“Michael, the Great Prince”

04/04/21 13:19
April 4, 2021

“Michael, the Great Prince”

Blessings folk!

Read Daniel 12:1 one more time…

Dan 12:1
At that time
Michael, the great prince
who stands watch over your people,
will rise up.
There will be a time of distress
such as never has occurred
since nations came into being until that time.
But at that time all your people
who are found written in the book will escape.
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So, here is what I think is going on.

Michael is the great prince that watches over “your people”, the Jewish people and the nation of Israel.

He is watching over them now.

There will be a time when he “will rise up”.

Within the context it does not mean that he “will rise up and do something”.
He is already doing what he is suppose to - standing watch over the people.

But, a time will come when he “will rise up”.
It literally means he will cease doing what he is doing.
In other words he will rise up and cease watching over Israel.

Therefore, “there will be a time of distress such as never has occurred”.

Note how long.
“Since nations came into being until that time.”

Think about that.
There will be time of distress unlike anything that they had faced before.
Worse than the…

  • Assyrias
  • Babylonians
…and yet future to that time…
  • Greeks
  • Romans
  • Nazis
  • etc.

Then there is hope.

“But at that time all your people who are found written in the book will escape.”

So, as to 2 Thessalonians.

I believe the restrainer mentioned by Paul is Michael.
Nothing to argue about.
Nothing to separate fellowship over.

This understand does give insight to the balance of Scripture.


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