Try reading the following, dear LQ (peace to you, dear brother, and doing this from work so in a hurry, so please forgive any typos), paying attention to the emphasized items:
“In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a revelation was given to Daniel (who was called Belteshazzar). Its message was true and it concerned a great war.[a] The understanding of the message came to him in a vision. At that time I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks. I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over. On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris, I looked up and there before me was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist. His body was like topaz, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
"I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision; those who were with me did not see it, but such terror overwhelmed them that they fled and hid themselves. So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision; I had no strength left, my face turned deathly pale and I was helpless. Then I heard him speaking, and as I listened to him, I fell into a deep sleep, my face to the ground. A hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees. He said, “Daniel, you who are highly esteemed, consider carefully the words I am about to speak to you, and stand up, for I have now been sent to you.” And when he said this to me, I stood up trembling.
Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia. Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the future, for the vision concerns a time yet to come.”
"While he was saying this to me, I bowed with my face toward the ground and was speechless. Then one who looked like a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak. I said to the one standing before me, “I am overcome with anguish because of the vision, my lord, and I feel very weak. How can I, your servant, talk with you, my lord? My strength is gone and I can hardly breathe.” Daniel 10:4-17
Okay, now, look at verse 5 again, then at Revelation 1:12-18:
"I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. The his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
Okay, now, what does Michael’s voice sound like? Let me share that with you: a trumpet. He is an arkangel (one of the angels of the Ark, one of the cherubs on the cover, with its face toward the cover)… and so he has an ANGEL'S voice, even an ARKANGEL'S voice. Christ’s voice, on the other hand is like "a multitude", or "rushing waters," and speaks in LOW tones. What trumpet is LOW?
When Christ returns, there IS the sound of a trumpet, but it is not HIS voice; it is Michael’s voice ANNOUNCING him. As is done when ANY kings “arrives.”
In John's vision, he FIRST heard Michael speak. Revelation 1:10
When he turned around to try and see who was speaking to him, however, he did NOT see the one who initially spoke, but ANOTHER, someone with the voice of "rushing waters." We can know he saw someone different than the one he first heard, not just by this (the two distinctly different voices), BUT, he ALSO wrote, AFTER concluding sharing the letters to the seven congregations, how the other visions began:
"After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” Revelation 4:1
Which is in line with what John SAID occurred:
"The revelation from JaheShua, the Anointed/Chosen One, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, Revelation 1:1
Consider THIS, then, what Michael himself said, when John fell down to worship HIM:
“Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of JaheShua. Worship God!" Revelation 19:10
Notice, he did not say he was a fellow servant of himself, but of JaheShua.
There is more, but I am thinking, given your comments over the past, that this is sufficient for you to “see” that Michael and Christ are NOT the same one, but that one is the servant of the other. BOTH are princes, yes, even "lords" (i.e., someone entrusted with a “principality”… which is land or territory belonging to a KING, entrusted to others – Lords, Earls, Dukes, Barons, Marquises, etc.). Michael has the principality of Israel; another, our Adversary, had the principality of Persia (in which Eden was located during Adham’s time, and so why the Adversary was THERE). Christ, however, as the SON… is the PRINCE of princes, LORD of lords (i.e., the one over ALL principalities belonging to the KING, his Father, the MOST HOLY One of Israel, JAH of Arrmies).
I hope this helps.
As always, peace to you and your dear household!
YSSFS of Christ,
Shel
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