THEME SCRIPTURES: Book of Esther 7-10 Although God Himself is not mentioned anywhere directly in the Book of Esther, His Fingerprints are all over this true story.
God has used a number of women mightily as recorded in scripture. Sometimes He chose a woman because no man could be found to do the job as in the book of Judges. Deborah was a wife, a judge and a prophetess ruling in Israel (Judges 4:4). God used her to rule over men. If God says he cannot find a man for a job, that's the truth!
Christians always want to think and believe that God can call and use anybody through an extension of His Grace (Matthew 19:26). If so, why did He say He could not find someone to "make up the hedge" in Ezekiel 22:30? God Says what He means and means what He says. He was extending grace (i.e. His unmerited favor to Jews in the old testament history of ancient Israel, too, in advance of the cross -looking forward to Calvary). True, He called, anointed and commissioned Gideon as a mighty man of valor who was found hiding behind the winepress threshing grain for his family, in fear of the Midianites stealing it from him (Judges 6:12 KJV).
Yet in the Book of Esther, God mightily used a simple Jewish woman through His blessing of her gift of great beauty. Purim is that Jewish feast commemorating how Israel was delivered by it's Almighty God's hand from complete annihilation at the hands of a high-ranking leader named Haman, under the King of the Media Persia Empire. Read the Book of Esther for all of the details.
A brief synopsis follows: The King's wife Vashti refused to obey him at a banquet and was banished for her offense. The King then called for all of the beautiful women in his kingdom to compete for his choice of a new bride replacement. He choose Esther. She became his wife and queen. He didn't seem to care about her racial heredity. He was truly in love with her.
Haman wanted to commit Jewish genocide because one man, Mordecai the Jew, would not bow down to him. This offended him to the point of rage. So he planned to murder all of the Jews in the Empire. He got the King's approval, to do so. Then Esther intervened, risking her very life before the King. At the end of several banquets (this King appears to have enjoyed banquets, something a woman would know, concerning how to please her husband), she confronted Haman and revealed that she was a Jewess.
The King ordered Haman and his sons executed immediately. He was utterly enraged. Now remember, Haman was the King's right hand man, his favorite. But when his Queen Esther was threatened, He moved to protect her at once. He granted his Queen Esther and all the Jews the right and permission to defend themselves against the coming attack (the Law of the Medes and Persians was irrevocable, as He had signed Haman's requested decree). Through the mighty power of the God of Israel, the Jews were victorious and thus Israel survived Satan's attack.
If this had not been so, the Messiah never would have come. Almighty God would have been proved a liar. All prophecies would have failed.
The Holocaust of World War II under Adolf Hitler would have produced a similar result, as well. Without the Jewish People, Israel could not have been reborn as a nation in fulfillment of Bible Prophecy. That would have meant that God is a liar and you the prophecies in the Book of Revelation, Daniel's 70 Weeks Prophecy concerning Israel, the Rapture, the Second Coming, the Millennial Reign and the Kingdom Age would not come to pass. In addition, there wouldn't be no Great White Throne of Judgment and Lucifer would still be around to torment and destroy all of humanity.
Our hope in Christ would be totally destroyed and we would be the most wretched of men believing in a powerless God. That's how you would discern that Satan was the spirit behind these evil moves in the spiritual realm!
God Bless You! To God will be the everlasting glory! Hallelujah! Amen and amen! Maranatha and Shalom!
By His Mighty Man Ministries
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