Sentences with phrase «nations of the world came»

If we are to speak of being chosen, of being among God's elect, it is to say that, like Abraham, we are chosen for the sake of God's plan that the nations of the world come to enjoy the blessing of Abraham (which is exactly how Paul describes the effect of God's redemption of Israel through Christ in Galatians 3:14).

Soon the nations of the world come together and create X-COM to protect and defend Earth.

So the great nations of the world came together and they huffed and they puffed and at the end of it all they agreed....

In December 2015, the nations of the world came together at the COP 21 meeting in Paris and pledged to work collaboratively to limit global warming to at most 2 degrees (Celsius), or ideally to 1.5 degrees.

Not exact matches

But couple that with a welcome sign telling the world how proud we are of our great nation and inviting them to come and visit.

The two leaders said they had discussed several pressing international issues, including the Mideast peace process, trade and preparations for a coming summit of the world's leading industrial nations in Northern Ireland.

Alexis Tsipras was on course on Monday night to sway radical - leftist Syriza MPs to accept the most draconian rescue of a sovereign nation since the second world war, after the Greek prime minister accepted a third bailout programme that one analyst said came after a weekend of «gunboat diplomacy».

Climate change could severely impact the world's coffee - producing nations and turn a cup of decent java into a luxury in the years to come.

The answer came on March 8 in Santiago, Chile, when a revised version of the original pact, called Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans - Pacific Partnership (CPTPP or TPP - 11) was signed by eleven nations that represent roughly 40 % of the world's economic output.

Naturally with every round of quantitative easing comes significant falls in the nations currency on the world's currency market, so such an aggressive maneuver has seen the yen slide rather drastically.

Approximately 60 % of Lockheed Martin's sales come from the U.S. Department of Defense, with the rest divided between other American government agencies and nations from around the world.

And this sort of thing does not matter any more because the kingdom is not of this world, and it does not matter if you worship on Mount Gerizim, or on Mount Zion, as long as all nations come to the spiritual Mt. Zion, the kingdom that has no end.

There is the spirit of anti-christ then there is a coming world leader that will, at some point in the future, control a 10 nation confederacy only to set himself up a newly constructed Temple in Jerusalem and call himself God.

We can debate the «were a Christian nation» thing back and forth without getting anywhere, but to imply that the freedoms we have now came only from Christian roots ignores the rest of world history as well as the fact that its often been the Church impeding civil liberties and progressive movements.

Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

Maturity comes as we learn the hegemonic skills by which communities are build up, by which one and one become a pair, pairs become families, families are gathered into a gens, the gentes become a state, the states a united nations of the Earth, the worlds a galactic federation.

Some of these names and the peoples and nations that come from them become very important in the future history of the world.

Three days before his death, Jesus said that in these «last days» (called by Jesus his (invisible) «presence» at Matt 24:27, 37, 39) a world - wide Bible educational work would be accomplished, with God's kingdom as the theme, saying: «And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.»

They are a first step in answering the call of the Lord to go into all the world and make disciples: «And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come» (Matthew24: 14).

We're so used to the default trope that China is «the world's most populous nation» that it will come as a shock to many that, by some demographers» estimates, China's current population, 1.4 billion, will shrink to 500 million by the turn of the next century.

Did you forget the part of every tribe, tongue and nation must hear the world of God before the end will come?

Having omitted Mark's previous statement (13:10) about preaching the gospel to all nations, Matthew now adds (24:14), «And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, as a testimony to all the nations; and then the end will come.»

14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

For example, after explaining how their research shows that three - quarters of young outsiders and half of young churchgoers describe present - day Christianity as «too involved in politics,» this is what Kinnaman concludes: «To address the deep challenges that are facing people in our nation and around the world, Gabe and I have come to the conclusion that being politically engaged is more important than ever.»

During this final phase, Pentecostals believed, there would be a worldwide revival in which the nations of the world would have one last opportunity to hear the gospel and then the end would come.

Matt 24 14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Consequently, although Jesus himself had lived in the Near East, it was as a religion of Europe that his message came to the nations of the world and the islands of the sea — a religion of Europe both in the sense of a religion from Europe and, often, a religion about Europe as well.

As followers of Jesus, we can enjoy America and the Constitution and all that comes with being a citizen (that's another conversation), but our primary allegiance is not to a nation; our goal is not to persuade the world of the American way of life.

It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?

In his Second Inaugural, little more than a month before his death, Lincoln reminded the nation of the dread warning given to those who had oppressed the innocent and defenseless: Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

We are one of the WORSE nations in the civilized world when it comes to healthcare.

I would give my life for any homosexual man or women — I would gladly give my life in exchange for theirs if it come to the crunch but I still speak out against the sin of homosexuality... What you must understand is that it is a judgment of God when a nation turns away from God — The whole world is turning away from God and we need to stand against the teaching of the world... it is also a sign of the times as spoken of in timothy 1 and 2.

GOD IS NOT A MYTH people refuse to acknowledge that bible prophecy is coming true, before our very eyes only the bible has predicted the future, including the the world trying to bring peace to Jerusalem only the bible named nations that would be involved in end time wars and events only the bible has given signs of the end times that are coming true

This is certainly how Matthew 24:14 has been understood, from the age of the apostles right through the dawn of the modern ecumenical movement: «And this Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.»

Phrygian to me i sense that you are struggling with issues in your mind that you cant reconcile and these issues are affecting what you believe in your heart and therefore your faith in God.I had something similar happen to me recently regarding the story of the demon possessed man at one point the demons begged Jesus to cast them into the pigs does that mean that Jesus was implicated with the work of satan.It cast my mind into doubt and then i began to question who God is.I prayed and sort the holy spirit for an answer the answer i got was that Gods character never changes he is always holy righteous and sovereign why else would satan ask for his permission.So the answer was that he allowed satans purpose to prevail so that we can see that satans intention is always to destroy it may well have been that the pigs were his anyway.As they were for the gentile nations who offered the pigs to their demon Gods.Just as satan can not change who he is the destroyer the thief the liar God can not change who he is when we realise that despite what we see going on in the world God is still the same yesterday today and forever.The time is coming when those that have hurt others will be judged for there wickedness as we serve a holy and just God.Just as it was in the times of Noah so it is with this this generation that as the wickedness reachs its zenith then the Lord will return to judge the nations.He is coming again and we need to be ready it is not a time to be caught sleeping.brentnz

Come now, you know why: Because of a brief period in history when a symbol that has been used around the world for thousands of years as a sign of good will was used to represent an evil socialistic nation whose leader ordered the death of millions.

The Bible predicted the fall of Jerusalem, the kingdom of Solomon, the coming of Christ, the Jewish nation being carried away into Babylon, the Jewish people being scattered throughout the world, the Holocaust, the reformation of the nation of Israel in 1948... Not to mention over 300 prophecies fulfilled precisely by the life of Jesus.

In my work for the Institute for Global Engagement, I come across many official documents — such as a State Department action plan on women and security or a United Nations treaty on ending racial discrimination — that barely mention religion, despite the fact that a vast majority of the world's population (84 percent, according to Pew Research) believes in a higher power.

To proclaim the criteria by which the Coming King will judge persons and nations, to exemplify those standards in the church as the new society, and to work for their recognition by the world — these are irreducible aspects of the Christian summons to the forgiveness of sins and new life, and to the lordship of the risen and returning King.

Given the great power of our nation, I fear it may prove to be a significant source of disorder in the world in the coming decades.

Kevin Prosch prophesied to me in 1994 that «the British invasion is going to happen and you've got three years to prepare for it», so I knew the time was coming when the songs would leave the island and bless the nations of the world.

The same holds of many of the other challenges the nation and the world face in the coming decades.

Come on, people... These ideas are why we are looked upon as fools by huge portions of the world, and why we're behind most other industrialized nations.

While the nations of the world have, in such tragic fashion, been pulling apart, the non-Roman Catholic Christians of the world have been coming together.

But a fortnight ago in Oslo a chance came, when a team from Red China turned up among those of 14 nations to compete for the world speed skating championships.

Brahimi switched his allegiance to Algeria in 2013 and is set to feature for his adopted nation in Group H of the World Cup in the coming weeks.

Oct 2016 After the embarrassment of missing out on qualifying for the 2017 African Nations Cup finals, Nigeria go to Zambia for their opening game of their World Cup group and come away with an unexpected 2 - 1 win, courtesy of first half goals from Iwobi and Iheanacho.

I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?

Meanwhile Mourinho, speaking in his role as an ambassador for the United Nations» World Food Programme ahead of the Rugby World Cup, believes football can learn from rugby when it comes to young players.