Isaiah 40 - 47

So I'm trying to do a better job of my learning, of archiving my spiritual progress. This blog, then, is for me first, my immense readership second. So here you go, Jason:

Yahweh of heaven's armies is the only God, the only one who rightfully can say, "I am, and there is no other" (Isa 46:9; cf. 47:8)
He is only one who can explain history, the narrative in diverse, seemingly disparate events, the course of the thread through the entangled ball (Isa 41:21-22; 43:12);
The only one who predicts the future, predicting with such specificity as demands the conclusion that he, sovereignly, causes and controls all things (Isa 41:22-29; 43:12; 46:10).
He is the only savior, the only one 'outside the system,' and therefore, the only one who can free one from it (Isa 43:11).
We are his creation, endowed with all his attributes but the one we need to make any of them useful: righteousness (Isa 46:12; cf. Gen 1:26-27).
He is the one who draws near, the one who brings his righteousness with him (Isa 41:10; 46:13).
He is one who expiates wrongness for his own sake, for reasons that make sense only to supreme reason, reasons that prove graciousness a fundamental of righteousness, reasons that give hope to those 'inside the system' -- inside the black, 'black box' (Isa 43:25-26)
Now hear this from the book of the Acts of the Holy Spirit in God's apostles: This man, Jesus of Nazareth, God has made both Christ (savior) and Lord (Yahweh of heaven's armies) (Acts 2:36).
He was the hope of Israel and is the only hope for us, a hope extended, an anchor for the soul for those who'll buy it (Heb 6:18-19; 11:13).
He is my most valuable possession, the only enduring thing about me, the only endearing thing about me.