Sentences with phrase «consummation comes»

Its achievement is through the spiritual energy imparted by His spirit in human hearts, but its final consummation comes slowly through the joint efforts of God and man, working side by side, in the struggle to create a new and divine order and to make His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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The «this - worldliness» and «down - to - earthness» which made Israel's faith so distinctive, came to a consummation in the man Jesus.

When the last things refer to the life of the world or history as a whole, they customarily include the second coming of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, general judgment (eliminating an interim state and resulting in heaven or hell), and the consummation of the world.

Scribe, tax collector, fisherman and Zealot came together around the table at which they celebrated the joy of the present experience and anticipated its consummation in the future.

The consummation, to be sure, was still to come: but the thing had in principle been accomplished.

The easiest of these questions is the first, for it is not impossible to suppose that Jesus believed the Kingdom to be in some measure already present while its final consummation was yet to come.

Whether the final consummation will come on earth or only beyond earthly history, we do not know.

The faith of the Church adapted itself to the disappointment of its first expectations with little disturbance, beyond a deepening of the conviction that through the Spirit Christ had already «come again'to His people, (John 14:16 - 23) to reign over them for ever «until the consummation of the Age».

says, «And God told Habakkuk to write the things that were to come upon the last generation, but the consummation of the period he did not make known to him» (1 Q Hab vii.

[13] And here he concludes on the development of material being: «the consummation of this Law in the material order finalises in a unique way in the coming to be of Man».

For they know that the time has come of which it is said, that it is the consummation of the times.

He speaks of himself repeatedly as Son of man in the prophetic sense in which Ezekiel had used the term, and numerous passages suggest that the final consummation will be ushered in by the apocalyptic coming of the Son of man.

This in itself is important, showing us how Israel's concern to see the meaning of human destiny in the scene of human history itself and not the unseen world of the gods, came to a consummation in the Christian faith.

«We speak on this subject very cautiously and diffidently,» he writes, «rather by way of discussion than coming to definite conclusions... We suppose that the goodness of God will restore the whole creation to unity in the end... If anyone thinks that matter will be utterly destroyed, it passes my comprehension how all these substances can live and exist without material bodies, since to live without material substance is the privilege of God alone... Another perhaps may say that in the consummation all matter will be so purified that it may be thought of as a kind of ethereal substance... But only God knows.»

2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953), p. 102: «Dr. Thornton's own doctrine was rendered inconsistent by his insistence that although the creative process disclosed a series of emergents, life, mind, spirit, and thereby foreshadowed the culmination of the series in the coming of Christ, yet that event differed radically from all its predecessors and signalized not the consummation of the process but the intrusion into it of a Being wholly distinct and independent.»

In the form in which this coming kingdom was eventually delineated, as divine victory and the final consummation of Christ's work on earth in both judgment and mercy, the biblical symbolism of Christ's return becomes meaningful.

But let us note carefully that in no case did the consummation predicted actually come to pass.

As God reveals and prompts, builds and leads towards the full knowledge of himself and the consummation of all things, this is the work of the eternal Word who is coming in the flesh.

Obviously the final consummation of all things in the full glory of the promised New Age has never come to pass.

Jesus is the consummation of all of creation, in Him there is no evil as evil does not come from God and was Not created by Him.

Nevertheless, he still awaits «the time for establishing all that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old» (Acts 3:21) and the coming of the glorious consummation.2

At any rate real understanding of the problem is precluded if the futurity of the Kingdom is minimized, as by the supposition that belief in the coming Kingdom is based on the firm foundation of belief in the creation, and that the Kingdom of God is simply the consummation of the creation.

Furthermore, there are first - rank theologians and biblical scholars who, though they have rejected the crude literalism of a descent of Christ through the clouds as the mythological product of a prescientific age, nevertheless use the language of a second coming to designate the final consummation of the kingdom.

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.

In Jesus» own life, in his words and acts, the supernatural kingdom was beginning; the consummation was still to come, but the final crisis of history had already broken.

The «Come, Lord Jesus» leans forward toward the consummation of «the fullness of him who fills all in all.»

(Ephesians 1:3) While, therefore, Paul longed for the great consummation, when at Christ's coming «the body of our humiliation» would be fashioned anew and «conformed to the body of his glory,» (Philippians 3:21) this climactic experience became less an external and imposed event and more the fulfillment of the Christian's present blessedness.

So does the hope of the coming of the Kingdom, not as something earned by man's good works nor yet as a state in which God can be indifferent to human effort, but rather as a consummation in which the condition of the covenant would be fully met.

In the great consummation, «men will come from east and west, and from north and south, and sit at table in the kingdom of God» (Luke 13:29).

We are told of the fullness and the Second Coming, but of the nature of these things and their relation to the historical process we have no idea whatever: In the only sense that our imaginations can grasp, the task starts all over again with every baptism, every birth, and reaches its eschatological consummation on every deathbed.

In the previous chapter I have already stated that I do not think it lies within human knowledge to say whether God's final victory over evil and the final consummation of his kingdom will come within human history or beyond it.

The previous chapter ended with the affirmation that we can have assurance and hope without precise knowledge of the nature of the final consummation of God's purposes in the coming of the kingdom, even as we can have a similar assurance of the individual's life beyond death.

the ultimate consummation of this reality may not occur in their lifetimes, so they must continue to work and persevere, until the end comes.

Since this is the case, we must interpret this petition either as a prayer that others may experience the «coming of the Kingdom», or as a prayer from a present experience to a future consummation.

This solution also comes with online consummation of all levels of services rendered by the Lands Bureau.

Set mostly in 1962 at an inn in seaside Dorset, where graduate student Edward and violinist Florence, barely in their twenties, have come for their honeymoon, McEwan's book sketches the fear and loathing the two experience around sexual consummation, each of them carrying enough specific emotional baggage and general social repression to turn their wedding night into a site of irrevocable trauma.

Settlement agents also explained that the work of clearing known title defects can sometimes occur during the days leading up to consummation because certain defects may not come to light until after a title report is analyzed.

The potential efficiency gains come from covered persons spending less time explaining the disclosure to the consumer because the new Closing Disclosure is easier to understand and compare to the Loan Estimate and because the new Closing Disclosure will be received three business days in advance of consummation.