THE STORYTELLER'S BIBLE
Act IV - The Prophets, Scene 9
Script by Bob Allen
For four voices

Scene 9

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VOICE TWO:             Not every prophet lived to see the fulfillment of the revelation which had been given to him by God.

VOICE FOUR:            Oftentimes those prophecies were read and studied for hundreds of years before the people of God suddenly realized they were being fulfilled right before their eyes.

VOICE THREE:          The prophet Micah, however, lived to see the very events God had told him would take place.

VOICE ONE:              Hezekiah sat on the throne in Jerusalem and according to the writings of Jeremiah profited from the ministry of Micah.

VOICE TWO:             Micah brought the Word of God to King Hezekiah concerning approaching judgment.

VOICE FOUR:            (CROSS TO #1)  Zion will be plowed as a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become high places of  forest.

VOICE TWO:             Good King Hezekiah listened, feared God, repented and prayed for God to spare the nation from destruction.

VOICE THREE:          Hoshea sat on the throne in Samaria and according to the book of Kings did not profit from the ministry of Micah.

VOICE ONE:              Micah brought the Word of God to King Hoshea concerning approaching judgment.

VOICE FOUR:            (CROSS TO # 3)  I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the open country, planting places for a vineyard.  I will pour her stones down into the valley, and will lay bare her foundations.  All of her idols will be smashed, all of her earnings will be burned with fire, and all of her images I will make desolate.

VOICE TWO:             Hoshea ignored the preaching of Micah, laughed at God, refused to repent and continued praying to his gods of wood and stone.

ALL:                            722 BC!

VOICE ONE:              After three years of devastating famine brought on by a siege of the city of Samaria. . .

VOICE THREE:          After nine years of devious political maneuvering by Hoshea, trying to pit an alliance with Egypt against subservience to Assyria. . .

VOICE FOUR:            After more than two hundred years of an unbroken succession of wicked kings reigning over the northern kingdom. . .

VOICE TWO:             Shalmanezer, King of Assyria, fulfilled the word of God to the prophet Micah, and Israel disappeared into captivity in the land of the Medes.

                                    (READER # 3 TURNS BACK TO AUDIENCE.  READER # 4 KNEELS.)

VOICE FOUR:            For this I must lament and wail, I must go barefoot and naked; I must make a lament like the jackals and a mourning like the ostriches, for her wound is incurable.