June 20, 2010 at 09:00 AM
- Angel 1
- Ok – here's the one thing I don't
understand...
- Angel 2
- (Mockingly) The one
thing?
- Angel 1
- Oi – I'm being serious! Chief
priests. Scribes – you know the top notch theologians.
- Angel 2
- I wouldn't exactly call them
top-notch? We've seen stuff they haven't even begun to dream of...!
- Angel 1
- Yes – but they know their
scriptures. You remember how the wise men turned up? They had all
answers to their questions. But they couldn't even be bothered to go
the 4½ miles to see the messiah? To see the one that the Almighty
promised would come to save them?
- Angel 2
- (Thoughtfully) Once again,
you have a point. (Pauses) It was the most significant event
since … well ... since the world was created.
- Angel 1
- What makes someone so indifferent
to what the Almighty is doing?
- Angel 2
- Beats me – I mean, we've seen
bucket loads of this kind of indifference – but still I'm never
ready for it.
- Angel 1
- It's like they just think it's a
puzzle or a story. Or for the fanatics.
- Angel 2
- They spend their days look so
“righteous” and respectable. But their hearts are colder than
something … something that's really, really cold.
- Angel 1
- It's like they ignore the treasure
that the Almighty offers because they're too busy chasing the wind.
They play with the wrapping paper, and throw out the present.
- Angel 2
- Humans. (Unimpressed) Huh.
- Angel 1
- Hey – careful how you say that –
the Almighty's pretty fond of them, you know...
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June 19, 2010 at 09:00 AM
- Angel 1
- There's that evil scheming
black-hearted villain?! He's the reason I put in my application to
become an angel of wrath and destruction!
- Angel 2
- He's a slimebag, if ever there was
one...!
- Angel 1
- Power hungry.
- Angel 2
- Backstabbing.
- Angel 1
- Greedy.
- Angel 2
- Lying.
- Angel 1
- Murdering.
- Angel 2
- Stealing.
- Angel 1
- You remember his line... you know
the “that I too may go and worship him” thing? I actually wanted
to vomit. Grrr. How does he sleep at night?
- Angel 2
- I think he just wants control. His
biggest fear is a rival King. He knows he's the most hated man in
the country – did you know that he's actually left instructions
that the day he dies, a whole bunch of popular guys, you know Rabbis
and so-on, will be executed.
- Angel 1
- Why? That makes no sense?
- Angel 2
- Apparently he wants to make sure
that there'll be people mourning when he's dead.
- Angel 1
- Filthy rotten scumbag.
- Angel 2
- Yeah – but he's not the only one.
He's driven by his fear and his need to be in control. His position
just gives him more opportunity to do evil...
- Herod
- (Laughs)
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June 18, 2010 at 05:22 PM
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea,
during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem
and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?
We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."
When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and
all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people's
chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ
was to be born. "In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, "for
this is what the prophet has written:
" 'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for
out of you will come a ruler
who will be the shepherd of my
people Israel.'"
Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out
from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to
Bethlehem and said, "Go and make a careful search for the child.
As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and
worship him."
After they had heard the king, they went on their
way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until
it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the
star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child
with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshipped him. Then
they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and
of incense and of myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go
back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
Matthew 2:1-12
- Angel 2
- Check out that lean, mean,
blinged-up beast of a camel?! I tell you – if I ever have to go
for a mission on earth disguised as a human, I totally want one of
those!
- Angel 1
- And doubtless, if you are, you
won't get one.
- Angel 2
- Your pessimism won't stop me from
asking!
- Angel 1
- Strange, don't you think? The
difference between these guys and the shepherds? They were
uneducated, underprivileged and unwanted. But these guys look like
they've got it made?! How many servants have they brought with them?
- Angel 2
- 1 … 2 … 3 … 4 … wait –
did that guy move? Where was I? 4.
- Angel 1
- (Interrupts) That was a
rhetorical question?! I was saying they've got loads of of servants.
Did you notice how they waltzed into Herod's palace without even an
invitation? Who turns up like that?
- Angel 2
- (Sarcastically) Uh... the
Magi?
- Angel 1
- These guys are loaded, ridiculously
well connected and yet they trudge miles through the desert until to
visit a baby whose parents couldn't even afford a crib to put him in?
- Angel 2
- You put it like that... but that
“baby whose parents couldn't even afford a crib” is the Almighty,
the one who made the universe. And you, for that matter?!
- Angel 1
- Yes – and I mean Him no
disrespect, but to see a guy with that much wealth, that much power
go so far to worship the Almighty... I'm not sure I've ever seen that
from a human before.
- Angel 2
- (pauses) You may have a
point there. You may have a point.
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