Talk of JESUS . com

Category: Roger Harned – Writing

This category includes some of Roger’s non-expositional writing including biographical, fiction and other posts.

Roger looks forward to your reactions to his writing when you comment (privately, until moderated) on each of his posts.

talkofJesus.com is a place to SHARE & COMMENT in a community of Christian Social Witness.

Roger’s witness includes brief & extended expositions of scripture. Posts include links to sources for further authoritative research on the Bible.

Roger Harned is an author, writer, and blogger who happens to host this site.

  • A Temporary Throne – 34

    A Temporary Throne – 34

     CHAPTER 34

    THE LORD then, in an instant, once more brought me into the camp of Jacob without returning to THE THRONE. (2 Peter 3:8)

    ROGER, I WANT TO SHOW YOU BENJAMIN.

    And though THE LORD had brought me to the banks of the Jordan at Jabbok, THE LORD opened my ears to prayers pouring forth from THE THRONE of Heaven, as I looked on the tents of a pregnant woman.

    Jeremiah 20: 14 Cursed be the day in which I was born!
    Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!
    15 Let the man be cursed who brought news to my father, saying, “A male child has been born to you!”
    …Let him hear the cry in the morning… 17 Because he did not kill me from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave. And her womb always enlarged with me. 18 Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow…consumed with shame?
    “Lord, I do not understand.”

    And as we dwelt with her in another place, I heard a crying out:

    “Ben O Ni, Ben O Ni!”

    And THE LORD emerged from the place where HE had embraced her.

     

    ‘SON OF MY SORROW,’ IS WHAT SHE CALLED OUT,

    said THE LORD.

    TO HER HUSBAND WHO LOVED HER, I GAVE ANOTHER NAME FOR MY CHILD. IT MEANS:

    ‘SON OF MY RIGHT HAND.’

     

    Matthew 2: 18 “A voice was heard in Ramah,
    Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning,
    Rachel weeping for her children,
    Refusing to be comforted,
    Because they are no more.”

    “Dear Rachel,” I cried out (for I was on earth).

    I had heard her cry from a hill of Benjamin, at the moment Benjamin was born from her womb – a place of a little town of Bethlehem.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 33

    A Temporary Throne – 33

     CHAPTER 33

    Genesis 32 9 Then Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you’: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies… 11 Deliver me, I pray… and the mother with the children. 12 For You said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”

     

    COME, ROGER. WE WILL ANSWER JACOB’S PRAYER.
    REFEREE RIGHTLY BETWEEN ME AND JACOB.

    Once more, at God’s Command (again, in answer to prayer), we descended from THE THRONE to an isolated place on the earth.

    It was night. As Jacob slept, THE LORD fell on him and having the advantage of surprise, prevailed, as Jacob grabbed at HIM and kept HIM near, then gained an upper hand.

    When THE LORD was at disadvantage to Jacob, THE LORD did not let Jacob loose, either, and continued the struggle.

    Genesis 32: 25 Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. 26 And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.”
    But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!”
    27 So He said to him, “What is your name?”
    He said, “Jacob.”

    THE LORD and Jacob looked to me: I judged a draw.

    THE LORD and Jacob loosed each other and THE LORD blessed Jacob.

    28 And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 32

    A Temporary Throne – 32

    Covenant – divine ordinance with signs or pledges

    CHAPTER 32

     Genesis 31:3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”

    24 But God had come to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, “Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.”

    43 And Laban answered and said to Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and this flock is my flock; all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?

    44 Now therefore, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me.”

    “I see the holiness of this covenant with You, LORD; and the solemn promise between a father, who gave away two daughters and his son-in-law who served and waited seven years for each (if I may say before the Law that Jacob is Son-in-Law to Laban).”

    48 And Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore its name was called Galeed, 49 also Mizpah, because he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent one from another. 50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us—see, God is witness between you and me!”

     

    A BOND OF FAMILY IS FORMED BY THE MAN AND THE WOMAN JOINED AS ONE.

    BY MY VOW I WILL NOT BREAK THIS BOND OF MARRIAGE AND WITNESS TO ME. I AM THE LORD.

     

    Mark 10: 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh’;  so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.