Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: A.D. Ray
ISBN-10: B00EJ6OHY6
Pages: 290
Copyright: Sep 1, 2013
ISBN-13: 2940148673064
Price: $7.99 (eBook)
The story of the two apostles James and John whom Jesus nicknamed Sons of Thunder. Why did He call them that? Read the book to find out one possibility.
The story of the two apostles James and John whom Jesus nicknamed Sons of Thunder. Why did He call them that? Read the book to find out one possibility.
Excerpt
In a few days I will be dead. He asked me once if I could drink from the same cup as Him. I said I could. Oh, what arrogance. I had no idea what His cup was. Now I will indeed drink from that same cup. Herod Agrippa has sentenced me to death. In three days I will be beheaded with a sword while Herod and his cronies watch, the same way his uncle Herod Antipas killed The Baptist. The penalty of one who teaches heresy or leads believers away from the Jewish faith. I have been convicted by the “high court” of teaching against the Jewish beliefs, against the Temple authority, against Rome and Caesar… Hah! I have only taught what He taught. We should be seeking Yahweh and worshipping Him in spirit and in truth. We should live Yahweh’s precepts the way that He intended from the beginning. What we should not be doing is following some list of laws and ordinances made up by man in some self-seeking manner, to make ourselves feel better. We should not be trying to lift ourselves up to His level by our own means. All this is only what Yeshua, the Chosen One, taught.
Somehow there is a certain irony in it. These very same self-seeking politicians, more concerned with their frail grasp on their position than with teaching and living truth, are the ones who put Him on that cross. Yes, He told me once that I would drink from His cup. Herod has given me three days to dwell on my fate. He sits up there on his throne thinking I am in agony of dread and fear, wishing I had never heard the name Yeshua. But would I change it? No. Not one whit. I look forward to joining Him in the Bosom of Avraham. It is the least I can do, after what He did for me… for all of us.
My only regret is that I can not tell more people about Him. I want all to know that I am not just some kind of dissident or trouble maker. I have not taught anything contrary to Jewish belief. I am a true believer in the Hebrew faith and I truly know and believe that our Messiah has come.
And so I think it best that it all be put down in writing. Then all can read and know that, no matter what the Temple authorities and Herod and all those self-righteous people who call themselves Jews say, He was, is, our Messiah. So I have got myself a scribe and I dictate to him my story… Where do I begin?
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