Has anybody ever had a close encounter with one? If so what kind of angel was it or what did it look like?
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I believe in Angels and the nine choirs. Though, I really should do more research on them...
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Dear Friend,\n   You are dealing with demons.  It is a very real problem, and you should NOT try to face it alone! When I was younger, I was involved in minor occult activities, without recognizing the diabolical source of this activity. Strange, scary things began to happen to me at night when I was trying to sleep.  At one time, I cried out, "Jesus help me!," and I felt a hard hit on the top of my head, as if someone were slapping the very top of my head, but then no more problems, and I was able to rest peacefully.  I thanked God for His immediate answer to my prayer, and I began to seek Him with increasing seriousness and urgency.  I eliminated ALL possible occult connections, because I realized that Satan was behind these.  If you tinker with these things, you are inviting evil into your life (although you may not be aware of it).  Since making these changes, I have had no more problems.\n     When I was in law school several years ago, one of my classmates who was Hmong, was very fearful of this phenomena (shadow people).  His religion was multi-theistic/spiritist.  This religion recognized evil spirits that tormented people at night (they believed that these things were "ghosts");  however, the people following this religion did not understand that God alone is strong enough to handle this problem.  My classmate had claimed to have been bothered at night by these "shadow people."  He actually died in his sleep a few months after our graduation (he was in his early 20's).  Medical doctors were unable to identify a cause of death, but his relatives insisted that it was the evil spirits, who had "taken" his soul during the night.   \n     Do you own a Oiuja board?  Tarot Cards or other fortune telling devices?  Have you ever sought the advice of a fortune teller?  Have you ever been involved in any occult activities (including witchcraft, mediums, communication with "the dead")?  Do you have any objects in your home that might be associated with demons, witchcraft, or the occult (even "souvenirs" from possible occult/voodoo sources)?  Do you have any friends who might be involved in this?  If so, REMOVE these items/activities from you life IMMEDIATELY, and seek help from Jesus Christ.  You need power that only God and Jesus Christ can provide.  Seek the Lord earnestly through prayers, and through a prayerful, thorough search of the Bible (NOT exorcism, or other human devices).         \n     Please don't try to deal with this problem alone.  It is real, but no human being is strong enough to handle it without the power of God.  You need Jesus Christ.  If you call on Him, He will hear and deliver you.  Seek Him with all your heart and mind.  You will receive His peace, His power, and His protection.  Shalom to you, friend!!!
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I came home on evening from work and my wife and children were not home yet. Shortly a neighbor came to get me and said there was an accident. He could hardly tell me it was my family so I new it was bad. When I got there (not far from home) My wife was unconscious and my children banged up. The medics were working to save my wife's life. \nAfter some days in a coma my wife got quite a bit better. Still today suffers some effects. After wards I tried to contact all who helped and found out someone was on the scene before anyone else even the from the house by where it happened. It is very possible they saved my wife's life but no one knows who it was, how they got there or where they went. I still don't know. I can't say for sure but I wonder. The Bible says the angels are ministering spirits for us. Could it have been?
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What you saw may not be a dark angel, but just a demon. Dark angels are angels that take light from other beings to advance themselves. They spend most of their time on the 4th dimension. They are really bright with a dark spot in their chest where their heart should be. Since the being he saw was dark, it was probably a demon.
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I never saw one but I felt one.\n\nSeveral years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away. \n\nWhile driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.\n\nThree days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to. \n\nI feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.\nDuring the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible. \n\nI can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.\n\n I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings. \n\nYour brother don
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Well, I was walking down by the creek one night, watching the moon disappear, cause it wasn't quite new but it was becoming smaller and smaller. The sky was a really dark purple, and it was raining somewhere in the distance cause the sky was a brownish color a bit of distance away. \n\nAny-who, I was walking and it got really windy, so I stopped to feel it, cause cold makes me sleepy and I already couldn't sleep that night. There was this guy who walked out in front of me, and scared the Bejesus out of me, cause he had a like, big hooded jacket or whatever, and his eyes were a really bright hazel, like gold.\n\nWell, he stared at me for a long while, and then he came at me, and I didn't run for it, cause I wasn't really responding so well after we first made eye-contact. I got this dropping feeling in my stomach, he reached out for me and caught me by the throat. I passed out, and woke up on the couch in my apartment with a silver chain on that I didn't remember owning...\n\nI been possessed by an angry vampyre ever since, and weird stuff has been happening since that night, so there you go. A tad cliche, and I'm not sure if an over-sized black jacket counts as a cloak, but it's the closest I've got.\n\nThink I'm crazy now? If not, then you are obviously an interesting judge of mentality...
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Yes, I have been haunted before.  When I was living on my own I would hear voices.  But every time I would stop to listen to see what they were saying it would stop.  Then one morning i awoke to see my chairs hanging off my kitchen table!  Explain that one.  I have also been over to my grandmas house shortly after my grandpa passed.  I swore I heard him walking through the house.  Being an Italian man, I do believe he would still be watching over my grandma especially after 54 years!!!  If you don't believe, you should do some research.  Ghosts.... what about guardian angels??
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I am a bit of a cynic but I still believe in guardian angels.  The cynicism comes from the nagging question of why there are so many innocent people harmed everyday.  At the same time, how else does one explain how a baby falls from a crib and sustains no injury, not even a small bruise (it's happened a couple of times in our family over the years)? My mother, who is very spiritual, knows the names of the guardian angels of some of our family members.  When I ask her how, she says it "comes to her" (I must say she still doesn't know the name of mine yet). Another woman I knew years ago who was psychic claimed to have seen my guardian angel and described his appearance to a friend of mine. Little things have happened to build up my belief. Sorry if I am rambling. Basically, it's like this: when I feel that I or a loved one has been protected, I know the guardian angel is involved, and thank him/her. I have no absolute scientific proof to back my belief in angels, but I believe they are there.
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I've never seen one, but my son had an interesting experience which he's loathe to talk about to this day.  He was driving out to see a friend around ll:00 at night, when he saw a very large, very bright light in the sky above an empty field.  He became so frightened he had to pull over.  After what seemed like a few seconds, he continued on his way. When he arrived at his destination he found he'd been on the road for over an hour longer than it should have taken him to drive to his friend's.  He forgot all about it until the next time, months later, when, driving by the same field, he became unexplicably filled with terror.  He shook so hard he could barely drive.  He had this same irrational fear come over him every time he passed that field, so he simply found another route.  I encouraged him to try to find out more about it, but he says it's too scary & weird & he'd rather not investigate, preferring not to know what happened.  I do believe we are not alone in this infinitely vast universe.  I only wish I could prove it!  If there are ET's, I hope they show themselves in MY lifetime.  I'd love to know the truth!
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I have never seen him but years ago, i was praying and i saw a light -brilliant-and it came down and touched me on the head, it wasn't in a physical form in??spirit?  i don't know, but it looked like the hand of g-d. it was like, i couldn't see with my eyes that it was his hand but i knew it was, hard to explain, anyway i was filled with the most wonderful peace and love,i cried, it was almost hard to bare. it is very hard to explain. but i will never forget it.
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We all do.  Especially children.  We may not just have 1.  Sometimes angels come to us appear to us that they are just a regular person.   I don't know if you have been in a situation like that where you thought you might have been visited by an angel.  The bible does say, "Don't be forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby many of entertained angels unaware".
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Years ago, I used to work at a Christian TV studio, and a co-worker and I were walking down a hallway and needed to take the elevator to the second floor.  As we approached the elevator, we saw a woman, dressed in white clothing, walk into the elevator, so we both said out loud "hold the elevator" so we could ride up with her.  There was no response and the door began to close, so I ran as fast as I could to put my hand between the doors to trigger the sensors to open it for us.  When the door opened, there was NO ONE IN THE ELEVATOR.  Thinking I was just seeing things, I asked Dennis if he saw the woman enter the elevator and he said definitely YES.  We both saw her go in, but there was no one there when we entered...and there was no other possible place for the woman to go.\n\nSince we worked in such a spiritual environment, we truly believe we saw an angel, perhaps a guardian angel.  It was the mose amazing experience I have ever encountered.
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A kinder made me laugh so hard, my tummy hurts! \n\nOn a more serious note, I have felt very intensely in tune with nature before. On a seperate incident have felt at one with the universe...I guess you could say I saw a vision of the universe. Sort of an epiphany after thinking a lot on how we are all connected and the oneness of life.\n\nEdit: I just saw that a kinder is snoopy! I somehow saw him as venus trap before, mouth open...bottom jaw to the right...that was a bit of an epiphany! lol
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i would like to think of it was a "spirit", but yes i have seen one. My great-grandmother was a huge part of my life, almost like a second mom and after she passed I saw her spirit. It was bedtime and i was having a hard time falling asleep and i felt something/someone moving me hair. When my grandma was alive she would always run her fingertips through my hair and sing "You are my sunshine". I looked up and she was sitting there at the edge of my bed running her fingers through my hair and humming that song. I think about it now and it just give me a real soothing feeling, i was surprised that it was scary at all, just a sense of peace and calm came over me.
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About four years ago I was driving home from a party with two friends when we came across this car crash on Highway 70. Three cars and a truck had hit each other on the slick over pass of a bridge and all the traffic was at a stop. We were close enough that I could take out my camera and take a photo of the scene. Yes, I know. How morbid but I did it anyway. When I had the film developed the picture had this white, misty thing above on of the cars that had what appeared to be wispy wings moving off the photo edge. I didn’t even know what it was until my friend grabbed my arm and told me that I had a photo of a guardian angel. I was amazed and ever since I’m sure angels exist.
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First of all I want to say I am sorry for the loss of your father, It is always very difficult to lose someone so dear to us.\n\nI would like to share with you this really amazing experience I had  a few years ago.  I awoke from my sleep,  and from the early morning light in the bedroom I could tell it was about 4:30 in the morning.  I remember seeing the bedroom door and the dresser from where I was laying in my bed, my bf was sleeping beside me, I could hear him breathing.  \n\nThen all of a sudden this man's form gradually appeared beside my bed!  I remember being a little frightened at first, but at the same time feeling rather strange and ab it curious,  I remember looking at his face and noticed that his eyes were black and piercing, he looked a little curious himself but I would not say he looked happy or friendly, he was just staring right at me.  I noticed that he was wearing a checkered shirt, and that he seemed like a  big man.\n\nIt was within a few seconds that we were just staring intently at each other, when I ever so slightly tried to nudge my bf to wake him up.....the split second that I did that I noticed that this apparition's eyes darted over to my sleeping bf, he than quickly drizzled away right before my very eyes!\n\nI woke up my bf and jumped up and turned the lights on.   I explained everything that had just happened in detail.  \n\nHe said it may have been the man that had just died a year before of cancer, and  that he lived in the suite below. (it was a 3 level house that was a rental, and he was the owner that lived on the main level with his wife).   \n\nThis has never happened to me again, I have never been visited  by this person since than.\n\nI believe that your father knows how much you love him and that he watches over you like an Angel.  I believe that our loved ones that go before us just know how much we loved and cared for them.  \n\nAs to your question "is it possible to make contact with the dead"?  I suppose it is possible, but I would be very careful, because I have also been taught that while trying to make contact you can also open up the channels for bad spirits to enter into your life as well.\n\nTake care and remember God comforts those that mourn, and that he is always there for you all you have to do is call on him.\n\nGod bless you and your family
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Well, I haven't met the God personally and none of my acquaintances and known have seen him to describe!\n\nHowever, I have been meeting and seeing his creations - living and non-living every day and getting an amazing, highly creative and friendly image of my God.\n\nI salute him for no match of his!!!