Is Jesus Yahweh? Is Jesus Jehovah?

As may be seen from Hebrews 4:8, Jesus is the Greek form of Joshua, or Jehoshua, which signifies "Jehovah is salvation," or "whose salvation is Jehovah." There is therefore ample justification for the common observation that the name Jesus means Jehovah the Saviour. If so, what a subject for contemplation, yea, and for adoration, is thus brought before our souls! A child born into the world, of lowly parentage in man's esteem, is declared, divinely declared, to be Jehovah the Saviour!

His name is called Jesus — Jehoshua, that is, Jehovah the Saviour, for He shall save His people — who, and whose people, in connection with the explanation of such a name? Christ is the Jehovah of the Old Testament. Thus John 12, Isaiah saw His glory, and spoke of Him, quoting Isaiah 6. Whose glory was seen there? Jehovah of hosts.

John was sent to prepare Jehovah's way, and in John 1:30, calling attention to Jesus, the Baptist said; "This is He of whom I said, After me cometh a man who is preferred before me; for He was before me," an evident pointer to the pre-time glory of the Person of the Son of God. The Jesus of the New Testament is the Jehovah of the Old.

"And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives," says the Holy Ghost in Zechariah 14:4; "his feet," the feet of Jehovah. Though indeed He was the man of sorrows, Jesus is Jehovah, and has been so from eternity.

The word \[Jehovah\] signifies the self-existent One, and is practically translated, "Who is, and was, and is to come." Derived from the verb "to exist," it expresses the eternity, and, consequently, the immutability, of His being… He is thus the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last; and the use of these expressions (Rev. 22:13) proves, beyond all contradiction, that the Jesus of the New is the Jehovah of the Old Testament.

In John 8 we find, "before Abraham was I AM," in contrast with His age as man; which the Jews perfectly understood, and would have killed Him for blasphemy.

The Lord said to the Pharisees, "Before Abraham was I am." If that affirmation were not true He was a deceiver and God would never have raised a deceiver from the dead. The resurrection proves that that and all other statements of Christ were true.

Jehovah has sworn that every knee shall bow to Him, and every tongue give an account of himself to God, but it is at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow. Hence, though the Son quickens whom He will, as the Father, yet the Father judges no man, but hath committed all judgment to the Son, that all may honour the Son as they honour Him. There is no God but Jehovah — I know not any, as says the prophet; but we have seen, by multiplied examples that Christ is Jehovah.

In the Old Testament the Creator is said to be Jehovah, the everlasting God (Isa. 40:28), and in the New Testament the Creator is said to be the Word (John 1) which became flesh; the Son of the Father's love (Col. 1); the Messiah (Heb. 1). The Christ of the New Testament is Jehovah of the Old.

Could it be the same Lord who spoke in the thunders of Sinai, who, in tender accents, told Nicodemus, the Pharisee, that, "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son"? Yes, it was the same, for Jesus is Jehovah. And the man who denies it does not know God, but his mind is blinded by his great foe, the devil, lest he should believe and be saved.

That Jesus is Jehovah is the saving confession of true Christian faith. (Joel 2:32; Rom. 10).

"He is the Rock; His work is perfect; for all His ways are righteousness." So an Israelite could say of Jehovah; and Jesus is Jehovah. But He is more, and now more is revealed, especially since He the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us, full of grace and truth.