Story 2 – Relentless Pursuer
Everyone in the town came to the gates. They watched as the King approached them alone with his snake and dove.
“Look at this fool who approaches us by Himself,” one of the rulers said.
This kingdom and its allies have been at war with the King for several days. Many of their allies have fallen with little to no casualties on the King’s side. Still, the alliance of kingdoms stands firm against Him.
“What is that You want?” one of the guards said.
The King points to the gates of the town.
“You want to enter?”
The King shook His head to say yes.
“If you want to join our alliance, then take off Your clothes and prostrate Yourself before us. Otherwise, if You want something from us, then You have to take it Yourself.”
The King walked towards the gates. A squad of archers launched a barrage of fire arrows at Him at the command of their ruler. The arrows hit the King, His snake, and dove and pinned them to the ground while the arrows burned them. They thought they killed Him and cheered. Their victory is short-lived as King rose and took the arrows out of Himself and continued to walk forward. Afraid, but unshaken, the soldiers then pour oil and fire on Him as He neared the gate. The fire didn’t stop Him either as He broke down the gate with His bare hands.
Inside the town, the citizens trembled at the sight of the King who stood firm and unfazed by fire. Among them, He touched them and cleansed them of their sins and sickness. The others were burned to ash as the snake and dove went through the town burning it down while the King looked for a specific person. This person ran out of their burning house. With the target in His sight, the King ran after He who was after. The remaining rulers tried to block the King’s path with deadly blockades manned by their finest soldiers, but the King ran through them breaking both the blockade and bodies of those who stood in His way.
His target saw that he couldn’t outrun Him, so He hide in a mansion hoping to lose Him in it. The King broke down the walls and doors of the mansion in His pursuit and kept pursuing His target up the many stairs of the mansion. On the very top floor of the mansion was a maze of bookshelves that one could easily get lost in. The King’s target tried darting his way through the maze to lose the King, but the King walked threw the walls as if they were nonexistent. Finally, on the roof with nowhere to go, the King cornered His target.
“Don’t come any closer! I’ll jump!” the man said.
The King extended His hand to the man. The man then saw that there was no way else to live as the mansion and town burned around him, so he took the King’s hand.
“How are we going to escape?”
Before the man knew it, the dove took the King from the roof while the snake held onto the man to keep him close to the King. The dove landed the two on the ground where the other purified citizens were. With the person He came for plus some extras, the King left with His precious possessions. On another day, one of the King’s servants was taken while he was traveling. This servant spent his days in jail evangelizing for the King to his fellow prisoners. Few listened to him while most ridiculed him and beat him since they thought he was mad.
“Some king you have,” one of the prisoners said.
“He let one of His own go out into danger without any protection. How irresponsible of Him.”
“How could He possibly save you now? This is the most well-protected prison in the world.”
As they were talking, the King arrived at the grated windows of the prison. He had climbed all the way up to the window where they were without alerting the people in the prison. The King removed the grates of the window and held out His hand to His servant. Once the servant was on His back, the King held out His hand to the others who were evangelized.
“Will you really rescue us too?” one of the evangelized asked.
The King continued to hold out His hand.
“How will you carry us all out? Won’t we all fall?”
The King kept holding out His hand in silence.
“Okay. I trust in You.”
The evangelized took the King’s hand and were taken either by the dove or by the snake. He then left without alerting any of the guards. When the guards of the prison came to see the prisoners, they saw the open window and assumed they were trying to leave. For their supposed escape attempt, the remaining prisoners were executed. The evangelized prisoners that the King took became some of the King’s greatest servants in His Kingdom.
Once there was a woman who ran away from her family. She couldn’t handle the pressures of her job and the responsibilities of being a mother. Three of her children were already lost to accidents and she took this as a sign of her being unworthy of being a mother, so she ran away the King’s Kingdom and her family. She started a promiscuous life in another kingdom and sold herself to whoever made her feel happy. One day, a man invited her to stay with her. He said he had to go run out to get something and gave her his servants to keep her preoccupied. She was fine until she heard that the King was coming this way. After hearing this, she tried to leave the house only to be stopped by the servants.
“Stop! The King is going to give the master of this house and us redemption and a better life.”
“I don’t want it!”
The woman then found her way out of the building, stole a horse, and ran as far away from the kingdom as possible. Her life progressively got worse as she did whatever it took to keep herself happy. She sold herself or killed those she sold herself to for profit and possessions. This life obtained for her many slaves who would do her bidding. The King again came looking for her. She knew His power and left all her slaves to die for her as she ran away.
She then found herself trapped by her old lovers who mutilated her so that he could keep her. The woman became paranoid as she was stuck with nowhere to go. In time, the King came, destroyed the man who kept her and went into the room where she was kept. She did her best to cover her decrepit appearance but couldn’t cover much.
“Why are you here? Are you here to kill me? Mock me? I’m a worthless pig now. Surely there’s no use of me anywhere,” she said.
The King held out His hand.
“Why? Why do You still come after me even after everything that I’ve done?”
The King continued to hold out His hand.
“I’m not worthy to even be in Your presence and You still hold out Your hand? I’ve hurt so many people. Look at what’s happened to me because of my actions! You knew this would happen and You let it happen to me…I guess I deserve it. I’m not even sure if I can back.”
The King still held out His hand.
“Okay, fine. I’ll take Your hand if You stop looking at me like that.”
When the woman took the King’s hand, she stood up instantaneously as if her legs were never removed. Along the way back, the people who held grudges against the woman tried to assassinate her, but they were killed by the King. The woman arrived back at the King’s Kingdom to find her husband, children, and friends waiting for her. They embraced her and told her how much they had prayed for her safe return. When she looked at herself, the woman saw that she looked the same way she did before she left.
Thankful to the King, the woman dedicated her life to Him and promised never to give up on Him and herself. They then celebrated her return with the greatest day-long feast they’ve ever had.
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