Your confusion about Isaiah 41:4 is easily refuted.
Keil & Delitzsch Old Testament Commentary: And this is no other than Jehovah, who can declare of Himself, in contrast with the heathen and their gods, who are of yesterday, and tomorrow will not be: I am Jehovah, the very first, whose being precedes all history; and with the men of the latest generations yet to come."
https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/kdo/isaiah-41.html
Furthermore, to believe that the Bible is teaching Jesus is equal to Himself is absurd.
LOL, read please, Isaiah 41:4 "Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning?
I the LORD, the first, and with the last;
I am he."
I am he? yes the same one person, and here's why. Isaiah 48:12 "Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called;
I am he; I am the first,
I also am the last." and Fred, "Also" means,
in addition; too in addition to being the FIRST he is ...... ALSO ...... the LAST.
see Fred, the two angels in Lot House was a type, a figure, a shadow of the Father and the Son extending GRACE to a dying world. understand types, figures, and shadows of the OT in order to understand the NT.
now lets see this "EQUAL WITH" IN SCRIPYURES.
A. Philippians 2:6 "Who, being
in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God:" equal .... WITH? bingo.
B. John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God." again, WITH, bingo.
that "WITH" is the same as "ALSO" meaning the same one person.
the two angels in the "FORM" of men. which you have no clue.
Now ..... (smile) "
Keil & Delitzsch Old Testament Commentary: And this is no other than Jehovah, who can declare of Himself, in contrast with the heathen and their gods, who are of yesterday, and tomorrow will not be: I am Jehovah, the very first, whose being precedes all history; and with the men of the latest generations yet to come.""
in contrast with the heathen and their gods? are you kidding, LISTEN and LEARN,
Brown-Driver-Briggs
אַחֲרוֺן51
feminine אַחֲרוֺנָה plural אַחֲרֹנִים (also אַחֲרוֺנִים
adjective from אַחַר, coming after or behind (as a comparative or superlative, according to the context); hence
a. of place,
behind, hindermost Genesis 33:2 (twice in verse); הָאַחֲרוֺן הַיָּם
the hinder (= the Western) sea (i.e. the Mediterranean: opposed to הַיָּם הַקַּדְמוֺנִי the front sea = the Dead Sea, the Semites, in defining the quarters of the heavens, turning naturally to the East, compare קֶדֶם of the East, יָמִין, תֵּימָן of the South, above under the word אָחוֺר
d. and Assyrian
mat a—arru 'the Western land,' of Phoenicia & Palestine)
Deuteronomy 11:24;
Deuteronomy 34:2;
Joel 2:20;
Zechariah 14:8;
Job 18:20 poetic אַחֲרֹנִים Ew Hi Di De
the dwellers in the West (opposed to קַדְמוֺנִים). More commonly
b. of time, latter or
last (according to context)
Exodus 4:8;
Deuteronomy 24:3;
2 Samuel 19:12;
Isaiah 8:23, of God
Isaiah 44:6 ("" רִאשׁוֺן)
Isaiah 48:12 (do.) compare
Isaiah 41:4; in Genl.
subsequent (vaguely), ׳יוֺם א = time
to come Isaiah 30:8;
Proverbs 31:25 (but
Nehemiah 8:18 הַיוֺם ׳הָאַ =
the last day), ׳(הָ)אַ (הַ)דּוֺר
the following Generation
Deuteronomy 29:21;
Psalm 48:14;
Psalm 78:4;
Psalm 78:6;
Psalm 102:19, (הָ)אַחֲרֹנִים
they that come after Job 18:20 (Ges Schl)
Ecclesiastes 1:11;
Ecclesiastes 4:16,
but Isaiah 41:4 the last, Job 19:25 וְאַחֲרוֺן עַלעָֿפָר יָקוּם and as
one coming after (me) (and so able to establish my innocence when I am dead) will he (גָֹּֽאֲלִי my Vindicator) arise upon the dust. — The
feminine is used adverbially (compare רִאשֹׁנָה) =
afterwards or
at the last (according to context): (
a) absolute
Daniel 11:29; (β) בָּאַחֲרוֺנָה (opposed to בָּרִאשֹׁנָה)
Deuteronomy 13:10;
Deuteronomy 17:7;
1 Samuel 29:2;
2 Samuel 2:26;
1 Kings 17:13;
Daniel 8:3; (γ) ׳לָאַ
Numbers 2:31 (P)
Ecclesiastes 1:11.
THE... LAST, THE, THE, THE LAST this is in TIME as in First and Last.... example, Revelation 1:11 "Saying, I am Alpha and Omega,
the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea."
First and Last the same ONE PERSON, IN TIME. Listen and Learn. Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is
one LORD:"
One LORD and to come in flesh "ONE" Lord. for ONE here is the H259 ECHAD of oneself to Come in TIME, just as
Brown-Driver-Briggs Clearly states.
ONE: H259 אֶחָד 'echad (ech-awd') adj.
1. (properly) united, i.e. one.
2. (as an ordinal) first.
[a numeral from H258]
KJV: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together.
Root(s): H258
there he is, "(as an ordinal) first." FIRST in TIME, and WITH the LAST in TIME? 1 Corinthians 15:45 "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." in Lot day the LORD/Lord, the TWO ANGELS was in a ECHAD or a similitude of God, ... Hosea 12:10 "I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets."
this is just too east.
see Fred, a plural pronoun of God is "ONE", better known as the ECHAD, or the EQUAL SHARE of God in flesh.
too easy.
101G.