Angels are usually either human beings or they are spirits which most often seem to reveal themselves through visions/hallucinations.
I wouldn't think of the Angel of the Lord as any specific angel, but any one. Michael and Gabriel are both Angels of the Lord but in most cases of prophetic Revelation it's Gabriel and he reveals himself through powerful visions, the same way that Christ did when he appeared as the Angel of the Lord to John...
Great post GUANO!
Michael and Gabriel in the Bible:
Daniel 8:16
And I heard
a Man's voice between the banks of the Ulai, who called, and said, “
Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”
Daniel 9:21
yes, while I was speaking in prayer,
the Man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering.
Daniel 10:
5 I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold!
a Man clothed in linen,
with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist. 6 His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.
13 But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted Me twenty-one days.
Then
Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help Me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia.
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Gabriel appeared only to the father of John the Baptist and the Mother of Jesus in the Christian NT/NC, who is mentioned only in Luke's Gospel:
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YLT) Luke 1:
8And it came to pass,
in his acting as priest, in the order of his course before God,
9according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot was to make perfume, having gone into the sanctuary of the Lord,
10and all the multitude of the people were praying without, at the hour of the perfume/incense.
11And there appeared to him
a Messenger of the Lord standing on the right side of the Altar of the perfume/incense,
12and Zacharias, having seen, was troubled, and fear fell on him;
Similar event in Revelation:
Revelation 8:3 Then another
Messenger, having a golden censer,
came and stood at the Altar.
He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the Saints upon
the golden altar which was before the throne.
18And
Zacharias said unto the Messenger, ‘Whereby shall I know this? for I am aged, and my wife is advanced in her days?’
19And the Messenger answering said to him, ‘
I AM Gabriel, who have been standing near before God, and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to proclaim these good news to thee,
20and lo, thou shalt be silent, and not able to speak, till the day that these things shall come to pass, because thou didst not believe my words, that shall be fulfilled in their season.’
21And the people were waiting for Zacharias, and wondering at his tarrying in the sanctuary,
22and having come out, he was not able to speak to them, and they perceived that a vision he had seen in the sanctuary, and he was beckoning to them, and did remain dumb.
23And it came to pass, when the days of his service were fulfilled, he went away to his house,
24and after those days, his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying —
25‘Thus hath the Lord done to me, in days in which He looked upon [me], to take away my reproach among men.’
26And in the sixth month was
the Messenger Gabriel sent by God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which [is] Nazareth,
27to a virgin, betrothed to a man, whose name [is] Joseph, of the house of David, and the name of the virgin [is]
Mary. 28And the Messenger having come in unto her, said, ‘Hail, favoured one, the Lord [is] with thee; blessed [art] thou among women;’
30And the Messenger said to her, ‘Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favour with God;
31and lo, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus;
32he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,
33and he shall reign over the house of Jacob to the ages; and of his reign there shall be no end.’
34And Mary said unto the Messenger, ‘How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?’
35And the Messenger answering said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;
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Jude 1:9
Yet
Michael the Chief Messenger, in contending with
the Devil, when He disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against Him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke You!”
Revelation 12:7
And war broke out in heaven:
Michael and his Messengers fought with the dragon; and
the Dragon and His Messengers fought,
Notice the one Messenger in Reve 14 telling the One on the cloud to "thrust in the sickle" at the Harvest of the land:
Revelation 14:
14 Then I looked, and behold! a white cloud, and on the cloud sat One like
as a Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle.
15
And another Messenger came out of the Sanctuary, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, “Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the Harvest of the land is ripe.”
16
So He who sat on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the land, and the land was reaped.
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