Pre-Islamic Arab pagans considered solar eclipses and other celestial occurrences as omens signaling the passing of an important figure or other earthly events.
He was sure John referred to earthly events, not abstractions.
The time, measured by earthly events, is the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
She sang (this particular morning) a mighty song, replete with clouds and boglands, barren hills and lush, summer and winter, weeping, dancing and every other sort of earthly event.
No town was ever more transformed than was this city by one earthly event.
Ever since "Candide" was published in February 1759, that line has seemed to express a reluctance to get involved, an almost quietist refusal to be distracted by the grand chaos of earthly events.
The upper and lower zones are brought together compositionally (e.g., by the standing figures, by their varied participation in the earthly and heavenly event, by the torches, cross etc.).
Magic involves the influence of earthly events by supernatural means.
The Christ's death was not an earthly event: "Before the ages he redeemed them with his blood.
The narrative of Xenu is part of Scientologist teachings about extraterrestrial civilizations and alien interventions in earthly events, collectively described as "space opera" by Hubbard.