Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 42:8-9

"I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images. Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them." — Isaiah 42:8-9 (ASV)

One great proof of the truth of the deity of Jehovah is that he can foresee and foretell, so that long before events happen he makes them known. Now Isaiah, by God's Spirit, told the Israelites concerning Christ hundreds of years before Christ came; and yet the terms are so express that one might almost think that they were written after the event. But does God not know; and is he not God who sees through the mists of ages, and looks upon the things that are to be as though they were? Truly he is God.