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  • A Temporary Throne – 20

    A Temporary Throne – 20

    Previously…

    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.”

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

    CHAPTER 20

    God had once again given man a blessing. God had once again given man a command, Go into all the world (to rephrase from a later Word) … be fruitful and multiply… and whatever you do, DON’T kill each other.

    Simple enough, Right? I had no better commands for Noah. Like in Eden, it was all dependent on obedience.

    And as for Abel’s murder after Eden, God had also warned Cain about jealousy over blessing:

    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 the LORD God who had saved them.

    As God reminded me of Genesis 9:11, the LORD showed me a building.

    Genesis 11: “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

    The people were NOT in many places, but crowded together into one city.

    Disobedience! Just like in Eden. And furthermore, man in gathering together had set their hearts against God; for they had proclaimed:

    Genesis 11:4 “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

    We returned to THE THRONE of Heaven. It seemed I couldn’t command obedience from mankind; men and women wanting to ‘make a name for ourselves.’

     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.