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
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...
Jehovah-Jireh
57-0612 §69
After His ascension, was there anybody seen Him after His ascension? Be careful. One man, Paul. That's right, my brother. What was He in? What did He look like? A light. Is that right? Then Jesus Christ is the same that led the children of Israel, here on earth today, the same yesterday, today, and forever, doing the same signs and wonders that He did in the days gone by---the same. That's not there for me; I'm just one of you all. It's there to prove, that's scientifically prove, the only supernatural being was ev...
Christ is identified the same in all generations
64-0415 §45
When Jesus come, He was the Word. So was Moses the Word; Moses, the rest the prophets, was the Word, but they were the Word in portion. He was the Word in full. He was the fullness of the Word. He was the Word. And then they was living in the--the flickering glare of Moses' age. He said, "If you'd have knowed Moses, you'd knowed Me, for Moses wrote of Me." They said, "Well, You're not yet fifty years old, and say 'You seen Abraham?' Now we know You're mad." He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." The "I AM" was in the...