Book of Esther
The Bible is divided into two parts namely Old Testament and New Testament. The Old Testament contains 34 books and the New Testament contains 27 books. The book of Esther is one of the books of Old Testament. Esther reveals more about Jewish, identity during the Babylon captivity than about history. Esther saved the Jews of Shushan from the hands of Haman (evil). During the time, when king Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha placed his seat above all the Princess. Thus, all other king's servants bowed down and obeisance to Haman. But Mordecai did not bowed down neither obeisance Haman. Then the king's servant said to Mordecai, "Why do you transgress the kings Command?" The king's servant asked Mordecai that why did he neglect the king's order. One of the servants told Haman that Mordecai was a Jew. Then the king's wicked minister, Haman, persuaded Ahasuerus to have all the Jews in the empire killed. Further, when Mordecai told this event to Esther, then they decided to tell the king that Esther was Jewish and to plead with him to spare her people from destruction. She handed the situation once; she knows what she had to do. S
Esther fasted in perparation for her visit to the king, and then she revealed her Jewish origin. She asked the king and Haman to come to a banquet. She fed the two men well gave them plenty of wine. Then she tells the king about Haman's disloyalty. Ahasuerus was angry with Haman and had him killed for his Plot. In another words, it took brain to plan such a strategy! She saved the Jews of Shushan. In addition, we can learn truth from the book of Esther. The book of Esther holds the another secret. That is, Haman obtained the authority to destroy all the people who did not follow the wrong commands of the king. Taking benefit of the authority, Haman had ordered his officers to destroy the Jewish people. I learned from this may be skeptical about finding any spiritual truth in this and say obviously that destroying one another and assuming the position of each other is common in politics. We must not forget that we have enemy, the enemy is devil. He killed and destroys who are evil. In the same way a man appointed a day to destroy the Jews, the people of Mordecai, the devil also appointed a day to destroy Haman (evil). On reading the boo
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