Michael in the Old and New Testament
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Daniel being the only writer in the Old Testament to mention Gabriel, he is also the only one to speak of Michael.
Daniel, next to the River Hiddekel (in Daniel 10:4-10), is introduced to Michael (verse 13). Then Michael was mentioned once more, in Daniel 12.
Daniel is commanded to seal a book at “the time of the end” (Daniel 12:4). And then on the River Hiddekel (previously explained as the ‘Word of God’) announces the two witnesses (verses 5-6), four grand prophecies pertaining to the Second Advent of the Messiah (verses 7-13).
In the New Testament, Michael is brought up in Revelation, a further indication that the early Christians were familiar with Daniel. Recall, Jesus quoted Daniel, warning the faithful about the abomination of desolation, that is, the antichrist: When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
(Matthew 24:15).
Just as Michael fought the evils during the long fulfillment of prophecies in Daniel 12 just before the presentation of four prophecies by the Christly figure on Hiddekel, so Michael appears again in Revelation 12: 7 … Michael and his angels fought against the dragon … to protect the woman of the Apocalypse (the one clothed with the sun) against the great dragon, that old serpent, the Devil or Satan, who would try to drown the woman and defeat her followers with a flood of falsehoods (verses 7-9, 15-16).