Is Jehovah in the “Old Testament” Jesus Christ in the “New Testament”?

Question

Matt. 4:10: “Jesus said to him: ‘Go away, Satan! For it is written, “It is Jehovah [“the Lord,” KJ and others] your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.”’” (Jesus was obviously not saying that he himself was to be worshiped.)

John 8:54: “Jesus answered [the Jews]: ‘If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifies me, he who you say is your God.’” (The Hebrew Scriptures clearly identify Jehovah as the God that the Jews professed to worship. Jesus said, not that he himself was Jehovah, but that Jehovah was his Father. Jesus here made it very clear that he and his Father were distinct individuals.)

Ps. 110:1: “The utterance of Jehovah to my [David’s] Lord is: ‘Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet.’” (At Matthew 22:41-45, Jesus explained that he himself was David’s “Lord,” referred to in this psalm. So Jesus is not Jehovah but is the one to whom Jehovah’s words were here directed.)

Phil. 2:9-11: “For this very reason also God exalted him [Jesus Christ] to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every other name, so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. [Dy reads: “ . . . every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.” Kx and CC read similarly, but a footnote in Kx acknowledges: “ . . . the Greek is perhaps more naturally rendered ‘to the glory,’” and NAB and JB render it that way.]” (Notice that Jesus Christ is here shown to be different from God the Father and subject to Him.)

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses believe the bible to teach that there are several references to Jesus in the so-called "Old Testament" which indicate that Jesus is distinct from "Jehovah" of the so-called "Old Testament". It is not enough to simply assert that a doctrine is true, and so Jehovah's Witnesses reason from the Scriptures on the matter...


It seems rather obvious that the apostle Luke at Acts 4:25-27 quotes from Psalms 2:1,2. Although these passages are part of the Christian and Hebrew Scriptures respectively, BOTH passages make it plain that there is an "anointed one" who is distinct from God. The Psalm plains calls that God by the name "Jehovah" (explicitly using the Tetragrammaton) and Acts plainly calls the anointed one by the name "Jesus".

(Psalm 2:1,2) [David wrote] Why have the nations been in tumult and the national groups themselves kept muttering an empty thing? 2 The kings of earth take their stand And high officials themselves have massed together as one against Jehovah and against his anointed one

(Acts 4:24-27) [Peter, John, and fellow Christians] with one accord raised their voices to God and said: “Sovereign Lord, you are the One who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them, 25 and who through holy spirit said by the mouth of our forefather David, your servant, ‘Why did nations become tumultuous and peoples meditate upon empty things? 26 The kings of the earth took their stand and the rulers massed together as one against Jehovah and against his anointed one.’ 27 Even so, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with men of nations and with peoples of Israel were in actuality gathered together in this city against your holy servant Jesus


Similarly, the apostle Paul at 1 Cor 2:16 and Rom 11:33,34 paraphrases Isaiah 40:13. Note that Isaiah explicitly uses the name "Jehovah" (the Hebrew Tetragrammaton), and 1 Corinthians plainly CONTRASTS the mind of Jehovah with the mind of Christ Jesus.

(1 Corinthians 2:16) For “who has come to know the mind of Jehovah, that he may instruct him?” But we do have the mind of Christ.

(Romans 11:33-34) O the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable his judgments are and past tracing out his ways are! 34 For “who has come to know Jehovah’s mind, or who has become his counselor?”

(Isaiah 40:13) Who has taken the proportions of the spirit of Jehovah, and who as his man of counsel can make him know anything?

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Answer 2

There are many verses in the Bible that tell us not to worship any created thing

Acts 10:25,26 - Cornelius fell down to worship Peter. Peter forbade it saying that he himself was just a man. God deserves worship, but men do not. (Cf. Acts 12:20-23; 14:8-18.)

Revelation 22:8,9; 19:10 - John sought to worship the angel, but the angel forbade it because he was a "fellow servant." "Worship God."

Romans 1:25 - People who worship and serve created things, rather than the Creator, have left the truth of God.

Now Jesus was perfect He didn't sin and false worship, blasphemy is certainly a sin yet Jesus received the unique worship God deserves.

He was often worshipped while He appeared on earth before His resurrection.

Matthew 8:2 - A leper came and worshipped Jesus. [9:18; 15:25; Mark 5:6]

Created beings also worship Him after His resurrection.

Matthew 28:9,17 - After His resurrection, His disciples worshipped Him. [Cf. John 20:28,29]

Luke 24:52 - Even after He had ascended back to heaven, they worshipped Him.

Hebrews 1:6 - Angels are instructed by God to worship Jesus.

Matthew 14:33 - After Jesus had calmed the storm, the disciples worshipped Him saying He was the Son of God.

John 9:38 - After Jesus had healed the blind man, He revealed Himself to be the Son of God (v35). The man said he believed, and he worshipped Jesus.

If Jesus were not God He would have rebuked this worship as blasphemous but Jesus is God and received the worship He deserves.

JB

Answer 3

Human history has allowed precious few ancient religious writings to survive the onslaught of the more aggressive and powerful religious forces, which seek only to gain territory and wealth. Genocide and cultural eradication always go hand in hand with missionary zeal. In many cases every trace of the conquered society's religious writings, practices, icons, and even buildings were destroyed, in the name of conversion from worship of gods considered evil, and religious customs labeled as heresies. What generally results from past crusades is the conqueror's religion replacing or predominantly blending with the conquered culture's former religious practice, making the its religion almost unrecognizable. Christianity falls into the latter category, having been the victim of the Roman Empire, under the Emperor Constantine, who blended the Christian Church with the institutionalized "pagan" practices of Rome and eliminated any semblance of either the Jewish religious influence or the first church Jesus established during his ministry.

Answer 4

Jesus is God. The problem is Jehovah is not the name of God so, no Jesus is not Jehovah. The name Jehovah is a combination of the Hebrew words for I AM and Adoni (which means Lord). In the second temple era the priest decided the true name of God was too sacred to say so they substituted Adoni when reading. Over time some copies of the Torah included the vowel indicators for Adoni to remind the reader not to use God's name. When they translated the Torah (Old Testament) in King James' time they included the vowel sounds with the word, creating the name Jehovah, because they did not ask anyone with a knowledge of the Torah what the symbols meant.

Answer 5

No. It is made VERY clear that Jesus is Jehovah God's SON. They are NOT 1 in the same or a trinity either. Even Jesus said "the father is greater than I..." And when people bowed to worship him he told them not to. Nice research! That's what we (Jehovah's Witnessses) encourage people to do. If anybody doesn't believe what we're saying...they can use their OWN Bible and do their OWN research.

Answer 6

Thanks for the verses. Yes, Jesus is Yahweh, in that He Is the Word of God.

Elohim (Gods) is the Father, Word & Holy Spirit.

The Yahweh thy Elohim is One (united) Yahweh. So, the Word (Wisdom, logical) part of Jesus Christ Is Yahweh.

But Jesus is also a human. This is new, and His humanity isn't Yahweh, until after He raised from the dead a new everlasting body. He ascended to the right hand of God (Father, Word & Holy Spirit) in His resurrected everlasting body, and that is where Jesus is today.

And God has highly exalted Him (after Resurrection) in His humanity, that at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow and tongue confess, Yeshua Messiah is Yahweh (Jesus Christ is Lord), to the Glory of God the Father.

The LORD God of the Old Testament is God the Father, Word & Holy Spirit. The LORD God of the New Testament is God the Father, Word & Holy Spirit & our resurrected Savior, Jesus Christ the Lamb of God. Jesus Christ is also the Word of God. The Word of God is Christ Diety. The Lamb of God is Christs Humanity that Is victorious over death for us.

Answer 7

I am not a JW, but the JW study BHible has its commentary right on 1 pe 3:15. They say that Lord there should be Jehovah. That means the JW's command us to sanctify Jesus as Jehovah. To that I can say AMEN!

Answer 8

Jehova is just the latin word for Yahweh.
Yahweh is the hebrew name for God.

Answer 9

Be wary of the JW, they twist and distort the Bible...

Jesus IS God, it is explained by the Trinity...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity

Answer 10

Read the Gospel According to Saint John

Unlike Catholics, Protestants believe solely in the Bible.

If so, there are many verses in St John that Jesus and God are one.

John 10

38 But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.


John 14
26 But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you.


Chapter 10
30 I and the Father are one.


Chapter 17
11 And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are.



Chapter 17
21 That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, as we also are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me; that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.



If God has intended that man should learn His religion from a book, the Bible, surely God would have given that book to man. Christ would have given that book to man. Did He do it? He did not. Christ sent His Apostles throughout the whole universe and said, "Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you."






We must have Faith in order to be saved, and we must have Divine Faith, not human faith. Human faith will not save a man, but only Divine Faith. What is Divine Faith? It is to believe, upon the authority of God, the truths that God has revealed, that is Divine Faith. To believe all that God has taught upon the authority of God, and to believe without doubting, without hesitation. For the moment you begin to doubt or hesitate, that moment you begin to mistrust the authority of God, and, therefore, insult God by doubting His word. Divine Faith, therefore, is to believe without doubting and without hesitating. Human faith is belief upon the authority of men, on human authority. But Divine Faith is to believe without doubting, without hesitating, whatsoever God has revealed upon the authority of God, upon the Word of God.

Source(s):

Latin Vulgate
Douay-Rheims Bible