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  • A Temporary Throne – 22

    A Temporary Throne – 22

     And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. – Genesis 6:5 KJV

    CHAPTER 22

    THE LORD confused the men who would make a name for themselves. Their babble was unintelligible to me (but I have never had understanding of other languages). When they confused the meaning of one another, they began to bicker and ultimately go their own ways. (Is it not also true of those of the same language?)

    Yet I saw that men traveled to the ends of earth to ‘make a name’ for themselves.

    God had remedied the result of the sin of the moment, but God could not cure the root of our original sin, that ‘the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth.’

    And I saw their names and their aspirations on the tops of buildings and stadiums and on images of man, carved into stone and erected for the glory of men and not the glory of GOD.

    The buildings gathered men to glorify men like Pharaoh and Caesar. Men gathered to worship idols and colossus of men great in their own eyes: men who are not GOD. Statue and structure, large and small, glorified man and beast and the desires of every imagination of man’s heart, which is only evil.

    Buildings grew and strengthened with the knowledge of men, from the dust and water baked in God’s sun to the sand and ore of the earth forged in the heat of man’s own desire – desire to glorify the evil workings of his own sin-forged heart, which is only evil.

    I saw names of men, and not GOD, men like: Washington, Eiffel, Rockefeller, Sears, Trump and many more. I saw buildings standing in pride to the glory of men I do not know; buildings for companies of men invested in speculation of empire of riches taken from men, the imagination of whose hearts is only evil.

    The Lord showed me rise and fall of empire and building: from ancient Babylon and Thebes; to beyond London, New York, Taipei, and Dubai. All built to the glory of mankind, by secretive men and women, whose desires of their hearts from youth are only evil.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 15

    A Temporary Throne – 15

    Previously:

    “Should the LORD plant the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?” I asked myself.
    I had never thought of the connection of my sins to this (really) or of any alternative.

    CHAPTER 15

    I knew that sin had its beginning from the very beginnings of man and there was nothing that I could do about it.

    The lies would begin. Satan’s influence would spread throughout God’s Creation and eventually draw in my own loved ones. (Of course I had been drawn into sin as well, except the Lord Himself came down and saved me.)

    Oh no!

    I just realized that had I NOT allowed the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil to be placed in the middle of the garden, Christ would not have had to die on the Cross!

    Did I mess up already?

    I DID NOT WANT YOU TO LOVE ME, UNLESS YOU WANTED TO BE CLOSE IN LOVE WITH ME.

    THOSE WHO CHOOSE MY LOVE TRULY LOVE ME, AS I TRULY LOVE YOU – FREELY.

    1 John 4:8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

    I LOVE this MAN!

    “Why do we disobey HIM?” I thought.

    GOOD AND EVIL ARE CLEAR CHOICES.

    “But because we do not have knowledge of everything,” I continued, “we sometimes choose evil.”

    YOU CHOOSE EVIL, BECAUSE THE FRUIT IS PLEASANT TO YOUR FLESH.

    “… AND I ignore your command and your will,” I thought.

    (But I knew the LORD knew my every thought.)  And I looked away in shame…

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

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  • A Temporary Throne – 14

    A Temporary Throne – 14

    CHAPTER 14

    Paradise? Eden? (Even before ‘adam?)

    Genesis 2:8 The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

     

    “Should the LORD plant the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?” I asked myself.

    I had never thought of the connection of my sins to this (really) or of any alternative.

    What if man never knew sin?

    (Of course God and I knew what Adam and Eve would do IF the LORD planted this tree.)

    What would I advise?

    Should the LORD GOD set this one tree in the midst of the garden – a tree to be used by the tempter, that serpent whose name is Satan?

    What IF the LORD did not give Satan this chance at original sin?

    “LORD,” I asked, “If you withhold temptation of man to know good and evil would it not be better for Your Kingdom on earth?

    Yet as I asked the LORD my foolish question, I knew the answer:

    THEN THE MAN IS NOT FREE TO LOVE ME.

    THE MAN WOULD SERVE ME BECAUSE HE MUST.

    I understood God’s dilemma: One tree; then One Command.

    Obedience to God’s Command is love given freely to God. Disobedience to God’s One Command would be putting our own will ahead the loving ALL-KNOWING will of God.

    I nodded, and THE LORD commanded the tree to grow. The tempting fruit of knowledge blossomed from its branches before my knowing eyes.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.