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A Temporary Throne is a Christian fiction serial story asking questions about salvation and GodA serial fiction of a visit to heaven. What if you could sit on the throne of God? What would you do different from what the Bible tells us God did?

  • Cliff Hanger

    Cliff Hanger

    throne of heaven We interrupt this serial presentation of A Temporary Throne for this important message from our author.

    (Don’t you hate that?) 🙂

    Sorry. IF you have been following my Christian serial fiction story based on Genesis – as a busy author I have to set this story aside for a while to devote increased time to my upcoming book.

    A Temporary Throne was written in part in 2013, but lately written, edited and posted in 2014. (It is not finished and I am not certain if anyone is even reading it.)

    Action for the reader

    If you would like to read A Temporary Throne from the Prologue, click here.

    Any episode to date may be viewed in one of three ways:

    1. Click on episode on list of ‘What’s new?’ recent posts to the right.
    2. Search for a specific episode in the Search area on the home page  (i.e. “Throne 28”).
    3. Move your cursor over “Roger Harned – Writing” then click on “A Temporary Throne” and all posted episodes will appear (7 per page – pages below list) in reverse order (most recent first).

    Although A Temporary Throne is fiction, it is based on non-fiction. If you have not read the Book of Genesis from your Bible lately, you will appreciate the context of my story better if you do. I do plan, God willing, to finish the story from where I left off. You will gain a better appreciation for the next episodes by reading the story of Joseph in Genesis 39-50. The events of our cliff-hanger in Genesis 37 are just the introduction to the ending of Genesis.

    This is probably the most important step for my readers:

    Talk of Jesus – Christian Social Witness is my author website, into which I have invited others to participate as well. Publishers need authors with readers. I need readers to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ through our website.

    If you have not already, please REGISTER at the bottom of this site.

    One additional way you can help me:

    Please COMMENT below IF you are reading A Temporary Throne and encourage me by saying anything. (i.e. please continue, can’t wait for the ending, I like the episode about…)

    If you comment below, A Temporary Throne will continue online sooner.

    I will continue to post various other writing intermittently. Your comments help me to know that my time dedicated to the Lord through http://talkofJesus.com is part of your Christian Social Witness to others for our Lord and not seeds scattered where the Word will not grow into the fruit of life.

    Thank you for your comments & registering.

    Roger Harned, author, site administrator and servant of our Lord Christ Jesus.

     

  • A Temporary Throne – 48

    A Temporary Throne – 48

    CHAPTER 48

    As I lay in the darkness of this unknown place I cried out, “LORD! Jesus, Lord save me!”

    What is this place? I thought again. Is it a grave? A pit? Hell, even? (No, it cannot be hell, I thought.) But how horrid the earthy place to which I was not accustomed and could not discern. I cried out-loud once more:

    LORD, save me!

    Finally, Light penetrated the deep darkness and fear of this place and washed over my unfamiliar surroundings with comfort, hope and a tangible love – yes, love was what I now felt surround me – love, not death.

    “Lord,” I exclaimed in relieve joy, “thank you.”

    We were definitely not in Heaven. We were in a place on the earth; but it was okay, the LORD was with me.

    “Lord, what has happened?”

    I waited for the LORD to answer. I had peace in this place where moments ago I trembled in overwhelming fear. I was in the presence of the Lord once more, surrounded by His abundant love and I waited for what the LORD would have me do.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,
    © Copyright 2014, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 47

    A Temporary Throne – 47

    CHAPTER 47

    I awoke suddenly (or so I thought).

    I looked all around me in disoriented confusion as I sat up in bed. I was not in the Temporary Throne or in Heaven. No sign of Joseph and his brothers, either.

    No longer was I in the presence of the LORD. I felt an imposing anxiousness of fear rolling over the place where I lay. (It was not my room.) I began to quiver with fear, and then shake with coldness as if I lay in the middle of a night-mare and could not wake up. I wanted to cry out to God, but could not.

    I closed my eyes (for I could not see anyway) and I began to listen to my most unfamiliar surroundings.

    Was I in a cave? An unfamiliar house? A grave? (“Lord, please don’t let this be a casket,” I thought with great fear.)

    Fear! I had been in great awe in the presence of the LORD; but never in fear. (The dream must be over; but what is this horrible nightmare?)

    I heard from a great distance a muffled sound of wailing voices – crying and crying out, shouting in anguish and seemingly loud whispers of the weakest of pleas. What was this? Where was I?

    I could smell something, too – an unfamiliar far-off stench, a choking reminder of the most unpleasant things from stagnant seashore and pungent pollution from the mills from when I once held my breath until I drove by… What was it?

    A chilling memory of black and white photos came to mind as I thought of opening a steel garbage can not knowing what to see and smell inside.

    It was Auschwitz! It was carcass upon carcass.

    I screamed at the sight and sound and smell of death. I did not wake up.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,
    © Copyright 2014, All Rights Reserved by the author.