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ON SATURDAY, February 28,

The Supreme Leader of Iran was killed by Israeli and U.S. Attacks

IN JEWISH SYNAGOGUES AROUND THE WORLD

by Gods' Calendar, Laws, and Traditions (annually for 3,000 years)

Passages were being read and sermons preached from The Book of Esther

Est 7:10  So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.

Then the king’s wrath subsided.

….Haman got a Kings' Decree passed to kill every Jew in Persia (Iran) in one day.

GOD REVERSED THE DECREE / HAMAN AND HIS SONS WERE EXECUTED ON THAT DAY

Now celebrated as the Jewish Holiday, “PURIM”

….AND WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO ME and MINE TODAY ??

#2 Chp 1: KING AHASUERUS TOTALLY INTO PROCEDURES & LAWS

1:8  In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory;

for so the king had ordered....

IMPORTANT NOTE:

There was a “Kings' Law” “ON THE BOOKS”

with respect to “drinking alcohol”.

KEY: God PLANS & HOPES governments, laws, rulers….

will establish His Kingdom and Purposes.

* THEY ARE ALWAYS IMPERFECT AND OFTEN CORRUPTED

AND THEY ALWAYS REQUIRE PRAYER AND INFLUENCE FROM GODS' PEOPLE

#3 KING CALLS FOR QUEEN VASHTI (to show her off) SHE REFUSES TO COME

(Read 13-19)

IMPORTANT NOTE: The King consults his “wise men”

concerning “what to do about the Queen”

* GETS LAWS ON THE BOOKS !

#4 Esther 2 The process begins to find the Queens' replacement:

50 million people in Persia; 127 provinces; Largest empire in the world;

750,000 Jews

(Read 2:5-10)

GOD GIVES ESTHER SPECIAL FAVOR WITH ALL WHO MEET HER

NO ONE KNEW ESTHER WAS A JEW

(Read 2:16-18) Esther is chosen as Queen

(Read 2:21-23)

WHILE NEAR THE KINGS' GATE MORDECAI DISCOVERS A PLOT TO KILL THE KING

KEY NOTE: This Event WAS RECORDED IN THE KINGS' “BOOK OF CHRONICLES”

#5 (Read 3:1-3) Mordecai would not bow or pay homage.

HAMAN GETS A LAW PASSED TO KILL EVERY JEW & PLUNDER THEIR POSSESSIONS

13 And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and

to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day,....

TODAYS' MESSAGE:

IT IS TIME FOR GODS' CHURCH TO PRAY LIKE NEVER BEFORE

KEY NOTE: Same “spirit” prevailed in Persia (Iran) to this day

= “Prince of Persia”

#6 Chp 4: (Read 4:1-3)

(Read 4:7-10) ESTHER POINTS OUT THAT IF SHE APPROACHES THE KING UNINVITED

(Read 4:13-17) “THE LAW” STATES SHE MAY BE KILLED UNLESS KING PARDONS HER

#7 (Read 5:1-3)

ESTHER REQUESTS A BANQUET FOR THE KING and HAMAN

(Read 6:1-3)

THE KING HONORS MORDECAI …..THROUGH HAMAN !

ESTHER REVEALS HAMANS' PLOT TO KILL MORDECAI AND ALL JEWS IN THE LAND

HAMAN IS HANGED ON THE GALLOWS HE BUILT FOR MORDECAI

(Read 8:15-17)

GOD TOTALLY REVERSED THE PLAN OF THE ENEMY

UNPRECEDENTED BLESSINGS ON GODS' PEOPLE

REVIVAL BROKE OUT IN THE LAND

SUMMARY

AND WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO ME and MINE TODAY ??

The “Prince of Persia” WAS uprooted when Irans' leader / government fell.

THIS IS A DEMON SPIRIT It DID NOT DIE or GO TO HELL

THE DEVIL IS DECIDING WHERE TO SEND HIM NEXT !!!

4:1 When Mordecai learned all that had happened, 

he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the

city.

He cried out with a loud and bitter cry. 

2 He went as far as the front of the king’s gate

3 And in every province where the king’s command and decree arrived,

there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, & wailing;

& many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

WE (and every New Testament Church)

MUST BECOME “THE PRAYIN' est CHURCH GOD EVER SAW !