Shawn Ryan

And he says, basically, don't worry about it.

The Holy Spirit will overshadow you.

The Holy Spirit will come upon you.

And the one you give birth to will be holy.

He will be the Son of God.

And how did that angel appear?

Well, we don't have a lot of detail.

We just know that he appeared to her.

There are a lot of angelic encounters in the pages of Scripture, about 200 of them.

And they tend to differ.

about how the angel can manifest himself in different ways.

And it's always as a male in the Bible, when an angel manifests himself, it's always as a male.

But in ancient, I found cases in ancient Jewish literature where angels manifested themselves as females.

There's no reason he couldn't.

It just happens to be, I think, that in the cases in the Bible, they're manifested as a male.

And so it doesn't describe him.

It doesn't give us a description of what he looked like.

But she knew he was an angel.

I mean, I don't know if I told you about this last time, but I had an angelic encounter myself when I was 12 years old.

And