Sentences with phrase «came upon the earth»

But in the end, only eight were saved, and the flood waters that came upon the earth returned everything to the way they were before Genesis 1:2.

This reversal of creation occurs in Genesis 7 when the flood waters come upon the earth.

When Jesus Christ came upon the earth you kill'd and nail'd him on a cross.»

We really don't know what kind of forces came upon the earth during the flood, nor do we know what kind of universe and radiation existed before the flood.

Just as God wanted to rescue as many as possible from the waters of the flood, so also, God wants to rescue as many as possible from the fire that will come upon the earth.

Men's hearts will fail them for the fear of things coming upon the earth, people who have been provoking on the day of the Lord, will seek to die, and death will flee from them in that day.

They've been deceived and lied to that they are going to escape the great tribulation and sufferings... these things will come upon the earth — we can see it happening now.

-- The Anthology is full of pessimistic utterances: «Naked came I upon the earth, naked I go below the ground — why then do I vainly toil when I see the end naked before me?»

Genesis 6:5 is written to provide an explanation for why the floodwaters came upon the earth.

The second thing God did was that when the flood waters came upon the earth, He sought to rescue, redeem, and deliver as many people from the flood as He would come.

And when the flood actually does come upon the earth, the text pretty clearly states that God destroyed all living things that were on the earth (Genesis 7:23).

The flood came upon the earth, but God worked to rescue people from it, and when it was over, He promised that such a thing would never happened again (Isaiah 54:9).

More interestingly still, the Hiphil participle of shachat is also used in Genesis 6:13 and 17 in reference to the destruction that came upon the earth.

Peter then sets these angels in contrast to Noah whom God did rescue when the flood came upon the earth (2 Peter 2:5).

Peter ends his letter by talking about the second «flood» that will come upon the earth, but this time it will not be a flood of water, but a flood of fire (2 Peter 3:10, 12).

In 2 Peter 2:5 - 7, Peter explains what happened in the flood and why the waters came upon the earth.

It shows that God did not kill people in the flood, but sought to rescue people from the flood that was coming upon the earth as a result of their own sinfulness.

It says the «waters of the flood came upon the earth» (Genesis 7:10, NAS) and «the fountains of the great deep burst open» (Genesis 7:11, NAS).

But if words could come upon this earth To tell the truth of us Words would die in the midst of love Our words would say, «We must».

First, in previous posts, I have argued that God did not actively «send» the flood, but that it came upon the earth as a natural consequence to mankind's rebellion.

God says that even though man's heart is constantly evil, the flood waters will never again come upon the earth to destroy everything that breathes.

Not exact matches

Revelation 17:1 - 3 ``... Come hither; I will show unto you the judgment of the great WHORE that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed FORNICATION, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her FORNICATION.

The Book of Acts opens with two events of great salvation - historical importance: the going up of Jesus from earth into heaven (the Ascension), and the coming down of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples (Pentecost).

(Revelations 19)(when jesus comes back to earth) «And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war», «His eyes were as a flame of fire», clothed in a vesture dipped in blood ``, and «out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.»»

And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.

(Gen 3:20) And it will depend upon us as to where we are personally going, be it life in a paradise earth forever (Rev 21:3 - 5) or return to ground from which we came when we die, having been just a speck in the time line of history.

Are oppressed people ever going to be able to affirm judgment like Isaiah did when he declared: «For behold, the Lord is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her, and will no more cover her slain» (26:21)?

The «kingdom of Heaven» is a condition of the heart — not something that comes «upon the earth» or «after death.»

In modern times, Christians, upon further analysis of scripture, have come to find out that they were wrong for millennia and that God had been telling us of an ancient, round earth this whole time.

Even though the title «Son of God» is used in the account of the Baptism, presumably the origin of Jesus» Messianic consciousness — as many modern scholars interpret the passage — nevertheless the whole idea of his acceptance of death is formulated in terms of the heavenly Man who has power and authority upon earth, (Mark 2:10, 28) who fulfills what is written of him, who dies and rises again, and is to come in glory as the supreme advocate or judge.

But we do believe in the eternal significance of the condescension of God, the glorious Incarnation, the singular moment in time when the God of the ancients came to earth to take upon him a body of flesh and bones.

When Jesus said that to the disciples of his day of this generation he was talking figuratively i believe of born again believers born of the spirit not a physical generation.Because the holy spirit was prophetic of the spirit coming upon the nation or nations as spoken in Joel that occured at pentecost and that established the kingdom of God on the earth through believers so we have always been the last generation because we never know when the Lord will return but we live as if it was tomorrow.brentnz

The world time is running out the Son of man is upon the earth soon to open the seals, the day of burning at end of the tribulation when comes in his glory is another event, even so many shall not see the Son until the time of judgement, but the chosen few shall see him before.

As for what Jesus taught, he said some pretty disturbing things about God's wrath upon the earth, and then in his ascended state, he told John the graphic horrific violence that would come at the end of days.

For it will come in upon all those dwelling upon the face of all the earth.»

Remember that we all came from the same place, we are here now sharing this Earth, and we will go back to where we came from very soon... So lets spend our time wisely... We must use the gift given to us and choose to think for ourselves, by not allowing the past or others to dictate how we should live our lives... lets practice recognizing ourselves in each other... It may not always be easy... but each new day we can choose it... and that choice has an intrinsic value, upon which great things will be borne...

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth» (Acts 1:7, 8), says the Christ of the ascension.

The underground church is working very effectively... It [the war] will come down out of the north — that has to be the Soviet Union — upon the midst of the earth — Israel and the Middle East... That's why most of us believe in the imminent return of Jesus Christ.»

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.»].

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth» (Acts 1:6 - 8).

Some of them you will kill and impale, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city; that there may come upon you all the righteous blood spilled on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zech · a · ri ′ ah son of Bar · a · chi ′ ah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.»

And I think this is exactly what Jesus means in the Gospel of Luke, when he says «I came to cast fire upon the earth, and would that it were already kindled.»

If you will only obey the LORD your God, by diligently observing all his commandments that I am commanding you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth; all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the LORD your God:

THE GREAT CONTRAPTION (10:3 - 5) Yea, so it shall come to pass that He will descend to the very earth, and He shall touch the tainted sands with His divine noodly appendage and He shall write in the sand and the writing that He shall scribe upon the sand will be writing that does tell of the means to construct the Great Contraption about which He shall write upon the sand.

They were just now trying to be more fully Jewish by turning away from the corruption that had come upon Judaism of that day, and were turning toward a Judaism which accepted and believed that the Messiah had come in Jesus Christ, and the new order of God's Kingdom had arrived on earth.

Nor will its use demand payment of fare, and no longer will His children need travel across land or sea, no, but upon the winds of the air as like He does, and shall dwell upon the clouds in great floating cities away from the foulness of the earth's sand upon which will crawl the wicked children, and the wicked hostesses except those which He sees fit to allow to visit the cloudy cities for reasons of firm discipline... (10:45) Round shapely... (10:63) And as it is written so shall it come to pass while I do live.

These lines are a tight counterpoint in which a big theme is condensed: life's affirmative fire is only to be redeemed from self - incineration when it is met by, controlled, and purified by the God who is a consuming fire, in his concreteness of love in Christ («I come to bring fire upon the earth») and mediated by the Spirit,

Thus every attempt to situate Man and the Earth in the framework of the Universe comes inevitably upon the heavy problem of death, not of the individual but on the planetary scale — a death which, if we seriously contemplate it, must paralyze all the vital forces of the Earth.

Peter looked at him and said, «You've served man upon the earth by providing food through the cattle you've raised but before you come in there's just one small test, spell «GOD»».

He also warned: And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.