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  • A Temporary Throne – 43

    A Temporary Throne – 43

    CHAPTER 43

    The LORD had shown me Cain and Abel. The LORD had also shown me in the family of Noah; the blessing of Shem over Japheth and Ham. Now the LORD had shown me Jacob and Esau. The LORD was showing me his will for brothers.

    I was reminded once more of what the LORD had advised Cain, before his sin:

    Genesis 4:7 If you do well, will you not be accepted?

    And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.

    All Noah’s sons and their wives and offspring had to do was to ‘do well’ by obeying God.

    I had often forgotten that Canaan was the son of Ham, only remembering Canaan as a place and not a man, grandson of Noah, cursed and not blessed by the LORD.

    I had forgotten that the places so contested by descendants of brothers were part of the blessings and curses of the LORD on ancestors of these contested lands so long ago.

    Though the people sometimes were forced to fear the LORD; Jacob, Abraham and Noah had willingly worshiped the LORD our God.

    Would the LORD not bless who he will bless and curse who he will curse?

    This is what the LORD had shown me. This is what the LORD had reminded me from scripture.

    He IS our Creator! He IS the LORD!

    His blessings continue through the generations, his double-portions to the sons and brothers of His choosing.

    Then the LORD would show me another brother, a very young man (barely beyond the years of a boy).

    I had thought and observed the natural competition of Cain and Abel. I read of Ishmael and Isaac. I observed Esau and Jacob. Now the LORD showed me a young man among ten older men – ALL brothers.

    His name was Joseph.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2014, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 42

    A Temporary Throne – 42

    CHAPTER 42

    Genesis 35: 13 Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.
    14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it. 15 So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

    I was with the LORD through the entire scene of days and the worship of Jacob Israel. I looked on in awe of this time and place. Bethel – a place of worship – a high heap of stones in a high place where God met once more with a mere mortal man.

    Then the LORD showed me a terrible passing scene of time in this place – a fast-forward of men and conflict and death and fear and famine and buildings and cities and walls and valleys and armies and devastation and more buildings and altars of idols and glowing of golden domes.

    The LORD showed me a terrible foreboding scene of fire and fronts of confronting armies a valley of smoke and death.

    Then the Light of the LORD lifted my troubled soul once more to the Throne of Heaven.  The LORD showed me once more a scene within the intricacy of a human body. I heard a steady pulse of three hearts: one loud, steady and strong; the other two pulses much quicker, yet faint in the newness of their struggling new lives.

    Then the LORD showed me within this womb: two tiny twin fetuses: full of life, with quick contentious hearts, beating rapidly within their formed living bodies, floating in the waters of life. I looked on in awe of a living scene only recently shown to man in the two dimensions of an ultra-sound image of a mother’s womb.

    The LORD then reminded me what this was all about:

    BROTHERS.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2014, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 40

    A Temporary Throne – 40

    CHAPTER 40

    Genesis 35:1 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

    The LORD then showed me a heap of stones that reminded me of the stone fireplace my grandfather had built with my father and uncle when they were boy scouts; however these stones were as tall as a man standing on the ground beside it.

    As I looked closer it looked like a small pyramid, but the loose pile of stones was not held together by anything other than the careful placement of each uncut stone by its shape.

    Inside the small stone pyramid was a place where a man could stand completely within the confines of the rising sides. In the center, next to a walk of smaller stones within the stone walls, smoke rose from a fire build lower in the center, fed by the wood placed near the man inside the wall, but away from the pit of fire (much like we had done at my grandfather’s fireplace).

    “What is this?” I asked the LORD.

    IT IS AN ALTAR.

    This altar of uncut stones had no resemblance to the pristine polished marble of our whitewashed sanctuaries glowing through the artificial light of crystal churches and cathedrals. It was rather an altar of sacrifice – a place of the blood of animals and the ashes of burnt offering.

    As I looked upon the man preparing the place with high reverence and low humility of his task before him, I pondered to consider the Blood of the Cross and without it, the grave of our hopelessness.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2014, All Rights Reserved by the author.