Michael's position in the original language
Joshua 5:14 So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the Lord(śar of Yahuwah) I have now come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, “What does my Lord say to His servant?” 15Then the Commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.
Daniel 8:25 “Through his cunning He shall cause deceit to prosper under his rule; And he shall exalt himself in his heart. He shall destroy many in their prosperity. He shall even rise against the Prince of princes(śar of śar); But he shall be broken without human means.
Daniel 10:20 Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? And now I must return to fight with the prince of Persia; and when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come. 21But I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth. No one upholds me against these, except Michael your prince(your śar).
Daniel 12:1 “At that time Michael shall stand up, The great prince(great śar) who stands watch over the sons of your people;
The lord of armies in Joshua 5:14 and the lord of thy kingdom in Daniel 8:25 is Jesus. And in all the passages, the Hebrew word used is śar , meaning sovereign. The original word for "the Prince of princes" is śar of śar. śar is also used in Joshua 5:14 and in all the following passages in the book of Daniel for Michael the Great, the prince of princes.
The point is that Jesus is also expressed as śar in Daniel 8:25, and Michael śar in 10:20, and since in 10:21 only Michael, our prince(śar), is expressed as being able to empower Gabriel, we can also understand that Michael is the Lord of archangels, princes of princes as Daniel 8:25 says as śar of śar.
Although the Book of Enoch is treated as an unofficial book and may have been tampered with, it is assumed that it was a letter that should have been included in the canonical books. In the Book of Enoch, the main members of the angelic princes appear in order, including Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Raguel, Ramiel, and Sariel. Among them, Michael is recognized as the chief angel who performed a major role in binding the fallen angels who created the Nephilim of that time, and was charged with the mission of proclaiming God's judgment and imprisoning them. (1 Peter 3:18,19) We can also understand that Daniel wrote down the scriptures not as Jesus the Nazarene, but as Michael, the sovereign prince, who would be the guardian angel of the future Israelites of Yahuwah, the so-called true Christians and the great multitudes with sincere and merciful natures. It is also understandable that he was enlightened and realized by the Holy Spirit to write down that he would be the Lord King.
In particular, the Hebrew for "Michael rises" in the second half of the verse means "to establish." In other words, Michael rises to establish the Kingdom, so it must be Jesus. Daniel was revealed that Jesus Christ is Michael.
Jesus would be pleased if you could understand that Michael is Jesus the Nazarene, your lord. If you say that Michael is just an angel and say, "Holy Spirit," it is no different from séance, and you will become a strange charismatic Pentecostal type. It is more important to be flexible in accepting and understanding the many reasons given by the Scriptures than it is to be a mere verbal performance.
Rapture with voice of an archangel in 1 Thessalonians 4:16
1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
There is no punctuation in Greek. And this English "with", which is the Greek "en," is translated in nearly 1900 times as "in". "Shout" means a decree in the Greek original. The trumpet is separated by "and," so the correct translation from the perspective of the original Greek is "The Lord Himself will release the decree by the voice of the angel's head, and He will descend with the trumpet of God." So, Jesus Himself is the head of the angel as an archangel. The trumpet of God will likely be sounded by the angels.
In this passage, the word Lord "Himself" is found, and the emphasis is on Jesus "Himself" releasing the decree in the voice of the archangel. It is unnatural to translate the command and the voice of the angelic head separately. Rather, it is more natural to interpret the archangel's voice as functioning as a command.
About the KJV Trinity
KJV 1 John 5:7 says, "7For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." This is a description that Trinity believers would be pleased with. In fact, many Trinity believers will push this with a smiling face. However, this is not found in the Sinai Codex.
The KJV is based on the famous Codex Textus Receptus. Some have tried hard to defend the TR manuscripts by criticizing the Sinai manuscripts, and vice versa. There are many manuscripts, and since they are not the original manuscripts, they have their own transcription errors. So we cannot say that it is absolutely infallible because it is a TR and because it is a Sinai Codex. Let's remain calm in anticipation of some mistakes or mistranslations.
As I have written above and previous articles, if you understand that Michael is the original name of Jesus, you will not adhere like a paranoiac to the traditional interpretation Yahuwah ≈ Jesus (not Michael), no matter if "the Father, Word and Holy Spirit are one". Even if we agree with what seems to be that addition, the existing concept of the Trinity has collapsed.
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