Is Is Jehovah of the Old the Same Person as Jesus of the New?
1) Direct Answer
Yes. Jehovah of the Old Testament is the same one divine Person revealed in the New Testament as Jesus Christ—Jehovah come in flesh. It’s not two persons; it’s one God changing His mask, not His identity.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- “God was manifested in the flesh” (1 Timothy 3:16). Not a second person—God Himself revealed in a body.
- “His name shall be called… Mighty God, Everlasting Father” (Isaiah 9:6). The Child is the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, not someone else.
- “They shall call his name Immanuel, which… is, God with us” (Matthew 1:23).
- “Before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58), tying Jesus directly to Exodus 3:14 where Jehovah said, “I AM.”
- “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30), and “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14:9).
- “In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9).
- The One who says, “I am the First and the Last” and “the Almighty” in Revelation is the same One who says, “I was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore” (Revelation 1:8,17-18). Jehovah, the Almighty, is the very One who died in flesh and rose—Jesus.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- One God, one Person. In the Old Testament He was above us as Father (Jehovah). In the New Testament He came with us in a Son’s body as Jesus. Now He lives in us as the Holy Spirit. Same God, different offices.
- The body born at Bethlehem is the Son (the manifestation had a beginning), but the One who indwelt that body is the eternal Jehovah. That’s why Jesus could say, “I AM,” and “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”
- If they were separate persons, Jesus could not truthfully claim oneness with the Father, nor could the Child be called “Everlasting Father.”
4) Reinforcing Statement
You see, Jesus is Jehovah-Savior—God unveiled in flesh to redeem us. It’s not three Gods, and it’s not two persons. It’s the one true God made known in Jesus Christ.
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Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
61-0516A §48
And Jesus, He was only thirty years old, or not quite thirty-three, but yet He must have looked older. When He was talking, in St. John 6, to the Jews when they was having the feast, and they were drinking this water representing the water from the rock smitten in the wilderness, He said, "I am that rock that was in the wilderness." Oh, that stirred up their righteous indignation, and they said, "You mean to tell me that you saw Abraham and you're a man not over fifty years old?" He looked fifty, but He was only th...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
61-0205E §58
No doubt they were saying, "Why didn't you heal Mr. Jones over there? He's sold pencils on the street for so long." "Here's old Sister Cashorn, over here. Why she's had arthritis for years. Why didn't you heal her? She's a good woman. She's a member of my synagogue." He said, "I do just as the Father shows me. The Father worketh and I worketh hitherto." Oh, that's Jesus yesterday; that's Jesus today. The same Jesus works as the Father shows Him. We notice it.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
63-0627 §101
because He's just represented in one person there. Jesus Christ, God. But now God is among His Church everywhere. "More than this shall you do; for I go to the Father, to come back in the form of the Spirit." Father, Spirit, see. The same Pillar of Fire that led the children through the wilderness, that dwelt in Jesus Christ, returned back to God. He said, "I come from God and go to God." Notice what took place. As soon as He did that, Saul of Tarsus on his road down was struck down with that great Light, as I said...
God using His Gift
56-0311E §25
...le cool, and he moves back again. The sun's shining on him now. He ducks his head over, begins to think again, "You know, Mother used to read the Scriptures to me. And she told me how she was reading at the Joshua, and the great host of people, and some of my fathers was in that. They camped right out, perhaps... Now, if the wind's coming this way, as they said this morning... They camped right out below here just a little ways. And the very walls that I'm standing by the ruins now, fell down by the people marching...
God hath a Provided Way
56-0108 §27
In the Old Testament, He was Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice. He was Jehovah-rapha, the Lord that healeth thee. In the Old Testament, in His compound names He was the healer of Jehovah-rapha. In the New Testament He's Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. The preparation. We could take it from both the Old and New Testament, pat them together. That's the reason, mostly, I got to the Old Testament to pick out a text, because I bring it over to the New Testament, and pull it together, and...