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The Comfort Promised
How Isaiah 40 Anticipates the Love of John 3:16 Isaiah 40:1 (KJV) Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. There is something tender in these words: like the voice of a father kneeling beside a frightened child. It’s the voice of God, breaking through the thunderclouds of judgment with a message of compassion. Isaiah 40 opens what many scholars call the “Book of Comfort,” and it is here that the heartbeat of the Gospel quickens. The first line…