How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

W hat visual impression do you experience when a person says “an angel of the Lord”? As a child, I would visualize a tall supernatural being that looked somewhat like a man with huge golden wings connected to his shoulders and blond hair the color of gold. His face was glowing and radiating like the noonday sun. Throughout the Scriptures, there were numerous appearances of angels. However, there are very few references that give a detailed description as to what their appearance is like. In many instances the appearance is based upon the type of angel each scripture is speaking of. For example, the prophet Daniel was fasting for three weeks to receive the understanding of a very complicated vision he had experienced. After twenty-one days, an angel of the Lord appeared to him and gave him a lengthy, detailed interpretation, revealing many events linked to the time of the end. (See Daniel 10–12.) Here is the description of the “man” Daniel saw: Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is, the Tigris, I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen, whose waist was girded with gold of Uphaz! His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and feet like burnished bronze in color, and the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude. And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision; but a great terror fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves. —D ANIEL 10:4–7