There, a mysterious being appeared (" man ", Genesis 32: 24, 28 ; or " God ", Genesis 32: 28, 30, Hosea 12: 3, 5 ; or " angel ", Hosea 12: 4 ), and the two wrestled until daybreak.

There have been two conflicting accounts as to whether the angel who appeared to Smith in 1823 and directed him to the golden plates was named Moroni or Nephi.

reads: After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, " Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead.

One morning near the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, a six winged angel allegedly appeared to Francis while he prayed.

When Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.

An angel appeared in the Angel Choir and ordered them to stop.

During the mid-1940s, the popularity of superhero comics began to decline and the Spectre was reduced to playing the role of guardian angel to a bumbling character called " Percival Popp, the Super Cop ", who first appeared in More Fun # 74 ( Dec. 1941 ).

* Red Green-Steve Smith appeared as Red Green doing a Handyman's Corner segment where he showed how to make an angel to top off a Christmas tree.

She appeared in films from time to time for the rest of her life, notably in Night of the Hunter ( 1955 ) as a rural guardian angel protecting her charges from a murderous preacher played by Robert Mitchum.

Upon entering the fifth heaven they were met by none other than Metatron, who did not come at them with defiance or anger, but appeared accommodating, considering the circumstances ; after conversing for a short time the angel was successful in convincing Jannes and Jambres to remove their talismans, leaving them thus vulnerable.

En route, an angel of Yahweh appeared to Hagar at the well of a spring.

" In response, an angel appeared and granted him forgiveness of his sins.

An angel then appeared to him and conversed with him upon many things.

* Forty was the number of days that Prophet Ilyas ( Elijah ) spent in the wilderness before the angel appeared to him with Allah's message on Mount Horeb.

After the UCLA game suspension was served, the band appeared at the Cal game wearing angel halos in an attempt to apologize and get invited to travel with the football team to a bowl game.

Not only did the forgery intimate that Joseph Smith had been practicing " money digging " through magical practices, but it also replaced the angel that Smith said had appeared to him with a white salamander.

Stapleton appeared on the CBS television series Touched by an Angel as an angel named Emma.

In Midian, while Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father in law, the angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush that burned but was not consumed ( Exod 3: 1-2 ).

At his birth, the angel that appeared to the shepherds in the field said to them,

Smith said this angel appeared to him many times, and showed him where to find a set of buried Golden Plates containing ancient writings that the prophet-warrior had sealed in a stone box before his death, together with other artifacts.

Later, after he was murdered, Rulon C. Allred appeared to him as an angel to instruct him to preside over the keys of the priesthood.

< sup > 20 </ sup > But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

Kinison appeared in the memorable episode " It's a Bundyful Life: Part 2 " ( 1989 ) of Married ... with Children, as Al Bundy's guardian angel, who shows him what life would be like without him born ( a take-off of It's a Wonderful Life ).

Adherents of Mormonism believe that Moroni, as an angel, appeared to Joseph Smith in 1823 and directed him to where the plates were hidden.

The prophet Gad suggested the area to King David as a fitting place for the erection of an altar to YHWH, since it was there a destroying angel was standing when God stopped a great plague in Jerusalem.

On that reading, in the original E version of the Binding Abraham disobeys God ’ s command, sacrificing the ram “ instead of his son ” ( v. 13 ) on his own responsibility and without being stopped by an angel: " And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son ; but Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and beheld, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns ; and Abraham went, and took the ram, and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son " ( v. 10, 13 ).

* He stopped the production of psalms to Christ, and trained women to sing psalms to himself as an angel come down from heaven.

At the end of this arc, the Spectre transformed Triumph into ice and prepared to smash him with a hammer, but was stopped by a compassionate plea by the angel Zauriel.

The angel attempts to disrupt the ritual, but is stopped by Thomas, who kills Rachael and then runs over Gabriel with a truck, then beats him into submission with a tire iron.

The capitals of the columns depict Lazarus coming out of his tomb between Martha and Mary ; Abraham about to sacrifice his son ; and Balaam on his ass being stopped by a sword-wielding angel.

Representations of angels on sarcophagi and on objects such as lamps and reliquaries of that period also show them without wings, as for example the angel in the Sacrifice of Isaac scene in the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus.

An angel appears to Daniel and explains that the demonic " prince of Persia " is in opposition, but that Michael " the great prince of Israel " will save them, as the only one who will " stand up.

The two Marys discover the empty tomb, guarded by an angel, and Jesus himself tells them to tell the disciples to meet him in Galilee.

One day while they are out and about doing their destructive work, an angel comes to them and tells them to no longer seek to destroy the church.

Because of his instrumentality in the restoration of the gospel, Moroni is commonly identified by Latter-day Saints as the angel mentioned in, " having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.

Noah is later reviled by his people and reproached by them for being a mere human messenger and not an angel ( X: 72-74 ).

The angel tells them not to be afraid, but to tell the disciples that Jesus is risen and will meet them in Galilee.

The soldiers guarding the tomb are terrified by the angel, and inform the chief priests ; the priests and elders bribe them to spread a lie that the disciples have stolen the body, " nd this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.

Nephi sees the persecution of the apostles and their followers by the " house of Israel ", then later sees a " great church " that is, according to the description of the angel, "... most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of God, yea, and tortureth them and bindeth them down, and yoketh them with a yoke of iron ...".

They find Jesus and honor him, but an angel tells them not to alert Herod, and they return home by another way.

And a light shone about them, for an angel of the Lord was with them, watching over them.

In John Milton's " Paradise Lost ," Peor is said to be the other name of the fallen angel Chemos, who " entic'd / Israel in Sittim on thir march from Nile / To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.

"... but these two tears disappeared almost immediately, God doubtless having sent some angel to gather them as being more precious in His eyes than the richest pearls of Gujarat or Ophir.

Castiel, an angel, etches Enochian sigils into the ribs of Sam and Dean Winchester to hide them from the sight of both angels and demons.

And the angel said unto them ( soprano )

Sources of light are the infant Jesus, the shepherds ' fire on the hill behind, and the angel who appears to them.