Numbers 16
POY! SKIT GUIDELINES
- In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words.
- Most POY! skits require no practice in advance.
- Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants.
- Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the story along.
- It is not necessary to employ costumes and objects, unless the skit recommends such.
- It is not required to have an audience watch the skit. All present may participate.
- Scripture and paraphrases, if any, usually appear in bold.
PARTICIPANTS
Narrator
Moses
Korah
Voice (of God) Stand to one side, read slowly and loudly.Prompter (Optional). Prompter shouts a brief line and Companions repeat it.
Companions (Optional): children and all adults that want to take part. Make sure Companions know who the Prompter is, and that they are to repeat Prompter’s words.
SCRIPT
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Narrator |
Let’s see how God foiled a plot that could have ruined His plans for Israel, in Numbers 16. |
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Narrator |
Korah rose up against Moses with some of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, men of renown with a defiant complaint. |
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Korah |
Moses, why do you exalt yourselves above us? Aaron, we can enter God’s presence with sacred incense, too. Hear me, both of you! I can lead these people as well as you two! Moses and Aaron, you go too far. |
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Prompter & Companions |
Yeah! You go too far! |
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Moses |
Listen, Korah. Tomorrow the Lord will show which one of us He chooses to lead. Take censers, put fire in them, and lay incense on it in the presence of the Lord. Also, Aaron with his loyal priests shall bring their censers with fire and incense. |
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Narrator |
The next morning they all took their censers, laid incense on the fire, and stood at the doorway of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron. The glory of the Lord appeared to the people, and the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron. |
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Voice |
Move away from among the congregation of Israel, so that I may consume them. |
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Moses |
O God of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the entire congregation? |
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Voice |
Then tell the people to get back from around the dwellings of Korah and his followers. |
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Moses |
Hear me, people of Israel, get away from the dwellings of Korah and his followers. Now, if the Lord brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, then you will understand that these men have spurned the Lord. |
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Korah |
The earth is shaking! Oh no! No! The ground is splitting open! |
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Prompter & Companions |
Stand back! |
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Narrator |
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed the men who followed Korah! Â Then it closed over them and they all perished. All who were nearby fled in terror. |
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Voice |
No man who is not of the descendants of Aaron will come near Me to burn incense, or he will become like Korah and his company. |
DISCUSS
Ambitious power-seekers often challenge godly leaders. What are recent examples of power-seekers who challenged godly leaders?
What are some dangers of challenging God’s authority that has been delegated to godly leaders?
What other persons in the Old Testament challenged God’s anointed leaders?
(Possible answers: Nadab and Abihu, Absalom, Jeroboam, Pharisees and Sadducees?)
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