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Michael

An archangel; in the Hebrew, "He who is equal to God." In Revelation it is said there was war in : heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon : and from this it is deduced that Michael was the leader of the celestial hierarchy , -as against Lucifer, the head of the disobedient angels. Michael is mentioned by name four other times in the Scriptures in Daniel as the champion of the Jewish Church against Persia in Jude as the archangel who fought with Satan for Moses' body by Gabriel he is called the prince of the Jewish who prince of the Jewish Church; and in the prophecy of Enoch, "Michael ..... who commands the nations." His design according to Randle Holme is a banner hanging on a cross ; and he is represented as victory with a dart in one hand and a cross on his forecross on his forehead. Bishop Horsley and others considered Michael as only another name for the Son of God. In one of the Jewish rabbinical legends he is the ruler of Mercury, to which sphere he " imparts benignity, motion and intellimotion and intelligence, with elegance and consonance of speech." 66

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