Lightening Strike on St. Peter's? Think "Fire from Heaven"

So you remember the lightening strikes hitting St. Peter's the evening of the day Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation?

Yeah. That.

I think I might know what it meant: sacrifice accepted.

Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.” When they drew near to him, he repaired the altar of the LORD which had been destroyed.  He took twelve stones, for the number of tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the LORD had said: Israel shall be your name.  He built the stones into an altar to the name of the LORD, and made a trench around the altar large enough for two measures of grain.  When he had arranged the wood, he cut up the young bull and laid it on the wood.  He said, “Fill four jars with water and pour it over the burnt offering and over the wood.” “Do it again,” he said, and they did it again. “Do it a third time,” he said, and they did it a third time.  The water flowed around the altar; even the trench was filled with the water.  At the time for offering sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came forward and said, “LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.  Answer me, LORD! Answer me, that this people may know that you, LORD, are God and that you have turned their hearts back to you.”  The LORD’s fire came down and devoured the burnt offering, wood, stones, and dust, and lapped up the water in the trench.  Seeing this, all the people fell prostrate and said, “The LORD is God! The LORD is God!"  (1 Kings 18:30-39)