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Queen esther old testament book of 10 chapters different from other ot books in that it shows god s work/plan without direct contact with god, as in revelation by a ... – powerpoint ppt presentation.

• Old Testament book of 10 Chapters
• Different from other OT books in that it shows Gods work/plan without direct contact with God, as in revelation by a prophet or judge.
• Has historical roots people and political occurrences are factual and historical.
• Teaches us about the characteristics of Gods people They are faithful, wise, humble and obedient.
• Doing Gods plan and will in our lives is never easy and is always met with opposition.
• Symbols of Christ and the Holy Spirit are found in the characters.
• Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia Ancient Persian Empire, over a hundred and twenty seven provinces That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace, In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him"
• The storys setting is when Israel was in captivity to Babylon. The ruler of the Persian Empire is called Ahasuerus in the Bible and is historically known as Xerxes (486-465 B.C.)
• Remember the movie 300?
• Hollywood heard an earful from Persian and Iranian protesters about it
• Xerxes (Persian king) son of Darius Bible calls Ahaseerus., not wise as Darius, but foolish.
• Xerxes ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush Ancient Persian Empire
• At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa,
• Easily swayed by his advisors., commanded Vashti when he was drunk then made a rash decision to get rid of her.
• Esther was a descendent of Kish from the tribe of Benjamin and a relative of King Saul
• A Jewish captive from Babylon the cousin of Mordecai who raised her when her parents died.
• Responded to an opportunity and excelled
• The ladies that are called to replace queen Vashti undergo a yearlong Spa Treatment!
• Esther showed an inner beauty which caught the attention of those around her, however
• Now the young woman pleased him (the eunuch that was in charge of the women), and she obtained his favor so he readily gave beauty preparations to her, besides her allowance. Then seven choice maidservants were provided for her from the kings palace, and he moved her and her maidservants to the best place in the house of the women.
• Esther was wiseasked for advice 15 Now when the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his daughter, to go in to the king, she requested nothing but what Hegai the kings eunuch, the custodian of the women, advised. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all who saw her.
• Esther had both inner (conduct, spirit of humility and obedience (Esther 210,20), wisdom215) and outer beauty (Esther 28-9) and 1Pet 31-4
• A faithful and just person
• A symbol of the Holy Spirit and you will see why as the story unfolds.
• 219 When virgins were gathered together a second time, Mordecai sat within the kings gate. 20 Now Esther had not revealed her family and her people, just as Mordecai had charged her, for Esther obeyed the command of Mordecai as when she was brought up by him. 21 In those days, while Mordecai sat within the kings gate, two of the kings eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, doorkeepers, became furious and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 22 So the matter became known to Mordecai, who told Queen Esther, and Esther informed the king in Mordecais name. 23 And when an inquiry was made into the matter, it was confirmed, and both were hanged on a gallows and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.
• Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king's laws, so that it is not for the king's profit to tolerate them." Est 38 RSV
• Haman casts lots (purim) to decide in which month to murder the Jews. Mordechai then declares the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the Hebrew month of Adar as days of rejoicing, as the feast of Purim. 
• One of the princes (kings advisors) who quickly gained more power and the king blindly trusted, since Haman was a people pleaser, tried to flatter the king every chance he got to gain his favor and therefore gain power.
• Haman the Agagite was the descendant of King Agag of the Amalekites, who were nearly wiped out by Saul (Saul's reluctancy to do so cost him the throne of Israel in the eyes of God). The plot involves Haman's quest for revenge and Esther's redemption of Saul's mistake, saving the Jews from the last of the Amalekites and certain extinction. Remember Esther is a descendent of Saul, and well see how God uses her to complete what Saul didnt.
• As you trace this man's ancestry back through Scripture you discover that an Agagite is an Amalekite, and Amalek was that race of people, descendants of Esau, against whom God had said he would make war forever. (Ex. 1716) King Saul had been ordered to completely eliminate this people, but in his folly he chose to spare Agag the king of the Amalekites and thus perpetuated this faithless force in Israel. Throughout the whole of Scripture, this tribe of Amalekites represents the indwelling desire in our hearts that is continually opposed to all that God wants to do. This is what the New Testament calls "the flesh," and whenever the Spirit of God begins to move to bless us, this thing rises up to oppose the Spirit and do all it can in its subtle, clever, crafty way to hinder the work of God
• And all the kings servants who were within the kings gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai would not bow or pay homage
• Esther 32 Mordecai did not bow/pay homage, because it was a type of idolatry and because his origin is evil/comes from amalkites (symbol of satan),
• Mordecai represented TRUTH and did not Fear!
• Then Mordecai sends a messenger named Hathach (by the way, that means the truth)
• Mordecais command to Esther to advocate for her people 48
• Esther is hesitant at first The Danger Esther faced 411
• As a symbol of the Holy Spirit, Mordecai reminds Esther of what she needs to do Mordecai reminds Esther that God will deliver His people either way and she has a choice to take a role in it, and told her maybe God has put you in xerxes kingdom for at this time for this reason (413-14)
• Serve the Lord to your utmost where He has you today, for He has called you to His kingdom for such a time as this (414).
• Mordecai basically toldm esther in 413-14 dont forget your people, your place/role/responsibility and your God.
• FASTING AND PRAYER
• "Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law and if I perish, I perish." Est 416
• Esthers Plan FASTING AND PRAYING 416 She responds to Gods call in her life even though it meant her position/her life.
• Esther as a Type of Christ submission 220, 54, Esther Intercedes 416 and puts her life on the line.
• As a wise woman she chose her words carefully and chose the right timing Ch. 5 8
• God was moving as a response to the fasting and prayer of his people (61-14)Remember Mordecai earlier saved the kings life. 221-23
• "After three days and nights" -- that certainly is significant, isn't it? Three days and nights Jesus Christ lay in the grave on our behalf. dead for us. On the third day Esther puts on her royal robes and stands in the inner courts of the king's palace opposite the king's hall, waiting in fear and uncertainty, hardly knowing what will happen when the king sees her. But when he does, he sees her in the beauty of the resurrected life. "On the third day" she comes. on the day of resurrection, in power and glory, and his heart is captivated by her beauty. He says to Queen Esther, "Ask anything you want. I will give it to you, up to half of my kingdom."
•  1 Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the kings palace, across from the kings house, while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, facing the entrance of the house.a 2 So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, that she found favor in his sight, and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther went near and touched the top of the scepter.3 And the king said to her, What do you wish, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given to youup to half the kingdom!
• 4 So Esther answered, If it pleases the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him. 5 Then the king said, Bring Haman quickly, that he may do as Esther has said. So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared. 6 At the banquet of wine the king said to Esther, What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done! 7 Then Esther answered and said, My petition and request is this 8 If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, then let the king and Haman come to the banquet which I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.
• Gods word is fulfilled the wicked person falls in his own snare 512-14 Ps 7  14 Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity         Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood. 15 He made a pit and dug it out,         And has fallen into the ditch which he made. 16 His trouble shall return upon his own head,         And his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown. And Proverbs 522 22 His own iniquities entrap the wicked man,      And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
• Ch.64-10.imagine the look on Hamans face at that moment?! LOL
• Then we find a strange thing taking place. Esther doesn't ask him for anything she simply asks him to dinner the next day and says to bring Haman along. What is the meaning of that? I think there is nothing more significant than this we never can second-guess the Holy Spirit in the way he will handle a situation. We never know how he is going to work. The apparently logical response would have been that Esther immediately say, "Look, you asked me to make a request. What I want is the head of Haman on a platter." But she doesn't do that. Evidently in obedience to Mordecai's orders, she waits. And while she waits, we discover that something interesting happens Haman is trapped by his own folly
• So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther. 2 And on the second day, at the banquet of wine, the king again said to Esther, What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!3 Then Queen Esther answered and said, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. 4 For we have been sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. Had we been sold as male and female slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could never compensate for the kings loss. 5 So King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, Who is he, and where is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing? 6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman!
• God is the one who plans and avenges His way, our role is to listen and obey (fasting and prayer, obedience and faith). Ch. 73-10
• Esther Saves the Jews (as a Type-symbol of Christ) 85 (Esther is still wise in how she speaks to the king) 14-17
• As a result of Esther's intervention and influence, Persian Jews lived in Persia (modern Iran) for 2400 years thereafter
• God gives position and favor not for personal gain but to further His purpose.
• The Feast of Purim Ch.9 20-28 a happy feast includes gift giving, celebrating, reading the book of Esther. Celebrated every year, a month before Passover.
• In other words, here is a people -- who obey a different life principle. Just as the spirit of man indwelt by the Holy Spirit is immediately subject to a different rule of living, a different way of thinking, a different demand, so these Jews are obeying a different principle. Because they are God's people.
• By refusing to bow to haman, mordecai asserted his faith that he only bows to God, this teaches us to be aware of the fact that pursuing holiness and not living like others around us may incur hatred and hostility of unbelievers. The reward to those who serve and honor God and not man is Esther 8 8-15
• Opposition from culture around us 38
• The thing that makes this book so fascinating is that this is our story. As we trace through the events of this book we can see how accurately it illustrates what is happening to us when God is at work in the human heart.

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• Background on the biblical feast of Purim
• Explanation of why the Jewish people were in Persia
• Orphaned, raised by Mordecai.
• Map of Persia and the entire Middle East at the Time of King Xerxes
• Timeline of Key Events in Israel, Persia, Greece and Egypt During Esther’s Lifetime
• Intrigue in the Persian Court
• Customs in Ancient Persia
• Spiritual parallels between the two banquets: The King’s and Esther’s
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“Introduction to the Book of Esther,” Old Testament Seminary Teacher Manual (2014)

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Introduction to the Book of Esther

Why study this book.

The book of Esther provides an excellent illustration of the power and influence for good that one person can have. As an exiled Jew in Persia, Esther rose to the position of the queen of Persia and then faced the possibility of being executed along with the rest of her people. As students study this book, they can learn the importance of acting courageously in frightening situations, and they can learn how to develop trust in the Lord.

Who wrote this book?

We do not know who wrote the book of Esther.

When and where was it written?

We do not know when or where the book of Esther was written. However, the events of this book occurred while many of the Jews were living in Persia after being deported from Jerusalem. “Most scholars place the events recorded in the book of Esther between about 482  B.C. and 478  B.C. ” ( Old Testament Student Manual: 1 Kings–Malachi, 3rd ed. [Church Educational System manual, 2003],  329 ).

What are some distinctive features of this book?

The book of Esther is one of only two books in the Old Testament that is named for a woman. Additionally, “the book [of Esther] contains no direct reference to God, but He is everywhere taken for granted, as the book infers a providential destiny ( Esth. 4:13–16 ) and speaks of fasting for deliverance” (Bible Dictionary, “Esther, book of” ). Although the book of Esther comes after the book of Nehemiah in the Bible, according to some scholars the events recorded in Esther may have occurred about 30 or more years before the events recorded in Nehemiah.

Esther 1–2 King Ahasuerus is displeased by the conduct of Queen Vashti and deposes her. Many of the beautiful young virgins in the empire are presented to the king so he can choose a new queen. Ahasuerus selects Esther as his new queen.

Esther 3–5 Mordecai, Esther’s cousin and adoptive father, refuses to bow down to Haman. In response, Haman crafts a plan to destroy all of the Jews in the kingdom. The Jews mourn, weep, and fast for deliverance. Esther risks her life by going to see the king uninvited. The king receives her kindly and agrees to attend a banquet with Haman.

Esther 6–8 On the second day of the banquet, Esther tells the king about Haman’s plot to kill the Jews. The king has Haman hanged on the gallows Haman had intended to use for Mordecai. The king honors Mordecai and allows him and Esther to reverse the edict to kill the Jews.

Esther 9–10 The Jews receive authority from the king to kill their enemies in the kingdom. They institute the Feast of Purim to commemorate their miraculous deliverance from Haman’s plan.

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The Book of Esther Or how Queen Esther saved the Jews from oppression

Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces, in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the capital,in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants... And he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his greatness...

Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus

On the seventh day,when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona... to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown,in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at. But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command

At this the king became enraged, and his anger burned within him

After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her. Then the king’s young men who attended him said, "Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king... And let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti."

Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite... He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, forshe had neither father nor mother.

The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter. So when the king’s order and his edict were proclaimed... Esther also was taken into the king’s palace

The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him. And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage.

And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury

So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus. In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them. If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries." So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. And the king said to Haman, "The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you."

Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring. Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry. He went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth. And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.

When Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.

Hathach went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king’s gate, and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, in front of the king’s quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace. And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter. And the king said to her, "What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even) to the half of my kingdom." And Esther said, "If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a feast that I have prepared for the king."

So Haman came in, and the king said to him, "What should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" And Haman said to himself, "Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?" And Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor, let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown[b] is set. And let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king’s most noble officials. Let them dress the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them lead him on the horse through the square of the city, proclaiming before him: 'Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.'‘ Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned." So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city, proclaiming before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor."

Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered. And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him." While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared.

So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, "What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled." Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated.

Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who has dared to do this?" And Esther said, "A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!"

Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen. And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king

And Haman was punished, and there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday

On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her. And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year, as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

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