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  • A Temporary Throne – 19

    A Temporary Throne – 19

     CHAPTER 19

    Genesis 8: “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

    22 “While the earth remains,
    Seedtime and harvest,
    Cold and heat,
    Winter and summer,
    And day and night
    Shall not cease.”

    I could do no better; yet it seemed GOD expected more that I should covenant with Noah and man to follow (which would include you and me). Noah, as Priest to God has God’s authority over his family and over all the animals.

    God listens.

    “Rule over every animal of the earth.” I said.

    God nodded approval.

    “Man may kill animals, but NO murder.”

    (God nodded.) I seemed to be getting the idea.

    ROGER! HAVE YOU NOTHING TO ADD?

    “LORD,” I replied, YOU have already told them to ‘be fruitful and multiply on the earth.’”

    I WILL TELL THEM ONCE MORE.

     

    Genesis 9:7 And as for you, be fruitful and multiply;
    Bring forth abundantly in the earth
    And multiply in it.”

     

    HAVE I NOT BLESSED NOAH’S SONS AND WIVES AND THE GENERATIONS IN THIS?

    The LORD asked me.

    I paused to consider God’s covenant with Noah and the few survivors for a cleansed creation.

    I SWEAR MY PART OF THIS COVENANT:

    Genesis 9:11 “Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • 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.