ANGEL'S EYE-VIEW

Hymn: "Silent Night"

Angel 1: The time has come.

Angel 2: (declaiming): "In the beginning---"

Angel 1: No, no! We've had that already! Remember?

Angel 2: (abashed): Sorry, I forgot.

Angel 1: The time has come for Jesus to be born as a man. (Goes, looks down.) Down 
there on that planet, Earth.

Angel 3: (also looking down): Really? Now why would he go there?

Angel 1: To save men---the inhabitants of Earth.

Angel 2: (critically): From what I've seen of them---oh, I've looked!---They really 
aren't worth--- 

Angel 1: Quiet! The Father loves them.

Angel 2: (puzzled): Extraordinary.

Angel 3: Jesus is going there? May we watch?

Angel 1: I don't see why not.

Angel 2: Where is he going?

Angel 1: To a little village the inhabitants call Bethlehem. It's in a remote part of Earth 
Called Judea. See? There it is!

Hymn: "O Little Town of Bethlehem"

Angel 2: (dismayed): Surely there are better places---even on that planet!

Angel 1: He must be born there. Many man-y years ago, the Father gave his word.

Angel 2: Where is Jesus?

Angel 1: (pointing): There. See that small cave cut into the hillside---where the animals 
are? He's with the man and woman. Do you see?

Angel 3: (horrified): That tiny little baby. Not that helpless little baby!

Angel 2: (knowingly): Even I know if he is to be born as a man, he has to start as a 
baby. They all do.

Angel 3: (indignantly): It isn't fair! Look at him! Like that, he can't walk or talk or 
anything! Not even as well as that man and woman.

Angel 2: They must be the people who will care for him….Doesn't that sound strange? 
People looking after the Son of God!

Hymn: "Away in a Manger"

Angel 3: Listen! Jesus is crying! Quick! Can we get him back?

Angel 1: We will. In thirty-three of those Earth years. People will kill him. He'll come 
back after he "dies".

Angel 2: How terrible.

Angel 1: All men die.

Angel 2: Why bother with man? He's an inferior being with terrible habits, such as 
killing his fellowmen.

Angel 3: I don't understand it either. Why should Jesus have to go down there at all? If 
the Father wants men here, who not just decree?

Angel 1: Because the Father gives man the choice. He wants man to be able to accept or 
reject the choice of coming here. Sending Jesus is a part of the choice.

Angel 3: He has us angels. I still don't understand.

Angel 1: It isn't necessary for you to understand. The Father understands. He created
Heaven and Earth.

Angel 2: (thoughtfully): Men. Here.

Angel 1: You'll get used to it. We'll start by completing an assignment. You're about to 
have a close view of men. We're going down there to find some shepherds--- 
men who tend sheep. We'll tell them Jesus is born in Bethlehem.

Angel 3: Just tell them? And then what?

Angel 1: Nothing. It's up to men from that point. We return here.

Angel 2: (anxiously): And leave Jesus down there with them?

Angel 1: It's the Father's plan to win men.

Angel 3: What if it fails? What if they don't do anything?

Angel 1: Then---this birth will be for nothing. The Father has only one plan. It's up to 
men now.

Hymn: "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" (Hum 1st verse slowly)

Reader: Reads Luke 2:1-20 (while choir hums)

Last Hymn: "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" (All of choir and angels)

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