Myst. All
Mysteries of the Kingdom of Christ will conclude in Blessings. But I wave this
now—The Birth of this Son, and his immediate Assumption to the Throne of God,
from his Mother's Womb, must be again illustrated by the Prophet Daniel. He was
favoured with the Knowledge of one whom he calls like the Son of Man; and whom
he saw conveyed in the Clouds of Heaven to the Ancient of Days. John reveals
the Woman, from whom he was taken, where we find the Seed of the Woman in the
first Promise after the Fall. He knew too, that this Son was immediately on his
Exaltation to the Throne of God called Michael, that is, who is as God, and was
placed over the Head of the Angels and ministering Spirits before the Throne of
the Ancient of Days, as is shewn by Daniel.—Do not your Forefathers confess the
Fall of Lucifer, and the Reservation of one chosen Seed, or Son; and that the
Ancient of Days is the most high God, called the Elder of the Elders, who sits
on the Throne of Glory as described by that Prophet?
Men. All these
Points are confessed. We allow too, that Michael is the true High Priest who
ministers at the Altar above: that he is the High Priest in Heaven who abounds
in Mercy: and as there is an High Priest below, so there is Michael the great
Prince above, answering to all that he below executes in his Office. Even in
the Talmud grant as much, as may be seen by this Passage in Chagiga: In that
Habitation, where Jerusalem and the House of the Sanctuary, and the Altar are
built, Michael the great Prince stands, and offers the Oblation continually.—It
is also expressed thus in our Book Sohar on the Words of Daniel. He cometh with
the Clouds of Heaven as the Son of man: The King Messiah is here understood.
And in another noted Place in the Talmud, Sanhedrim fol. 98. speaking of the
Prophecy of Zechariah, Ch. ix. 9. and of Daniel Ch. vii. 13. it is said:
"If the Israelites behave will or righteously, Messiah will come in the
Clouds of Heaven; but if they make themselves unworthy, he will come in a
humbler Form, and sitting on the Ass. (Richard Clarke, A Series of
Dialogues, Addressed to the Jews In the 35th Jubilee of their Dispersion and
Captivity [London: J. Wilkie, 1609], 3-5)