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2 unusual facts about covenant


Abd al-Hosayn Ayati

He obtained the title of "Raʾīs-al-moballeḡīn" (chief of missionaries) but later he became one of the opponents of the Baha'i Faith and considered an Covenant-breaker among Baha'is.

Mergers and acquisitions

Covenants, which restrict operation of the business between signing and closing.


Bob Cornuke

Cornuke travels to Axum, where today he believes the Ark is kept in absolute isolation at Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion by a man referred to as "The Guardian of the Ark of the Covenant".

Book of Zephaniah

Similarities might be expected to each of these works because the Deuteronomistic history covers an overlapping period of time and because the issues which are dealt with in the book of Zephaniah go straight to the heart of the covenant which is reaffirmed in the book of Deuteronomy before Israel enters into the Promised Land of Canaan.

Catholic Health Partners

These Catholic organizations co-sponsor CHP: the Sisters of Mercy, South Central Community; the Sisters of Mercy, Mid-Atlantic Community; the Sisters of Humility of Mary; and Covenant Health Systems.

Comparative linguistics

Some believers in Abrahamic religions try to derive their native languages from Classical Hebrew, as Herbert W. Armstrong, a proponent of British Israelism, who said that the word 'British' comes from Hebrew brit meaning 'covenant' and ish meaning 'man', supposedly proving that the British people are the 'covenant people' of God.

Covenant theology

Meredith G. Kline did pioneering work in the field of Biblical studies, in the 1960s and 1970s, building on prior work by George E. Mendenhall, by identifying the form of the covenant with the common SuzerainVassal treaties of the Ancient Near East in the 2nd millennium BC.

Cumberland Presbytery

History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988, by Matthew H. Gore, Joint Heritage Committee of Covenant and Cumberland Presbyteries.

Damian Darklord

When Superpatriot went missing searching for his daughter, The Dragon and Mighty Man assaulted a Covenant of the Sword complex to rescue him.

David H. Stern

Stern's major work is the Complete Jewish Bible, his English translation of the Tanakh and New Testament (which he, like many Messianic Jews, refers to as the "B'rit Hadashah", from the Hebrew term ברית חדשה, often translated "new covenant", used in Jeremiah 31).

Dependent Records

Artists that have released music through Dependent Records include Velvet Acid Christ, Suicide Commando, VNV Nation, Covenant, Klinik, Seabound, Apoptygma Berzerk, Dismantled, Ivory Frequency, Pride & Fall, mind.in.a.box, Rotersand, Flesh Field, Fractured, Auto Aggression and Girls Under Glass.

Factions of Halo

The novel Halo: Contact Harvest reveals that the Covenant's luminaries, devices which search for Forerunner relics, discovered a massive cache of the relics on a human colony, Harvest.

Faith and Action

In August 1994, President Rev. Rob Schenck moved from Tonawanda (Buffalo area), New York where he served as Minister of Missions and Evangelism at the New Covenant Tabernacle to Washington D.C. to begin an outreach to policy makers.

Glossary of Christianity

New Testament (sometimes called the "new covenant") - translation of the Greek καινή διαθήκη.

Hansberry

Hansberry v. Lee, a U.S. Supreme Court decision that dealt with a racially restrictive covenant.

Helaman

LDS leader Richard J. Maynes cited this entire episode in a General Conference as containing good examples of covenant-keeping behavior.

Imparted righteousness

In fact, N. T. Wright says, Paul is speaking here of the apostles, and pointing out that in their role as apostles, their activity is effectively God's righteousness (covenant faithfulness) in action ("we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God" - vv 20-21).

John Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Balmerino

Along with John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun and John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes he revised the additions to the covenant in February 1638.

Maude Barlow

Bollywood film,Paani being directed by Shekhar Kapur is based on Blue Covenant: the global water crisis and the coming battle for the right.

New Covenant Ministries International

Around this time Coastlands International Christian Centre (Adelaide) functioned as an unofficial headquarters and regional base for Australasia, with Southlands Church International (Los Angeles) and New Covenant Church (Bryanston) as regional bases for North America and southern Africa respectively.

Niel Nielson

Since coming to Covenant, he has served on the boards of directors for Good News Publishers/Crossway Books, Allied Arts of Chattanooga, the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, and Covenant Transportation Group, Inc., where he currently functions as chairman of its compensation committee.

Nielson

Niel Nielson (contemporary), American academic; president of Covenant College, Georgia, USA

Nils Frykman

They remained in that city until 1889 when he was called to Salem Mission Covenant Church in Pennock, Minnesota.

Northern Mariana Islands Supreme Court

However, the Covenant provided that for 15 years following the creation of a commonwealth appellate court, appeals of that court's decisions would go to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, just as if the decision was rendered by the District Court.

Oliger Paulli

He justified his claim showing the name Paulleli as a combination of Greek Paulus and Hebrew Eli;thus, meaning God supplies the inadequacy.He also claimed that, at an age of 13, he made a blood covenant with God, who exchanged a yodh for the he in his baptismal name;thereafter, renaming his original name from Holiger to Oliger(Olliger), to connote

Paris Peace Conference, 1919

Instead it focused on two demands: the inclusion of their racial equality proposal in the League's Covenant and Japanese territorial claims with respect to former German colonies, namely Shantung (including Kiaochow) and the Pacific islands north of the Equator (the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, the Mariana Islands, and the Carolines).

Paul Janz

His son Chris Janz is a recording artist and GMA Canada Covenant Award winning songwriter and Covenant Award-nominated producer.

Psalm 2

#Yalkut (13th century), Section 621 On verse 7: R. Huna said in the name of R. Idi, In three parts were the punishments divided: one for King Messiah, and when His hour cometh the Holy One, blessed be He, saith, I must make a new covenant with Him, and so He saith, To-day have I begotten thee.

Rainbow flag

In religion, Noahidism use rainbow symbols as signs of their faith – the rainbow representing the covenant with God after the flood and the seven colours representing each of the Laws.

Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America

In response to the King's attempts to change the style of worship and form of government in the churches that had previously been agreed upon (covenanted) by the free assemblies and parliament, a number of ministers affirmed their adherence to those previous agreements by becoming signatories to the "National Covenant" of February 1638 at Greyfriars Kirk, in Edinburgh.

Robert de Brantingham

The action was a plea of covenant concerning Drewsteignton, Devon, for which de Brantingham and his fellow plaintiffs paid 100 marks, and in return were granted the manor of Drewsteignton.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro

While the archdiocese has many and varied traditional lay organizations, such as the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Women's League, Legion of Mary, Apostleship of Prayer, Cursillos de Cristiandad, and many others, it also has many lay groups and what they call now the covenant communities.

Sam Hammam

In 1990, before Wimbledon had moved out of their ground to groundshare at Selhurst Park with local rivals Crystal Palace, Hammam bought out a covenant held on the ground by the Council that required it to be retained for sporting use.

Stephan Groth

Along with Ronan Harris of VNV Nation and the members of Covenant, he is considered by many to be one of the pioneers of the futurepop genre of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Tafua

The Tafua Rainforest Preserve was established in 1990 as a covenant between the village chiefs (matai) and funds from Seacology, model Christie Brinkley and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency to protect native rainforests.

The Sign and the Seal

The Ethiopian Church, apparently fearful of losing the Ark to the Knights Templar, sent emissaries in 1306 to Pope Clement V; the Catholic Church's fear of the Knights Templar acquiring the power of the Ark of the Covenant, the book claims, is one of the reasons why Pope Clement V began prosecution and arrest of the Knights Templar in 1307.

Thomson's Translation

Charles Thomson's Translation of the Old Covenant is a direct translation of the Greek Septuagint version of the Old Testament into English, rare for its time.

Tikkun HaKlali

The Tikkun HaKlali is based on the idea of the Brit (Covenant) which God made with the Jewish people.

Tony Crunk

Crunk's 2010 New Covenant Bound is a collection of poems inspired by the displacement between 1935 and 1969 of some 20,000 inhabitants from the area between the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers in western Kentucky and Tennessee.

Tzadik

Joseph's resistance to Potiphar's wife represents his perfection of the "Sign of the Covenant".

United Covenant Churches of Christ

The United Covenant Churches of Christ or United Covenant Churches of Christ International is a Pentecostal Holiness denomination in the United States of America.

United States House of Representatives election in the Northern Mariana Islands, 2010

Joe Camacho (Cov), former Covenant Floor Leader in the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives

Urbain Grandier

and Astaroth, together with others, have today accepted the covenant pact

Vampire: The Requiem

The members of the Ordo believe that this discipline was created by the founder of the covenant, the infamous Dracula.

Wade Bradshaw

He has also served the Lord at the Francis Schaeffer Institute of Covenant Seminary in St. Louis and as pastor of the International Presbyterian Church in Liss, Hampshire, England.

Warner Sallman

The Head of Christ originated as a charcoal sketch entitled The Son of Man done in 1924 and sold to be the cover of the Covenant Companion, the denominational magazine for the Evangelical Covenant Church.

WestCom

In 1999 Stefan Herwig, A&R manager at Off Beat, left the company over differences in promotion, to join forces with Eskil Simonsson (Covenant), Johan Van Roy (Suicide Commando), Bryan Erickson (Velvet Acid Christ) and Ronan Harris (VNV Nation) to form a new label, dependent (which opened January 1999).

Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd

Parkside built houses on its own land in breach of a restrictive covenant with Wrotham Park Estate in Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire.

Yuan Taotu

In 656 BC, he accompanied Duke Huan of Qi on an expedition against the southern state of Cai and was present at the historic covenant of alliance between the various states of the Yellow River valley at Shaoling.


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