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11 Times People Glowed Like Jesus/Moses Outside of Scripture

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Occasionally throughout history – when the moment is spiritually profound enough, people have been recorded as emitting light through their own skin. “Glowing” is another way to describe it. For a baseline – here’s a smattering of scriptural references: Exodus 34: 29   ¶   And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the   two   tables   of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses   wist   not that the skin of his face   shone   while he talked with him. 30   And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. That’s Moses lighting up. It happened when he spoke to Jehovah. Jesus lit up too, ironically, when he spoke to an angelic-messenger Moses (and Elias): Matthew 17: 1   And after six days Jesus taketh   Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high ...

4 Times Angels Appeared to Other People Precisely When Joseph Smith Said They Would

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How many prophets have there been in the world? The Bible gives a good account of loads of them, of course. As does the Book of Mormon. You can find mentions of lost prophets in both. What about real prophets whose writings were lost without a Biblical mention? The point is, there have been dozens if not hundreds (if not thousands) of real, bonafide God-fearing prophets in the history of our sweet, sweet planet. You can’t count them. They are, as they say in preschools for the heavily dyslexic, uncountable. I know of a group which is more populous than they. False prophets. Oh yeah – there’s loads of the fakes – all claiming revelation if not divine visitation. Sometimes nobody is fooled. Sometimes scores fall for it. William Miller said Christ was coming again on October 22, 1844. This created quite a bit of excitement. Thousands awaited the day and nothing happened.  People were absolutely despondent.  It’s now known as the Great Disappointment. ( https://en.wikipedia...