Mystery Men of the Bible

â€‹Mystery Men of the Bible

Participants:

All seven men: keep your identity secret; let the others guess it when you speak.

1^st man Â (Timothy)

2^nd man (Joseph)

3^rd man (Aaron)

4^th man (Gideon)

Â 5^th man (Ahab)

6^th man Â (Luke)

7^th man Â (Barnabas)
Prompter (Gives introductory remarks, then shouts brief phrases and Echoes repeat them.)
Echoes (All others who are present. Repeat, shouting, the brief phrases that Prompter says.)

Prompter	We will now visit mystery men of the Bible. You all have a part in this skit. If you received no script, then you are an Echo; just repeat what I say, once we start. All of you please guess aloud at any time which mystery man is speaking. Â If you guess one of the men, then let others guess the rest, unless nobody can. Now let’s start.
1^st man	Hello, folks. Iâ€˜m the first Bible man that you will meet.
Prompter & Echoes	(Loudly) Our first mystery man! (If folks fail to echo this, then shout, â€œShout it, Echoes! â€˜Our 1^st mystery man’.â€)
1^st man Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â	I am also your Holy Land tour guide. We will travel back in time now and meet several other Bible men. Do you know who I am?
Prompter & Echoes	Please tell us!
1^st man Â	My mother was a Jewess and my father was a Greek. I shared many adventures and travels with the Apostle Paul while serving Jesus. Paul praised my grandmother Lois and my mom Eunice for their sincere faith. I served Paul, and passed on to others what he committed to me; they passed it on to still others, sparking a huge chain reaction of new leaders and churches. Paul also sent me two letters
Prompter & Echoes	You are Timothy!
1^st man	Yes, Now come with me. This road leads to older ages.
Prompter & Echoes	Fasten your seat belts!
1st man	Here is our 2nd Mystery man.
2nd man	Look! Here come visitors! What ridiculous clothing they wear! Welcome, friends!
1st man Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â	Oh! Look at those gigantic tombs! Pardon us, sir, can you tell us what you are known for?
2nd man	Well, I am a son of the patriarch Jacob, whom God later named Israel. My brothers hated me because my father favored me. Â I also told my brothers that I dreamt that someday they’d bow down to me!
1st man	Then what happened, sir?
2nd man	They spied me coming when they were tending the flocks, and plotted to murder me. Then they saw a caravan traveling toward Egypt, and sold me to those merchants instead, for 20 pieces of silver.
Prompter & Echoes	A poor, miserable slave!
2nd man	God brought about remarkable events, and I rose to be King Pharaoh’s administrator. Later I rescued my brothers from famine, and provided choice land for them in Egypt.
Prompter & Echoes	You returned good for evil!
2nd man	Centuries later, the children of Israel mere made slaves in Egypt.
1st man	However, they multiplied into a sizeable nation, which bothered Pharaoh. He feared they would join his enemies!
2nd man	So Pharaoh ordered the midwives to drown all Hebrew boy babies in the Nile River.
Prompter & Echoes	How heartless!
2nd man	However, God intervened; baby Moses was spared, and Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him. Years later Moses led his people of Israel through the sea, free from Egypt’s slavery. God based his covenant with Israel on that huge miracle.
1st man	Freedom! Come now, folks, to a later time.
Prompter & Echoes	Thank you, Joseph!
1^st man	Now let us see who our 3^rd Mystery man is.
3^rd man	Hello, strangers! What are you doing out here in this dusty, desolate wilderness?
1^st man	Look! There are little white flakes all over on the ground!
3^rd man	It is manna, and it is good to eat. Try it!
Prompter & Echoes	Yum-yum!
1^st man	Your people seem to be in a hurry. What is the big rush?
3^rd man	We are fleeing from Egypt’s evil king, Pharaoh. My brother is leading us.
Ist man	A grand exodus!
3^rd man	Pharaoh enslaved us pitilessly; he compelled us to build his cities. Other pharaohs also had thousands of slaves erect their massive tombs.
Prompter & Echoes	The great pyramids!
1^st man	I have read about your captivity in the Book of Exodus.
3^rd man	A book? It must be the log that my brother Moses kept to record God’s great works. With God’s amazing help, my brother led us out of Egypt’s land of death to freedom.
1^st man	Didn’t you have some awesome adventures while wandering in the wilderness?
3^rd man	Oh, for sure! We were starving, and God gave us manna. We thirsted, and the Lord made water flow from a rock. We complained that we had no meat, and he gave us quail. We kept grumbling, and he let serpents bite us!
Prompter & Echoes	Ouch!
3^rd man	Their painful, scalding venom was unbearable! However, God had Moses make a fiery serpent of bronze and raise it on a pole; God healed the excruciating venom of those fatal fangs for all who gazed upon it.
1st man	If I recall correctly, your two sons suffered a flaming death.
3^rd man	That was horrible! God had us build a tabernacle with an inner Holy Place. As High Priest, I was the only one that God allowed to enter his Presence in it, and only once a year with the atoning blood. However, my sons, Nadab and Abihu dared enter it without the atoning blood of the sacred sacrifice. Fire consumed them!
1^st man	We must go now. Thank you, sir. Come, folks, into a later century.
Prompter & Echoes	Goodbye, Aaron.
1^st man	Now we encounter our 4th mystery man.
4^th man	Hello, travelers! You have come to our land at a precarious time. A lamentable cycle keeps repeating itself. We turn from the Lord to idols and God sends a pagan nation to invade and punish us; then we repent and God drives out the invaders.
1^st man	That is a shame! Which of the hostile pagans are threatening you now?
4^th man	Those cruelly brutal Midianites.
Prompter & Echoes	Vicious and ruthless!
4^th man	The Angel of the Lord appeared to me and told me to drive them out. He gave me signs to show me that he would be with me. One sign was to make a sheep’s fleece wet on a dry morning and dry on a wet morning.
4^th man	I raised a large army, but the Lord told me to pare it down to only 300 men.
Prompter & Echoes	Amazing!
4^th man	I gave each man a trumpet and a clay jar with a burning torch hidden inside of it.
1^st man	How mysterious!
4^th man	We encircled the massive Midianite force at night on hillsides. All my soldiers shouted at once, broke their jars and the torches suddenly appeared. The enemy thought we were an enormous multitude. They panicked and fled.
1^st man	A stunning victory!
4^th man	The Israelites came to make me King, but I told them that only the Lord is our ruler.
Prompter & Echoes	Christ is King of Kings!
1^st man	We must go now. Come folks, to a later century.
Prompter & Echoes	Farewell, Gideon!
1^st man	Now we will join our fifth Mystery man.
5^th man	Oh! What is that cloud of dust coming this way? And what is that we hear?
Prompter & Echoes	The rumble of chariots!
1^st man	Look! The leading chariot has hundreds of men running in front of it. Hey! They intend to run right over us!
Prompter & Echoes	Watch out!
5^th man	Whoa, horses! Who are you foreigners who dare trample our royal highway without my imperial permission?
1^st man	We are visitors from afar, sir. May we ask who you are?
5^th man	We are the all-powerful and majestic King of Israel! Bow down before me, I say, or my swordsmen will run you through!
Prompter & Echoes	Quick! Bow down!
1st man Â	Sir, what are all these obscene statues that line your royal road? They look like idols. And who are these gaudily painted men who run in front of your chariot?
5^th man	They are our prophets of Baal, of course. They feed at my wife Jezebel’s table.
1^st man	But you are king of Israel, whose God is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the creator of all mankind!
5^th man	Watch your insolent tongue! Now get out of my way, you miserable vermin!
1^st man	Look out! He will run over us!
5^th man	I certainly will! We are going to Mount Carmel where our 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah will engage in a contest against the prophet Elijah. That fool dares to defy me!
Prompter & Echoes	850 against one!
5^th man	Guards, unsheathe your swords! Bathe your blades in these alien’s blood!
1^st man	Let’s get out of here!
1^st man	Run friends! We will enter a later, and safer, time.
Prompter & Echoes	Farewell, King Ahab!
1^st man	We will now meet our 6th Mystery man.
6^th man	Hello friends! Come join me as we hike along with Paul on his journey.
Prompter & Echoes	He is a disciple of Paul!
6^th man	I first met Paul in Troas, near the ancient, warlike city of Troy.
1^st man	What adventures have you had while traveling with Paul?
6^th man	Many! In Philippi, a demonized slave girl followed us screaming. Her greedy masters profited from her fortune telling. Paul drove the demon out in the name of Christ, and those men were furious. They put Paul and Silas in jail, but I evaded them. A result was that the jailer received Jesus Christ the Son of God.
Prompter & Echoes	He and his family!
6^th man Â	I sailed with Paul to Rome when a violent storm shipwrecked us. I also authored two books of the New Testament. I was a historian and a physician. Please excuse me. A patient needs me.
1^st man	We thank you. Let us move into another time, folks!
Prompter & Echoes	Goodbye, Dr. Luke!
1^st man	Now we interview our seventh and last Mystery man
7^th man	Hail, travelers, what brings you to Rome?
1^st man	To meet you, I guess. Please tell us who you are.
7^th man	I am a follower of Jesus of Nazareth; that is who I am. I was a member of the very first church.
Prompter & Echoes	The Jerusalem congregation!
7^th man	I helped care for the poor, on several occasions.
1^st man	What else are you known for, sir?
7^th man	I helped suspicious believers to receive Saul. They feared him because he previously had jailed Christ’s followers. He is fervently following the Lord Jesus Christ now, and goes by his Roman name.
Prompter & Echoes	The Apostle Paul!
7^th man	The church sent me to Antioch to evangelize Gentiles. So many came to Christ that I traveled to Tarsus to find Paul and ask him to help us. We soon recognized him as an apostle.
1^st man	You must have had some exciting adventures with him.
7^th man	Indeed! The Antioch brothers sent us to evangelize non-Jewish nations. We took my young cousin Mark along to help, but he soon turned back.
1^st man	However, Paul later found Mark useful and asked for him.
7^th man	In Lystra, the people thought Paul was the god Hermes because he spoke powerfully. They thought I was Zeus, or Jupiter in Latin, but we refused their gifts.
1st man	Didn’t you join a momentous council of leaders from many churches in Jerusalem?
7^th man	Yes. We agreed to receive Gentiles without their having to adopt Jewish customs. That made a lasting difference! Soon non-Jews outnumbered Jews in the churches.
Prompter & Echoes	Praise God for such great salvation!
7^th man	On another journey, I wanted to take Mark again, but Paul refused. We argued sharply and went our own ways; we formed two missionary teams, doubling our outreach.
1^st man	We will return home now, folks. This ends our tour.
Prompter & Echoes	Goodbye, Barnabas.

[/pexcerpt]Everyone guesses which man in the Bible is speaking, and everyone has a part, echoing brief phrases that a prompter says. Fun and edifying. [/pexcerpt]

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