Sentences with phrase «god reigns over»

God reigns over the nations, seated on his holy throne [Ps.

If God is creator, then God reigns over the death of every sensate being that ever moved on earth — to say nothing of his special responsibility for the bloody sins of those beings he has made in his image.

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And oh yes, there's that part in Revelation (the last few chapters) where God simply «must» release Satan again, after killing all the «evil» people and having Jesus reign on earth for an eon over all the «good» people that are left.

Yes Christ may well have been the very 1st son born before the earth was made as it now is and yes Christ came to this world to prove to his father that he (Christ Jesus) was who he was by dying and going into his dead body to where his father did reign to show to his father that his very first mission to establish all the ways and means needed to keep the nasty from ever anymore to be but only the ruled over within the confining constraints of all celestial cosmologies everywhere to be so known by God Almighty!

The biblical good news also tells us about how God wants to rule and reign over all aspects of life, how there is nothing beyond the scope of redemption, how there is hope for the future, a source of joy and gladness to be had, true community to be experienced, and peace to be introduced.

The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.»

When I get to heaven goin'ta put on shoes and walk all over God's heaven») For the slave, it was a place like John the Revelator saw — a place where «night shall be no more; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they shall reign for ever and ever» (Rev. 22:5)

God / The Prophet Samuel: «they have rejected me [God] as their king» «warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will claim as his rights» «He will take your sons and make them serve» «He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers» «He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants» «you yourselves will become his slaves.

In Luke, Gabriel predicts that «he will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever...» Jesus does not inherit a throne on earth.

H. Richard Niebuhr taught us in The Kingdom of God in America that the triune themes of the sovereignty of God over the whole world, the reign of Christ in the heart and the expectation of a Coming Kingdom in and beyond time were all embedded in the term «kingdom of God,» and that these themes were decisive in the way Christian theology and ethics provided — with differing accents in different periods — a spiritual and moral rudder for American civilization, from its founding through the industrial era.

Systematic Theology can be read as a much fuller account of the vision first put forward in Revelation as History twenty - five years before: Eschatology remains the key theological locus; Jesus continues to be understood as the anticipatory realization of the final reign of God over all things; Christianity is rational, though this claim is somewhat chastened.

Out of the ruins, once more, God would raise up those who should truly serve and obey him; and this divine Rule was to be inaugurated — so Mark and his fellow Christians believed — when the Son of Man, who was identical with Jesus crucified, raised from the dead, and exalted to heaven, should return on the clouds to hold the Last Judgment, when he should come «in power» with the angels of God to reign with his elect over a renewed earth.

Behold, O Lord, and raise up their king, the son of David, at the time thou hast appointed, O God, to reign over Israel thy servant.

I think that the very worst part of this whole issue is the hundreds of children who have grown up to distrust the church, Christians and God simply because these «men» were allowed free reign over these innocent children.

However, God wants more for you than to just have your guilt removed from you; He does not want sin to reign in your body; He does not want sin to rule over you, to destroy you, to ruin your life, your health, your finances, and all your relationships.

All of these, of course, are religious statements — an affront on God's reign over the earth.

Genesis does not, however, reflect philosophically on this signature; by depicting the act of creation and the result — a magnificent paradise well stocked with its birds, fishes, cattle, and so on, not to mention creeping things, a veritable kingdom over which the man and the woman reign in the peace of an integral nature — it simply shows that God's abundant goodness has been poured out, that his own nature has been «mirrored» somewhat as a mountain is mirrored in a clear lake.

As Israel had looked for the coming of the Messiah to establish God's kingdom and reign in glory over the people of God, so the Christian community was convinced that the Messiah had come, and that they, the followers of Christ, were now God's elect.

This millennial imagery in the twentieth chapter of Revelation is sufficiently ambiguous to cause the premillenialists of today to place the victory over Satan at the beginning of Christ's return and reign, while the postmillenialists hold that God's kingdom will come to its consummation and fulfillment at the end of this period.

I have placed the word «Messiah» in quotation marks because, strictly speaking, the term designates only one of these several ways, namely, the ideal King, usually of David's line, who would reign as God's vicegerent over a restored Israel.

As the reign of law extended its domain over one field after another — astronomy, geology, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology — there was less and less room for supernatural intervention to operate in, so that, if God was located in the supernatural, he was being slowly crowded out.

Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.

Salvation is the time when God would deliver Israel from enemy occupation, and restore her to her rightful place among the nations, with the Messiah ruling and reigning over the entire world from Jerusalem (cf. Green 1997:145).

Christ was not anointed by the people, because He is not an earthly king, but He was anointed of God, because He is a heavenly king who reigns over the hearts of the believers.

With all the ambiguities that surround the records of his teaching regarding the Kingdom, it is clear that it embodies the goal of God's reign over the hearts and lives of men, and thus sets forth the great hope of a better world both now and in the world to come.

The pre-existence of Christ, his decision to come into this world as a man, his struggle with demonic powers and his triumph over them, his ascension to heaven, where he reigns at God's right hand awaiting the time of his return — these are parts, not of the event, but of the story.

Over and over again in Luke's long narrative of Jesus» interactions on the road to Jerusalem, Jesus persists in his effort to make us squarely face the fact that it is the reign of God that he is proclaiming and confronting us with — not the reign of human perfectibility or even life under the Over and over again in Luke's long narrative of Jesus» interactions on the road to Jerusalem, Jesus persists in his effort to make us squarely face the fact that it is the reign of God that he is proclaiming and confronting us with — not the reign of human perfectibility or even life under the over again in Luke's long narrative of Jesus» interactions on the road to Jerusalem, Jesus persists in his effort to make us squarely face the fact that it is the reign of God that he is proclaiming and confronting us with — not the reign of human perfectibility or even life under the law.

Jeremias reports as an assured result: «Nowhere in the message of Jesus does the basileia (kingdom) denote the lasting reign of God over Israel in this age.»

In the resurrection and exaltation of Jesus, God was already «taking his great power» and was about to reign, finally and forever, over that part of his universal Kingdom which had rebelled against his wise and just rule.

In the tradition itself the «Alenu prayer (which Solomon Schechter called the Jewish «Marseillaise») has this: ``... in hope we wait, O Lord our God,... for Thee to remove the idols from the earth, the no - gods being utterly cut down, to taqqen «olam bemalkhut Shaddai set the world right by the Almighty's kingship...» The prayer ends in two verses from Scripture: «The Lord shall reign for ever and ever» (Exodus 15:18) and «And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one» (Zechariah 14:9).

Once the original human ancestors became the visible forms of God, God would have dwelt in their hearts and reigned from within them over the corporeal, physical world and the incorporeal, spiritual world.

Over time, these powerful stones of light were scattered and a prophecy arose declaring that a «child of no man» would gather them again, and he would be given immortality and reign forever as god and king of Kandelaar.

Centuries ago, in a blood - soaked land ruled by legendary gods and warring men, a prophecy foretold of a high king who would come to reign over all of the north.

The agent reign of terror where authors obsess over the «rules» of approaching agents like they are gods and not fellow humans, will soon be over.

After this humiliation Najm ad - Din decided to accompany his disgraced friend to Baghdad, the seat of the Abbasid caliphate, where the Caliph, Al Muqtafi li - amri «llah («he who follows the orders of God»), reigned supreme over the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean.