The King Nobody Wanted:SERIES 1 - Compiled by PL Sturgis - Christmas Story...

The King Nobody Wanted: written by Norman F. Langford: 

Highlights and excerpts permitted in connection with a review 1948, printed in USA for Public School Libraries:

 Compiled by PL Sturgis:

About this Book: “The King Nobody Wanted tells the story of Jesus. Where the actual words from the Bible are used they are from the King James Version. The greater part of the story is told in everyday words. You will certainly want to look up these stories in your own Bible.

The King Nobody Wanted: written by Norman F. Langford: SERIES 1

#1) Waiting:

Over two thousand years ago the Jewish people were waiting for Someone to come. They talked among themselves anxiously waiting and asking each other when did they think the King would come? When He came they knew they would call Him the Messiah. When they spoke the Greek language they would call Him Christ. The people believed He would be a great King. They had a king whose name was Herod the Great. But he was not the kind of king they wanted. Herod was hard and cruel. He poisoned those who made him angry. When the Messiah came He would be a good King. He would be a Jew Himself and a friend to all the Jewish people. One of the prophets said this King would be like the shepherds who watched over the sheep night and day and carried the small lambs in their arms. But the most important thing about the Messiah was that He would drive Caesar and his armies out of the country. They hated the name of Caesar for he was the emperor of the Romans. The Romans had occupied their country and began to rule it. Herod was still king of the Jews but he took his orders from Caesar. Everybody had to take orders from Caesar. The Jews were not a free people anymore. 

#2) Cruel Roman Justice:

The older people tried to tell the young ones how it used to be so different before the Romans came. Everywhere in Palestine the Roman soldiers went marching. their shields flashed in the sunlight and when they were marching they carried golden eagles which stood for Caesar’s power. The Romans promised they would rule the country well. they said everyone would have equality but the Jews could not see how it was fair to have to pay taxes to a foreign King who did not even worship God. they did not like to see Roman soldiers whipping people with long leather whips called scourges into which bits of glass and lead and iron were fastened to make them bite more deeply into some poor Jew’s back. They were sick at heart when the Romans began to punish criminals by nailing them up by their hands and feet to big wooden crosses and leaving them hang there until they died. Well, they told each other, the Messiah would take care of the Romans! He would gather His army from east and west and north and south. then there would be a great day for the Jewish people. A great Day for the nation that is called by the glorious name of Israel! 

#3) Someday He Will Come:

When the Messiah comes all of the men of Israel will rise up from all over the country and their King will lead them to victory against Caesar! The Romans would be driven back from where they came and the people of Israel would be free and rich and happy again. The Messiah would make Israel into a great Kingdom, bigger and more powerful than the Roman Empire ever was. The Jews would rule the world. Everyone everywhere would worship the God of Israel and the Messiah would be King of all the nations of the earth. If only He would come! It was hard to wait so long. They had waited for Him a long time. Their fathers and grandfathers had waited for Him too. Sometimes the word would go around that He had finally arrived and in great excitement some of the Jews would try to drive the Romans out of Palestine. But always it turned out to be a mistake. The Jews would be disappointed and ask each other: “Will He ever come?” But even when they grew discouraged they remembered what was written in the Holy Scriptures. It was surely written that the Messiah would come someday. There was no mistake about it. Someday He would come. 

#4) Holding to God’s Promise:

So it went on month after month, year after year, the people worked and hoped and dreamed and prayed. the rain would fall in October and soften the hard dry ground after the heat of summer so the farmer could do his plowing. the farmer plowed his land and wondered if Messiah would come before the harvest. The Romans still marched through their country and Messiah had not come, but the farmer thought the Messiah would come before the fall rains. The dreams came to those in sunny Galilee who carried their spices and jewels and precious things from foreign Eastern Lands. The dreams came to those who stood in the Temple at Jerusalem where all good Jews went to worship God. The dream would be that the sky would open and a great light blazed down from Heaven. then an army marched down out of the sky led by a shining warrior whose face was bright as lightning. It was King Messiah! “”Destroy the Romans” He would cry! The Romans would melt away to nothing. Just as though they had never been. Then the dream would fade away. The Romans were still there. OH! If only the King would come! For sure He will, but when? 


#5) A King is Born:

Nobody saw the lions in the daytime for they slept in their caves. At night they came out to prowl around and look for sheep to eat. After dark the robbers would be somewhere in the darkness too. The good shepherds needed to be awake and on the watch to see that no harm came to the sheep. One night the shepherds huddled together in a field not far from Bethlehem. Not many miles to the north lay Jerusalem. the shepherds sat upon the rocks leaning on their staves when suddenly without warning, the sky was flooded with light from beyond the clouds. Now every stone in the field shone as bright as day. The shepherds were too frightened to speak and some cried out in terror: “What can this be?”--- “It’s the Glory of the Lord!” another cried out! suddenly they heard a loud voice: “Shepherds!” silence fell upon the group. “Be not afraid. I bring you the Good News that all Jews have waited so long to hear. this very Day, Christ your Savior is born in the city of David. This is how you will know Him: You will find Him as a Baby, wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. 

(to be continued) Peace on Earth: THE NEXT SERIES 2

 

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