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  • 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.

  • A Temporary Throne – 16

    A Temporary Throne – 16

    CHAPTER 16

    SINCE THE BEGINNING, I HAVE WANTED TO BE NEAR MEN OF FAITH.

    I thought about Adam, then having to survive outside of the exquisitely beautiful garden. And also I thought about Eve and their young children struggling just to keep alive.

    I remembered Noah, and I thought of the heart of the LOVING GOD in WHOSE PRESENCE I remained: How it must have hurt HIM to know that only one man of faith remained among all of the men and woman on the earth.

    CREATION WAS GOOD.

    Would God ask me what to do? Must I again judge the fate of mankind?

    Genesis 6: 5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

     

    I HAD GRACE FOR NOAH, BECAUSE HE ALONE HAD FAITH FOR OBEDIENCE TO MY WILL.

    ROGER, IF I ASKED YOU TO BUILD AN ARK FIVE STORIES HIGH, LONGER THAN A FOOTBALL STADIUM, AND WITH THE STORAGE AREA OF 569 RAILROAD CARS, WOULD YOU DO IT?

    I pictured myself swimming for my life in a storm.

    WHERE DO I FIND A MAN WITH FAITH LIKE THAT, NOW?

    “Lord, I need more grace than Noah. Many men have much more faith than me, Lord.”

    (Was I trying to encourage THE LORD GOD, I asked myself?)

    I do love HIM.

    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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