{"id":879,"date":"2017-01-21T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T15:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2017-01-26T03:56:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T03:56:07","slug":"weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs &#8212; Or Just The Weather?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/retreatverobeach.htm\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Spirit Daily Retreat, Vero Beach, February 4<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3127\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/logoinside.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"45\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rev. Franklin Graham offers a prayer at Inauguration Day 2017\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l8CHxAoIcl4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>It&#8217;s interesting how things are interpreted as &#8220;signs&#8221; in different ways, if they are interpreted as signs at all.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>For example, it started to rain (sprinkle) just as President Trump took the inaugural stage, the sky vault-gray.\u00a0This, pronounced Evangelical preacher Franklin Graham (son of Billy), was a sign of an anointing. (\u201cMr. President, in the Bible, rain is a sign of God\u2019s blessing. And it started to rain, Mr. President, when you came to the platform.\u201d) See <em>Leviticus<\/em> 26: 3-10.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>In other circumstances, it is the parting of clouds, and the shining through of the sun, that have been seen as a positive augur.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>In Toronto, the sun came just as the Holy Father began the liturgy at Youth Day in 2002. (Years before, however, in 1987, we recall the altar stage blowing over before a papal Mass in New Orleans when John Paul II visited the U.S., perhaps a sign of warfare.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>The sun also has pierced through vaulted skies\u00a0for the current Pope, and there have been rainbows, although there was also the famous lightning bolt, striking St. Peter&#8217;s, the day Pope Benedict announced his retirement. How to discern!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><em>Is<\/em> it something to discern?<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>In September 2015, as <em>The Washington Post<\/em> showed us [<em>below<\/em>],\u00a0what looked like a rainbow &#8220;right over the Pope\u2019s location in New York City on Friday,&#8221; said the paper. &#8220;It was a beautiful sight, but it wasn\u2019t a rainbow. It was something much more interesting.\u00a0The beautiful display of color in the sky over the pope was actually a circumzenithal arc.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_908w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2015\/09\/25\/SocialIssues-Religion-Immigration\/Images\/490032784.jpg&amp;w=1484\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Once,<\/span> lightning caused his microphone to go dead just as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, during a primary, was taking issue with a bishop over abortion. (<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">That seemed easy enough to discern.)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>But what about last week,<\/em> when now former-Vice President Joe Biden was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He was rendered a dark silhouette when electricity went out as he spoke about U.S. leadership in the world. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0&#8220;We are going to retain our position of leadership,&#8221; Biden was telling the audience, when the lights on stage began to dim. (&#8220;If we don&#8217;t fight for our values, no one else will,&#8221; he said from the darkness.)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As with other such circumstances, as with mirabilia, as with alleged seers and their <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\">proclamations<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">, we report. You discern. If discern you are able.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">[Meanwhile, was there, as some saw, a face on the stairs behind Reverend Graham?]<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5143\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/graham.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1112\" height=\"689\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>[Resources: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/category-s\/1820.htm\">spiritual warfare books<\/a><\/span>]<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> [Support Spirit Daily through its bookstore, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/sa-1.htm\">special reports<\/a><\/span>]<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">[February retreat in Vero Beach; <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/gi-776.htm\" target=\"_blank\">details here<\/a><\/span>]<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">[March retreat in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/product-p\/ret-9.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta<\/a><\/span>]<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/donations.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Donations; thank you<\/a>]<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"commentary\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1485011338\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Signs &#8212; Or Just The Weather?\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spirit Daily Retreat, Vero Beach, February 4 It&#8217;s interesting how things are interpreted as &#8220;signs&#8221; in different ways, if they.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[586,585],"class_list":{"0":"post-879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-commentary","7":"tag-reverend-graham","8":"tag-signs","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}