In the book of Esther, Esther, a Jew, finds favor with the king (King Ahasuerus) and becomes the queen.
Esther can be seen as a type of God’s people, the church, who find favor with God.
Esther was raised by Mordecai, who basically was like an uncle to her. Mordecai can be seen as a type of Christ.
There was a wicked man named Haman who had been promoted to a very high rank politically. While others bowed to Haman, Mordecai refused to bow, which enraged Haman, and so he began scheming how he could wipe out the Jews. Haman could be seen as representing leaders of today’s Cancel Culture. He wanted to cancel out the Jews, the people of God. Today the Cancel Culture wants to wipe out the remnant of God, the conservative evangelical Christians.
They cast Pur (lots, like drawing straws) to determine the timing of canceling out the Jewish culture, and it fell upon the month of Adar. So, a decree went out to destroy all the Jews on the 13th day of the month of Adar. There was great mourning and fasting among the Jews.
When Mordecai heard about all this, he told Esther about it, and exhorted her to go before the king to make supplication to him and plead before him for her people, and said to her, “Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”. In that day anyone who went before the king without first being invited would be put to death, with the only exception being if the king held out his golden scepter. Esther called for her people to fast for three days as she prepared to appear before the king, saying, “And so I will go to the king, and if I perish, I perish!”
When Esther approached the king, he extended his golden scepter to her and asked her what she wanted. Esther told the king that she wanted him and Haman to come to a banquet that day that she had prepared for them and that the next day she would tell the king what she desired from him.
At the counsel of his wife, Haman ordered gallows to be made upon which he planned to hang Mordecai after the banquet. Later when Haman told his wife that the king had honored Mordecai, she said, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.” The rulers of darkness are about to fall before the children of the light!
On the second day of the banquet Esther hosted for the king and Haman, the king asked her for her petition, promising to grant it up to half the kingdom. Esther asked the king to spare her and her people and exposed the plot of Haman to cancel out the people of God.
Even though Haman pleaded to the king for his life, the king ordered Haman to be hung on the gallows he had made for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided. His justice had been satisfied.
On that day, the king gave Esther the house of Haman. The wealth of the wicked was transferred to the just. Mordecai became overseer of the house of Haman.
Esther once again appeared before the king, who again extended his golden scepter to her.
Esther petitioned the king to send out a decree to revoke Haman’s decree, which the king granted, allowing the Jews to write the decree themselves, to which the king authorized by sealing it with his signet ring.
On the 13th day of the month of Adar the decree was executed, and the Jews overpowered and destroyed their tormentors. On the 14th day of Adar, they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
The fear of Mordecai fell upon the people and Mordecai’s fame spread throughout the land.
Mordecai issued a decree that the Jews should celebrate annually on the 14th & 15th day of Adar, which has become known as the Feast of Purim. The feast is typically celebrated mostly on the second day.
When does the month of Adar start on our calendar? February 12! When is the Feast of Purim for 2021? Thursday, February 25 through Friday, February 26!
Have we come into the kingdom for such a time as this? Are we willing to appear before the King with our fasting and petitions on behalf of the people of God and our nation? Is God waiting for us to do so in order that He may extend to us His golden scepter and grant our petitions?
Are we in the season where God begins to judge those in darkness who are trying to cancel out the people of God?
Is a time of great victory for the people of God quickly approaching?