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Michael the Ark Angel and Messiah

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Michael the ARK Angel -- The Christ?

Q:  I have been listening to Amazing Fact program and its teacher, Doug Batchelor, says that Michael the angel that is mentioned in Daniel and Revelation is really the Messiah.  What do you say?

A: Amazing Facts is a very educational program.  I believe they are out of Roseville, California, and a branch of the Seventh Day Adventist.  Doug is a very good and capable teacher.  But, on this subject he and the Church he represents is wrong.  Michael, is not the Messiah.  I could go through each of the thought paths taken to arrive at the conclusion they, and Doug, arrive at in the vain attempt to proving this error.  I may do a full study on it later, but for now, this is the simple answer.  And can be proven with one verse and a willing heart/mind to see.

(Rev 12:7)  Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,

In this Chapter 12 of Revelation, the timing is clear.  YaHshua has ascended and Satan and his angels are also trying to ascend back to the Heaven of heavens.  The timing is after our Savior has been born into the flesh and then crucified and then returns to the Father.  It almost appears as if Satan and his crew are in pursuit.  Anyway, Satan and his gang of demon angels are met by Michael and his forces and stopped, then defeated in some kind of Spiritual Battle and suddenly, it seems, Satan and his angels find themselves back down here on Earth to -- well, eat dirt, you could say (Gen 3:14).

Do you see it?  YaHshua comes to us in the Flesh, born of a woman, First Begotten and Born of our Heavenly Father.  He lives for 33 and some months and is killed on the Cross -- His Name is YaHshua, He is named before His Birth -- Luke 1:30-31.  In the Book of Revelation we see that Angel that fought with Satan is Michael, NOT YaHshua.  If Michael were YaHshua it would have been made clear in this account, an account about how Satan and His minions are trapped here on Earth, imprisoned, you might say.

See how easy that was?  Keeping this truth in mind, you can now see through the teaching about Michael in a better light.  Of course, there is one other error that they live in, despite the many truths they do have and teach, and this one error is common among those professing Christianity as their religion -- they teach that His Holy Name is JESUS, or HeyZeus, to some.  In their theological theory, their JESUS was once Michael the Ark Angel.  YaHshua, however, was the WORD, and from the very beginning was with the ONE that would become His and our Heavenly Father, the Ancient of Days.  John 1;1-3, 18, makes this clear -- in the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and was God and the Word was and is YaHshua, no Michael.  

Why, then, do the 7th Day Adventist and teachers with the skills Doug has go out of their way to teach this?  I can only guess, but I believe it has to do with a partial understanding that our Lord and Savior had a previous Glory, that He came from Heaven, and in an effort to answer this quesiton about a previous Glory and His return to that Glory, they hit on the possibility that He was one of the Ark Angels, an Angel of covering over the Throne upon which our Creator sits.  This is their way of explaining something they only see in part.  

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