Jesus is the LORD (jehovah)

There are plenty of people today that are questioning the deity of Jesus Christ. Their questions come in the same manner as the question that the serpent asked in the garden, 'has God really said...'? Although they do have a group of verses that they stand on, I believe that their understanding of those verses is wrong. The only reason that they view those verses in the way that they do is because of their false understanding of who Jesus is. They fail to recognize that as a man God limited himself in certain respects.
There are a few passages of scripture that give us very clear definitions of who Jesus is, and who he was before his coming to the earth. 1 John 1, says 'that which was from the beginning...the word of life!'. The gospel of John chapter 1, says 'in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.....and the word was made flesh.'. These passages state very plainly that before being manifested in the flesh, Jesus was the Word of God. Notice that it was not the Son of God that was manifested, rather it was the Word of God that was manifested as the Son of God. There was a point in time that he became the Son of God(psalm 2), but he has always been the Word of God and always will be the Word of God. (Revelation 19:13)
These same verses, along with scores of others, also prove that Jesus' existence is prior to him coming to the earth as a baby. They say that he is from the beginning, that he is the creator that made all things. Col 1:15, states concerning Jesus,... Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. These verses tell us that before there were stars and planets, the Word of God was. Before there was a single thought, before there was time, space, and matter, Jesus existed as the Word of God. It says that, just as an artist may paint a picture by himself and for himself, even so Jesus, as the Word of God, created all things, visible and invisible, for himself and by himself! He wanted everything to consist by him! Hebrews 1 says that Jesus upholds all things by the word of his power! Everything from the smallest atom, to the invisible spirit, to the most vast galaxy, all of it is upheld and consists by Jesus.
Anyway, I feel like I may have been drifting from my topic a bit there, and yet, not really. My point in this article is to show you that Jesus is JEHOVAH of the Old Testament. He is the one that created the heavens and the earth and destroyed it again in days of Noah. He is the one that spoke to Abraham of the land of Canaan and promised it to him and his descendants forever. He revealed himself to Moses in the burning bush and brought the children of Israel out of Egypt. Jesus is Jehovah, the one that parted the red sea and made Israel great! On and on we could go about all the great things that Jehovah has done in times past. It is not very often that we think of these things as being done by Jesus, but that is who it was.
In Isaiah 45 Jehovah is making things very plain to the children of Israel. He wants them to know that HE is God and that there is none other! Five times in this one chapter God feels the need to state that there is 'none else', four times he says there is 'none besides me'. In verse 18 he states, For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. This verse already sounds very similar to the ones that we went through earlier about Jesus in the New Testament, doesn't it? He goes on from there continuing to make it clear that he is God and that there is not another one, and then in verse 22-23 he states that salvation and judgment will come through him, he says, Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Did you catch that? Jehovah says that unto him, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall swear!! Does that ring a bell at all? Isn't there another passage somewhere that says something very similar to that in regards to Jesus? Yes there is, Philippians chapter 2 says, That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. How could every knee bow, and every tongue confess that both Jesus and Jehovah are LORD unless they are the same person?
There is another passage in Zechariah 12:1 that says, The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Here the LORD again makes it exceedingly clear that he is the one that made the heavens and the earth! He continues in this passage to speak in a personal sort of way, saying, 'I will smite..I will make..I shall seek', and so on. There is no doubt whatsoever who is doing the talking in this passage, it is the LORD GOD JEHOVAH. Now if you go down to verse 10, Jehovah says to the children of Israel in prophecy, '... and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. It is amazing to me that with a prophecy like this the children of Israel still pierced Jesus, but they did, and they gave it little thought. But the day is coming when Jerusalem will be surrounded by the nations of the earth, and Jesus will come down upon the mount of olives riding a white horse, and the children of Israel will look upon him whom they have pierced, and they will mourn at their cruel dealings with their LORD and Savior Jesus Christ or Jehovah! (Zech. 12-14, Rev. 19).
There are many other prophecies in the Old Testament where Jehovah refers to himself, but the fulfillment is found in Jesus. I won't go through them all right now, but I wanted to give you a little taste of this truth in these two passages.
I love the doctrine of the deity of Jesus! It gives me great confidence to know that God was manifested in the flesh, became the perfect man, and the perfect substitute sacrifice for our sins!
So the next time you consider the Old Testament and see the Lord God Jehovah at work, remember that he is also the man that was born to a virgin, lived a perfect life, gave himself as a ransom for all, died, rose again from the dead, and ascended into heaven! He is the man that is sitting at the right hand of the father right now, the one that ever lives to make intercession for us. You can count on his work being effectual for you today! You need not doubt whether your salvation is for sure or not, the same God that created all things is the same God that became a man and secured your salvation for you. The same deity that destroyed Egypt with ten amazing plagues, is the same God that went to the cross and spoiled the devil and his servants. God, who formed you, has also recreated you through Jesus' work on the cross.
Be confident of this one thing, there is one God, beside him there is not another one, and this one God came into human history in the person of Jesus Christ for the purpose of being our savior, that he might have the preeminence and be before all things! HALLELUJAH!