Manny,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
This part of the passage concerns all throughout the Gospel and church age. Whoever hears the voice of the Son of God will be regenerated. The
"dead" here are all those living
"dead" people who are
"alienated from the life of God" (Eph. 4:18) and need to be born again.
"And you, though being dead in your offenses and sins, ... even when we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ." (Eph. 2:1,5)
The latter part of the passage concerns the physical dead in the tombs.
Specifically this -
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Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. John 5:25-29 [/b]
I think it is already sufficiently established that "Jesus = Michael" is a false teaching. I believe it is a doctrine of demons. And to play around with it, I feel, will lead one into greater spiritual darkness.
If we compare the two Bible texts above (1 Thessalonians 4:16 and John 5:25-28) we see one of the strongest cases for supporting the idea that Michael is Jesus.
Then you are teaching the following -
1.) The Jews wanted to kill the archangel Michael because he made God his own Father, making the archangel equal to God
(John 5:18)
2.) The archangel Michael gives life to whom he wills
(5:21)
3.) The Father has committed all judgment to the archangel Michael
(5:22).
4.) Whoever does not honor the archangel Michael does not honor the Father who sent him
(5:23).
This interpretation is not reliable and is false.
The writer was strictly forbidden by an angel to worship any angel of God
(Revelation 19:10; 22:8,9).
The Apostle Paul warns the Christians not to fall into the error of worship of the angels -
"Let no one defraud you by judging you unworthy of your prize, in self-chosen lowliness and the worship of the angels, ..." (Col. 2:18a)
In this Paul is reiterating what was said in the book of
Hebrews. To no angel (and only three are named) did God ever say
"You are My Son ..."
And no angel (except Christ as the Angel of Jehovah) could it ever be said -
"For in Him all the fullness was pleased to dwell" (Col. 1:19).
"For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (Col. 2:9)