CHAPTER 17

 NOAH AND HIS REMNANT OF MANKIND I SAVED IN AN ARK.

I CLEANSED CREATION. I AM THE LORD.

MORE THAN A YEAR NOAH COULD NOT SET FOOT ON THE EARTH. THEN NOAH WORSHIPED ME. I AM THE LORD.

WITH A MAN I MADE MY COVENANT. NOAH MADE COVENANT WITH ME: I AM THE LORD.

“YOU created a new beginning for man,” I exclaimed then continued, “but sin remained.”

I could recall no words of Noah when he built the ark. Genesis does not record what undoubtedly was an ongoing conversation between God and Noah.

“I learned the sign of your covenant when we drew rainbows as children in church.”

I asked, “But, LORD, what was the covenant of Noah?”

I instantly recalled:

 Genesis 6: “…everything that is on the earth shall die. 18 But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark – “

And as the GLORY OF THE LORD subsided, I was able to look down, past the THRONE and below the endless void, punctuated with glimmers of lesser light.

I looked further past clouded swirls of stars and to a bright and beautiful garden of life in a lifeless sky. It was as what now man has seen from the eyes of man beyond the moon, looking back toward the blue and white earth.

Beneath a great opening between tumultuous rolling cumulus, I saw from behind the THRONE a GREAT LIGHT, bent and bowed down in every direction to the ends of the earth. And on bended knee before an altar of stone, I saw an old man… and only a few more men and women and animals.

To be continued…

A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

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