1 Thessalonians 4
1 Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.
2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
9 Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,
10 for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more,
11 and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
12 so that you may live properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Does this verse mean that the Lord himself will have the voice of an archangel? Either the archangel "announces" the Lord, or the Lord himself is the archangel. Those who believe that there is only one archangel i.e. Michael, and that he is the second person of the Trinity, says this verse is saying that Jesus is the archangel. This is not the heresy of the Jehovah's Witnesses who believe that Christ and Michael is one and the same and he is a created angel. No, rather, supporters of this particular theory still maintain that Christ is fully God a nd the uncreated second person of the Trinity, but that he is also Michael. This is not totally incredible. Despite misconceptions, the Bible only identifies one archangel and that is Michael. Gabriel is the only other angel named in the Bible and despite popular claims, he is not identified as an archangel. Proponents of this particular theory says that Michael is none other than the Angel of the Lord (malak Yahweh), and the pre-incarnate Jesus. It is true that the Angel of the LORD doesn't appear in NT, and the "the angel of the Lord" in the NT of the KJV was inserted by translators, when it should be "an angel of the Lord". To read more about Michael the Archangel see notes of Jude 1:9.
17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.