Sentences with phrase «of city destruction»

Numerous scenes of city destruction are shown.

Nuclear weapons were more flashy and easier to deliver, but even in the optimal case for nukes of city destruction, conventional weapons were up to the job.

Not exact matches

And they dreaded the destruction that was yet to come from a storm that could linger for days and unload more than 40 inches (100 centimeters) of rain on cities, including dangerously flood - prone Houston, the nation's fourth - largest.

«If in every round there was extensive rocket fire at cities like Ashkelon, Ashdod and Beersheva, you can only assume that much loss of life and destruction property was prevented.

Isaiah 19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

In fact, it must have been before the destruction of the city and the temple by the Romans in A.D. 70, because the prophecy said quite explicitly: «After (the 483 years) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary» (Daniel 9:26).

The destruction of the voting assemblies of the eastern cities, which came about as a consequence of their inclusion in the empire, effectively left competition in the practice of benefactions as the only means by which the civic elites could compete for power in their localities; and success in this was dependent upon attaining the patronage of the man who sat at the top of the social pyramid.

While excavators spent Monday, April 30, tearing down the church, Communist Party officials insisted the destruction was because of city zoning, not religious persecution, reports The Telegraph.

But the Hebrews had a hard time worshiping in exile because they never got over the destruction of their holy city and temple in Zion.

In Pilgrim's Progress when Christian sets out on his pilgrimage he leaves his wife and children behind in the city of destruction because they will not come with him on his road to the celestial city.

More important is the incontestable truth that, in the Gospels, the destruction of the protagonist emphatically does not restore or affirm the order of city or cosmos.

For example, God promised Abraham that, if he could find a certain number of righteous men in Sodom, he was willing to defer the city's temporal destruction for the sake of the righteous (Gen. 18:16 - 33; cf. 1 Kgs.

The May 1984 National Geographic showed through color photos and drawings the swift and terrible destruction that wiped out the Roman Cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79.

So on the night of death and destruction, reconciliation triumphs in one corner of the city.

I don't want to take that so literally that we assume God will go around collecting swords and bending them, but this kind of passage does seem to indicate that our creations which we meant for destruction, God will transform somehow in the new city.

To follow him is to set foot on that blazed trail that leads to the city where the powers of destruction are lodged.

Sorry, but you can not select one proof text and ignore the entire content and context of the 38 verses of Genesis 19, and then pretend that there is no mention of homosexuality as the reason for God's destruction of Sodom and the four other cities of the plain.

The destruction of this city immediately precedes the final triumph of God (19:1 - 22:5), beginning with a thousand years» reign of Christ and his true followers (20:1 - 6), continuing with a brief rebellion by Satan (20:7 - 10), and concluding with the creation of a new heaven and earth and the descent of the new Jerusalem to be the bride of the Lamb.

Memo to God Dumpers: In light of Rev. 16:19, can you be sure you won't be in a city that God has already reserved for destruction?

In wartime the GNP soars; nothing is subtracted for the destruction of cities and infrastructure, much less for the loss of human life.

It can not be otherwise in a community that lives by the teaching of Vatican II: «Any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities or of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself.

Church History records that many had visions and dreams warning them of the coming destruction of Jerusalem and they fled the city and avoided the siege.

that all these issues — overcrowded cities, unusual and disturbing new weather patterns, the growth of global poverty, the lowering of wages while stock prices soar, the elimination of social services, the destruction of wildlife and wilderness, the protests of Maya Indians in Mexico — are products of the same global policies.

Niebuhr noted with approval Augustine's having pointed out that such national pride causes the destruction of every «city of this world.»

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

I've listed this several times, but apparently Atheists seem to want the clouds to open up for them for proof of God's existence, but prophecy fulfillment is excellent proof for the divine authorship of Scripture... I could talk about prophecies regarding Israel's captivity to Babylon, Cyrus called out by name hundreds of years before his birth as the one that will rescue Israel from Babylon, the destruction of Babylon foretold, the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple foretold, the destruction of Tyre and specifically how it was to be done, how the city of Petra would be destroyed... These are just a few verifyable examples...

On the surface, the films — and their fire - breathing, unrelenting force of destruction — are about a monster that devours cities.

This event and many others, such as the account of Sodom and Gomorrah, clearly teach that the Almighty God, creator of Heaven and Earth and the hosts thereof, whether things that visible or invisible, reacts to or punishes sin, sometimes violently so, and may result in the destruction of whole cities, as was the case for the above named cities [Then he said, «May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak once more.

The entire account pretty clearly seems to lay the direct action of the destruction of the cities in the hands of God.

Two New York City churches that survived the destruction of World Trade Centre have become the latest tourist sites to embrace post-9 / 11 security measures.

When Martin Luther King Jr., was murdered, the cities of America exploded in rage, fire and wanton destruction.

The strange legend of the destruction of the Cities of the Plain has its vital centre in Abraham's encounter with God.

Stoning of people, the destruction of cities, and the murder of entire tribes.

When Sodom was burned we now know a meteor exploded over Asia that caused the destruction of many cities over the world.

YOU WROTE: When Sodom was burned we now know a meteor exploded over Asia that caused the destruction of many cities over the world.

Isn't the whole point of the deaths and destruction of cities, tribes, and even the world at one point because people turned away from god and didn't worship him anymore?

Yesterday, we briefly looked at an alternative way of reading the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19 which showed that God did not destroy these cities, but worked to rescue and redeem people from the destruction that these cities had brought upon themselves.

It seems that according to Hosea 11:8, the destruction that came upon the four cities in the plain was not directly by the hand of God, but was because the people departed from the protective hand of God, and brought their destruction upon themselves.

This way of thinking about the destruction of the cities on the plain is seen elsewhere as well.

«If Sodom's sin had indeed been homosexuality,» writes Matthew, «it is highly unlikely that every written discussion of the city for centuries following its destruction would fail to mention that fact.»

During the Millennium the Holy City, New Jerusalem, will be suspended above the earth, muses Lindsey, and temporarily withdrawn during the destruction of the earth «In any case, the New J [for Jerusalem] will be the center of the universe» (There's a New World Coming, p. 272).

I do not know any moral theologian who denies the Pope's teaching, although it might be possible to imagine some moral dilemmas; for example, if one were ordered to kill an innocent hostage as the price of saving an entire city from destruction.

In this and later books he prophesied the imminence of the battle of Armageddon, which would start in a war between Israel and the Arab peoples and end with the destruction of all the major cities before the Advent of Christ and the coming of a new world.

70 the event which most impressed the Jewish people was not the sack of the city but the destruction of the temple by fire.

The reaction of Sodom's inhabitants to the angels did not «cause» the destruction of the city.

When Jerusalem was on the brink of destruction in 70 AD., some people did go about proclaiming visions of God's heavenly armies waiting to defeat the Romans besieging the city.

Chapters 30 - 31 constitute the most important collection of prophetic promises of restoration; 32 contains Jeremiah's emphatic confirmation of this promise in his purchase of land; 33 reiterates, in different form, the essential message of ultimate hope; 34 dates from Jerusalem's final siege which ended in the city's destruction in 587; 35 leaps back to the days of Jehoiakim and lauds the faithfulness of the Rechabites, a sect in Judah preserving the forms of wilderness existence; and 36 gives us the Old Testament's only description of the origin of a scroll, also in Jehoiakim's reign.

We need to get behind this team, and hope the balance of power that top between City, United and Chelsea lead to mutually assured destruction.

Couple that with Wenger's own under - management of players and tactical laziness / disrespect to opposition, and you have yesterday at Anfield, the 6 - 0 at Chelsea, the 5 - 1 at Anfield a few years ago, the 6 - 3 at Man City, the destruction TWICE by Bayern (who claimed we were easy to play against), the weak - willed defeats against anyone well organised like Watford or West Brom, etc..

The ability to destroy at most a few cities in US would in no way save the country and the regime - the nuclear retaliation would result in complete destruction, however it would make such scenario for every aggressor unprofitable - you have conquered an atomic desert, and lost a few millions of your taxpayers.