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 using His Gift
56-0311E §24
Now, but oh, every time they lead me up to the Temple, they tell me that all the days of miracles is past, they don't happen no more. Whatever happened to Jehovah? I know Elijah's gone and Elisha's gone, but has Jehovah gone?" He's reasoning this. You know, there's always a reason for those reasonings. And he thinks again, "Just about a few ... about five hundred yards from here, a little farther, that great warrior Joshua, prophet and leader, walked down to the Jordan that morning, when the old Jordan in the month...
Jesus of Nazareth passeth by
58-0524 §62
And this Jew, He was only thirty something years old. But the Bible said he looked fifty. His work did it, said, "You a man not yet fifty years old and say you seen Abraham. Now, we know you got a devil." He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." And that was the pillar of fire that was in the burning bush on the picture that you see tonight, the same yesterday, today, and forever. If that pillar of fire is truly the same pillar of fire, it'll bear the same record that it did in Jesus Christ when it's here in His church...
From that time
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...