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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