CHAPTER 19

Genesis 8: “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

22 “While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”

I could do no better; yet it seemed GOD expected more that I should covenant with Noah and man to follow (which would include you and me). Noah, as Priest to God has God’s authority over his family and over all the animals.

God listens.

“Rule over every animal of the earth.” I said.

God nodded approval.

“Man may kill animals, but NO murder.”

(God nodded.) I seemed to be getting the idea.

ROGER! HAVE YOU NOTHING TO ADD?

“LORD,” I replied, YOU have already told them to ‘be fruitful and multiply on the earth.’”

I WILL TELL THEM ONCE MORE.

Genesis 9:7 And as for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Bring forth abundantly in the earth
And multiply in it.”

HAVE I NOT BLESSED NOAH’S SONS AND WIVES AND THE GENERATIONS IN THIS?

The LORD asked me.

I paused to consider God’s covenant with Noah and the few survivors for a cleansed creation.

I SWEAR MY PART OF THIS COVENANT:

Genesis 9:11 “Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

To be continued…

A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

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