Sentences with phrase «eating locusts»

Another couple of days of ice / roof problems, deploying the pinch from Ocean's Eleven, and a plague of AstroTurf eating locusts, and he will not miss any games at all.

We've had John the Baptist eating locusts and wild honey, we can handle that.

Just like people in the wilderness wearing camel hair coats and eating locusts with a side of honey disrupt us, people who think Jesus actually meant all that stuff he said don't fit in anywhere.

And under the Rule of Benedict, I am delighted to report that eating locusts will remain optional.

The portraits in the Gospels are little different, Jesus is heralded by the strange figure of John the Baptizer, crying in the wilderness, dressed in camel's skin and eating locusts and wild honey.

He came dressed in camels hair, eating locust and wild honey.

It is not because he ate locust and honey and wore camel hair either.

Not exact matches

Everyone knows one eats honey and locusts when one goes to the desert for a «purge».

«Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing, that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; (including) the locust... the beetle... and the grasshopper after his kind» (Leviticus 11:21,22).

Lev 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon [all] four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; Lev 11:22 [Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

They have been eaten in Africa, Greece, Syria, Persia, and throughout Asia; and whole tribes seem to have lived on them, and were hence called acridophagoi, or locust - eaters by the Greeks.

Joel, who saw in an army of locusts a reflection of the judgment of God, also saw healing: «Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning... I will return to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten.»

The locusts he ate were the insects, not the seeds of the tree.

Christians can choose from two lifestyles: the simple life à la John the Baptist, who lived on locusts and wild honey in the desert, and the fuller life of our Lord, who prayed all night and worked all day, but who ate and drank with others.

He will give you wisdom and revelation and He will restore those years the locust have eaten.

They traveled to this locust - eating, camel - hair - wearing prophet not because he knew the difference between lowercase and uppercase truth, but because they recognized the truth in his words.

Additionally, I am enthralled by the vision of LSU fans washing over a town in Northern Wisconsin like a horde of locusts, except instead of eating the crops, they make jambalaya in parking lots.

The ability of these locusts to eat the country's food supplies is astonishing — each swarm consumes 2,500 times the average amount of food eaten by humans.

Insects are commonly observed using their crushed limbs with undiminished force when walking, for example, and a locust will reportedly carry on with a meal while it is being eaten by a mantis.

«They eat everything in sight,» says Sean Mullen, an assistant professor of evolutionary genetics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., about swarming locusts.

EATING MACHINE: The migratory grass - hopper, Melanoplus sanguinipes, is the closest living relative of America's extinct plague locust.

It seems that these locusts are well adapted to degraded grasslands, where sheep have eaten most of the high - quality plants.

Beginning of the End (Hen's Tooth)-- Bert I Gordon, the kitsch master of nature gone giant cinema, created this bargain basement spectacle of supersized locusts eating their way through Illinois to Chicago as his answer to the atomic ant classic Them!

«For weeks countless swarms of locusts, brown - black and brick - yellow, darkened the air like ash from a great conflagration, their jaws biting all things for what could be eaten.»

And THEN, they discovered that what sparrows really eat isn't grain, as much as it is locusts.

In closing, as some of my older friends who have passed on once said to me, «If the locusts eat your crop, at least you don't have to harvest.»

[27] They can also eat wheat grain, sunflower seeds, and locusts.

Like locusts, Joseph Seed's followers are slowly eating up the land in Hope county.

The one major roadblock is getting over our North American squeamishness at the thought of eating crickets, mealworms, grasshoppers, buffalo worms, locusts, and the like.

«So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten.»