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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60-0302 §62
But that light is hanging over the woman. I'm looking right at it. And if that light be the same light that followed the children of Israel... When it was here on earth, it was made manifest in a body of flesh called the Son of God. That was Jehovah in the light. Jehovah was manifested, or tabernacled, in His Son, which was the creative Son, Jesus Christ. He said, "I come from God and I go to God." A little after that, Paul was on his road down (after His death, burial and resurrection), was on his road to Damascus...
Jehovah-Jireh
57-0326 §113
All right. I think they're still lining up the prayer line down there. So now, let's look just a minute while ... till they get someone out here. Now, be real reverent and I want to ask you something. If Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, He's the same in principle, the same in power, same in attitude. Is that right? Now what did He do yesterday? How did He ... what was the seal of His Messiahship? Tell me the first thing He done that sealed His Messiahship, that we can think of, in the Bible.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
58-0223 §26
To justify our statement of Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever; if I should go tonight to some of our fine denominations such as the Presbyterian, or the Methodist, Baptist, or the Church of God, or Pentecostals, or whatever, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness; I'd say to them, "Do you believe that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever?" "Sure." "Well, is He the same in every way except His corporal body?" Well, there would be a question. They would say, "Yes, of course." But if Christ is the same, H...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
63-0627 §58
I think He looked a little older than what He really was, because we find out in St. John 6 that, the discussion come, about drinking water in the wilderness, and so forth, and how they was enjoying the bread representing the manna. And Jesus said, "I am that Rock that was in the wilderness." And they said, "You're a man not over fifty," see? And he was only thirty. "Thou art a man not over fifty." His great strain must have broke His human part down. And he might've been graying a little, or something. Said, "You'...
We would see Jesus
62-0704 §36
In the Old Testament, Christ, the same. Christ, the same in the New Testament. And Christ, the same forevermore. Then if we can see what He was, then, what He had been, and what he will be, then we've got it. Is that right? Moses said, now, "He'll, be like me, a prophet like unto me." Then when He come, what Christ that was, He had to be what He... Then He had to be what He was before then. So now let's start from right there, and then we'll see that He will be forever. That's the only way to make it.