Archangel Michael is the Prince of the Archangels, the first among equals unto whom all other
Archangels and their legions defer. He has been given the title Defender of the Faith and is known as the champion of the
Woman and her seed and the leader of the Lord’s hosts in the battle of Armageddon. He stands as the protector of the
Buddhic and Christic consciousness in all children of God. His name means “Who is as God?”
This deliverer sent to us by the LORD has figured as the greatest and most revered
of angels in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scripture. In the Old Testament he is described as the guardian of Israel. He
appeared to Joshua as he prepared to lead the Israelites into battle at Jericho, revealing himself as Captain of the Host
of the LORD. The Book of Daniel prophesies his intercession on behalf of God’s people during a coming “time of
trouble, such as never was since there was a nation,” when he will stand “for the children of thy people”
who shall be delivered by his intercession.
In Jewish mystical literature and legend Archangel Michael is identified as the “angel
of the Lord” who appeared to Moses in a flame in the bush that burned with the sacred fire of God but was not consumed.
He is the angel who wrestled with Jacob, guided Israel through the wilderness, destroyed the army of Sennacherib, and saved
the three Hebrew boys from Nebuchadnezzar’s fiery furnace.
The Book of Enoch describes him as “one of the holy angels, who, presiding
over human virtue, commands the nations.” In The War of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness, one of the Dead
Sea Scrolls, Michael is the “mighty, ministering angel” through whom God promises to “send perpetual help”
to the sons of Light.
As “Saint Michael,” he is venerated by Catholics as patron and protector
of the Church. In the early Christian community he was revered for the miraculous cures wrought by his intercession. The beloved
Archangel was also among the three heavenly visitors who revealed to Joan of Arc her mission to deliver France.
Revelation 12 tells of the Archangel’s key role as the defender of the
Woman clothed with the sun and her Universal Manchild; with his angels he casts “the dragon and his angels” out
of heaven into the earth. And in Revelation 16 he is the first of the seven angels to “pour out the vials of the wrath
of God upon the earth,” marking the descending woes, the seven last plagues, of mankind’s karma returning to their
doorstep their misuses of God’s light.
