Sentences with phrase «present heavens and earth»

«But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

7By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

2Pe 3:7 But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Not exact matches

Space is Empty: In ancient times it was variously believed that the earth sat on a large animal or a giant, or even that a mythical Atlas supported the pillars that held heaven and earth apart, and / or carried the earth around on his shoulders (Where he stood while doing so presents an interesting conundrum).

To be present among [the least of these] is to encounter what the Celtic saints called «thin spaces,» places or moments in time in which the veil separating heaven and earth, the spiritual and the material, becomes almost transparent.

If I think that I can not reach others except by participating in their revolt, their anger and hatred; if I think that Christ's consolation is a deluding lie and reconciliation a hypocrisy, then I no longer believe that the coming kingdom is truly present (but it is a kingdom of heaven, not of earth), and I no longer believe in the Resurrection.

They still look expectantly to the bodily return of Jesus descending from the heavens, the battle of Armageddon in the Middle East and the replacement of this present world with a «new heaven and a new earth».

Science and technology are natural allies to this Judeo - Western optimism, especially if we remain open to an eschatological frame in which God works through us in building the kingdom of heaven today, here on Earth — in which the kingdom of heaven is both a future reality and something partially achieved in the present.

Christ intends to present you — holy, spotless, and blameless — in God's presence, if you remain firm in the faith, rooted and grounded in him, unswerving from the hope of the good news you have heard, the good news declared not only to men and women on earth, but to all created beings under heaven.

Before there were deeps and their fountains, before the mountains were sunk into their places, before the earth and its fields existed, wisdom was present to assist in fixing the heavens and in tracing the great circle of the farthest horizon,... Wisdom was to Yahweh an intimate friend, as well as agent and overseer in all this work, finding delight in the creation of all things...

Its principal features are: a three - storied universe consisting of heaven, earth, and underworld; the intervention of natural and supernatural powers in human life; the dominion of evil spirits and Satan over that life and also over the external realm of nature; the imminent end in time of this present world - æon.

From the imagery of incense and candles, to the organization of the Mass, it's all about bringing heaven to earth in that one moment in which the body and blood of Christ is actually present, as we believe in the Catholic faith.

At the moment of Jesus» baptism, past, present and future, earth and heaven, are drawn very close together.

The lectionary is rich this time of year, and as I get back to blogging through the Scripture readings each week, our focus will be on paying attention to the witness of the prophets, connecting them to the Christmas story and to our present longing for God's will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Moreover, after this realistic and active stay in the nether world, Jesus» return to life on earth and, by ascension, to life in heaven, was presented in bodily terms and was picturesquely set in the framework of the three - storied Jewish cosmos.

A pure theocracy, such as the prophets had envisioned and foretold, a state of affairs contemplated by Jesus himself and described in his prayer: «Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven» — this was to take the place of «the present evil age.»

Though we read of «a new heaven and a new earth,» for Swaggart this does not mean the present earth will be done away with.

The boundaries of heaven and earth seemed to shift that afternoon, so that they no longer corresponded to birth and death; it felt possible to reach into the skies and tug heaven into the present.

For example, the ever - present triangle represents the Egyptian pyramid, the African temple / cathedral, the ancient trinities (birth - life - death, life - death - rebirth, father - mother - child, heaven - earth - underworld) and the Holy Trinity, as well as physical stability.