Doing time for a crime that wasn't really a crime, set up and locked away, Jess (dude's name) keeps pumping his muscles and dreaming of being reunited with his daughter, when he gets chosen to become a Righteous Messenger to complete the ancient rites and release
evil upon the earth.
Not exact matches
Evil had become so great
upon the face of the
earth, that a return to the pre-creation chaos was inevitable.
If on the social group as a whole Yahweh's wrath was falling, the punishment was an inevitable consequence of the way individuals were thinking — «Hear, O
earth: behold, I will bring
evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts».
Human beings have brought much
evil on the
earth, God judges through a flood, Noah's family is saved from the destruction through the ark, and the human race begins again
upon a renewed
earth.
5 Mortify therefore your members which are
upon the
earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection,
evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
For example, according to many translations, the first part of Genesis 6:13 says that because God saw the great
evil and violence that was
upon the
earth, God decided or determined that He would destroy everything living
upon it.
It came as a natural consequence of the great
evil that was
upon the
earth, and specifically in response to the
evil of the sons of God having children with the daughters of men.
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.
Is there any other nation on
earth that such
evil will be visited
upon its people by its own government and such a group of rampaging beasts that those people will not agitate to leave?