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  • A Temporary Throne – 18

    A Temporary Throne – 18

    CHAPTER 18

    JUDGE RIGHTLY, SON OF MAN:
    LET US MAKE OUR COVENANT.

    THE LORD had shown me HIS Creation from within Eden. I now observed scene of Paradise from HIS Cleansed Creation of the garden planet upon which we dwell. I had never so fully appreciated the glory of the Creation of this earthen speck of dust in the heavens, so full of the Lord’s life.

    Old Noah (who looked 600 years old) worshiped the LORD.

    I HAVE GIVEN MY MAN NOAH BUT ONE COMMAND.

    Genesis 8:15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
    16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

    17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

    Noah (as I had remembered from my Bible picture books) had led the animals “by twos, male and female;” but Noah had entered the ark with fourteen of each of the clean animals. (Genesis 7:2)

    Noah now sacrificed one of each of these of the fourteen clean animals. (Genesis 8:20) This was the sacrifice to which GOD came once more down to Noah.

    Because of Adam’s disobedience, GOD had cursed the ground now cleansed. What is God’s redemption for this new ‘adam of a cleansed Creation?

    Noah will not have hedged-in garden, but dominion through God over all the earth.

    What covenant could hold back the evil yet to come?

    What agreement would I want with God’s new ‘adam?

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 17

    A Temporary Throne – 17

    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,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 16

    A Temporary Throne – 16

    CHAPTER 16

    SINCE THE BEGINNING, I HAVE WANTED TO BE NEAR MEN OF FAITH.

    I thought about Adam, then having to survive outside of the exquisitely beautiful garden. And also I thought about Eve and their young children struggling just to keep alive.

    I remembered Noah, and I thought of the heart of the LOVING GOD in WHOSE PRESENCE I remained: How it must have hurt HIM to know that only one man of faith remained among all of the men and woman on the earth.

    CREATION WAS GOOD.

    Would God ask me what to do? Must I again judge the fate of mankind?

    Genesis 6: 5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

     

    I HAD GRACE FOR NOAH, BECAUSE HE ALONE HAD FAITH FOR OBEDIENCE TO MY WILL.

    ROGER, IF I ASKED YOU TO BUILD AN ARK FIVE STORIES HIGH, LONGER THAN A FOOTBALL STADIUM, AND WITH THE STORAGE AREA OF 569 RAILROAD CARS, WOULD YOU DO IT?

    I pictured myself swimming for my life in a storm.

    WHERE DO I FIND A MAN WITH FAITH LIKE THAT, NOW?

    “Lord, I need more grace than Noah. Many men have much more faith than me, Lord.”

    (Was I trying to encourage THE LORD GOD, I asked myself?)

    I do love HIM.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.