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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The unveiling of God
64-0614M §25
Notice, Jehovah of the Old Testament is Jesus of the New Testament. See? He's the same God, just changing his form. Now, someone said the other day, a Baptist minister out in Tucson, "How can you say that Jesus and God would be the same person?" I said, "Well, it's very easy if you just let your own thinking get away and think the Bible terms of it. They are the selfsame being. God is a Spirit; Jesus is the body that He was veiled in. See?" I said, "Like in my home. To my wife, I am her husband. And I have a young...
Let your light so shine before men
61-0903 §11
Said, "Jesus of the New Testament is Jehovah of the Old. He's just changed His veil." Now, since studying that, I find out that same word, where He changed His countenance, in the Greek did mean changing His mask. Not exactly His veil, but His mask. It come to the place He was transformed, see. That means He changed His way. He was God Jehovah. And God Jehovah changed Himself from a Spirit and became a man. He's the same Jehovah God---which, that was the Father and this is the Son, being the same person. And how .....
Going beyond the camp
64-0719E §68
Jesus of the New Testament was Jehovah of the Old. Exactly right! I believe, as I was telling you here now, sometime ago or somewhere in a meeting; it might not have been here, Jehovah of the Old Testament is Jesus of the New. You remember the when I was going squirrel hunting that morning, and there it was, them three big stems run into one out there, right on the mountain, we standing there looking at it. And I drew up close and took off my hat, laid down my rifle. Got up there, and a voice shook the woods, said,...
We would see Jesus
62-0704 §37
Same yesterday, now here was, we find the Hebrew writer, is Paul, saying, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday," speaking to the Hebrews. And we all know that Jehovah of the Old Testament, was Jesus of the New, and it's the Holy Spirit of today. It's just the same God just manifested in three different offices. And, so, the same God! And all that God was, He poured into Christ, all Christ was He poured into the church. So, see, you can find quickly what He is, "The same yesterday, today, and forever."
Questions and Answers on Genesis
53-0729 §73
Now, here's the message we have here. Jesus was Jehovah enveiled in flesh, come down enveiled. Now, God (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) is not like your finger---one---like some people think. The whole thing's just like... No, God is... I just unfolded it for you a while ago, see, that there's a trinity in the One. I'm a trinity in one. I'm soul, body, and spirit, in one person. Is that right? Sure. I'm made up of cells, blood, and nerves, and yet one being, see. Everything you look at is in a trinity, and a trinity...