Friday, February 16, 2024

1 Thessalonians 4: 13-17

 13 Moreover, brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who are sleeping in death,so that you may not sorrow as the rest do who have no hope. 14 For if we have faith that Jesus died and rose again, so too God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in death through Jesus.15 For this is what we tell you by Jehovah’s word, that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep in death; 16 because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. 17 Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we will always be with the Lord.

Who will descend?  ".. the Lord himself ..."
How will he descend? "...with a commanding call, with an archangel's voice.."
From where will he descend? ".. from heaven..."
Who is he?  "... the Christ ... the Lord ..." 

The Christ is the archangel.  

Jude 9But when Miʹcha·el the archangel had a difference with the Devil and was disputing about Moses’ body, he did not dare to bring a judgment against him in abusive terms, but said: “May Jehovah rebuke you.”

Whom else is the archangel?  "... Michael ..." 
Whom did Michael call on?  ".. Jehovah .." 

Daniel 12: 1 “During that time Miʹcha·el will stand up, the great prince who is standing in behalf of your people.And there will occur a time of distress such as has not occurred since there came to be a nation until that time. And during that time your people will escape,everyone who is found written down in the book.

Who is Michael?  " .. the great prince who is standing in behalf of your people...." 

Revelation 12: 7 And war broke out in heaven: Miʹcha·el and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled 8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them any longer in heaven.  

Who battled the dragon? "..Michael and his angels..." 

Revelation 12: 10 I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the Kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our God!

Who does the Kingdom belong to?  "... our God .." 
Who does the Christ belong to?  "... our God..."  ".. his Christ.." 
What does Christ have? " .. the authority.." 
Who was conquered?  "... the accuser of our brothers.. "

Revelation 12:11 And they conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their witnessing, and they did not love their souls even in the face of death.  

Why was the accuser conquered? "...because of the blood of the Lamb ... " 

Jesus is the archangel. Michael is the archangel. There is only one archangel. They are the same person. Michael disputed with the Devil over Moses body. Therefore, Michael existed before Jesus was born. He had a prehuman existence and has a posthuman existence.

Jesus is not God. The Christ belongs to God and is given authority by God. He is the great prince, the archangel, the Lamb.