Sentences with phrase «from among the nations»

Ezekiel 37:21 Then say to them, «Thus says the Lord GOD: «Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land..

24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.

After the scattering at Babel, he tears Abram from among the nations and sends him wandering through a land not his own, offering sacrifices at oaks and oases.

He attacked them for their presumption that being chosen by God from among the nations is a guarantee of salvation rather than a call to responsibility.

Chosen from among the nation's more than 2.5 million elementary and secondary school teachers, Ms. McBrayer received the traditional crystal apple from U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley at a dinner on April...

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A proposed ban on the insecticides went before the European Union last week but was postponed because England and Germany, among other nations, abstained from voting.

Violence has escalated in the highlands, where gas is produced for the LNG project, due to anger among locals over the nation's election process earlier this year and disputes over royalties from the PNG LNG project, an observer said.

Among 32 OECD nations, Canada fell from 14th most equal to 22nd since the mid-1990s (a more rapid decline than even the U.S.).

Japan only ranks 20th among foreign nations that import distilled spirits into the U.S., with total imports from Japan valued at just over $ 10 million in 2014, according to data compiled from the U.S. International Trade Commission.

What the far - flung reps needed was made clear when 19 of them (from Germany, France, Spain, Japan, Israel, and Australia, among other nations) gathered for three days of training at Restek headquarters, in Bellefonte, Pa..

The Moon Treaty, finalized in 1979, declared that any resources from space should be shared among all nations, but most countries, including the United States, never signed or ratified it.

Medibank Private says $ 3 billion could be slashed from the nation's annual healthcare costs if the government cracks down on overpriced prosthetics and cost - shifting from public hospitals to the private system, among other measures.

Since its founding in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has made some impressive achievements: it has doubled its membership from five countries to 10, now comprising a combined population of 625 million people; and, it has reached a level of cohesion and integration that is impressive in light of the economic, religious, cultural, and political diversity among its members.

[39] Americans have the highest average household and employee income among OECD nations, and in 2010 had the fourth - highest median household income, down from second - highest in 2007.

Last month, we cited a similar report from Trulia that ranked San Diego among the top three cities in the nation for inventory reduction.

The election of a majority Liberal government not only saw high - profile changes in rhetoric — think, «Canada is back» — but also equally lauded announcements on accepting 25,000 refugees from Syria, international peacekeeping, or a bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, among others.

They don't have a baseline credit score, and the average APR is from 6 - 12 %, making them among the lowest in the nation.

The majority of the guests of our federal prisons come from the small minority (which is higher outside the cities, in rural Canada and among First Nations) who live in poverty.

Two women - led startups from Austin are among the top ten finalists in the nation for the sixth Women Startup Challenge: Emerging Tech.

It's recently opted for soybeans from Canada and Brazil, among other nations.

I suggest also you should distance yourself strongly from Lorrie Goldstein who is an open racist, asserting among other things that all carbon offset projects in developing nations are inherently scams, and whose lies in other matters are well documented.

State income tax rates in the «Land of 10,000 Lakes» are among the highest in the nation, ranging from 5.35 % to 9.85 %, the fourth - highest top rate in the country.

The reports of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violations.

Ludlow's version of «Dayenu» included all of the customary lyrics — about the parting of the sea, the manna from heaven, the giving of the Torah — in addition to some with unique significance to the BYU community: «Had he scattered us among the nations, but not gathered us in the Rocky Mountains, dayenu; had he gathered us in the Rocky Mountains, but not given us Latter - Day Temples of our own, dayenu; had he given us Latter - Day Temples of our own, but not given us a special university, dayenu; had he given us a special university, but not a mighty basketball team, dayenu.»

Among his companions from the scriptures are the pseudochristoi who, Christ says, will come «in my name» and will «lead you astray» -» the lawless one» (2 Thessalonians 2:10) who, by the power of Satan, will impress the faithful with false signs and wonders, offering «a strong delusion» to tempt «those who are perishing»; «Gog and Magog» who, under Satan's command, will gather the nations for the final battle with Christ (Revelation 20:2 - 10); the «beasts» of Revelation (16, 17, 19) that harken back to the «beasts» of Daniel (7); «the sons of Belial» (Deuteronomy 13:13 and passim) who are «base» or «worthless,» who practice idolatry, drunkenness, disrespect, evil speech, who are «empty men» (2 Chronicles 13:7); and the conspiring nations and rulers who take counsel against the Lord (Psalms 2:1 - 3).

The move from the potential «wars between nations» of the second half of the 20th century to the «wars among the people» at the beginning of the 21st century has a profound impact on defence industry.

It has effected a shift of attention among Christians from an infatuation with the dominion of «the nations» to a recovery of the significance of God's people Israel.

Unity of view which can be the source of legislation must be attained through the use of methods of thinking and investigation which have been approved as valid; it must be reached by a limited number of men from among all classes of the nation, whose qualifications for the use of the approved methods are recognized; the views of all the qualified men must be ascertained; and unanimous agreement on a specific ruling must be sought.

America is maturing as a Nation among them many beliefs from the past are being dismissed as incorrect and ill - conceived

The transition from a superpower duopoly, in terms of military power, to a world monopoly, however, has had, among other effects during the 1990s, that of destabilising the fragile balance upon which the international multilateralism of the United Nations had been able to function, well or badly, during the 1960s and 1970s (following the «defrosting» and decolonisation, both the results of social, cultural, democratic and national struggle).

Zacharias probably spoke these verses thinking primarily of God's promises to the nation of Israel to deliver her from her enemies and restore her to her rightful place among the nations.

These are to be distinguished from fraudulent pretenders to the title such as Colonel Qaddafi's Popular Democratic Republic, the so - called Democratic Republics of the old USSR, etc.) The sociologist Peter Berger, against his own earlier predilections, has shown in The Capitalist Revolution that among all existing nations capitalism is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for democracy.

Recently, for example, planeloads of American fundamentalists have been travelling to Israel to view the site, Megiddo, where they believe the great clash among the nations will break out, and the battle of Armageddon will bring to an end the world as we know it.7 As this event is believed to herald the return of Jesus Christ, they have no fear for their own future, understanding from the words of Paul quoted above, that they will be «raptured» (lifted up into the sky and preserved from destruction) and that only non-believers will perish in the death of the old world.

c. And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have; from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves: Foreign slaves among the Jews did not have the same rights as Hebrew slaves sold into servitude because of debt; they could be held as slaves for life, though they had to be treated humanely (Exodus 20:8 - 11; 21:20 - 21).

The fields of the people's simple pleasures are in languishing of more children to be born among those who can not even afford another life to be wielded them and yet societies are given into life's simple pleasures becoming momentary bliss with a pill to afford them the displeasure of rumored birth controls far from the maddening crowds of other nations» woes.

Marxist Liberation theology is popular among Catholics in poor nations and especially in Latin America where the Pope comes from.

How about Prophesy ««Thus says the Lord GOD, «When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and will manifest My holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they will live in their land which I gave to My servant Jacob.»

Personally, I believe the position all Christians of today should be to obey Romans 13 but also believe the lesson taught in Romans 13, that the ministers of God (government) have the right to built an army from among its citizenry to defend our nation against the forces of evil.

For instance, Deuteronomy 28:64 says, «The Lord will scatter you among the nations from one end of the earth to the other.»

And many people from among the Jews and other nations became his disciples.

Greg is an internationally recognized theologian, preacher, teacher, apologist and author, who has authored or co-authored more than 18 books and numerous academic articles (among them Letters From a Skeptic, The Myth of a Christian Nation, and Repenting of Religion).

The shift of focus from competition for power among nations to increasing the availability of goods and services desired by the world's people was something Christians should celebrate.

From a more remote time the view is found in the Book of Ezekiel: «This is Jerusalem; I have set her midway among the nations and the countries that are around her» (Ezek.

No other course was possible but that Israel should «come out from among» the nations and be separate unless she would be recreant to her spiritual heritage and apostate from her best self.

The unipolarist ideology by whatever name, adds a fourth party to the foreign - policy debate, which has otherwise involved 1) liberal internationalists, who seek world peace and stability by securing collective agreements from nation states to comply with international law; 2) realists, who seek to ensure a balance of power among competing regimes; and 3) principled anti-interventionists, who renounce the use of military force for all reasons besides self - defense.

Yet even today, when the Faith of Christ is decayed among the nations, and when Christianity seems to belie the promises of Christ, and to be passing into the dead world of human religions, one more among many, even today, whatever individual values we hold sacred, whatever sanctity we claim for the personality of man, whatever freedoms, above the rut of biological materialism, we try to salvage from the ruins of a culture, all these are the droplets which remain within that chalice of the Christian Faith dashed down by the nation.

In an analysis of financial data from the decade ending in 2010, The Economist lists the world's most populous nation, and six African nations whose total fertility rate is among the highest in the world, as being among the ten fastest growing economies.

Case studies under analysis from this theoretical perspective include: direct broadcast satellite development; teleconferencing for meetings; international negotiations for satellite use by many nations; the cooperative communications efforts among European Community nations; and others.

In seeking to explain the commencement of armed conflicts among nations, writings from our century are far more likely to emphasize «environmental» causes, such as, of course, economics, than the freewill decisions of various leaders or the power of ideas.

Twelve centuries after the children of Israel escaped from bondage in Egypt and embarked upon their stormy career as God's «holy nation,» there appeared among them an extraordinary person, namely Jesus of Nazareth.