 4:12-15

“He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Soof of Gode does not have life.” 1 John 5:12

“In Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form.” Col 2:9

“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation). Col 1:15

Fritz Berggren
Colorado
22 July 2026 A.D.