Ecclesiastical authorities witnessing/ confirming the accuracy of my belief..
Beyond my own experience of the witness of the Holy Spirit, church leaders have affirmed my belief concerning my identity also, as with the following
examples:
Firstly, in my original community church already referenced (with 2,500 members based in different church households around the UK), one of the
ministers stood up in front of the whole church (at a national conference in the church's headquarters) & said “At first, we didn't realise that [my
given name] was Michael, but over time this was revealed to us through repeated prayer & prophetic instances” I was dumbstruck by this
announcement. Much as with the gaslighting 'pattern' technique of 'book-ending' a portion of information for conveyance within an otherwise unrelated
statement or snippet of conversation,
this incident involved the insertion of an incongruous statement which was separate from the ministry being
taught, and it was placed deliberately into the ongoing sermon to serve the purpose of giving me authoritative reassurance that no, I wasn't crazy,
that God had confirmed to the apostolic leaders of the church (who were all charismatic believers operating in the orthodox spiritual gifts described
in the New Testament) that this sense of my true identity was accurate, that I am in fact the archangel Michael. This announcement was carried
out in the right spirit & with pure intent, so it is only similar to gaslighting, it wasn't actual gaslighting for nefarious purposes. He bookended
the comment with discussion of other matters, ensuring that the comment specified could be highlighted as important, stand-alone information, guidance
which could be trusted.
In my second church, more recently, a senior minister had been speaking with me one on one, and dropped into the conversation: “We all hope you can
be successful in achieving your goals, Michael” He said this at the end of our discussion, which had been held at my house, as he was leaving, and
so my momentary astonished dissonance fit into the pattern of speech & pauses as I was saying goodbye to him – I didn't know what to think in that
moment, and so he just smiled & waved as he walked off to his car. There was nothing nefarious about the incident, with hindsight it was clear that
he too was offering support, affirming again that
in the eyes of the church, I am, in point of fact, the human incarnation of the archangel
Michael. I will state emphatically that I had never spoken to any of these leaders about this belief, and indeed, I had never spoken to anyone in
adulthood about the matter at all, with the exception of a single psychiatrist, in confidence. Somehow the information was either leaked – or God
revealed it to them entirely independently, perhaps similarly as happens with my own medium of divine inspiration, through the mechanism of prophetic
dreams/ visions given to leaders or other authorities of prophetic ministry in the various churches. However it happened, God has confirmed the
message to the churches, and they support me in my firm belief that I am Michael.
Going all the way back to my teenage years, when I was first spoken to regarding this matter of identity & destiny, an old hobo suddenly turned up one
day, wandering around the town where I lived, and at some point my friends (criminal underworld 'handlers' - they weren't really friends, looking
back) & I were hanging around, doing not very much, when he came up to speak with us.
Most of my friends mocked him & tried to send him away. They themselves then decided they were heading off, and I was going to follow, until the old
guy addressed me personally, catching my attention enough that I lagged behind momentarily. He said: “What's your name sonny?” to which I replied
“It's [my given name]” to which he responded: “Are you sure it's not Michael?” He had a kindly smile on his wizened old silver-bearded face,
like he knew a great secret, one which he'd just enjoyed the privilege of revealing for the first time. He was a very devout Christian, he always
carried & read from a small New Testament & Psalms scriptural book. For a few weeks he hung around our town & we spoke to him a few more times, he
ministered the gospel to us in terms we could understand, but all my 'friends' were hateful towards him for this reason. I was interested in
spiritual matters, and he counselled me to join a church, read the Bible, etc. There were a few weird incidents; in one of which he claimed to be
tougher than all the hard men of the town put together, because he was “true to [him]self”. After a few weeks he was nowhere to be found, and we
never saw him again.
Years later I would reflect on whether he had in fact been the original disciple of Jesus, the Apostle John, whom Jesus had prophesied would
remain on the Earth until His second coming - never dying, conducting a hidden mission which only he knew of, I suspect by recruiting
certain people within churches, governments & other agencies down the centuries, setting up networks & secret societies, to protect the development &
stability of the Kingdom of God upon the Earth - that sort of thing.
Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain until I return, what is that to you? You follow Me! Because of this, the rumour spread among the
brothers that this disciple would not die. However, Jesus did not say that he would not die, but only. “If I want him to remain until I return,
what is that to you?” This is the disciple who testifies to these things & who has written them down. And we know that his testimony is
true...
John 21: 23
It is noteworthy to me that Jesus made the point that the disciple John would remain, yet may in fact die – which I take to mean that he has been
killed many times over, and yet has returned to life each time, protected by God & the angels to keep the mission secret. This makes sense to me in
relation to the old hobo's claim to be harder than all the hard men in the roughest estates of Manchester, UK (Wythenshawe, which has a hell of a
reputation). He claimed that this is because he is “true to himself”. I take this to mean that he lives according to conscience, according to
the will of the Spirit of God. Which would be fitting for a disciple of the Lord, would it not? And no man who has died time & time again, ever
being raised back to life, would be scared of any regular hard man on a rough estate. My assumption is that he may have needed to die
purely to
protect the secret at times, because stories of a true immortal would spread around the world within a couple of months in ancient times – he
needed to look like a common man, just going about his business. If ever he was caught short on assignment, and there was no way out of the net, he
may have deliberately given himself up to die in order to protect the mission which Jesus had given to him as a sacred charge, I can picture it, Jesus
explaining everything to him under the stars in a garden or on a hillside, imagining John's astonishment, his reverent awe at the nature & magnitude
of the task.
Continued...
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