As I mentioned elsewhere, the writers of the New Testament consulted no other sources but the Scriptures (Old Testament, the Law and the Prophets, the Psalms). They quoted verses that apparently have nothing to do Jesus but in reality carry some kind unforeseen prophetic fulfillment. For example, the verse about the virgin (Isaiah 7:14) getting pregnant and bearing a son that was quoted to signify that the birth of Jesus was, thus, predicted, pertains to an unrelated conversation between Jehovah, prophet Isaiah and king Ahaz. Yet, it was a prophetic.
How much more can we quote the Scriptures to discover Jesus in verses with identical connotation with Jehovah, specially when Jesus testifies that the Scriptures testify of Him (John 5:39)?
Again, Jesus speaks of God as His Father, but He never uttered the name Jehovah as His Father to His audience nor established Jehovah God as the One to pray to in His name. So, the silence of Jesus on Jehovah speaks volume, as it is written in Luke 2:11 (YLT):
We think we know Jesus, that we have a relationship with Him. Do we? Others look for Jesus through History, Archaeology, etc. None of the tangible proofs matter. It is a waste of time because Jesus can be found and understood only if He reveals Himself. That means, one can find Jesus while the other one does not even believe there is a Jesus or God. Therefore, Jesus most likely looks at our hearts to allow us to grasp Him.
Apostle John teaches that no one knew about God The Father, not Adam, Noah, not Abraham, not Moses. We know that they knew El-Shaddai (Jehovah, from the exodus time). Therefore, the God of Jesus, that is, The Father, is not Jehovah God since Jehovah was seen by Moses.
A Jehovah's witness, my cousin denies verse 23 because he was taught that Jehovah is invisible. So, as you may realize, if Jesus does not reveal Himself and The Father to us, we have no capacity to grasp neither the Father nor Jesus, no matter what is written or how eloquently we discourse and document that Jesus is Jehovah.
The doctrine of The Father, by the way, is a new revelation to Judaism and you will not understand it if Jesus does not desire to reveal Himself and His Father to you.
The God of Jesus, that is, The Father, is not Jehovah God since Jehovah, The Word, spoke with Adam, with Noah, with Abraham in the Book of Genesis , and with Moses and the Israelites during the Exodus time.
Apostle John has chosen the most beautiful magniloquent metaphor to present Jesus to his audience. Jesus was the Word of the book of Genesis who uttered things to existence. Lexicographically, Jesus was positioned toward the Father, His God, and was with God since beginning. Jesus was God, that is, Jesus was Jehovah because the name of the God of the Jews is Jehovah. Empowered by His Father God, He lightened our world from His radiance even before the creation of the sun and created by Himself everything with no help. It is revealed that He will be again the light, as the sun retires,who will illuminate the New Earth and the New Heavens to come.
At the due time, Jesus became flesh to rescue us from death and destruction of our dammed world in the manner Luke narrated it for us. Jesus is the only Begotten of the Father. Jesus made the Angels because by Him everything came to being.
We read in that verse that Jesus sent His Angel to His servant John. Jesus has an innumerable Angels at His service but this Angel is not any indefinite Angel as the New Testament Translation portrays Him. Since we already established that Jesus is Jehovah, we can conclude that the Angel sent to John was Angel of Jehovah (Lord, Jesus). The parallel for the verse is that Jehovah has His own Angel at His service ministering to the Jews and their ancestors () and there cannot be a Jesus competing with Jehovah or duplicating Him. Therefore, Jesus, from the introduction of the book of Revelation is Jehovah God.
God who gave Jesus the revelation of things to come in the book of Revelation is the Father whom Jesus revealed to us...
If you do believe that Jehovah is God the Father, can you see the conflict that arises between the Jehovah of Isaiah and the Jesus of Acts in term of witnessing, at least, about salvation? Jehovah says that there is no other Savior besides Him (Isaiah 45:14-25)and Jesus is also portrayed as our exclusive Savior (Acts 4:12 ; John 3:17).
Jehovah declared to Israel that He is the first and the last (Isaiah 44:6; 48:12). Jehovah is also the Word (Isaiah 48:13). Similarly, Jesus is the Word (John 1:1) and also the First and the Last (Revelation 22:13).
Also, since besides Jehovah there is no other God (Isaiah 44:6) Savior and besides Jesus there is no other Savior, no other name by which anyone can be saved (Acts 4:12) and that Jesus is also the Almighty [El-Shaddai] (Revelation 1:8; Genesis 17:1), the conclusion from those titles is that Jehovah is Jesus in flesh.
Apostle John, in speaking of Isaiah, says that Isaiah saw Jesus, that is, even before Jesus was born. At that time Isaiah testified that he saw Jehovah with his own eyes and was afraid that he was going to die. Again, Jesus is Jehovah.
Read the arguments of Paul and the verses of the Scriptures he quoted to discourse on Jesus and compare the biblical passages to see that they relate to Jesus. Paul says that the name of Jesus is a name above every name ( like Jehovah, the Most High) that commands worship both in Heavens and on earth, another prerogative of Jehovah.
The first verses of Hebrews parallel the first verses of the Gospel of John presenting Jesus to the Jews as the Son of God, God, Jehovah, Creator of all things, the Word, the only Begotten. Even in the book of Revelation we learn that the revelation was given to Jesus by God, the Father.
In Hebrews 1:8 you read the verse that disturbs the Jehovah's witness so much that they had to twist it.
Jesus is Jehovah Most High King of the earth, as pieced together in the following verses.
Only Jehovah can forgive sins. Jesus does just that to many without lifting up His hands to ask His Father for permission or assistance to forgive the sins of those He forgives. Therefore, Jesus is Jehovah God.
As many believe, Jesus was not seen as a future King to be crowned one day.