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  • A Temporary Throne – 1

    A Temporary Throne – 1

    CHAPTER 1

    I DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN.
    I can’t really say how it happened, but I found myself in Heaven at the THRONE OF GOD.

    It wasn’t at all what I expected. In fact, (if thought or dream could even be spoken of as a fact of reality), I was certain that I had been called to the THRONE OF GOD for a reason NOT related to a Judgment of my life. For that, I was thankful.

    I had fallen to my face before GOD, clinging to the ground (or whatever it was), as though I were dead. In fact, (again, if the retold image of thought or dream can even be spoken), I lay on the ground dead – just like a corpse in a casket – except face DOWN.

    I WAS DEAD… or had been… but here I lay at the foot of the THRONE OF GOD. And before the THRONE, I knew that I was ALIVE – here on the ground (or clouds, or whatever it was).

    I lay there awaiting the VOICE OF GOD; for I was certain that I had been summoned to appear before the THRONE. I had no thought when GOD might speak; but as I lay there like a corpse not yet raised to life again, I listened.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

     

  • A Temporary Throne – Forward

    A Temporary Throne – Forward

    A Temporary Throne is a fictional exploration of the Book of Genesis with this question in mind:

    What would I do IF I were God?

    (Of course, I am not; but what would I do?)

    It is staged as a serial cliff-hanger-type story, as if we do not know what is coming next (in Genesis). Call it: a peculiar dream where suddenly we wake up just when you get to the good part. You can’t wait to go back to sleep to continue in the compelling stories of the lives of these characters we love: Adam, Abram, Moses and all the rest of them.

    One inspiration for these conversations with God is Job. Some of the appeal of Job to me is his boldness to stand before his friends and even before God Almighty to discuss what is morally right and what is truly evil.

    As I re-read Genesis and examined the issues of justice and mercy it seemed to me that at times God showed little of the love we know so well in Christ Jesus. God seems to have much less mercy for some of the main characters of Biblical history than we might expect from our familiar New Testament eyes of Jesus.

    This, of course, begs the question:

    What could God have done differently? (After all, God is all-knowing.) Wasn’t there a more merciful way for God to deal with these men and women?

     

    For this exclusive posting to http://talkofJesus.com we will follow the story-line one chapter per day on Monday through Friday each week.

    (Previous chapters will remain available in case you miss an episode.) All chapters are short; some are very brief.

    May I suggest that you take a few minutes to include them with your daily devotional time and follow-up with the appropriate scriptures of non-fiction from Genesis in your Bible.

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned, © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • Redeemer

    Redeemer

    How much, O Lord, must I suffer from the

    coldness of hardened hearts, the

    darkness of this world of sin, and the

    hatred of those I love?

     

    O Lord, our Redeemer, our days are short and our

    witness of Your Kingdom falls on deaf ears of

    unrepentant souls.

     

    Why does the one who

    claims your Name

    cry out for a Redeemer, while turning back to the

    slavery of our sin?

     

    Save us from our own unbelief,

    Lord Jesus,

    Redeemer of our souls.

     

    For I know that my Redeemer lives,
    and at the last he will stand upon the earth.

    Job 19:25