We will look at much of this imagery in a later post when we consider the violence in the book of Revelation, but the imagery is only brought up here to show that when Jesus talks about the flood in Matthew 24, He likens it to a similar form of world - wide judgment that
falls upon the earth at the end of days.
«
Fall upon the earth,» Zossima had said,
He had
fallen upon the earth a weak youth, but he rose from it a resolute fighter for the rest of his life, and he realized and felt it suddenly, at the very moment of his rapture.
The first waters that
fall upon the earth are dark because they symbolize the sin of Adam, and they become darker because of the sin that results in the waters of the flood (56:5 - 16).
Not exact matches
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».
What was the
earth he
fell upon, and what did he rise up to do?
But one day a great beetle - infested tree so
falls upon the soft - mounded
earth that its underside is inaccessible to the birds.
In the parable, the seed in one case
fell upon ground having a rocky bottom, covered over with a thin layer of
earth; when the seed began to take root, its downward growth was hindered by the hard stone and therefore it spent its strength in pushing its green shoot aloft as high as it could, but having no inward moisture derived from root nourishment, it withered away.
Because first it rose from creation and stored itself in clouds and moved over the face of the
earth to unlatch itself from the heavens and
fall upon from whence it came.
Among them are the littlest survivors
upon whom the water from the sky
fell harder and for whom the water from the
earth rose higher.
As the
Earth continued to cool from Years 0.1 to 0.3 billion, a torrential rain
fell that turned to steam
upon hitting the still hot surface, then superheated water, and finally collected into hot or warm seas and oceans above and around cooling crustal rock leaving sediments.
The sound design revs up to meet its frantic imagery as drops of blood
falling upon the desert
earth are turned into deafening gunfire.
3 If the clouds are full of rain, They empty themselves
upon the
earth; And if a tree
falls to the south or the north, In the place where the tree
falls, there it shall lie.
The child continued: «What what if a bird say a whole flock of birds a whole knot of birds were to eat seed after seed then flying back into the blue causing the white causing the white causing a a a grave to
fall down
upon the entire
earth, what what what then?»
And now that
fall is finally
upon us — thank you, Mother
Earth, for cooling down — it's time to throw on that chunky sweater and revel in the city rhythm.
And while most space trash does eventually either burn up as it enters the
Earth's atmosphere or
fall harmlessly into an ocean or parcel of land
upon successful re-entry, the odds are favorable enough for this to be a significant concern.
«However, we feel in awe of its destructive potential, seen in such things as hurricanes and floods, which are part of the curse inflicted
upon the
earth following the
Fall (Genesis 3.17).»
If the whole surface of the
earth is considered as a unit
upon which a certain amount of heat
falls each day, it is obvious that the mean temperature will depend
upon the rate at which this heat can escape by radiation, because no other type of heat exchange is possible.
Even if CO2 emissions
fall to zero the plague
upon the
Earth will remain us... you and me.