Sentences with phrase «martyred under»

REASONS FOR PERSECUTION: Although the Christians there continued to be persecuted and martyred under different emperors due to different kinds of reasons, the reason for the persecution during this period was this, that the decree of the Emperor had to be adhered to by all throughout the Roman world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Spoke in the Wheel by Renate Wind Eerdmans, 182 pages, $ 14.95 A short telling of the story of the heroic Lutheran theologian martyred under the Nazis.

Thus we read, for example, of martyrs under the Communists, of martyrs in the African church of the twentieth century, and of the Anglican missionary Vivian Redlich, who died at the hands of the Japanese in Papua in 1942.

A voice summons four horsemen, martyrs under the altar cry out for vindication, 144,000 from the tribes of Israel receive protective seals on their foreheads.

The worst injustice has been the church's inability to recognize the sacrifice of the martyrs under Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and even Brezhnev.

Soon after John witnesses the martyrs under the altar, he sees incense smoke rising to heaven mixed with the «prayers of the saints,» that is, the prayers of the martyrs for vindication and vengeance.

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REVELATION CHAPTER SIX And he open the fifth seal, and I saw under the altar the souls of those who were slain for the word of GOD and for the testimony they held and they cried out with a loud voice, how long O LORD holy and true do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth and white robes were given unto them and it was said unto them that they should rest a little season until their fellow servant and their brethren should be slain as they were should be fulfilled.Under racial profiling many BLACK AMERICANS were arrested and were either martyred within the prison system or were deported to AFRICA, where many of them were martyred there and were buried in mass graves in both the SUDAN and in the CONGO.

one only need look at the Church ih China today and it's growth under Communist persecution to get a mirror image of what it was like for first through third century Christian's as well as Revelation 6:9 - 11 then 14 - 17 nine through elven are the martyrs and 14 through 17 is a glimpse of judgment for men of war!

In Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, Thomas More, lord chancellor of England under Henry VIII, attempts to reassure his wife and daughter (who are rightly concerned for his safety) by pointing to himself with the words, «This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made.»

Tracing the historical story of underground Christians in Japan in the mid-17th century, Endo offers a stark look at the realities of following Christ under persecution, and the intense psychological struggle of a particular priest to know whether it would be better for him to be martyred for his faith or to recant.

St. Alban, the first English martyr, may have died under Emperor Septimius Severus (c. 209), although some scholars date his death to the persecutions under the Emperor Diocletian (c305).

Of the terrorists he says, «We hope that they are the first martyrs in Islam's battle in this era against the new crusade and Jewish campaign led by the big crusader Bush under the flag of the cross.»

From the earliest Christians gathered the bones of the martyrs and buried them under their altars, as we see in Revelation 6:9.

The eyewitnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus — those who ate, drank, spoke with, and listened to the Lord Jesus Christ after His Resurrection — were so convinced of the Good News of God's Love, Forgiveness, Peace, and Healing Power for all humanity revealed by the Risen Jesus Christ that these eyewitnesses were willing to die as martyrs for their belief in the Risen Christ as fully God and fully man when it was illegal to do so under Roman authority (where Cesar was considered a deity in the state cult religion).

He was writing, not for a group within a group, the Palestinian church living on under the shadow of the Jewish synagogue and a part, though a somewhat segregated part, of Jewish society, observing its own peculiar Halakak; Mark was writing for a martyr church in the world's metropolis, under the darkening shadow of a tyrant's throne and in the midst of a corrupt society of which the church could not possibly form a part.

We now move on to a consideration of the seven letters that we have from Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, who was arrested in Antioch, and sent under guard to Rome where he was martyred during the reign of the emperor Trajan (98 - 117).

Under communism the church was severely persecuted and many ended up in the gulag, in psychiatric hospitals and dead for being dissidents, i.e. true martyrs, who paid with their very lives.

It begins with a massacre of innocent children; it is centered in the crucifixion; it ends with a vision in which the souls of the martyred saints under the altar cry, «How long, O Master?»

Whoever not only says, but feels, «God's will be done,» is mailed against every weakness; and the whole historic array of martyrs, missionaries, and religious reformers is there to prove the tranquil - mindedness, under naturally agitating or distressing circumstances, which self - surrender brings.

Where does religious persecution rage, killing uncounted Christian martyrs, until the survivors think they hear the souls of the slain crying from under the altar, «O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long?»

To be sure, Americans of conviction and conscience are not under the same threats that made a martyr of Shahbaz Bhatti in Pakistan a year ago.

Why don't you read Foxes book of martyrs so that God might help you by humbling you under His mighty hand.

Admittedly it is bizarre to think of martyrs» bodies being regurgitated at the time of resurrection by the beasts that devoured them — but is it any more bizarre than birth, when compared to the more decorous view that finds babies under cabbage leaves?

Under racial profiling many black americans were arrested and were either martyred within the prison system or were deported toi AFRICA, where many of them were martyred there and were martyred there and were buried in mass graves in both the congo and in the SUDAN and it was this act as well as the rise of the hiphop nation is what has contributed the black holocaust in which the black human population were exterminated during the years between 1968 -1993-2001.

«While we are glad to see and commend the local authorities under international pressure acted swiftly and fairly to resolve the church's land with this right decision, we are still deeply concerned about the justice for this family of martyr which is still not done,» stated Bob Fu, China Aid's president.

The Nurturer, Warrior Princess, Martyr, Oppressor, MaterialGirl, Under - Spender, Creative Spirit, Timid, Clueless, and Alchemist.

And Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a martyr of the Faith who stood up to and was murdered by the Nazis, before he returned to Germany sat under the teaching of the man who developed the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the 1930's, Adam Clayton Powell, Sr..

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