Lessons from Esther
Pastor Kim Wenzel
Approx 450 BC - 450 yrs before Jesus, 100+ years after Babylonian captivity
- King Xerxes - 127 provinces - India to Ethiopia
-Queen Vashti
-New Queen - send most lovely female from each province.
-Esther wins the job! - with out spot or wrinkle - bride of Christ
-Mordecai - a Jew, related to Esther - told to bow down to Haman
-Haman - represents Satan the adversary - was the Prime Minister - wants to kill ALL Jews
Haman convinces Xerxes to sign order to kill all Jews.
Mordicai asks for Esther’s help.
Esther 4:13-16
Mordecai
sent this reply to Esther: “Don’t think for a moment that because
you’re in the palace you will escape when all other Jews are killed. 14 If
you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews
will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die.
Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?”
15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go
and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or
drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same.
And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If
I must die, I must die.”
Bride of Christ ready to die to save God’s people!
Haman has a plan to hang Mordecai - It backfires
Today's Verse
Psalm 8:3-4
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him
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