Previously…

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.”

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

CHAPTER 20

God had once again given man a blessing. God had once again given man a command, Go into all the world (to rephrase from a later Word) … be fruitful and multiply… and whatever you do, DON’T kill each other.

Simple enough, Right? I had no better commands for Noah. Like in Eden, it was all dependent on obedience.

And as for Abel’s murder after Eden, God had also warned Cain about jealousy over blessing:

Genesis 4:7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.

All Noah’s sons and their wives and offspring had to do was to ‘do well’ by obeying the LORD God who had saved them.

As God reminded me of Genesis 9:11, the LORD showed me a building.

Genesis 11: “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

The people were NOT in many places, but crowded together into one city.

Disobedience! Just like in Eden. And furthermore, man in gathering together had set their hearts against God; for they had proclaimed:

Genesis 11:4 “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

We returned to THE THRONE of Heaven. It seemed I couldn’t command obedience from mankind; men and women wanting to ‘make a name for ourselves.’

 To be continued…

A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

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