FIFTH TRUTH:  God must give us the patience to see His plan fulfilled.  In HIS time, not ours.  (i.e. Will’s birth after 2 miscarriages and my teaching at First Baptist.)

GOD”S HAND IN THIS CHAPTER:  Esther’s plan is intricate.  God, no doubt, gave her the idea of 2 banquets. You will see why.

Chapter 6: Summary

-During the night between the two feasts the king cannot sleep. 

-He decides to read from the chronicle of his kingdom and reads of when Mordecai saved his life.  He finds out Mordecai has never been rewarded. 

-When he wants some idea how to honor Mordecai, who, of all people, is just in the outer court but Haman?

-Haman, thinking the king wants to further honor him, Read vs. 7-14

GOD’S HAND IN THIS CHAPTER:

-Only God could arrange for the kings not to be able to sleep that one night, that -Of all things the king could do, he chose to read the Chronicles and not just any chronicles, but the passage about Mordecai. 

-Only God could arrange for Haman to be the one standing outside the king’s door just as the king was looking for advice.

Prophecy: reread vs. 13.

Chapter 7:  Summary

-At the second banquet Esther reveals that she is Jewish and that the proclamation will kill her and all her family too. 

-When the king hears it was Haman’s plot, he orders Haman hung on the gallows he’d built for Mordecai.

GOD’S HAND IN THE CHAPTER: The timing was too perfect.  It could only be God in control of the king’s learning of Mordecai’s service just the night before he learned that Haman would have killed both Mordecai and the king’s beloved, Esther. 

-Haman being hung was the fulfillment of the prophecy of Haman’s wife and friends.

Chapter 8:  Summary

NOTE: Babylonian law. He could not rescind what had been sealed.

Ahasuerus gives Haman’s house to Esther.

Ahasuerus issues a degree that the Jews could and should defend themselves against any who would come against them.  The decree goes to all the provinces, just as the earlier decree had.

Read v. 15.  Mordecai is now the second most powerful person in the kingdom.

Read vs. 17.  Many of the goyim, gentiles, the people of the land turned to God because of the fear of the God of Jews.  Just like when the Israelites left Egypt after the plagues.

EX 12:37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 38 Many other people went up with them, as well as large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds. 39 With the dough they had brought from Egypt, they baked cakes of unleavened bread.

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