Related to me as a true story.
A man was driving home from work when he received an unmistakable urge to stop to buy a gallon of milk. He had no idea whether it was needed at home or what, but he stopped and bought the milk. Back enroute to home, he had another unmistakable urge to turn onto a particular residential street. He turned. And stopped where he felt he should stop. And delivered the milk to the door, upon which a man, probably a Mexican immigrant, gasped, uttered a quick "gracious!" and ran to the back of the house where his wife was comforting their hungry and crying baby. In broken English they explained to the man that they had been praying for God to help them. They had no money and it was obvious they had not eaten for some time. He was to start a new job in the morning. The temporary 'angel' pushed all the cash he had into the man's hand, offered a quick blessing, and left.
A miracle done through natural means is no less a miracle.
I believe these things happen. I believe more things like this would probably happen if more were in tune.
Thanks for sharing again, set up you and ByTheSpirit to follow.
Some more specifics on why your post resonated with me on such power, which I had considered writing in my initial response:
1. The guy whose "like" on a certain post which was part of the main reason I came here? He is an actual angel.
He was my supervisor at a job at a fortune 50 company. And he retains that identity, including an online presence, ever sense. However, he also has other identities.
Previous to that job, I had initially met him about fifteen years prior, where he was in the disguise of a homeless man I took in.
This initial meeting was in 1995. I met his new persona in 2010. (Since then, I have learned he has had various other personas in my life, but irrelevant for the discussion.)
At the time, God had put it into my heart to aid the very homeless poor, and even take them into my own house. God had also put it into my heart that the verse about meeting angels meant homeless people.
He lived with me for a month, and in his actual body, and much of his behavior deeply challenged many of my expectations of what an angel is and can be.
His disguise went well beyond simply having a human body. He also acted as a human undercover agent would, taking on and using a false background, and so on. All of which, however, was, at the same time, metaphoric for various other matters.
Regardless, he ended up flat out telling me he was an angel, though I dared not challenge him on this, for the fifteen years afterwards, I deeply struggled over this matter. Due to elements of his disguise.
Unconsciously, however, or in my heart, I surely knew he was an angel. His manner, his physical appearance, the spiritual way he talked, his general power and beauty were all obvious. At one point he even said to me in regards to my struggle here, "I know you are not stupid".
At the end, he also warned me that he had many more very difficult things to share with me. That he had to do so.
2. By the 2010 job, I was well acquainted by then with the concept of disguise in regards to human organizations which were undercover. And, I was more acquainted with the concept of angels potentially having more persistent appearing covers.
His physical form had drastically changed. Over ten years younger, four inches shorter. He did not walk with a strange gait which I had never seen with anyone else before. He had no deep Texan accent. He was far from homeless, but the upper level executive of the division with about twenty people under him. And, he was well educated and capable in my now very technical field, where I had a world leading experience set.
But, he indicated he was the same guy, bringing up matters which I had not spoken to with anyone on, at a time when I was very obscure. He even replicated his very bizarre and specific walk.
And, as in the previous incarnation, he had no problem interjecting into conversations secrets of mine, otherwise. Usually in such a way that I could not derail the conversation and confront him on it.
In fact, the entire division was this way. Something I am now well used to. We had badges, we walked in the main buildings. But, there was as still a ghost or invisibility aspect to it all.
3. Since then, he has appeared in various other guises, and there are others, many others. But, it is odd with him. He keeps up multiple guises that keep up an online (and offline) persistency.
Point is: faith and knowledge. God brought me from a place where I really felt God and Heaven and angels were all very far away. Until, now, some twenty seven years later, I see and find many angels all around us, in disguise.
Even your nick, however, brings back memory on this very subject. As there was an incident when at that 2010 job, where the metaphor of posting online using "foxfire" was related to the posting of putting foxes with torches on their tails... to send through the harvest of the "philistines". In that case, it was via a female and coworker duplicate of his.
Conclusion:
All of that is not even the tip of the iceberg. God has blessed me with living a life which is unspeakably marvelous and impossibly dwarfs even the most fantastic of modern fiction.
What I live and know, there are no boundaries to no share with anyone else... but their unbelief. So, this saddens me to no end.
All of this will go global soon, so that does not mean they have cause to rejoice. It is not difficult to see how Jesus clearly predicted this. And it is specifically an "end of the age" matter.
All they have to do is open their hearts and minds. Then, what I have, they too, could have.
I know for sure on matters to them, which are simply theoretical, at best. So, that does come out. But, I have to stay on simply, matters, milk. Not meat. Because the world has their hearts so incredibly of stone.
Faith and expectations related to it, is a journey. Initially, I was only able to accept meeting an angel as a homeless person with no past.
Now, I found myself having always really been surrounded by angels. With persistent "legends", backgrounds, and hidden in plain sight.
I see the world in so much pain, but there is nothing I can do but pray and wait, and try and reach out. Of course, I have full confidence in the plan of God, as God has shown me clearly and with rock solid evidence how he was everyone and all nations firmly in his control.
So, I normally speak in a metaphoric way, and on the surface only, as I know, as one who has extreme experience... that comes off. People understand that, at least, in their "unconscious" or heart. Even if their mind or "conscious" rebels.
