God is the only Savior and Protector of His people, but He works through His Angel, the Angel of His presence.
Isaiah 63:7-10 I will mention the loving kindnesses of the LORD and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the Lord has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies, according to the multitude of His loving kindnesses. For He said, “Surely they are My people, children who will not lie.” So, He became their Savior. In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them; in His love and in His pity, He redeemed them; and He bore them and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; so, He turned Himself against them as an enemy, and He fought against them.
It’s God’s Angel who protects God’s people and saves them from trouble.
It was God’s Angel who protected Daniel in the lion’s den.
Daniel 6:22-23 My God sent His Angel and shut the lions’ mouths, so that they have not hurt me
It was God’s Angel who protected Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace.
It was God’s Angel.
Daniel 3:28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him.
So, who is the Angel of God who protects God’s people?
It’s Michael, the Archangel. He is the protector of God’s people.
Daniel 12:1-2 At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people.
Who will raise those who sleep asleep in the dust of the earth?
Michael, the Archangel, will raise the dead with the sound of His voice.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
It’s the Lord who descends from heaven and with His voice He awakens those who are asleep in the dust of the earth.
Daniel 12:1-2 At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
Whose voice is it that wakes the dead, and who is speaking?
It’s the voice of Michael the Archangel but it’s Yahshua speaking. Why? Because they are one in the same.
John 5:25 Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.
Yahshua can raise the dead because His Father gave Him the power, and authority, to do so.
John 5:25-27 Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. The Father has life in himself, and he has granted that same life-giving power to his Son. And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.
If you are being led by the Spirit, you will be able to understand the deeper things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:10 But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.
The identity of God’s Angel is a deep subject because of His position and title as the Archangel and Chief Messenger of God. He is the Angel of God’s presence who protects and saves God’s people. He has His Father’s name in Him and has the authority to forgive sin so He too holds the title, God. This is a big hat to wear.
Judges 13:17-23 Manoah said to the Angel of the LORD, “Tell us your name, so we can honor you when your announcement comes true.” The Angel of the LORD said to him, “You should not ask me my name, because you cannot comprehend it.” Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. The LORD’s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched. As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the Angel of the LORD went up in it while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown to the ground. The Angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the Angel of the LORD. Manoah said to his wife, “We will certainly die, because we have seen God!” But his wife said to him, “If the LORD wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”
The term, “Angel of God’s presence” means, when we see the Angel of the LORD, we see God. In other words, through His obedience He becomes the conduit that manifests the image, presence and power of the invisible God to His creation.
Isaiah 63:8-10 For He said, “Surely they are My people, children who will not lie.” So, He became their Savior. In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them; in His love and in His pity, He redeemed them; and He bore them and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; so, He turned Himself against them as an enemy, and He fought against them.
In the same way, when we see Yahshua, we see God because He was faithful in manifesting God’s image and speaking His words.
2 Corinthians 4:4 Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
John 14:9, Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Michael, in His prehuman form, and Yahshua in His human form, is the exact image, and likeness, of God. As a matter of fact, Michael’s name means, “Who is like God.”
Judges 13:21-22 The Angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the Angel of the LORD. And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
If the Angel of the LORD was the Almighty, and not the image of the Almighty, both Manoah and his wife would have been consumed because no one can see the Almighty God and live. The Michael manifested God image and presence through God’s Spirit, the same thing is happening with Michael in His human form.
Hebrews 1:3 The Son radiates God’s own glory and expresses the very character of God, and he sustains everything by the mighty power of his command. When he had cleansed us from our sins, he sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God in heaven.
Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
The Angel of God is the same likeness as God, because He is God’s Chief Messenger, and conduit for the presence of God, through His Spirit. Because He holds these titles, He has the same authority to pardon sin, because He bears His Father’s name.
Exodus 23:20-22 Behold, I send my Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My name is in Him. But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Michael is the Son who came down from heaven and became human to do His Father's will. He did this to taste death for all of us. This was all according to the will of His Father. It wasn’t God who became a man, it was His Angel.
John 6:38, For I (Michael) have come down from heaven to do the will of God (God) who sent me, not to do my own will.
We know it was Michael who came down from heaven, because He wasn't given the name "Yahshua" aka "Jesus" until after He became a human being. Prior to this His name was Michael.
Luke 1:30-31 “Don’t be afraid, Mary,” the angel told her, “For you have found favor with God! You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.
Michael didn't become human to save angels, He became human to save His countrymen, (Israel) from their sins. This is why He needed to become a Jew so that He could save God’s people.
Matthew 1:20-21 As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit. And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
Matthew 15:24 Then Jesus said to the woman, “I was sent only to help God’s lost sheep—the people of Israel.”
Hebrews 2:16–19 We also know that the Son did not come to help angels; he came to help the descendants of Abraham. Therefore, it was necessary for him to be made in every respect like us, his brothers and sisters, so that he could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God. Then he could offer a sacrifice that would take away the sins of the people. Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested.
Hebrews 2:9-10 What we do see is Jesus, who for a little while was given a position “a little lower than the angels” and because he suffered death for us, he is now “crowned with glory and honor.” Yes, by God’s grace, Jesus tasted death for everyone. God, for whom and through whom everything was made, chose to bring many children into glory. And it was only right that he should make Jesus, through his suffering, a perfect leader, fit to bring them into their salvation.
I find it interesting how the King James version calls the flesh and blood body in the womb of Mary a holy thing.
Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore, also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
That holy thing in the womb of Mary was the flesh and blood body that God created for Michael when He took on human form.
Hebrews 10:5 That is why, when Christ came into the world, he said to God, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings. But you have given me a body to offer.
Michael, in His human form, continues to be the protector, and Savior, of God’s people, because He represents and speaks for His Father, just like He did before He took on flesh and blood.
John 12:48-50 But all who reject me and my words will be judged on the day of judgment by the truth I have spoken. I don’t speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it. And I know his commands lead to eternal life; so, I say whatever the Father tells me to say.”
Exodus 23:20-22 Behold, I send My Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My name is in Him. But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Michael, experienced two forms. In His angelic form He was Michael the Archangel, the Bright Morning Star, and in His human form He is the Root and Offspring of David.
Revelation 22:16 I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the Bright Morning Star.”
Through Mary, Michael took on humanity’s flesh as the Root and offspring of David.
Romans 1:2-4 God promised this Good News long ago through his prophets in the holy Scriptures. The Good News is about his Son. In his earthly life he was born into King David’s family line, and he was shown to be the Son of God when he was raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit. He is Jesus Christ our Lord.
2 Timothy 2:8 Always remember that Jesus Christ, a descendant of King David, was raised from the dead. This is the Good News I preach.
Matthew talks about Messiah’s human family tree, which He took upon Himself when He became flesh and blood through Mary.
Matthew 1:1 This is a record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of David and of Abraham.
The Son is the Root of David in His human form, but He left His other form when He came down from Heaven.
John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will.
John 3:13 No one has ever gone to heaven and returned. But the Son of Man has come down from heaven.
The Son, who came down from Heaven to take on a human form, was Michael the Bright and Morning Star in His prehuman form. A morning star is an angel. Pay close attention to Job 38:4-7 because angels were called, sons of God and morning stars, this was long before Adam was created as a son of God. This means Adam was not the first son of God. Michael the Archangel, was one of these sons of God and morning stars singing for joy when God created the heaven and earth.
Job 38:4-7 Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone—while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
Through Revelation 22:16 Yahshua, the human Son of God, is clearly revealing His identity as being both Jesus the offspring of David in human form and Michael the Bright and Morning Star in His prehuman form.
Revelation 22:16 I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the Bright Morning Star.”
Some people have been taught that Michael can’t be Jesus because God never said to any angel, “Today I have begotten you”. They say this because they are misquoting Hebrews 1:5.
Hebrews 1:5 Which of the angels did He ever say: “You are My Son, today I have begotten You”?
Let’s first read the verse the way it reads in the Bible.
Hebrew 1:5 For to which of the angels did He ever say: “You are My Son, today I have begotten You”? And again: “I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son”?
Notice the first three words, “For to which”. These three words are making a statement relating to what was just said prior. What Hebrews 1:5 is responding to is the fact that Yahshua, THROUGH HIS INHERITENCE, receive a better name than the angels. This is very important to see because what God is doing, through Hebrews 1:5, is He’s clearing up any complaints from the heavenly host as to why Yahshua gets to have such a high and exalted position to where the other angels are commanded to bow down to Him. It’s almost like they’re asking, “Didn’t Satan do the same thing?”
The difference is that Michael became the human Yahshua in order to taste death for everyone, but then God raised Him from the dead because He accomplished what that Father gave Him to do, which was to manifest His name and remain sinless even unto death.
Hebrews 1:3-5 Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For to which of the angels did He ever say: “You are My Son, today I have begotten You”?
The last half of Hebrews 1:3-5 is talking about the Father raising Jesus from the dead, after He completed the Father’s will, which is why the Son inherited a more excellent name than all the other angels. It’s also why the Father commands all the other angels to worship Him.
Acts 13:33 God has fulfilled this for us, their children, by raising up Jesus from the dead, as it is written in the second Psalm: You are My Son; today I have become your Father.
Psalms 2:7 The king proclaims the LORD’s decree: “The LORD said to me, ‘You are My son. Today I have become your Father.
This is all happening because the Father raised Yahshua from the dead to receive His inheritance. Now, let’s continue to verse 7.
Hebrews 1:5-7 For to which of the angels did He ever say: “You are My Son, today I have begotten You.” And again: “I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son.” But when He again brings the first born into the world, He says: “Let all the angels of God worship Him.”
Notice the words, “When He again brings the first born into the world.” The word “Again” is referring to the Son’s resurrection when the Father brings His Son into the world again after being dead in the grave for three days and three nights. It’s after this resurrection that the Son is seated at the right hand of God, and all the other angels are commanded to worship Him.
1 Peter 3:22 And now Christ is in heaven, sitting in the place of honor next to God the Father, with all the angels and powers of heaven bowing before him and obeying him.
Hebrews 1 verse 5 is telling us the reason why the human Son Yahshua received a more excellent name than His sibling angels, it was because what God did through Michael, in Him becoming the human Yahshua, He never did to any other angel. Now, with all this in mind, read the entire context, as one thought.
Hebrews 1:3-7 Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For to which of the angels did He ever say: “You are My Son, today I have begotten You”? But when He again brings the first born into the world, He says: “Let all the angels of God worship Him.”
Yahshua’s status of being the first-born over-all creation came as a result of His resurrection from the dead, which makes Him the first born from the dead, which is the beginning of God’s new creation, not the Genesis creation. This is not about His birth through Mary or some pre-Genesis birth. Colossians is new creation language, not Genesis language.
Colossians 1:18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the first born from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood.
Because Yahshua was raised from the dead, never to die again, He became the first born from the dead, and the beginning of God’s new creation.
Revelation 3:14 Write this letter to the angel of the church in Laodicea. This is the message from the One Who is the Amen—the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s new creation.