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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?

  • A Temporary Throne – 25

    A Temporary Throne – 25

    CHAPTER 25

    The LORD had given me great latitude from the THRONE of Heaven to make a choice other than HIS ALL-KNOWING blessings (and HIS ALL-KNOWING curses).

    But how was I to understand HIS UNDERSTANDING of marriage, for which THE LORD had brought me to the very THRONE of Heaven? … (I thought, before proceeding in thought or word…)

    Genesis 2: 18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone…

    My other thoughts, fully revealed to THE LIVING GOD; but freely shared and received, as in conversation of two friends…

    “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh…”
    … and they shall become one flesh.

     

    I KNOW, ROGER, THIS IS YOUR HEART,

    comforted my FRIEND.

    I HAVE SHOWN YOU THE FATHER OF ALL FLESH AND THE MOTHER OF ALL DESIRE.

    I HAVE SHOWN YOU THE EXAMPLE OF NOAH AND THE SINS OF ALL KINDS AND THE NAKEDNESS OF MAN BEFORE ME, EVIL FROM THEIR HEARTS FROM THEIR VERY YOUTH.

    YOU HAVE SEEN THE SIN OF CANAAN UPON MY SERVANT NOAH.

    SHALL I REVEAL ALL THE SIN OF SODOM TO YOU?

    “LORD, no, Lord, if YOU please.

    I know that YOU hate and punish the sin, while you would call the sinner, if they would hear, to repentance rather than destruction.

    Lord I know that these who I love as well, choose love of their flesh over YOU.”

    Malachi 3: 6 “For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.
    7 Yet from the days of your fathers you have gone away from My ordinances and have not kept them.

    Return to Me, and I will return to you,” Says the Lord of hosts.

     

    To be continued …

    Personal note: Today is the Seventh wedding anniversary of the marriage vows of my Blessing and me, our covenant made in the Name of God taken on 7/7/2007.
    Please pray for us and for all marriages between a Christian man and a Christian woman, blessed in our vows and love for each other and for our Lord, Christ Jesus.

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 24

    A Temporary Throne – 24

    CHAPTER 24

    And I thought more. Could the LORD not choose more than one people? (Perhaps a family on every continent…) Then I remembered: even in Noah’s descendants, sin remained … and more-so in the family of Ham and Canaan, whom God had already cursed.

    Perhaps if God could model His Righteousness through the descendants of Shem (for now), and then through the descendants of Japheth, later: I thought…

    Then I remembered that along with the curse of Canaan and the blessing of Shem (of the line of the fathers of Abram), Noah’s additional blessing of Japheth.

    Genesis 9: 27 May God enlarge Japheth,
    And may he dwell in the tents of Shem;
    And may Canaan be his servant.”

    THESE YOU CALL, ‘GENTILES,’ WHO RECEIVED MY BLESSING THROUGH THE JEWS BORN OF THE SEED OF SHEM.

    God’s omniscience (now evident to me), limiting the sin of the limited knowledge of mankind. I could not bless a man more sinful than Abraham; who like all fathers of faith demonstrated (along with their faith), sin enough.

    (Perhaps even like Abram, I would have allowed the blessing of my wife from God to go to a man of more wealth and power even to save my own neck. But the Lord returned Sarah from Pharaoh to Abraham.)

    I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE THINKING.

    “Yes, Lord, You know. I am grieved over the covenant of marriage.”

    MAN, IN HIS AND HER OWN KNOWLEDGE, HAS NOT CHOSEN WISELY.

    (I knew that by “man,” the Lord meant ‘man from dust and woman from man’ – ALL mankind.)

    “Lord, you know our hearts. Can you not change this?”

     

     

     To be continued next week: Marriage from the beginning

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 23

    A Temporary Throne – 23

    CHAPTER 23

    ALL THESE HAVE STRAYED FROM MY RIGHTEOUSNESS. ALL WILL BOW DOWN IN THE DAY I TEAR DOWN ALL. I AM THE LORD.

    I MAKE MY COVENANT WITH WHOM I WILL CHOOSE. I COULD BLESS MAN IN CHINA, IN BRAZIL, IN MOZAMBIQUE. I WILL BLESS WHOM I WILL BLESS AND I WILL CURSE WHOM I WILL CURSE. I AM THE LORD.

    SEE MY SERVANT ABRAHAM, WHOM I FIRST BLESSED ABOVE ALL PEOPLES. I AM THE LORD.

    And by the Command of the LORD, the covering over the earth was once more removed.

    Genesis 12: Now the Lord had said to Abram:
    “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you…”

    ROGER, IS THIS NOT WHAT I HAVE ALREADY COMMANDED?

    “Lord, I know the land you have shown Abram and I know your covenants.”

    SHOW ABRAM WHERE YOU WILL. CHOOSE ANY MAN WITH WHOM I MAY MAKE MY COVENANT.

    I could give Abram Greece, Italy, even North America… or maybe just Canada (nobody would fuss much over that). But where would I find a man with faith like Abram?

    And the Lord showed me there was not a man on the earth of more faith than Abram.

    When the Lord allowed me to look into the heart of Abram personally, he had the heart of a trader and a negotiator. (It would not be right to isolate a man like this in a place like Canada.)

    And to the Lord, I said: ”Lord, You know.”

    3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

     

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.