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.
Ask a Follow-up Question
What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
A Greater than Solomon is here now
64-0306 §42
She packed up a lot of money. She took gold, and myrrh and all ... frankincense, I suppose, and silver. And she'd laden camels with it. Now, she said this. "I'm going up, and I'm going to look into it myself. And then if it's so, I'll support it; if it isn't so, I'll have nothing to do with it." You know, she could teach Pentecostals something. Lot of them support a program that laughs and makes fun of you. You support a program on the air that makes fun of the things you believe in (that's right), because it sound...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
62-0718 §80
Now the Gentile church has come to their time. Now we're looking for a Messiah. And if that's the way He acted before that, in that day, He has to act the same today. If He lets us go in without it, then He isn't the same. And then He doesn't act the same, and He's a respect of persons. See what I mean? He's got to do the same thing again. So that makes Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Jehovah-Jireh
55-1117 §37
God, in human flesh, recognized what was going on behind Him. The same One that knowed where Philip found Nathanael. The same One that's here amongst us tonight, that knows everything about you. He's still God. God had a need to talk to Abraham like a man, so He made Himself a body and stepped into it. And that same God of ours has every bit of calcium that was ever in your withered-up body. Hallelujah! Only thing He has to do is at the time of the coming of His Son, the Lord Jesus, is just speak, and every man tha...
God-called Man
58-1005E §61
Now I would like to just ... to kind of place to you what this is, because if I don't, then you might go away saying, "Well, I don't understand that." Now, my contentions is this, that Jesus Christ remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, if He is the same, He's got to be the same in every principle, the same in power, the same in might, the same in everything that He was. And when on earth here there was some Greeks one time who came and said, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." And I believe that that is the...
Be not afraid
61-0311 §45
That Spirit that comes out of there comes into the human spirit and makes him a son or daughter of God. Amen. That's the new birth. That's the gospel, if I know anything about it. The cell that was in there, God created Himself with his own Self. He come down a little baby Jehovah and was born in a stable over manure. And it ought to be striking to the people. Little Jehovah laying crying in a stable. Oh, my. And we think we're somebody because... Oh, my! Jehovah playing like a child, Jehovah working like a man, Je...