The Archangel Michael is mentioned thrice in the Revelation of Daniel. Thus the "man" whom Daniel beholds, and who, to judge from the description is very Jesus Christ as God, tells the prophet of His struggle against the "king of Persia":
"But, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help Me" (Dan. 10:13);
"There is none that holdeth with Me in these things but Michael your prince" (Dan. 10:21).
Distinctly implied is the unnamed patron angel of Persia and Michael as the patron angel of Israel.
Yet Daniel's third mention of Michael constrains us to regard him as a man of this earth. In connection with the description of the campaigns of the "vile" king (in John's Revelation there corresponds to it an image "a beast from an abyss", 11:7) – Daniel says:
"And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people" Dan. 12:1.
What is this people?
Daniel obviously means Israel; however, in John's revelation it is spoken about prompt occurrence as though a new people comprised of the number believing in Jesus Christ. This "new Israel" also has its patron angel: it is the
“angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God” (7:2).
He ranks the twelve tribes and
"sets the seal of our God upon the foreheads of his servants" (7:3).
Scarcely can one doubt that the selfsame Archangel Michael is patron also of the new Israel…
In John's Revelation there is a direct mention of a name of Michael:
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven” (12:7-8).
Of exceptional significance here is not only the said event but its entire frame of reference.
Let us now note what came directly before that.
St. John observes a "great portent":
“Women clothed with the sun… and she was with child; and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth” (12:1-2).
And next:
"Dragon… stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that when her child was born he might devour it" (12:4).
This is the dragon that is cast down by Michael, following which the attempt to "devour the child" fails.
"She gave birth to a male child, who is destined to rule all nations with an iron rod. But her child was snatched up to God and his throne" (12:5).