SAM: An apparition … you know, a ghostly creature sent to teach
me!
HUMBUG: Really?
(Everyone looks around the room for the apparition.)
BOB: I don't see anybody.
SAM: She called herself "Marlo Jacobs." (dramatically) She spun a
yarn of prophecy and Christmas. She said it shows how God
had a design all along to send a Savior.
HUMBUG: (checking her tablet) That's right, Boss! More than 700 years
before Jesus was born, the prophet Isaiah wrote, "For to us a
child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be
on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
(music begins to "Rejoice, Rejoice, Emmanuel")
CAROLE: Isaiah was predicting the first Christmas.
BOB: And he even told us who he would be in Isaiah 7:14,
"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign; The virgin
will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him
Immanuel."
SONG: "Rejoice, Rejoice, Emmanuel"
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