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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Jehovah-Jireh
56-0429 §47
But look. They saw Him in the light that He was a human being. But they didn't see Him in the light of the Son of God, because they said He was a devil and was a mind reader, Beelzebub, the chief of the fortunetellers. But there was some people then who believed Him. Is that right? They were called the common people. Now, what did Jesus do? What was any different from Him than any other man? Now, if we can find out what He was then, He is the same today. If He is the same, if He's raised from the dead... And, all t...
A thinking man's filter
65-0822E §13
Well, it all happened up where the angels of the Lord appeared to me one morning, and them squirrels was spoke into existence. All of you remembers when it taken place. And also just at the top the hill where I was standing just before preaching the seven church ages, going hunting one morning before daylight, there stood... I thought the sun was coming up, about four o'clock in the morning. Unusual... I seen that light, and I turned around, and there stood the seven golden candlesticks, standing up there on top th...
Jehovah-Jireh
56-0224 §19
If He isn't the same today, then He was wrong, in His meeting with them back there, as a healer. If He met with them as a healer, in otherwise, and don't meet today as a healer, He was wrong with them people back there to begin with, see. So He can't be, 'cause He's infallible. He's God. So He has to be the same. And the Bible said, "He's the same." And He is the same. And we found last night in the blessed old Bible, which is the truth, that God, when He makes a promise, He will stay ... if you'll stay with that p...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
58-0323 §45
Nathanael said, "Now, just a moment. Now, Philip, no doubt but you've gone off on the deep end. You ... you're just ... you're getting all mixed up." Well I can hear him say, "Don't you know the Scriptures has declared that the Messiah is none other but Jehovah? And Jehovah knows the heart." And as soon as he got into the presence of this man... Now, Jesus was just an ordinary man. And when he got into the presence of Him, Jesus turned (the first time He'd ever seen him), and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom is...
The same Jesus tonight
55-0826 §12
How I long to see Him, to see here in His Spirit. Someday the Holy Spirit will leave the church. And we'll meet Him in the air. And these old bodies will be changed, and made like unto His own glorious body; hold your hands and spend a thousand years with you. Troubles will be over, [unclear words] will fail, and we will live in His presence forever. He's the same Jesus tonight. Believest thou this? The Bible said He's Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Believest thou this? He's the same Jesus ton...