Isaiah 40 shema trinity - what does the text say?

[Wootah]

Isaiah 40:3 A voice of one calling:
“In the wilderness prepare
the way for the Lord[a];
make straight in the desert
a highway for our God.

Matthew 11:14 And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come. 15 Whoever has ears, let them hear

Question: who is the Lord? If John is Isaiah who is Jesus?

Ignore your ideology if you can.

[PinSeeker]

What's to disagree with here? History spells it out. Israel was deported by Assyrians and a few hundred years later Judah was captured by Babylon and returned 70 years later and rebuilt the Temple. So, christ came according to Matthew and Mark first for the lost sheep of Israel. This was his first mission.

Israel did return from exile. That the kingdom was split at the time is really not relevant. God has always had only one People He was concerned with, and this People now includes -- from the time of Jesus's birth -- the Gentiles. Jesus Himself says this by quoting from Isaiah 61 (in Luke 4) and Isaiah 9 (in Matthew 4 and Mark 1) at the beginning of His public ministry [these are all accounts of the same event). Jesus did not somehow have "two missions." We are all the lost sheep of Israel. We can see this more clearly if we read it alongside what Paul says in Romans 11...

• "...a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved..." (Romans 11:25-26)

...and what the writer tells us in Hebrews 1...

• "God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world." (Hebrews 1:1-2)

Really, concerning specifically the return of Israel in the days of Isaiah, it is a picture of what is ultimately going to happen. In the spiritual sense, Israel is split right now, just as it was physically split in those days. If we start to see ethnic Jews coming to Christ in great numbers, we can take that as a sign that the fullness of the Gentiles has been brought in, and the partial hardening of Israel is being or has been removed... and the time of Jesus's return (although we can't know exactly when it will happen) is upon us. That's how I see it, anyway. Thoughts?

[PinSeeker]

Actually, many of those that fled the ten tribe kingdom when it was destroyed fled to Judah as the Assyrians advanced. There is also a note in 2 Chronicles 10:17 about "Isralites living in the cities of Judah" before the fall of Israel. According to Ezra 2:70; 6:17; 10:5; Ne 12:47; when Jerusalem was settled again the people were once again called 'Israel'. They even gave sacrifices representing all 12 tribes (not just Judah) on their return to Jerusalem. Even in the days of the Apostles the nation was called Israel and not Judah. (Ac 2:22, 36.) The Bible leads us to the conclusion that there were at least some people from each of the 12 tribes that once again inhabited Jerusalem.

Agree. See above.