OUR FATHER IS THE ONE TRUE GOD

Isaiah chapter 44 verse 13 says this;

The carpenter measures with a line  and makes an outline with a marker; he roughs it out with chisels and marks it with compasses.

He shapes it in human form, human form in all its glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

This verse describes the process that a carpenter goes through to create an idol out of wood.

He outlines his design using compasses and markers so that it will look like the human form and then he chisels out the shape he wants.

He plans for it to be gloriously shaped like a human and suitable to be placed in a shrine. The human shape is a shape designed by God and so giving this shape to idols is a usurpation of the form of God after whom men were shaped.

Every aspect of the idol needs a person to plan for it for it can do nothing on its own. Its material, shape and dwelling place are all completed by the carpenter.

In contrast, the God of Israel, the eternal self-existing One, asks any other god to declare himself and proclaim his existence. He calls on such a god to demonstrate that he knows what transpired since He, the God of Israel, established His people and to demonstrate that he knows what is to come. Isaiah chapter 44  verse 7 says it this way;

Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, Aand what is yet to come—yes, let them foretell what will come.

The Lord, in view of these ironsmiths and carpenters making gods by their own hands, declares that there is no other God beside Him because He does not know of any. This is recorded in Isaiah chapter 44 verse 8;

Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago?

You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me?  No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.”

Amen.

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