Do Jehovahs Witnesses teach Jesus is in heaven as the spirit? What happened to the archangel Michael?
They teach that Michael is the resurrected Jesus. JESUS CHRIST was the archangel Michael prior to coming to earth and becoming no more, no less than a perfect human who, when he died, left his humanity and returned back into the archangel Michael at his resurrection. “So the evidence indicates that the Son of God was known as Michael before he came to earth and is known also by that name since his return to heaven where he resides as the glorified spirit Son of God.”—Reasoning, 1985, p. 218 “War broke out in heaven: Michael [who is the resurrected Jesus Christ] and his angels battled with the dragon….” —You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, 1982, p. 21 “At death he laid aside the human organism in which he ministered as a new creature for three and a half years; and in his resurrection he was no more human.” —The Kingdom Is At Hand, 1944, p. 258 “…for the man Jesus is dead, forever dead….” —The At-one-ment Between God And Man, Studies vol. 5, p. 454 “The human body of flesh,
