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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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...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
58-0312 §54
Lord God, great Jehovah, make Thyself known tonight. We believe Thee to be the infallible God, the great Elohim, the great Jehovah-jireh, Jehovah-rapha, the Almighty, the Alpha, the Omega. Thou art not dead. How could God die? The tabernacle that He lived in died, but not God. He raised up that tabernacle, the body of our blessed Lord that gave the promise, "A little while and the world won't see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me: for I will be with you to the end of the world." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
54-0824 §23
He never told her all she did, but He told her one thing, and He could've told her more if He wanted to, I guess, if God would've showed Him. Now, that's the kind of a Jesus He was. He knew where a fish was one time, had some money in his mouth. He knew where two mules was tied where two ways met. He knew where an upper room was to be provided; He told His disciples. That was Jesus of nineteen hundred years ago; is that right? Well, now do you believe that Hebrews 13:8 is inspired? Do you believe that God's Word? W...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
58-0223 §31
Now let's find what He was. Let's start off tonight from the book that I read from: St John. Let's begin at the first chapter. Now, when go you home through this week, study this where I am going to quote from, you, just now, because time won't permit me to read it all in these next about ten minutes. Notice, when Jesus was here and on earth after He received the Father into Himself... For we truly believe, and I'm sure that, you southern people, here believe that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself...
The seven compound names of Jehovah
55-0120 §70
...rced that woman, she knowed she... [Gap in the audio]. Not just through the apostles' age, or through St. Francis' age, through Wesley's age. "I will be with you to the end of the world. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and for... I believe it, friend. Now, for the newcomers, if our Heavenly Father who I've tried to speak about tonight of what He was, wrapped in His redemptive names. If He will come tonight in the form of His Son, the Lord Jesus, and do what He said He would do, come here to the platform and...