The Time for Esthers
“After these things
King Xerxes promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him
and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.” Esther 3:1
The name Haman means “magnificent.” God created this man to be magnificent, but
sin corrupted him. It is noteworthy to
see the origin of Haman. He was an
Agagite. Agagite means “fiery one.” Most
Biblical scholars conclude that Haman was a descendant of Agag, king of
Amalek. The conflict between the
Amalekites and Israelites is well-documented.
The conflict began in Exodus 17:16, after the Jewish people had escaped
from Egypt and were attacked by the Amalekites.
It continued in 1 Samuel 15 when king Saul, a Benajmite, conquered the
Amalekites, yet failed to kill them all, as God had required in Dt.
25:17-19. Thus, the Amalekites remained,
and some 500 years after Saul’s attack, the Benjamite Mordecai faces the
Amalekite Haman, fulfilling Scripture found in Ex. 17:16 that declared the Lord
would “be at war against the Amalekites
from generation to generation.” Haman issued the “devil’s decree” to the king
when he said in Esther 3:8-9: “There is a
certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of
your kingdom; their laws are different
from all other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore, it is not fitting for the king to
let them remain. If it pleases the king,
let a decree be written that they be
destroyed, and I will pay ten
thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work to bring
it into the king’s treasuries.” A
certain people: the church today.
Scattered and dispersed within the kingdom: the church today. Different laws from a higher kingly authority:
the church today. The devils’ decree to
destroy: the church today. Payment for destruction of: the church today!
God we thank You for the Esthers of our generation who rise
up to confront the powers of darkness by the dunamis power of the Holy Spirit!
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