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Angel in sky photos: South
Florida sees a message from above
WPTV News, by Laura Santos
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Posted By:Drive, 3/14/2013 10:58:42 AM
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| WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A message from above? That’s what several South Florida residents thought after looking toward the sky on the day a new pope was named. Most saw an angel in the clouds and grabbed their cameras to document the vision. For some, it was a clear sign from heaven, maybe a message from God himself, showing his pleasure at the election of the first Latin American as the 267th successor of St. Peter. Thom George wondered “if Pope Francis ordered that.”
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Comments:
Really Weird
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
raphaela, 3/14/2013 11:06:15 AM (No. 9224630)
Appearing about the same time that the Pope was chosen . . .
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
tinnyanko, 3/14/2013 11:10:23 AM (No. 9224641)
Ok. That´s it. I´m converting
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Iconoclast, 3/14/2013 11:39:24 AM (No. 9224736)
I don´t believe angels are ever described in the Bible. The image we associate with angels is from the imagination of Italian Renaissance painters.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Coy860, 3/14/2013 11:45:45 AM (No. 9224747)
Every night, I have been praying for our Country, asking God to help set America on the right path. Asking Him to change the mind set of this administration.
God has pointed out my tunnel vision and selfishness, it is NOT just America that is in the sewer, it is the entire world.
Has God sent Pope Francis to lead us all to a world life-style more pleasing to God?
We certainly are in a cesspool right now.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
drive, 3/14/2013 11:46:22 AM (No. 9224749)
Well, whatever they look like, I´ve never seen anything like that in the clouds
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kendet1946, 3/14/2013 11:50:27 AM (No. 9224752)
Whenever angels manifested themselves in the Biblical narrative, they appeared as men, as in the three visitors to Abraham´s tent. In other places, they appeared in human form but brightly shining.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
CEP, 3/14/2013 11:55:08 AM (No. 9224764)
I´m waiting for the image of Jesus in the grilled cheese.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ida Lou Pino, 3/14/2013 12:02:57 PM (No. 9224781)
This proves what I´ve always believed - - that South Florida is God´s chosen country,
I´m booking a room at a Delray Beach motel right away!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lostinmassachusetts, 3/14/2013 12:08:28 PM (No. 9224799)
If this appeared along with the sound of a trumpet, then I´d be impressed. But this is no more significant than other interesting cloud formations (e.g., bunny rabbits or elephants).
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mitzi, 3/14/2013 12:10:26 PM (No. 9224805)
#3 - if an angel were to appear, one would assume it would appear in a form that we would recognize.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
sillykay, 3/14/2013 12:12:20 PM (No. 9224810)
If people want to believe they see the likeness of an Angel, let them. Whatever one sees, it is the beauty of the Lord they are looking at.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ScarletPimpernel, 3/14/2013 12:12:42 PM (No. 9224811)
#6 is correct. In the Old Testament book of Daniel, for example, the angel Gabriel, when he appeared to the prophet Daniel to deliver explanations of Daniel´s visions (Daniel 8:15–26, 9:21–27), is described by Daniel as "the man Gabriel". However, Biblical angels do not have "gender".
Angels are are described in the New Testament as "ministering spirits" to the saints. After Jesus completed his forty-day fast in the wilderness, an angel came to minister to him.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
provide, 3/14/2013 12:12:54 PM (No. 9224813)
I thought we were to witness the appearance the 12th Imam creeping from a well.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ScarletPimpernel, 3/14/2013 12:41:44 PM (No. 9224869)
Mark 1: 12: "At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, 13 and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him."
Correction: Jesus was ministered to by angels (not just one).
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Namma, 3/14/2013 12:42:58 PM (No. 9224872)
that cloud sure is beautiful
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JimS, 3/14/2013 12:44:34 PM (No. 9224877)
A new Pope...Angels in the sky...discovery of "God Particle"...It is all so confusing
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
raphaela, 3/14/2013 12:58:22 PM (No. 9224899)
Yet the thing is, God controls the weather, the clouds, natural phenomena - why couldn´t He send a sign in the sky.
"Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?"
Job 37:14-16
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dixie, 3/14/2013 1:33:16 PM (No. 9224980)
Does it matter?
The effect is the same.
Many will see this and feel more cheerful about the future.
That it can be explained as coincidental but normal means nothing.
That it lifts some of the gloom and worry from people means everything.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
redink, 3/14/2013 1:42:45 PM (No. 9224993)
Well said, #18.
The world indeed feels lost...hope (of the God kind) effects change (of the free kind).
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 3/14/2013 1:56:20 PM (No. 9225011)
Why not an Angel? If a single lightening bolt should strike the dome of St Peter´s Cathedral the night of the Pope´s resignation...why not an Angel when a new Pope, especially a humble Man of the people is chosen. This is the Pope we have been waiting for. One that many of us will stand beside even though we may not be of RC faith. A Man of our times at the time he is needed most.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LoneVoice, 3/14/2013 3:01:50 PM (No. 9225166)
Maybe it´s an angle signaling the beginning of the apocalypse. Sometimes the "meaning" of signs from God aren´t what we think they are
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
US veteran, 3/14/2013 3:24:48 PM (No. 9225222)
Fuel dump
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
sliver of truth, 3/14/2013 3:29:05 PM (No. 9225229)
Pretty cloud, but Jesus also warned us about seeking out signs and wonders.
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