The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 298


 The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 298

Esther 4 New King James Version (NKJV)
Esther Agrees to Help the Jews
…13 And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” 15 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!” 17 So Mordecai went his way and did according to all that Esther commanded him.
Esther – Meditation in The Wisdom and knowledge of God

Mordecai understands the decree written and sealed by the king; he also understands that the evil conspiracy of  Haman will be fulfilled. He is alone in his warning to change the eminent destruction of the Jews in Persia. He understands that Divine intervention will come (see verse 14). But, by then, for most of the Jews, it will be too late. When evil and corruption enter any government, evil takes over the good and the human rights of all people are affected, there will be those Gentiles who seek to protect the Jews and these will be murdered as well. Esther is surrounded by her maids, if she does not speak to the king, these Gentile people will perish too.

Esther is not the ‘ferry tail’ of a young peasant girl and her uncle who become rich and famous. Their story is not some parts true and some parts fiction. The events of the lives of Mordecai and Esther and the Jews of this time in history are Truth from Almighty God. Mordecai also says in verse 14, “Yet who knows whether you (Esther) have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” The Jews have been in the land since the days of Nebuchadnezzar, roughly 70 years, their spiritual strength and awareness of God has been, all but weaned away over time. As with our nation, God is removed from our schools, from our churches, and from most public events. If we today fail to speak up, God will deliver a remnant, but in this case, our national heritage will be destroyed.

Should we be satisfied with a remnant, should we see the persecution and destruction of the saints in this nation? We have not prayed and fasted, we have not called out to God with submissive statements like; “If I perish, I perish” we are no longer a people of God’s pasture. The walls of our steadfastness in our Creator are broken down, our gates to keep evil out of our country, churches and synagogues are burned with the evil plans of unprincipled men and women. Yet, and like Nineveh and if we like Mordecai put on sackcloth and dust ourselves in ashes, God; in this late hour will spare our destruction. Say what? No one puts on sackcloth and dusts themselves with ashes these days! Maybe that is the point, no one is humble enough these days to care, even though they understand.

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