Alofa Atu
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Already addressed your 'apparent' contradiction on numerous occasions, as did those I cited in the links. Even those proper Baptists have answered you from scripture.And I, & several others, proved SCRIPTURALLY that Jesus is NOT Michael !
Jude
8 Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
But JESUS said,in John 8:44,You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
So, JESUS brought a reviling accusation against the devil, something Michael wouldn't dare do. So SCRIPTURE destroys EGW's "Jesus =Michael" garbage.
Jesus says what the Father tells Him to say (OT or NT era). Jesus is the Amen of the Father's will.
Joh_5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
Joh_12:49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
Joh_12:50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Joh_12:49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
Joh_12:50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
See also Zechariah 3 in comparison to Jude:
Zec 3:1 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
Zec 3:2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
Zec 3:2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
Why do you think John 8:44 says anything that would not immediately harmonize with Jude or Zechariah? The Son is speaking (on behalf of the Father) to Satan in Jude, and speaking (on behalf of the Father) to Pharisees in John 8:44. The Son in Jude would not dare to speak a 'blaspheous accusation' against Satan, as that would be the character of the devil, and The Son does not use the devil's ways, see 1 Peter 3:9. The Son is the example for angels and mankind in all cases.