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1 | Do you yet say that Jesus was just a man | John 9:24 | stokeyhk | 55729 | ||
The teaching that Michael, the archangel is Jesus Christ before he came to earth and since his return to heaven is not exclusive to Jehovah's Witnesses. The name of Michael is found in Daniel 10:13, 21; 12:1; Jude 9; Revelation 12:7. The term "the archangel" is found in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 (NIV) and Jude 9. Daniel 10:13 says: "Michael, one of the chief princes." Daniel 10:21 says: "Michael, your [Daniel's] prince." Daniel 12:1 says: "Michael, the great prince who protects your [Daniel's] people." Jude 9 says: "Michael the archangel." Revelation 12:7 says: "Michael and his angels." Michael means "Who is like God?" This points to the fact that Jehovah God is without like, or equal, and that Michael is the one who takes the lead in upholding Jehovah's sovereignty and destroying God's enemies. At 1 Thessalonians 4:16 (NIV), the command of Jesus for the resurrection to begin is described as "the voice of the archangel," and Jude 9 says the archangel is Michael. If the designation "archangel" applied, not to Jesus, but to other angels, then the reference to "the voice of the archangel" would be describing a voice of lesser authority than that of the Son of God. Notice the term is never plural in the Bible, thus implying that there is only one: "THE archangel." Revelation 12:7-12 describes "Michael and his angels" defeating Satan and his angels in connection with kingly authority being conferred on Christ. (2 Thessalonians 1:7) Jesus is the one who leads the armies in heaven to destroy the nations of the world. Jesus is the one who will 'crush Satan's head' also. (Genesis 3:15; Galatians 3:16) Daniel 12:1 associates the 'standing up of Michael' to act with authority with an unprecedented "time of distress" during "the time of the end." (Daniel 11:2-4, 7, 16b, 20, 21, 40) This fits the experience of the nations in Revelation 19:11-16 and Matthew 24:21. So the evidence indicates that the Son of God was known as Michael before he came to the earth and is known also by that name since his return to heaven where he resides as the glorified spirit Son of God. Stokey. |
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2 | Do you yet say that Jesus was just a man | John 9:24 | flinkywood | 55787 | ||
Stokey, God doesn't normally require this kind of workaround to make a thing clear, especially a thing on the order of Jesus' deity. The bible tends to be explicit, not implicit: "Take heed therefore to yourselves and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood." (Acts 20.28, KJV). Try this cool thing: "Who has planned and done it, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I Jehovah am the first and the last; I am He." (ISA 41.4, LITV). Who is that? It's Jehovah, of course. "So says Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts: I am the First, and I am the Last; and there is no God except Me." (Isa 44.6 LITV) Jehovah again. "Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel My called: I am He; I am the First; surely I am the Last." (Isa 48.12, LITV). Jehovah redux. Now to... "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord, the One who is, and who was, and who is coming, the Almighty." (Rev 1.8, LITV) Jehovah once again. "And He said to me, It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending. To the one thirsting, I will freely give of the fountain of the Water of Life." (Rev 21.6, LITV) Who is this? Jehovah? Okay, but who is spoken of in this next verse? "And to the angel of the assembly of Smyrna, write: These things says the First and the Last, Who became dead, and lived:" Stokey, this world is so bonkers. Every day it's "Anything but Jesus." But at the end of the day it has more to with what you believe than what you don't. Colin |
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3 | Do you yet say that Jesus was just a man | John 9:24 | flinkywood | 55791 | ||
Stokey, the final verse is Rev 2.8, LITV. Colin | ||||||