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Jesus Is Killed
Look at the terrible thing that is happening! Jesus is being killed. They have put him on a cross. Nails are driven into his hands and feet. Why would anybody want to do this to Jesus?
It is because some persons hate Jesus. Do you know who they are? One of them is the wicked angel Satan the Devil. He is the one who was able to get Adam and Eve to disobey God. And Satan is the one who got the enemies of Jesus to commit this terrible crime.
Even before Jesus is nailed here on the cross, his enemies do mean things to him. Remember how thy came to the garden of Gethsemane and took him away? Who were those enemies? Yes, they were the religious leaders. Well, let’s see what happens next.
When Jesus is taken by the religious leaders, his apostles run away. They leave Jesus alone with his enemies, because they become afraid. But the apostles Peter and John do not go very far away. They follow along to see what happens to Jesus.
The priests take Jesus to the old man Annas, who used to be the high priest. The crowd does not stay here long. They next take Jesus to the house of Caiaphas, who is now the high priest. Many religious leaders have gathered at his house.
Here at the house of Caiaphas they have a trial. People are brought in to tell lies about Jesus. The religious leaders all say: “Jesus should be put to death.” Then they spit in his face, and hit him with their fists.
While all of this is going on, Peter is outside in the yard. It is a cold night, and so the people make a fire. While they are warming themselves around the fire, a servant girl looks at Peter, and says: “This man also was with Jesus.” “No, I wasn’t” Peter answers.
Three times people say to Peter he was with Jesus. But each time Peter says it is not true. The third time Peter says this, Jesus turns and looks at him. Peter feels very sorry for telling these lies, and he goes away and weeps.
As the sun starts to come up on Friday morning, the priests take Jesus to their big meeting place, the Sanhedrin hall. Here they talk over what they are going to do with him. They take him to Pontius Pilate, the ruler of the district of Judea.
“This is a bad man,” the priests tell Pilate. “He should be killed.” After asking Jesus questions, Pilate says: “I can’t see that he has done anything wrong.” Then Pilate sends Jesus to Herod Antipas. Herod is the ruler of Galilee, but he is staying in Jerusalem. Herod can’t see that Jesus has done anything wrong either, so he sends him back to Pilate.
Pilate wants to let Jesus go. But Jesus’ enemies want another prisoner to be let go instead. This man is the robber Barabbas. It is now about noon when Pilate brings Jesus outside. He says to the people: “See! Your King” But the chief priests yell: “Take him away! Kill him! Kill him!” so Pilate lets Barabbas go free, and they take Jesus away to be killed.
Early Friday afternoon Jesus is nailed to a cross. You can’t see them in the picture, but on each side of Jesus a criminal is also being put to death on a cross. Shortly before Jesus dies, one of the criminals says to him: “Remember me when you get into your kingdom.” And Jesus answers: “I promise you that you will be with me in Paradise.”
Isn’t that a wonderful promise? So you know what paradise Jesus is talking about? Where was the paradise that God made at the beginning? Yes, on earth. And when Jesus rules as king in heaven, he will bring this man back to life to enjoy the new Paradise on earth. Can’t we be happy about that?
Let’s skip the happenings after Adam and Eve has become to the…BIRTH OF JESUS TO HIS DEATH.
The angel Gabriel was sent to a fine young women named Mary. He told her that she would have a child who would rule as king forever. The child, Jesus, was born in a stable, where shepherds visited him. Later, a star guided men from the East to the young child. We learn who caused them to see that star, and how Jesus was saved from the efforts to kill him.
Next, we find Jesus, when he was 12 years old, talking whit the teachers in the temple. Eighteen years later Jesus was baptized, and he then began the Kingdom preaching and teaching work that God sent him to earth to do. To help him in this work, Jesus chose 12 men and made them his apostles.
Jesus also did many miracles. He fed thousands of people with only a few small fishes and a few loaves of bread. He healed the sick and even raised the dead. Finally, we learn about the many things that happened to Jesus during the last day of his life, and how he was killed. Jesus preached for about three and a half years, so this continuation would cover a period of a little more than 34 years.
An Angel Visits Mary
Mary is an Israelitess, who lives in the town of Nazareth. God knows that she is a very five person. That is why he has sent his angel Gabriel to speak to her. Do you know what Gabriel has come to tell Mary? Let’s see.
“Good day, you highly favored one,” Gabriel says to her. “God is with you.” Mary has never seen this person before. She is worried, because she doesn’t know what he means. But right away Gabriel calms her fears.
“Don’t be afraid, Mary,” he says. “God is very pleased with you. That is why he is going to do a wonderful thing for you. You will soon have a baby. And you are to call him Jesus.”
Gabriel goes on to explain: “This child will be great, and he will be called Son of the Most High God. The Lord will make him king, as David was. But Jesus will be king forever, and his kingdom will never end!”
“How can this all be?” Mary asks. “ I am nit even married. I have not lived with a man, so how can I have a baby?”
“God’s power will come upon you,” Gabriel answers. “So the child will be called God’s Son.” Then he tells Mary: “Remember your relative Elizabeth. People said that she was too old to have children. But soon now she will have son. So you see, there is nothing that God can’t do.”
Right away Mary says: “I am God’s slave girl! May it happen to me just as you have said.” The angel then leaves.
Mary hurries off to visit Elizabeth. When Elizabeth hears Mary’s voice, the baby inside Elizabeth jumps for joy. Elizabeth is filled with God’s spirit, and she says to Mary: “You are specially blessed among women.” Mary stays with Elizabeth about three months, and then goes back home to Nazareth.
Mary is about get married to a man named Joseph. But when Joseph learns that Mary is going to have a baby, he doesn’t think he should marry her. Then God’s angel says to him: “Don’t be afraid to take Mary to be your wife. For it is God who has given her a son.” So Mary and Joseph get married, and they wait for Jesus to be born.
Why They Lost Their Home
See what’s happening now? Adam and Eve are being put out of the beautiful Garden of Eden. Do you know why?
It is because they did something very bad. And so God is punishing them. Do you know the bad thing Adam and Eve did?
They did something God told them not to do. God told them they could eat food from the trees of the garden. But from one tree God said not to eat, or else they would die. He kept that tree as his own. And we know it is wrong to take something that belongs to someone else, don’t we? Well, what happened?
One day when eve was alone in the garden, a snake spoke to her. Think of that! It told Eve to eat fruit from the tree from which God told them not to eat. Now, when God made snakes he did not make them so they could talk. So this can only mean that someone else was making the snake speak. Who was that?
It wasn’t Adam. So it had to be one of the persons that God had made long before he made the earth. Those persons are angels, and we cannot see them. This one angel had become very proud. He began thinking that he should be a ruler like God. And he wanted people to obey him instead of obeying God. He was the angel that made the snake talk.
This angel was able to fool Eve. When he told her that she would become like God if she ate the fruit, she believed it. So she ate, and Adam did too. Adam and Eve disobeyed God, and that is why they lost their home.
But someday God will see to it that the whole earth is made as pretty as the Garden of Eden. But now, let’s find out what happened to Adam and Eve.
A Hard Life Begins
Outside the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had many troubles. They had to work hard for their food. Instead of beautiful fruit trees, they saw lots of thorns and thistles grow around them. This is what happened when Adam and Eve disoveues God and stopped being His friends.
But worse than that, Adam and Eve started to die. Remember, God warned them that they would die if they ate fruit from a certain tree. Well, the very day that they ate they began to die. How foolish they were not to listen to God!
The children of Adam and Eve were all born after God put their parents out of the Garden of Eden. This means that the children would also have to grow old and die.
If only Adam and Eve had obeyed God, life would have been happy for them and their children. They could all have lived forever in happiness on earth. No one would have had to grow old, get sick and die.
God wants people to live forever in happiness, and He promises that someday they will. Not only will the whole earth be beautiful, but all the people will be healthy. And everyone on earth will be a good friend with everyone else and with God.
But Eve was no longer a friend of God. So when she gave birth to her children, it was not easy for her. She had pain. Being disobedient to God certainly brought her a lot of sorrow, don’t you agree?
This is the continuation of the series of stories in my blog about the Lord. Now the Lord has made the world better and is suitable to live in. He has also made the first man and woman who will then be our ancestors….
A Beautiful Garden
Look at the earth here! How pretty everything is! Look at the grass and the trees, the flowers and all the animals.
How did this beautiful garden come to be? Well, let’s see how God got the earth ready for us.
First, God made green grass to cover the land. And he made all kinds of small plants and bushes and trees. These growing things help to make the earth pretty. But they do more than that. Many of them also give us foods that taste very good.
God later made fish to swim in the water and birds to fly in the sky. He made dogs and cats and horses; big animals and small animals. What animals live near your home? Shouldn’t we be glad that God made all these things for us?
Finally, god made one part of the earth a very special place. He called this place the Garden of Eden. It was just perfect. Everything about it was beautiful. And God wanted the whole earth to become just like this pretty garden he had made.
But there was something missing. Do you know what God saw that was missing? Let’s see.
The First Man and Woman
Who were the first man and woman? Who made them? It was God. And the first man and woman come to be called Adam and Eve.
This how God made Adam. He took some dust from the ground and with it he formed a perfect body, a man’s body. Then he blew into the man’s nose, and Adam came to life.
God had a job for Adam. He told Adam to name all the different kinds of animals. Adam may have watched the animals for a long time so he could pick the best names for them all. While Adam was naming the animals he began to see something. Do you know what that was?
The animals all had mates. There were papa elephants and mama elephants, and there were papa lions and mama lions. But Adam had no one to be his mate. So God made Adam fall into a deep sleep, and he took a rib bone from his side. Using the rib, God made a woman for Adam, and she became his wife.
How happy Adam was now! And think how happy Eve must have been to be put in such a beautiful garden to live together in happiness.
God wanted Adam and Eve to live forever. He wanted them to make the whole earth as pretty as the Garden of Eden. How happy Adam and Eve must have been when they thought about doing this! Would you have liked to share in making the earth a pretty garden? But the happiness of Adam and eve did not last. Let’s find out why.
Through the past years of my life, I’ve been so damn bad that I could hardly think of those things I’ve done. I’ve been talking to my parents as if they were my level of respect; I steal things not just from the purse of my mother but also from the things of other people. These things are just some of the things I would describe as rebellion against God.
Since then, God has told us to be good in this world, he has told us to follow him and obey his orders and of course him.
Last night an amazing thing happened, I dreamt about my crush and I holding each other’s hands never letting go until the end of time. I woke up and faced a new morning, it was a beautiful day and I thought to myself, what a wonderful world!
I’ve realized that every little act we do is seen by God. He is the light that we see each day and the stars that we dream each night. He is the Alpha and the Omega, he is the beginning and the end.
I’ve also realized that there’s more to life than being depressed, crying all day and thinking about all the worries in life. What we should do is to start changing, changing for a better life.
This month of March, I’ve decided to make a blog on a series of stories about the Lord, these are stories about God that we could reflect upon until we die…
God Begins To Make Things
All the good things we have come from God. He made the sun to give us light by day, and the moon and stars so we can have some light at night. And God made the earth for us to live on.
But the sun, the moon, the stars and the earth were not the first things God made. Do you know what the first was? God first made persons like himself. We can’t see these persons, just as we can’t see God. In the Bible these persons are called angels. God made the angels to live with him in heaven.
The first angel God made was very special. He was God’s first Son, and he worked with his Father. He helped God to make all other things. He helped God to make the sun, the moon, the stars and also our earth.
What was the earth like then? In the beginning no one could live on earth. There was nothing but one big ocean of water all over the land. But God wasted people to live on earth. So he began to get things ready for us. What did he do?
Well, first the earth needed light. So God made the light from the sun to shine on the earth. He made it so there could be both nighttime and daytime. Afterward god caused land to come up above the water of the ocean.
At first there was nothing on the land. There were no flowers or trees or animals. There were not even any fish in the oceans. God had a lot more work to do to make the earth really nice for animals and people to live on. To be coninued.....
