A Collection of Short Stories Glorifying JESUS, Our Soon Coming King, As LORD

By Robert L. Shepherd Jr.

I am writing this book to let my Readers know-both the saved and unsaved-that Jesus is Lord!!! And that God raised HIM from the dead after HE sacrificed and gave His Life to redeem a sinful and lost

• Language: English
• Publisher: Authors' Tranquility Press
• Release date: May 31, 2023
• ISBN: 9781961123441

Robert L. Shepherd Jr.

Robert L. Shepherd, Jr. is a poet, writer, and ordained Minister called to teach and inspire the Body of Christ through the Word of God. He is empowered by the Holy Ghost with the Word of wisdom, prophecy, and the Spirit of discernment. For years, brother Shepherd has shared and enlightened numerous souls of God's intended purpose for their lives. "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11) NIV

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A Collection of Short Stories Glorifying Jesus, our soon coming King, as

LORD/Robert L. Shepherd Jr.

Paperback: 978-1-961123-43-4

eBook: 978-1-961123-44-1

Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.

Contents

JESUS IS LORD

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Epilogue

THE WINDOWS AND DOORS OF HEAVEN ARE OPENED TO THE FAITHFUL

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Epilogue

Appendage

THE GREAT GLOBAL RESET (CHANGING THE WORLD)

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Epilogue

CHRISTIANS WORKING TOGETHER TO FULFILL THE GREAT COMMISSION

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

IT IS FINISHED!!!

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

NO DOUBT, NO FEAR (OUR TRUST IS IN GOD)

Introduction

Chapter One

Epilogue

THE SHEET IS TOO SHORT, BUT GOD GOT YOU COVERED

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

SELLING OUT TOTALLY TO GOD IN THE TIME OF THE GREAT FALLING AWAY

Introduction

Chapter One

About the Author

JESUS IS LORD

I dedicate this book to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ

And to both my Faithful-longtime and New Readers…

And Tammara, affectionately known as Tammy, My beautiful and Faithful Helpmeet for 39 years… This book is dedicated to you!!!

INTRODUCTION

I am writing this book to let my Readers know—both the saved and unsaved—that Jesus is Lord!!! And that God raised HIM from the dead after HE sacrificed and gave His Life to redeem a sinful and lost world…

I know that you’ll enjoy this book… and hopefully, you’ll confess that Jesus is Lord and be saved before you finish reading it.

Chapter One

The prediction of a Coming Messiah

In the book of Genesis, it was predicted by God Himself of a Coming Messiah who would bruise the head of the serpent by the Foot of the seed of a woman… (this was signifying Jesus’s death on the cross—the act that would ultimately destroy Sin and the works of the devil.

The Old Testament Prophets also predicted that Jesus, the Son of God, would be born on earth and that He would be called Immanuel, God with us…

And that the Governments of the world would be upon His Shoulders.

It was also predicted that He would be born in Bethlehem and that He would grow up and be crucified on a rugged Roman-built-cross for the Sin of the World.

Below, in this chapter, I will record scriptures from the Old and New Testament concerning predictions of the Coming Messiah…

Genesis 3:15

¹. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Genesis 3:15 is the first prophesy in the Bible speaking of Christ’s Victory over Satan on the Cross through the bloody agony of crucifixion.

Isaiah tells the King that God delights in souls inquiring of HIM… and that He never gets weary with those coming to HIM, prompting the king to ask concerning victory in the upcoming battle

Isaiah 7:12-14

¹². But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

The prophet responds to Ahaz

¹³ And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

The prophet gives King Ahaz a prophecy of the Coming of the Messiah into the earth

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

God’s Son would be born on earth…and Immanuel, (God) would dwell with us.

The Eagle-eyed-prophet, Isaiah sees Jesus’ crucifixion on the cross over 700 years before it occurs

Isaiah 53:

1. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

Jesus grew up as a common Jewish youth

² For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Jesus would be sacrificed on a Cross

³ He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁴ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes, we are healed.

Jesus dies for the sin of the world

⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

The guiltless Messiah was found guilty by wicked men

⁷ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

⁸ He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

⁹ And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

¹¹ He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Jesus triumphs by hanging and dying on a Cross

¹²a. Therefore, will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors;

Jesus dies for the sin of the whole world

12b. and he bare the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Over 1000 years before it happened, David, the Prophet, saw Jesus being crucified on a Cross

Psalms 22: 1-31

1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

² O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

³ But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

Jesus continues to talk to His Father

⁴ Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

⁵ They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee and were not confounded.

⁶ But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

The people mock the Messiah as HE suffers on the Cross

⁷ All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

⁸ He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

⁹ But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

¹⁰ I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

¹¹ Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

Jesus is surrounded and attacked by devils

¹² Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

¹³ They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou has brought me into the dust of death.

The Roman soldiers nail Jesus to the cross, divide his garments and one of them pierces HIS side with a spear

¹⁶ For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

¹⁷ I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

¹⁸ They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture.

¹⁹ But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

²¹ Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

²² I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

Those who love and fear Him, now praise the Lord for HIS sacrifice!!!

²³ Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

²⁴ For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

²⁵ My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

²⁶ The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live forever.

²⁷ All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

²⁸ For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations.

²⁹ All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

³⁰ A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Future generations shall praise HIM for HIS sacrifice

³¹ They shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

The Prediction of the Son of God being born in Bethlehem of Galilee

Micah 5:1-15

1. Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

² But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

³ Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

⁴ And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

⁵ And this man shall be the peace when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

⁶ And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

⁷ And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

⁸ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he goes through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

⁹ Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

¹⁰ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:

¹¹ And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:

¹² And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

¹³ Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

¹⁴ And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

¹⁵ And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.

Chapter Two

The Second Adams takes back dominion of the Earth

God created Adam and Eve and gave them dominion over everything that creepeth upon the earth.

Everything included the serpent who tricked them of their birthright as King and Queen (Rulers) of planet earth.

But Jesus, the Second Adam, would eventually come to earth to restore back unto mankind, man’s dominion and power over the earth and the devil!!!

Chapter Three

Prediction of Jesus’ crucifixion on the Cross

Numbers 21:

1. And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoners.

² And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

³ And the LORD hearkened to the voice of