And coming to her, he said, “Hail favored one! The Lord is with you.” —Luke 1:26-28 Gabriel is an archangel, a higher-ranking angel devoted to praising and serving God.

The so-called Gabriel Stone, a meter (three-foot)-tall tablet said to have been found 13 years ago on the banks of the Dead Sea, features 87 lines of an unknown prophetic text dated as early as ...