Jesus Christ the Archangel

 

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From: The Bible Doctrine of God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Atonement, Faith and Election By William Kinkade 1829

The word Michael signifies that which is like, or as God. The word Archangel is composed of two Greek words, viz., arche, a head; and angelos, a messenger. The title Michael, the Archangel, literally signifies the head messenger that is like God. This must be Jesus Christ, because we all acknowledge that he is the image of God, and the head messenger that was ever sent into our world.

I have often heard preachers speaking of Archangels in the plural, but in scripture the word is always mentioned in the singular with the definite article the before it, by which one particular personage is denoted. In fact there can be but one Archangel, that is, one head messenger, and who dare to say that Jesus Christ is not the head messenger?

If Christ is a messenger, he is an angel. If he is the head messenger, he is the Archangel. If he is like God, he is Michael ; therefore he must be Michael, the Archangel. I think every candid person that knows the meaning of these words will agree with me on this point.

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Exorcism Deaths on This Day in History

 

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This Day in History:  As reported in the May 14 1903 article in The Sun, an unnamed person was beaten to death with a Bible during a healing ceremony gone wrong in Honolulu. He was being treated for malaria when his family summoned a Kahuna (sorcerer) who decided he was possessed by devils and tried to exorcise the demons; the Kahuna was charged with manslaughter. Source

This is just one of many deaths that occurred during an exorcism. 28 year old father Eder Guzman-Rodriguez believed that his 2-year-old daughter, Jocelyn, was possessed by demons. Eder first killed his wife in order to prevent her from stopping the exorcism. "Guzman-Rodriguez said that the baby made motions that she wanted to fight during the exorcism. Then he claims that the demon entered his own body, causing him to beat and strangle the little girl, which caused fractured ribs, scrapes, bruises on a lung, and bleeding. When the police arrived they found Bibles and other religious books surrounding the baby on the bed." Source

"A 22-year-old woman died during an exorcism ritual in New Zealand, drowning at a relative’s home as up to 40 family members looked on...Janet Moses, a mother of two, was held under water in an attempt to drive away a makutu, or Maori curse. Containers holding an extensive amount of water were brought into the lounge of the house, in Wellington, for the ceremony. The woman had been dead for nine hours before her family contacted police. She had been placed on a bed and was found with grazes to her upper arms, forearms and torso." Source

A 9-year-old girl was beaten to death with a cane during an exorcism in Sri Lanka, Read more here.

A YOUNG WOMAN (26) DIED DURING EXORCISM! Among those arrested are her husband and a doctor! Read more here.

The only other instance that I could find of someone being beaten to death by a Bible happened in Maine in 2015. After a party, three Muslim refugees beat a Christian man to death with his own King James Bible. Source

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Coverdale's Great Bible on This Day in History

 

This Day in History: King Henry VIII ordered English-language Bibles to be placed in every church on this day in 1541, and the Great Bible was provided for that purpose. The Great Bible was so named because of its size, it stood at 14 inches high. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale who  included much from the Tyndale Bible. As the Tyndale Bible was incomplete, Coverdale translated the remaining books of the Old Testament and Apocrypha from the Latin Vulgate and German translations, rather than working from the original Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic texts. The Great Bible was also known by several other names as well: the Cromwell Bible, since Thomas Cromwell directed its publication; Whitchurch's Bible after its first English printer; the Chained Bible, since it was chained to prevent removal from the church. It has less accurately been termed Cranmer's Bible, since although Thomas Cranmer was not responsible for the translation, a preface by him appeared in the second edition.

While this Bible was allowed in churches, you were not allowed to take it home for study. 

Other early printed versions were the Geneva Bible (1560), notable for being the first Bible divided into verses and which negated the Divine Right of Kings; the Bishop's Bible (1568), which was an attempt by Elizabeth I to create a new authorized version; and the Authorized King James Version of 1611.

The first complete Roman Catholic Bible in English was the Douay–Rheims Bible, of which the New Testament portion was published in Rheims in 1582 and the Old Testament somewhat later in Douay in Gallicant Flanders. The Old Testament was completed by the time the New Testament was published but, due to extenuating circumstances and financial issues, it was not published until nearly three decades later, in two editions: the first released in 1609, and the rest of the OT in 1610. In this version, the seven deuterocanonical books (also known as the Apocrypha) are amongst the other books, as in the Latin Vulgate, rather than kept separate in an appendix. The Great Bible, as well as the 1611 King James Version also contained the Apocrypha.

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