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The Messiah
The Messiah
The Messiah
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The Messiah

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A play in three acts describing the resurrection of The Jesus Christ.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherZ. R. Olejnik
Release dateApr 20, 2015
ISBN9788394219208
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    The Messiah - Z. R. Olejnik

    Z. R. OLEJNIK

    THE MESSIAH

    PLAY IN THREE ACTS

    „Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods."

    (John 10:34)

    „ I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High."

    (Psalm 82:6)

    Copyright © 2015 by Z. R. Olejnik

    All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof

    may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

    without the express written permission of the publisher

    except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

    ISBN 978-83-942192-0-8

    Contact: z.r.olejnik@gmail.com

    ACT1

    Scene 1

    (In front of the Temple in Jerusalem stands the prophet Jeremiah and his secretary Baruch. Next to them stand the priest and the leader of the guards Pashhur as well as the false prophet Ananias. In front of them the people of Jerusalem.)

    BARUCH

    People of Jerusalem! People of entire Israel and Judah, listen to the words of Jahwe, God of Israel. The prophet Jeremiah will speak to you!

    ANANIAS

    Don’t listen to him, he is a false prophet. Prophet Jeremiah is lying and sowing discord in your minds. He is spreading rumours that the Temple shall be destroyed, that Jerusalem shall be destroyed and many other cities destroyed. I assure you, Jerusalem is not to be taken. Go to your homes!

    BARUCH

    Stay and don’t go away. It’s the prophet Ananias who is leading you astray. He is not a servant of God of Israel. Jahwe is not speaking through his mouth as He is speaking through the mouth of prophet Jeremiah. Prophet Jeremiah is a servant of Jahwe and you should listen to him.

    PROPHET JEREMIAH

    Jahwe directed to me the following words: I knew you before you came into the world, before I formed you in the womb of your mother. I sanctified you and set you up as a prophet for the people. I said, Lord, Jahwe, I don’t know how to speak, since I am but a youth. Jahwe, however, answered me: don’t tell me I am a youth, since you will go to whomever I shall send you to, and you will say whatever I shall bid you. Don’t fear them since I am with you to guard you. And reaching out his hand he touched my lips and said: Here, I place my words in your mouth. Look, today I give you power over the nations and the kingdoms, to tear down and to destroy, to bring down and to undo, and to build and to sow.

    VOICES FROM THE CROWD

    We want you to speak to us - want to hear you - talk to us! We want to know the word of Jahwe, the God of Israel.

    Prophet Jeremiah

    The word which Jahwe announced to Jeremiah: Listen to the words of this covenant and talk to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. You will tell them: This says Jahwe, the God of Israel: cursed be the man who does not listen to the words of this covenant, which I gave to your ancestors, when I led them out of Egypt, out of the iron smelting furnace, saying: Listen to my voice and follow what I command you. You shall be my people, and I shall be your God, so that I can fulfil the promise I made to your ancestors, that I shall give unto you the land of milk and honey, such as you have today. And I said let it be, Jahwe. And Jahwe said to me: announce all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Listen to the words of this covenant and fulfil it. Because I strongly urged your ancestors from the day I led them out of the land of Egypt to this day, ceaselessly saying: listen to my voice! They however, listened not and did not bend down their ear. Each acted according to the hardness of their perverted heart. I fulfiled therefore on them all these words which I commanded them to keep, and which they did not guard. And the Jahwe said to me: there is a secret agreement between the men

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