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
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...
What does it take to make a Christian life?
57-0113 §15
Now, a new bottle is a new tanned hide, and the new tanned hide has still the animal oil in the hide. Then when the new wine goes into a new bottle, then when the new wine begins to swell, the new bottle gives, pushes out because it's got oil in it. And if there ever was a time that the church needs a oiling, it's today; a Holy Spirit oiling. New wine. Now, when the Bible says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever," His healing power's just as great today as it ever was. The old intellectuals wil...
Where is He, King of the Jews?
58-1221M §48
What do you think that makes us feel today, as Christians, to see even a picture of Him? And I have one now that outstands that, by hundreds of times. But that same Jehovah God has sent His light, before the coming of His Son the second time, to lead us, to comfort us, and to bring us into that fountain; that we may wash from our sins, and be clean in the righteousness of His Son, the Lord Jesus; and become sons and daughters of God, born anew by the Spirit of God, which changes. A birth means we have been changed...
Jehovah-Jireh, part 2
64-0403 §15
Now, we see in this also, in this covenant, that He showed there what He would do: how God would tear apart Christ Jesus; and the body was raised up and sits on the right hand of God in the Majesty on high; and the Spirit of Christ was brought down upon the earth. Now, if we had time you could prove that anything one part of the Scripture says, it goes all the way through the Bible. If it doesn't, then there's something wrong. The Old was just a shadow of the New, foreshadowing it. Then if you get the shadow you ca...