Do the Witnesses Believe that Jehovah is the Archangel Michael?
Greetings, In Zec.2:8-13, some readers confuse the words of the prophet with the words of Jehovah. This is because many do not understand standard Hebrew discourse structures and many translations are unclear. If you bothered to take note of the reading in the Amplified Bible which Keiichi directed us to you’d see that it is Jehovah who says he will reside with Israel, but then Jehovah *sends* “His messenger” who prefigured Jesus. Many other translations also show that it was God’s representative who said “Jehovah sent me” and not Jehovah by using periods or semi-colons (NRSV, NJB, ACV, JPS, NWT). And YES, the one *sent* as a representative CAN BE AN ANGEL: Ex. 23:20, 21! In fact, Zec.2:3 tells us that it was an angel speaking for God. Also, many scholars feel that the one “sent” here was actually “the angel of the LORD/Jehovah.” The Hebrew scholars Keil and Delitzsch state: “[In vs8] The sender is Jehovah, and the person sent is not the prophet, but the angel of the Lord….The speake
