"Michael Stands Up --
Q: Who is Michael, and what is his standing up?A: Michael is called the "archangel" in Jude 9. This means the chief angel, or the head over the angels. There is but one.
Q: Who is he?
A: He is the one whose voice is heard from heaven when the dead are raised.
(For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 1 Thessalonians 4: 16)
Q: Whose voice is heard in connection with that event?
A: The voice of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, John 5: 28)
Tracing back the evidence with this fact as a basis, we reach the following conclusion:
Q: Whose voice is heard in connection with that event?
A: The voice of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, John 5: 28)
Tracing back the evidence with this fact as a basis, we reach the following conclusion:
The voice of the Son of God is the voice of the Archangel;
the Archangel, then, must be the Son of God.
But the Archangel is called Michael;
hence Michael must be the name given to the Son of God.
He is the great Prince."
Uriah Smith
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