June 6, 2022: Day 120 – Esther 1-7

Providentially this past Sunday Pastor Konstantin Reznik preached on Esther and gave us four impactful ways in which we as a church have been formulated for such a time as this.  But the story of itself is very disturbing and quite violent.  You have a petulant king who wants to assert his dominion over his wife and basically kicks her out of the house and then wants to find one who is more amenable to his desires and whims.  Along comes young Esther and she pleases the king and she is made queen in place of Vashit.  Did you know that Esther’s original name was Hadassah?  You can find that in 2:7.

But the story of the salvation of the Jews is one that repeats itself time and time again in history.  Remember the Jews only find themselves in the reign of Xerxes because they had been taken into captivity by the Babylonians and so were captives in that land during this entire story.  Haman was plotting against basically a slave who would not bow down to him.  But this slave, Mordecai, who was the cousing of Esther, had already saved the king’s life.  Providence allows the king to discover once again how he was saved which in turn saved all of the Jews in the land.  But the story does not end there.  Let’s see what these last chapters hold.