Sentences with phrase «by prophecies of»

According to oral history, the rebellion was fuelled by the prophecies of the spiritual medium Kinjiketile, who galvanised the Maji Maji fighters against the colonial rulers with his belief in a sacred water, which would make anyone who consumed it invincible to the German bullets.

The two stories come together as Po realizes he's the survivor of a famous massacre, dating back to when — disturbed by prophecies of a black - and - white hero who would one day destroy him — the regal peacock ordered all panda babies slain.

The use of the imagination in assisting us in living tout the future that is often so dim and conditioned by prophecies of loom and despair may well be the primary task of art and religion in ur time.

For centuries, every advance in industrial technology was heralded by prophecies of doom.

Not exact matches

But 66 - year - old Anne is unperturbed by her brother's prophecy of doom.

If the final rule «is not dealt with» either by statute or other means, «then what we'll see over a period of time is a self - fulfilling prophecy: What happens with less advice is more diminished returns and over a period of time what happens is a wider and wider [savings] gap,» Roskam said.

Prophecy Resource (TSX.V: PCY) has begun production of its first 10,000 tonnes of coal as a trial run of supply to be taken by rail to electric power stations in Darkhan and Erdenet, Mongolia's second and third largest cities after the capital, Ulaanbaatar.

Even though we are not trying to reconcile scriptural prophecies with the message of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, the principle outlined in Acts 17 by the Bereans gives us hope that God can lead us through the discernment process in our information - saturated world.

As for the Jewish Carpenter who shares these biographical elements, a lot of the core prophecies «fulfilled» by Jesus that define Him as «The Messiah» are up for debate.

5) The event that fulfills the prophecy can not be staged, or the relevant circumstances manipulated, by those aware of the prophecy in such a way as to intentionally cause the prophecy to be fulfilled.

Michael J. Perry, a leading legal scholar, argues that judicial review should serve the role of «prophecy,» calling us to a deeper understanding of ourselves through moral exhortation by the Supreme Court.

The FACT that the US is destined to support their «prophecy» stems from self - educated, self - appointed fundamentalist religious authorities who interpreted the sections of a book that seem to be easily misinterpreted by their largely uneducated followers.

But we do see things consistent with the Bible, To take a concrete example, the Bible states that Israel wold be destroyed as a nation, but after a long period of time would become a nation again, It's a matter of belief whether the Bible made a God - inspired prophecy or a lucky guess, But it's a matter of objective fact that Israel was destroyed by the Romans and became a nation again in 1948.

Accused by False Witnesses Prophecy: Psalm 35:11 Malicious witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I do not know.

Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people who don't believe the way you do anyway, and attempt to make peace with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them and learning about their cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.

LOOK: PROPHECY: The Prophet Zechariah commanded the people by the Spirit of the Lord to: «REJOICE GREATLY, O daughter of Zion!

And also, if the OT prophets were so good, how is it that such a commonplace prophecy, like Jesus's entry to Jerusalem on donkey takes prophetic priority over such major events as the Last Supper or the Foot Washing scene, an event that at least one commentary listed as one of the most important symbolic gestures ever made by Jesus.

2 Peter 1:21 For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

I prophecy that sometime in the next 3 pages of comments on this blog, someone going by the handle «Atheism is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things» will post a message that comprises, in its entirety, the words «Prayer changes things.»

Just one example, (so as to not take up a tremendous amount of space here) but the prophecy of Isiah 17:1 is about the destruction of Damascus by the Assyrians in 732BC.

In fact, it must have been before the destruction of the city and the temple by the Romans in A.D. 70, because the prophecy said quite explicitly: «After (the 483 years) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary» (Daniel 9:26).

It was created by Christian that believe Israel would have to be re-founded because of their interpretation of the prophecy.

The prophecy must have been fulfilled prior to the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem in A.D. 70, by which time certainly all semblance of a scepter had departed from Judah.

@John A lot of the core prophecies «fulfilled» by Jesus are up for debate.

Some of the prophecies are so framed, in fact, as to preclude their fulfillment by anyone living after the first century A.D.. For example, the patriarch Jacob said, in Genesis 49:10, «The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come.»

There are hundreds of these prophecies, so that the possibility of their accidental convergence on any ordinary man is completely ruled out by the laws of probability.

The writings that testify of their divine nature by prophecy, and by their brilliant, complex substance.

Likewise, the prophecy to the king of Judah (Ahaz) was fulfilled, as he was not harmed by the invasion.

Throughout the OT a lot of prophecies has been fulfilled by Jesus as the savior.

The dispersal and re-emergence of Israel was not a self - fullfilling prophecy: the dispersal portion certainly was not, as the Romans did not conquer Israel with the intent to fulfill Bible prophecy; at the time of the prophecy, there would have been no reason to believe that there would be people who would try to Israel; the people who founded modern Israel were, at least in the main, non-religious and were not trying to fulfill the Bible's prediction; and finally, considering the almost continual obstacles (wars) faced by Israel since the day of its founding, sucess at restoring Israel was far from certain.

Such «mixing» of times is quite common in prophecy, as was the case in Tyre, where the destrution was started by Nebuchadnezzar and finished by Alexander.

Prophecy illuminates the past, present, and future by employing story and poetry to bring into sharp contrast the way things are with the way things should be with, the ways of power - hungry people with the ways of a loving God, the path of cruelty and injustice with the path of righteousness, the kingdoms of this world with the coming Kingdom of God.

8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits

HUNDREDS of prophecies precisely fulfilled... attesting to the divine / godly nature of the Bible... including the fall of Jerusalem, Solomon's kingdom, the scattering of the Jews abroad, the formation of the nation of Israel in 1948, the Babylonian exile, the rebuilding of Jerusalem, the falling again of Jerusalem in 90AD... oh yeah... and over 300 prophecies fulfilled EXACTLY by the life of Jesus.

To interpret acts of violence by those who oppose God's people as fulfillments of prophecy is to believe that God has something else in mind.

It has, of course, occasionally been so argued.4 The interpretation of Old Testament prophetism as an essentially ecstatic phenomenon differing not at all in this respect from the ecstatic prophecy characteristic of the ancient Near and Middle East continues to be advocated, especially by those who are persuaded of prevailing ancient Eastern institutional uniformity.5

Yea verily, I as infallible Pope, hereby excommunicate Chuckles forever from the purgatory of raving nincompo < b?ops where he was infallibly put by mistake, which was a divinely - inspired infallible mistake, much like Jesus» prophecy that the Kingdom of God would come down on the Earth with a cool laser light show and dancing poodles and other things that didn't happen within the lifetimes of his audience.

The fall of Jerusalem, the scattering of the Jews, the reformation of the nation of Israel in 1948, the kingdom of Solomon, the Babylonian exile, the rebuilding of Jerusalem, another destruction of Jerusalem in 90AD... oh yeah... and over 300 prophecies PRECISELY fulfilled by the life of Jesus.

I stated that the prophecy you reference was borrowed from the legend of the Egyptian god Horus which pre-dated the text you reference by about 2200 years.

By the time he applied the term «Son of man» to the suffering servant prophecy, «the Son of man» must have meant to him practically «I.» Obviously all this can not be proved; other possibilities must be recognized.

He is walking by, and she has heard of him: whispers of healings, echoes of prophecy, murmurings of one who carries healing powers in the tassels of his robe.

Jaded by experience and suspicious of narrative, we can not credit the secular prophecies of the past two centuries, which divined the end of history in a worker's state or the global triumph of democratic capitalism.

Once again Matthew calls attention to a prophecy of Isaiah by indicating that Jesus quoted Isaiah 29:13 in his rebuke to the scribes and Pharisees.

oops again, then if it said G - d spoke then G - d spoke inerrent through the writer which we may believe in the same way we believe the more sure word of prophecy, the gospel itself, foolishness to those perishing and so on,... does it give me words to live by, then the answer to your question and my application in my own life the answer would have to be Yes.

The life and ministry cluster includes many of the miracle accounts, those prophecies and messianic claims which were quite apparently inserted by the early Church, and any claims as to the perfection or total sinlessness of Jesus as an individual.

The prophecy of Judah ben Samuel in about 1200 also indicates that Messiah will come by 2017 at the latest, so the most likely time is when the world will be exactly 6,000 years old, which it will be on 24th September 2014.

When Christians searched the Old Testament for texts bearing on the Resurrection they would be struck by Psalm 16:10: «Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let thy loyal servant suffer corruption», This prophecy was a powerful weapon in the armory of Christian apologetic.

All three of these ideas» the ultimate possession of the transformed earth by the physically resurrected saints, the explicit prophecies about Christ by pre-Christian prophets, and the deification of man as the ultimate goal of salvation through Christ» are ideas for which Mormons are still deemed un-Christian, because they are distinct from the teachings of most Protestant denominations.

i already knew this was a prank from the beginning just by the fact that you stated that god chose you to tell the prophecies of the lord, when in reality only god knows, and only god will show the signs of the lords second coming, the rapture and the great tribulation is imminent, and i have but one question for you jeremy.....

«Salvation history,» not because every moment of this world is willed by God in a direct manner — the bloodletting of Herod is not intended by God as the flight of Jesus is — but because the voice crying out in Rama is as much the subject of sacred prophecy as Jesus's flight.