Isaiah 40 "None Like God" 5/17/23

Tonight, we are still in Isaiah, but from chapters 40 to 66 it almost reads like another book.
So much so…that many critics have said that Isaiah did not write these last chapters.
I’m not going to spend a lot of time defending the fact that he did indeed write these chapters…
But I want to give you just a little taste of why I…and many others believe that he did.
First…when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found…among the scrolls was a complete copy of the book of Isaiah.
This copy is 1,000 years older than the oldest copy we had…and it was an exact copy of the book that we have written by the prophet Isaiah.
But the real proof that Isaiah wrote it comes from Jesus…Jesus quotes Isaiah 40:3…in Matthew’s gospel… (Matthew 3:3)
Referring to John the Baptist and says: “For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah.”