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Someone NOT CITED SPECIFICALLY in the Holy Scriptures? Perhaps, But Maybe Not (At Least Figuratively/Typically, Anyways): *His name literally means 'Who is like God?' - **Like Cyrus of old, of whom God declared, by His servant Isaiah, "I have raised him up in righteousness, And I will direct all his ways" & "I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known Me" - & About Whom, As with Israel's ***(I.e. Judah's) Saviour-Deliverer, Jesus Christ the Saviour,****the Sacred Record Declares: "A prophet is not without honour save in his own country..."

Can you guess of whom I speak?  Of the 20th-Century totara among totaras, the Soviet Union's last leader, Mikhael Gorbachev... * As can be discovered in any baby names' book. **See, for example, Isaiah 44:28; 45:1(-)4;5;13. ***See Herbert Armstrong's brilliant exposition of the historical destiny of the two ancient Hebrew (tribal) 'nations' of Palestine, America and Britain in Prophecy . ****Matthew 13:57; see also Mark 6:4.

"But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."

'When first constrained to separate from the English Church, the Puritans had joined themselves together by a solemn covenant, as the Lord's free people, "to walk together in all His ways made known or to be made known to them." Here was the true spirit of reform, the vital principle of Protestantism. It was with this purpose that the Pilgrims departed from Holland to find a home in the New World... John Robinson, their pastor, who was providentially prevented from accompanying them, [then] said: I charge you before God and His blessed angels to follow me no farther than I have followed Christ, If God should reveal anything to you by any other instrument of His, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth of my ministry; for I am very confident the Lord hath more truth yet to shine forth out of His holy word." Were we as willing in this our day of brightest midday sunlight to do as much! 

Enough of This Extremely Unbiblical Hocus-Pocus 'Healing On Tap' Crap...The Bible Doesn't TEACH It, & It JUST ISN'T the Practical Reality For Your Average Jane & Joe (Bloggs)...

Yes, as C S Lewis expressed it so very ably many decades ago, we may all in our heart of hearts deeply desire such a 'Granddaddy in Heaven', but our actual life experience absolutely belies this 'fluff 'n stuff''...