Our nuclear weapons could destroy every living
thing upon the earth.
(E.g., Theognis, 425 - 428: «Best of all for
all things upon earth is it not to be born nor to behold the splendors of the Sun; next best to traverse as soon as possible the gates of Hades.»
Not exact matches
«Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping
thing, that goeth
upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal
upon the
earth; (including) the locust... the beetle... and the grasshopper after his kind» (Leviticus 11:21,22).
As I sat alone in a room wondering f I was living my last day on
earth — the
things that went through my head were exactly what this author touched
upon in her article and that I had felt during my illness in my younger days.
If they're religious they're praying they won't die and the LAST
thing on their mind is wasting their last moments on
earth discussing something they've never personally seen, only read books about or heard lectures
upon.
GEN 1:25 And God made the beast of the
earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every
thing that creepeth
upon the
earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Lev 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping
thing that goeth
upon [all] four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal
upon the
earth; Lev 11:22 [Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
GEN 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth
upon the
earth.
And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all
things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine
upon the
earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.
It expands
upon what this means: the Father (compassion, love, concern, care); Almighty (the Ultimate, all - powerful, over all, in all, through all
things, the Supreme); creator of heaven and
earth (the source, the infinite unfathomable ground zero).
«And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters
upon the
earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every
thing that is in the
earth shall die.»
St. John Cassian advises, «Before the time of prayer we must put ourselves in the state of mind we would wish to have in us when we actually pray... The Soul will rise to the heights of heaven or plunge into the
things of
earth depending
upon where it lingered before the time of prayer.»
And God made the beast of the
earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every
thing that creepeth
upon the
earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
7:21 And all flesh died that moved
upon the
earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping
thing that creepeth
upon the
earth, and every man: 7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
For this will is the eternal order that governs all
things, that brings you into union with the dead, and with the men whom you never see, with foreign people whose language and customs you do not know, with all men
upon the whole
earth, who are related to each other by blood and eternally related to the Divine by eternity's task of willing only one
thing.
As for what Jesus taught, he said some pretty disturbing
things about God's wrath
upon the
earth, and then in his ascended state, he told John the graphic horrific violence that would come at the end of days.
Men's hearts will fail them for the fear of
things coming
upon the
earth, people who have been provoking on the day of the Lord, will seek to die, and death will flee from them in that day.
In documenting the first indictment authors often cite Genesis 1:26: «Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over every creeping
thing that creeps
upon the
earth.»
7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished
upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known3 to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all
things in him,
things in heaven and
things on
earth.
They've been deceived and lied to that they are going to escape the great tribulation and sufferings... these
things will come
upon the
earth — we can see it happening now.
Some also quote Genesis 1:29: «Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the
earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living
thing that moves
upon the
earth.»
My sins seemed to be laid open; so that I thought that every one I saw knew them, and sometimes I was almost ready to acknowledge many
things, which I thought they knew: yea sometimes it seemed to me as if every one was pointing me out as the most guilty wretch
upon earth.
Remember that we all came from the same place, we are here now sharing this
Earth, and we will go back to where we came from very soon... So lets spend our time wisely... We must use the gift given to us and choose to think for ourselves, by not allowing the past or others to dictate how we should live our lives... lets practice recognizing ourselves in each other... It may not always be easy... but each new day we can choose it... and that choice has an intrinsic value,
upon which great
things will be borne...
Yet of two
things the Christian can be confident: that the way of brotherhood and mutual understanding is God's way, which if followed leads to justice, security, and peace; and that if man does end his collective life
upon earth, God will still reign in his eternal Kingdom.
By terrible
things thou wilt answer us in righteousness O God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the
earth and of them that are afar off
upon the sea: Who by his strength setteth fast the mountains, being girded about with might; Who stilleth the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves and the tumult of the peoples.
In the Book of Mormon (1 Nephi iii, 40) it is asserted that «many plain and precious parts» have been removed from the Bible; and again in a revelation of Joseph Smith given June, 1830, God, speaking to Moses, declares, «I will speak unto you concerning this
earth upon which thou standest and thou shalt write the
things which I shall speak and in a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold I will raise up another like unto thee, and they shall be had again among the children of men, among even as many as shall believe.
If my hypothesis is true, isn't saying «God willed your children to die in a burning car while you watched» the same
thing as saying, «God sent a flood
upon the
earth so that everything which had breath died a horrible death by drowning»?
According to what he calls the «first degree of humility,» which is the lowest degree necessary to attain salvation, it is incumbent
upon the Christian «to obey the law of God our Lord in all
things, so that not even were I made lord of all creation, or to save my life here on
earth, would I consent to violate a commandment, whether divine or human, that binds me under pain of mortal sin» (Spiritual Exercises # 165).
Reflecting, even briefly, on the state of affairs which might evoke this universal love in the human heart, a love so often vainly dreamed of, but which now leaves the fields of Utopia to reveal itself as both possible and necessary, we are brought to the following conclusion: that for men
upon earth, all the
earth, to learn to love one another, it is not enough that they should know themselves to be members of one and the same
thing; in «planetizing» themselves they must acquire the consciousness, without losing themselves, of becoming one and the same person.
He also warned: And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and
upon the
earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those
things which are coming on the
earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Is it not conceivable that Mankind, at the end of its totalization, its folding - in
upon itself, may reach a critical level of maturity where, leaving
Earth and stars to lapse slowly back into the dwindling mass of primordial energy, it will detach itself from this planet and join the one true, irreversible essence of
things, the Omega point?
With the germ of consciousness hatched
upon its surface, the
Earth, our perishable earth that contemplates the final, absolute zero, has brought into the Universe a demand, henceforth irrepressible, not only that all things shall not die, but that what is best in the world, that which has become most complex, most highly centrated, shall be s
Earth, our perishable
earth that contemplates the final, absolute zero, has brought into the Universe a demand, henceforth irrepressible, not only that all things shall not die, but that what is best in the world, that which has become most complex, most highly centrated, shall be s
earth that contemplates the final, absolute zero, has brought into the Universe a demand, henceforth irrepressible, not only that all
things shall not die, but that what is best in the world, that which has become most complex, most highly centrated, shall be saved.
That is what I propose to discuss here: not from the viewpoint of Sirius, as the saying is — that is to say, with the lofty detachment of an observer seeing
things from so far off that they fail to touch him — but with the anxious intensity of a son of
Earth who draws back in order to be able to see more deeply into the matter and spirit of a movement
upon which his happiness depends.
The second
thing God did was that when the flood waters came
upon the
earth, He sought to rescue, redeem, and deliver as many people from the flood as He would come.
And when the flood actually does come
upon the
earth, the text pretty clearly states that God destroyed all living
things that were on the
earth (Genesis 7:23).
19 Every beast, every creeping
thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth
upon the
earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
It is a breath - taking perspective of which the fuller sense is of Mary, as «The Woman clothed with the sun», the fullness of grace, Mediatrix indeed of all graces, whose womb is the vessel of life, offered to God «to come
upon thee» for the crowning of the
Earth and mankind with the Universal King, Heir of the Age all
things visible and invisible.
The flood came
upon the
earth, but God worked to rescue people from it, and when it was over, He promised that such a
thing would never happened again (Isaiah 54:9).
Like several recent books in the same vein (Thomas Eisner's For Love of Insects and Piotr Nasrecki's The Smaller Majority, for example), Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth explicitly sets out to change the way in which people see and think about all manner of creeping
things that creepeth
upon the
earth, as Leviticus puts it, and some that fly, too.
If there is one
thing we learn from Isaiah 54 about the flood, it is that although it appears as if God sent the flood as punishment, it actually came as a result of humanities departure from the protective hand of God, and because the destroyer had set out to bring destruction
upon the people of the
earth as the just consequence for their great sin.
O Lord Chief of the gods Who alone art exalted on
earth and in Heaven,... O Merciful Gracious Father in Whose hands rests the life of the whole world, O Lord, Thy divinity is full of awe, like the far - off Heaven and the broad ocean O Creator of the land... begetter of gods and men who dost build dwellings and establish offerings... O mighty Leader whose deep inner being no god understands... O Father, begetter of all
things, who lookest
upon all living
things... Who is exalted in Heaven?
Thus she went away wholly delivered from the heavy burthen of the cares and good
things of this world, and found her soul so satisfied that she no longer wished for anything
upon earth, resting entirely
upon God, with this only fear lest she should be discovered and be obliged to return home; for she felt already more content in this poverty than she had done for all her life in all the delights of the world.»
Luther was correct when he challenged the Medieval Catholic Scholastics over their teaching that * sin * was man turned down toward the
things of
earth rather than up towards the
things of heaven by teaching that * sin * was actually man turned in
upon himself or, as modern mental health professions state «narcissistic egoism, a disorder that closes us off from others rather than opening us up to them.
Even where these virtues of the One who alone is the only perfect atonement are wistfully alluded to in Kiefer's work, his constantly interjected reminder that all
things are completely subject to the same corruption that Hitler brought
upon German culture so overwhelms his visual field that nothing remains except scorched -
earth, dead gods and the shattered ruins of the Third Reich.
«And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let THEM have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth
upon the
earth.»
26Then God [Elohim] said, «Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping
thing that creeps
upon the
earth.»
God commands us to «be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the
earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over... every living
thing that moveth
upon the
earth.»
NewYorkGal12, Also... «And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the
earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living
thing that moveth
upon the
earth.»
Beautiful
Things, released in 2010, received rave reviews and their latest album, Ghosts
Upon the
Earth has just been released by Brash Music.
The peasants who have now banded together in Swabia have formulated their intolerable grievances against the rulers in twelve articles, and have undertaken to support them with certain passages of Scripture... the
thing that pleases me most... is that they offer to accept instructions... Since I have a reputation for being one of those who deal with the Holy Scriptures here on
earth, and especially as one whom they mention and call
upon by name in the second document, I have all the more courage and confidence in openly publishing my instruction.