[Applause] Work okay well in that case um let’s bow our hearts for a word of prayer well father we just praise you for who you are and we thank you that a he that you’re a healing God and U we pray for those that are in uh sickness
Father we pray for those that have needs we just bring them before you we thank you that you you are a god that is anxious to hear from us and father we thank you for this evening we thank you for your word we pray father that your Holy
Spirit would open our hearts and lives to your word that we each might grow in Grace in the knowledge of our Lord and savior as we commit this evening and ourselves into your hands in the name of Yeshua our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ amen well we’re going to explore the
Book of Esther and obviously starting with chapter 1 but um this is a book that on the one hand is so attractive so enticing that some people are skeptical that it even is really part of the Bible Luther didn’t think so by the way and others didn’t but it’s also an obscure
Book to many many Christians fail to really jump into this for a lot of reasons it’s a story of human love it’s a story of Palace Intrigue and it takes place in probably the most most flamboyant glittering Empire in history the Persian Empire and U it’s a story of
A Jewish Maiden that’s elevated to be to the throne of the known world as Queen and she’s used by God to preserve his people against a hitler-like holocaust if it wasn’t for this episode there wouldn’t be a Jewish Nation there wouldn’t be the temp finished there
Wouldn’t be a messiah so it’s an it it it it commemorates of course Very specifically one of the Jewish holidays you won’t find otherwise in the Old Testament we have the seven feasts of Moses we’re familiar with those this is the Feast of purum and uh it’s uh it’s a
A colorful in its own right but there’s some very strange puzzles about this book you will find no mention of the name of God that’s the official line let me whisper in your air yes you can if you know how to look and we’ll come to that when the time comes there’s
No no reference at all to worship or faith I can’t think of another book in the Bible that about which you could say that um there’s no prediction of the Messiah in here wow there’s no mention of Heaven or Hell there isn’t any religious flavor this anywhere it’s just a saga in fact
It’s been made into a recent movie and and they did it relatively little Hollywood in it but it was a relatively faithful story and it’s a gripping tale so why is it here in the Bible why is it here in the Bible well one of the things going to reveal God’s
Invisible hand behind his people of course Martin Luther believed it could it should not be part of the Canon and he’s joined by many scholars of the past that very skeptical about its appropriateness being here the name Esther it’s amazing how many commentators missed the point
But ginius who’s one of the great expert indicates that that her name comes from a meaning something hidden well you can tell that caught my attention a long time ago what’s it that that’s a that’s a invitation you can’t resist okay but you’re and we’re going to discover before this study will be
Finished not tonight but the study in whole that the name of yodave is hidden inside the text in a whole number of different ways and I’m indebted to my dear friend Yakov Ramel who pointed out something to be that is a corker and I don’t think
You’ll find that in any some of these you’ll find in the tal and elsewhere some of these are really unique but we’ll take that when we get there all through here one of the things are models or types Paul our Apostle reveals that historic incidents that happened to Israel are
Intended as types or models for all of us remember in 1 Corinthians 10:11 Paul says now these things happened unto them for examples in other words as a warning and they are written for our admonition or instruction if you will that’s what they’re there for all these stories in
The Old Testament are there deliberately designed for us and our challenge as we go through is not only to enjoy the story you can’t miss that one but also to extract from it the lessons for ourselves that’s also what he advises in the Book of Romans 15:4 for whatsoever
Things how many is that all of them right for whatsoever things were written a four time were written for our learning that we through the patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope so models and types what are some examples the feasts of Israel every one of the feasts are commemorative
Historically every one of them are also prophetic and when you unravel those it creates a whole new insight what the text is all about the days of Noah it’s more than just a flood there’s a whole thing behind that Abraham’s offering of Isaac as you get into that story The
Subtleties you can see where the Holy Spirit nudged some of the things around so it had a whole another implication and of course Jonah and his three days and if you accept our Lord’s reference to that it implies that Jonah did die in that whale and was resurrected but that’s a whole another
Study and the story behind the story what is the story behind the story of Esther you and me what do I mean by that well we’ll see as we go and of course the whole the issue is the B is about the Bible and to know God and from that to understand
Better ourselves now the time period here it anti dates Nehemiah by about 30 years and Esther makes possible Nehemiah it was Esther’s marriage to the King of Persia that ultimately leads to the rebuilding of Jerusalem the temple and the whole sequence of making the Messiah making his appearance and this is an
Actual history the story is so colorful it’s easy to sort of regard it as a Arabian Knights tale or something no it actually happened and uh it’s not one of these ESOP fables to you exemplify a story or something no no it deals with an escape from annihilation of the
Entire Jewish race in the known world at that time and uh this is after the return from the Babylonian captivity and it enables a whole chain of events that of course leads to the Messiah 500 years later it takes place in the Persian period call it the 6th Century BC
Through the third Century 4th Century BC after many Israelites had returned from Exile from the land of to the land of Palestine to rebuild the Temple and uh not all of them went by the way this really deals with some people who chose not to go but most Israelite captives
Chose not to return to their Homeland Cyrus gave them financial and setups to do so donations for the temple and financial sets to go and less than 50,000 went it should have done so because both Isaiah and Jeremiah urged the that exiled Nation to come out of Babylon
After their 70 years servitude and return where the Lord could bless them under the promises of Deuteronomy 28 and as we just just in some of our previous studies Deuteronomy 28 two halves the blesses and the curses you want to understand those and uh it’s interesting remember we just finished Hosea
And God for a while had him name his child Lo Ami you are not my people and this sort of alludes to that period yes they are God’s people they will be again but he is invisible we see him watching over the people but invisibly that’s what’s so interesting here and uh the
Events of this book U extend over roughly 10 years from 483 BC which is xerx third year uh through 473 BC the his end of his 12th year so that decade that 20-year period is our Focus for this book and uh they if you’re try to tie this it’s ahead of Nehemiah probably
About between chapter 6 and seven of Ezra if you want to get a flavor of where it fits in the scenario here well let’s just jump in now it came to pass in the days of azerus this is hazus which reigned from India even to Ethiopia over
127 provinces that’s a bunch a hazus his Persian name is unpronouncable Kera which in Hebrew somehow becomes a hazus and in the Greek language we would know him from our secular as xeres a very very despotic uh flamboyant impulsive leader his father was Darius I first and his
Grandfather was a guy by the name of Cyrus the Great we talk a lot about him for a lot of reasons Daniel 5 and so on but hazus that that is actually a title sort of like Pharaoh or Caesar those are really titles not names and there’s three possible candidates here the
Father Darius deid was so labeled Daniel 91 he was probably the cyes that uh known by in in profane history king of media and the Conqueror of Nineveh and U then there’s a king mentioned in Ezra 4 uh verse six probably the campuses of provan History his son and successor of
Cyrus that we think it’s the son of Darius hpus which is the king named in the Book of Esther he ruled over the kings of Persia media and Babylonia from India to Ethiopia literally Ethiopia being really Kush and anyway this was all probability the Xerxes of profane history some people have arguments about
This but the the abundance of Scholastic uh evidence ties it pretty well to the guy we know in history of xeres and by the way in the septu agent version of Esther the name AR ex Xerxes occurs there but that’s really his son that comes later and we’re going to talk
About him before we’re through anyway uh the king we’re talking about Reign for about 21 years and led vast armies against Greece so so vast that the historians are of that period are doubted U we’ll see some examples of that shortly I’ll take you through some of that the two countries that are
Listed here India and Ethiopia are chosen because they apparently are the the uh the boundaries from Maine to California so to speak okay and uh so the word Ethiopia is actually Kush uh it’s a term for the upper Nile region which included present day Southern Egypt all of the Sudan and Northern
Ethiopia and uh so then in those days when the king azus sat on the throne of his kingdom which was in shushan the palace that’s about 200 miles east of Babylon the capital of alam or what we would know today as Iran or also called Persia and this was the
Sushan was the sight of the winter residence of the Persian kings it was also the residence of daras who authorized the rebuilding of the temple Xerxes the ‘s husband that we’re talking about in the story and AR Xerxes the first who’s the one that authorized Nehemiah to protect the city which of
Course triggers the 70E prophecy of Daniel 9 so he’s a very important person in history but that’s the son of the one we’re going to be encountering here now it’s interesting that the shush area they found an inscription as follows my ancestor Darius built this Palace in
Former times in the reign of my grandfather AR ex first 425 465 425 it was burned and I have restored it and it’s interesting that a later period might not even have known about the palace so we get all kinds of evidences that this story that we’re going to read
Was written by an eyewitness interestingly enough we’ve confirmed it by subsequent discoveries archaeologically and we’ll get into some of that as we go and they’ve they’ve located the king’s gate of chapter 4 the inner Court of chapter 5 the outer Court of chapter 6 The Palace Garden that’s referenced in
Chapter 7 and one of the dice that is uh which they cast lots that’s going to be important in our story the idea of poor that’s where purum gets the holiday gets its name from this idea of you know chance uh uh throwing the dice so to
Speak okay in the third year of his Reign he made a feast unto all his princes and servants the power of Persian media which you see it was actually a coalition Dr Cyrus’s day cuz he was part me part anyway I’ll get all it here the Nobles and the princes of
The province being before him now he his drinking parties were well known they’re well documented by herodicus and others and U he had an irrational temper occasionally exhibiting fits of his rage when a BL bridgecraft he took a strap and he beat the the ocean in a
Rage for having there’s strange St stor is about Xerxes he’s apparently quite an immature character in some respects he did have a palace in Souza which here is called shushan Suza is the the Greek name for it and he had a large Herm there and uh the pilled Halls of the pr
Prolis and the Susan palaces could counted hundreds if not thousands of visitors the power Persian media the Nobles and princes of the provinces were brought before him for a six-month party that doesn’t mean they were all there for all six months but for six months it was a special time and the the
Presence of those all the Heavies all the governors all his top people came they gathered at Susa and why was he putting on this big show because he’s getting them conditioned because he wants to conquer the world starting with Europe okay literally so the Pres of person’s Gathering were prepar
Preparatory to a Grecian War that’s where he’s going to start as witness to and herst Records all this and uh he refers this these Banquets in his history herodicus is known as the father of History by the way he wrote extensively and uh and he states that hazus was conferring with his leaders
About a possible invasion of Greece it was his father Darius I first that invaded Greece and had been shamefully defeated at Marathon back in 490 which is a few years before the area we’re watching now so while preparing to return to Greece and get revenge Darius
Had died and now his son our Xerxes friend is I mean he is now he he felt compelled to avenge his father and expand his Empire at the same time and so uh it’s Herodotus that points out he planned to invade all of Europe and reduce the whole earth to one
Empire that was his dream that was not invented by Alexander the Great this precedes him here anyway AA says quote my intent is to throw a bridge over the hpot and March an army through Europe against Greece and thereby I may obtain Vengeance from the Athenians for the wrongs committed by
Them against the Persians and against my father so according to herodicus he confronted Greece with 2.6 million and walked away with 7,000 a whole story we’ll get to here in a minute the king’s uncle artabanus strongly opposed the plan but the king persisted and succeeded in convincing the princes and
The officers to follow him that’s what that six month part is all about and according to Rus it took Z Xerxes four years to get ready for the invasion he launched in 481 and those four years would begin from the beginning of Xerxes grain to about
485 okay and no doubt the 180 days was were planning sessions in effect in which all the provinces leaders were being prepared for the war effort and uh he will marry Esther four years later in the seventh year of his Reign we’ll get to that before the evening’s over but
That’s still ahead of us here and unfortunately this ostentatious display of wealth couldn’t guarantee them a military Victory because in 480 the Persian navy was destroyed in salamis while the king sat on the throne watching the battle in 479 the Persian army was defeated in pla and they ended
A haz’s dream of world Empire that’s a glimpse ahead and obviously as a Naval Academy graduate I will not let you pass by the victory at Solus before the evening’s over we’re going into that a little bit but uh there are three Banquets here described and it took at least six other
Feasts to record in this book this is a party animals book here so pay attention the other six are Esther’s coronation banquet hmon is the who is the villain of the peace he will have a celebration Feast with the king in chapter 3 Esther throws two Banquets and that’s a whole
Story in its own right and the Jews Banquets when they heard the new decree and then the Feast of pyram is the climactic one which is celebrated to this day uh by the Jewish Community but uh let’s get on here verse four when he showed the The Riches of his glorious
Kingdom the honor of his excellent Majesty many days even 104 score days score being 20 180 days and so uh ostentation is the main feature here huge Army that invaded Greece as I say herodicus pens it literally lays it out about 2.6 million most historians think that’s a gross exaggeration but they do
Recognize it was a vast outnumbering of the of the Greeks and so anyway uh uh but most of that even even his army was more display than service they were obviously not very effectual and that will be uh evident from the way the Greeks deal with it and
It’s going to be especially evident when Alexander later puts an end to it all but uh vain parade is available is visible apparent everywhere we go here and so he exhibits all these Riches of his kingdom his officers and so these out a sales job here and uh all these
Details incidentally are confirmed in archaeological things things we won’t spend time on that here when these days were expired the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in shusa and the palace both unto Great and Small seven days in the court of the
Garden of the king’s Palace that court of the garden by the way is about 350 ft long 250 ft wide with a square of 145 taken out of it in the central building that exceeds 60,000 Square ft that’s a party place huh wow there were white and green and blue hangings fastened with
Cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pill of marble the beds were of gold and silver upon a pavement of red blue white and black marble those are not Colors by the way those are actually for different materials in the in the text that’s just the way it’s
Been translated the so-called pavement thing there okay and they gave them drink and vessels of gold the vessels being diverse from one another and the Royal Wine in abundance according to the state of the king strange little remark it’s a minute point but it implies an eyewitness recording it not the kind of
Thing that somebody would just you know wash over it’s a detail it’s interesting and the drinking was according to the law none did compel for so the king had appointed to all the officers his house that they should do according to Every Man’s pleasure that’s unusual because
The usual custom was to force them to drink it was required but this was great Liberty you can drink as little or as much as you want that’s some kind of Freedom um the Persians were very hard Drinkers and frequently drank to excess and that’s recorded by several of the
Ancient historians they’re well known for that and now we meet vashy the queen Made A Feast for the women in the Royal house which belonged to King hassar the women and the men stayed separate so she the queen threw her own party for the gals okay vashi the name by the way
Means beautiful woman which gives a sort of a problem is that her name or is that a title because there’s some debate exactly uh there’s some issues I’ll come to in a minute and vas she identified as the granddaughter of Nebuchadnezzar in some retical sources interestingly
Enough but a mistress is the the way it’s there are some Greek records the only wife of xerxis known to the Greeks was a mistress which uh is a uh the daughter of otanis one of the seven conspirators according to Herodotus Zur Xerxes took her to wife as
Soon as he was of marriageable age and before he ascended to the throne he had a son by her who in his seventh year was grown up that son would become arder Lan Janus the one that gives Nehemiah his authority rebuild Jerusalem the city and that’s that triggers the whole 7we
Prophecy so he’s a key guy but that’s the son of whoever this gal is whether it’s Vash or whether it’s uh uh the stepson so to speak of Esther is an issue it would seem to be certain that if a hazus with Xerxes vashy must be a
Mstress as the title goes maybe maybe not that again could be a title and U men and women didn’t take their meals together unless in except in the privacy of domestic life and so the women would have their own parties in effect what it says and the royal house in the janum
Which is the heram which was probably on the southern side of the Great pillared Hall so what let’s move on verse 10 on the seventh day when the heart of the King was merry with wine he commanded a bunch of names I’ll mispronounced muman bista harbona Biga anatha Zar and carcass the seven
Chamberlains that served in the presence of hezus the king to bring vast the queen before the king with the Crown Royal to show the people and the princes her beauty for she was fair to look on this is an unusual procedure an unusual request incidentally but the queen vashy refused
To come at the king’s commandment by his chamberlains therefore was the king very wroth and his anger burned in him that’s very unfortunate because he was going to parade his wife before this drunken crowd she didn’t want any part of it she was more more right than he
Was but he’s King and pride driven impulsive so he is really feels upstaged and this is U he showing less character than she did she had the strength of character to say no but his anger burned within him then the king said to the wise men which knew the
Times that sounds like they’re astrologers or what have you for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment and the next to him was Kena shethar ad maatha tares Mez marcena and mukan he’ll be important the seven princes of Persia and media which saw
The king’s face and which sat the first in the Kingdom this is his first level of advisers and so what shall we do unto the queen vashy according to the law because she hath not performed the Commandment of the king a hazus by the chamberlains big deal here M can
Answered before the king and the princes vasty the queen have not done wrong hath not done wrong to the king only but also to all the princes and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king of hezus your girls will recognize the illogic of that conclusion what’s that
Got to do with anything but these are the sycophants that are there to tell the king what they think the king wants to hear right and for this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes when it shall be
Reported the king of hazar commanded vashy the queen to be brought in before him but she came not in other words they’re arguing that because of her dis if they allow her Disobedience it’s going to affect all the households baloney anyway this I guess is what you’d call a a Persian stimulus
Package anyway likewise shall the ladies of Persian media say to this day unto all the kings princes which have heard the deed of the queen thus shall there arise too much contempt and Wrath if it please the king Let There Go a royal commandment from him and let it be
Written among the laws of the Persians of the beads that be not altered that notice by the way their laws are not alterable we find that in Daniel chapter 6 as a key point in that whole story too there’s a consistency be sensitive to anyway let it be written among the laws
Of pers and Greeks and the me that it not be altered that vashy come no more before the king of hazus and let the King give her Royal Estate to another that is better than she boy she’s the only one showing some character because she wouldn’t parade herself before these this drunken Rebel
You would think that he would think more of her than even exposure to that kind of stuff it’s the other way around though it turns out and so um it’s interesting though we find examples of the decrees of a temporary character were sometimes attached to a code for
The express purpose of rendering them unalterable that’s the Trap that the advisers got Darius in in Daniel chapter 6 because the he Dan had been appointed to the median Persian uh U to head up the the median U magistrates Magi and the it was a hereditary priesthood they
Resented it so they cooked up that whole Lion thing but anyway let’s move on and when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his Empire for it is great all the wives shall give to their husband’s honor both to Great and Small that’s the logic
They’re trying to sell the king and the saying please the king and the princes and the King did according to the word of Mican for he sent letters un all the kings provinces and every Province according to the writing thereof and to every people after their language that
Every man should bear rule in his own house that it should be published according to the language of the people one of the things you get impression here is they had a Pony Express kind of thing that his decree could be published rather quickly and here of course it’s
Foolishness in a sense but that’ll turn out to be very important before we get the story over because there’s another decree that saves lives that goes out fortunately fast enough and so uh we’ll get into that but be senstive the fact that there is apparently a fairly well
Organized what I’ll call in our Parliament a Pony Express kind of communications Network after these things when the wrath of King now by the way we’re in chapter two we just got from chapter one to chapter 2 and there’s about four years in here we want to talk about
After these things when the wrath of King has a peace he remembered vashi years have gone by in the meantime what has happened those years I’ll tell you and uh so let’s take a look at this between chapters 1 and two there’s at least four years during which zerx went
On his disastrous Greek campaign there are a series of battles 490 BC is the Battle of Marathon that’s the one he wants to avenge when his father was humiliated by the defeat the Greece gave him at the Battle of Marathon then came the battle of thermopile then the Battle of Solus and
The Battle of pla let’s take a quick look at these Maron is the one that’s historic that happens before Xerxes that took place between the Greeks and the Persians at Marathon that’s a plane in Athenian territory about 25 25 miles Northeast of Athens and herodicus describes all this in great detail that
As having been initiated against the Greek cities of Athens and erria by Darius I in Revenge for their support of a Revolt within the Persian Empire a decade earlier okay so at the same time he portrays the Persian motive as the conquest of all of Greece there that was really what
They’re after now the Persians were enormous what the real number is is only a matter of guess but the most the smallest number by the scholars is probably at least about 990,000 they outnumbered the Greeks by virtually 10 to1 okay according to rodus the dead numbered 192 Athenians died and over
6,000 Persians so despite the fact they’re out numbered like 10 to1 they clobbered them enough so that now the Persians are going to seek revengeance for their shameful defeat you follow the logic so that leads you to thermopile and that’s a term in the Greek which
Means hot Gates it’s a hot springs kind of area and um in the vicinity and uh it’s the scene of the first major battle that fought by Xerxes in his attempt to conquer the world motivate part by on Vengeance basis but partly as ambition for expansion and U so he had already won
Over some parts of Greece through a diplomatic initiative and the threat of force the remaining Greeks under the leadership of Sparta these are tough guys abandoned the Thessalonian Frontier and made a stand Instead at the pass of thermopile and thermopile is the scene that is now immortalized in movies and
Other things it see ther was the main route by which an invading Army could penetrate from the north into Southern Greece in the ancient times it was about a 50 foot wide pass and uh it’s different today but that’s the way it was then and many people regard herodias
Recording of this as a gross exaggeration but herodicus actually claims they had 2.6 million in their army most of the army was vain show they weren’t real trained military and those 2.6 million or whatever they really were were about against about 7,000 Greeks and U they won Immortal Fame there
Because they they they the the leader got killed and his 1400 men and a fabled 300 Spartans held them off long enough for most of them to escape and uh they lost yes they were betrayed by a Thessalonian which in the into the hands of Persians who by following a path over
A mountain attacked the Greeks from the rear so despite the heroics that have been immortalized in movies and and poetry and other things the Fable 300 if you will um the the Greeks lost it but um and the Persians went on after having suffered their losses there they went on
Take Athens and uh the Greek navy will ultimately defeat them at the Battle of salamas halting xerox’s advance and let’s take a look at the Battle of salus as a Naval Academy graduate I got to lay this on you because it was probably one of the big Naval victories in history
And occurred in the straight near the island of salamas not far from Athens the Persians under Xerxes had been advancing uh all the way through Greece and by 480 BC they had actually captured aens but both the Greek and the Persian supplies were getting low and the Greeks
Had an argument as to what their next move should be some advocated they should withdraw to Corinth but an aenial General the mysticle argued that it would be more effective to pursue an aggressive Naval policy and hold their position and when he threatened to leave with the Athenian Navy they all finally
Agreed to his plan you know it’s my ball you’re let have to let me play say kind of thing so um by some accounts theistic then sent a secret message to xerx saying that his Athenian Navy was prepared to turn against the rest of the Greeks and that the Persians had only to
Attack to secure a victory and xeres apparently fooled by this Ploy attacked with this Fleet of about 400 ships and when the Persian navy Advanced the fleet of 380 Greek ships back further into the bay a tactical maneuver designed to suck in the Persians if you will and crowded
In the narrow straight of salamas the Persian ships were rammed sunk and boarded by Greeks for hand toand combat the battle was a decisive victory for the outnumbered Greece who lost only 40 ships compared to the more than 200 lost by the Persians this halted the advance of
Xerxes and ended the Persian threat to Greek civilization now there’s one fourth final battle we won’t get into detail but but there’s a cleanup in the Battle of platea and that’s the final battle of the Persian wars in which the remaining Persian forces of Greece were defeated
And driven out so that ends the Z the the Persian Ambitions it’s going to be a century later that Alexander the Great you know really sets the stage but we’ll that’s ahead of our here all authority comes from God right not from guns and ships and whatever Pharaoh had to learn that
In Egypt in Exodus 7 Nebuchadnezzar had to learn that in Daniel 3:4 belshazzar learned it at in his Blasphemous banquet in Daniel 5 and srab learned it in the Gates of Jerusalem in Isaiah 36 and 37 Herod a grippa learned that as he died eaten by worms in Acts
12 the US may be learning that today but that’s another story let’s go on here chapter 2 verse one after these things when the wrath of King hezus was appeased he remembered vashi and what she had done and what was decreed against her in small words he missed her
So he came home a bitter man can you imagine after those military setbacks it was only natural he would seek some kind of comfort in his own home but then remember the course Bast had been dethroned and was without a queen and he doesn’t dare reinstate her because his
Advisers know that’s the end of them right so there’s a call for new Queen he had ined Grace as I say with two million soldiers only 5,000 had been returned to him that’s kind of a a rough setback and that and then of course it’s after this that Esther’s uh chosen he’ll live
Another 13 years from here she will live into the reign of her stepson AR Xerxes and nehemiah’s request to rebuild Jerusalem and that’s the Daniel 70 we story which you can put in context by doing a little homework there verse two then said the king’s servants that
Ministered un him let there be a be fair young virgins sought for the king they’re not about to want vasty reinstated that would be their death now they’d be a gast at that and so let the king appoint all officers and all the provinces of his kingdom that they may
Gather together all the fair young virgins in the shush and the palace to the house of the women unto the custody of hegy the king’s Chamberlain Keeper of the women and let their things U their for purification be given to them and let the maiden which pleaseth the king
Be Queen instead of Ashy and the thing pleased the king so he did so you know for a despotic leader he seemed to be kind of a pushover to his advisers you know really and they obvious didn’t want zerus to reinstate bashy because that would she would obviously turn against
Them so so this anyway appealed to the king he followed it now in shushan the P there was a certain Jew whose name was Mori the son of Jar the son of shemi the son of Kish a benjamite he’s a benjamite there was the family of Kish who came from the family of
Kish huh Saul the king you bet but also these others Saul he Saul was the son of Kish of The Tribe of Benjamin don’t forget that in fact Josephus refers to Esther as of the Royal Family the royal family being Sauls okay as king but I want to talk about something
That’s overlooked by many Mori is a son of Jer son of shemi who is shimi whenever you see a detail in here the rabbis will tell you if you see a detail that seems unnecessary that’s a signpost says dig here there’s some there there’s a treasure hidden shimi apparently son a
Benjamite of Saul’s house but there’s a story you need to know about when David fleeing from absum others have many years before right reached the edge of the valley between the road of shim’s house shimmy ran along the ridge over against the road cursing and throwing
Stones and dust at him at David and his mighty men still as he went and saying come out come out thou bloody man thou man of Bilo that the Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the House of Saul and the Lord hath delivered the
Kingdom into the hand of absum thy son and behold Thou Art taken in thy Mischief because thou art a bloody man he sounding off to the king who surrounded by his mighty men dumb move right abashi that’s one of the mighty men would have taken off his head then
And there as a dead dog presuming to curse the King get the picture but David interesting this was Jehovah’s doing let him curse for the Lord hath bidden him it may be that the Lord will look on shine Affliction miss my mine Affliction and requite me good for his
Cursing shimi wi wisely was the first of the House of Joseph to meet David on his Victorious return over Jordan This is later he returned with a thousand benjamites and Zeba his 15 sons and 20 servants are with him he fell down before the king confessing his sin and
Begging David see now David’s in power now see and begging David not to impute iniquity to him or remember and take to heart his perversity really again abashi would have slain shemi but David felt his day of restoration to the kingdom was no day for avenging wrongs and said Thou shalt not
Die now he’ll get later on into another trouble and will ultimately get killed because of his own doing but what’s interesting here I want you to be sensitive to some genealogical ironies because David spared shimi there was a Mori in our story you’re going to discover on our next
Session that Saul spared AAG which he wasn’t supposed to and that leads to hmon the two protagonists in the Book of Esther are Mori that we always cheer and hmon that you boo okay but that go they both go back to having been spared death simei wasn’t killed by David therefore
We have a Mori Saul was supposed to kill King AAG and he did not and that’s why we have hmon let’s get back to the story here verse six who had been carried away from this being back of Mory had been carried away from Jerusalem with the Captivity which had been carried away
With jeanah the king of Judah that he was he was captured as BN of the captives um whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away that deportation under Janiah began some 80 80 years earlier there are at least three captivities of Judah the first was when Daniel was carried away in the
Third year of jyim the second was that is here referred to is jiah chin or Janiah and U when he was made prisoner and uh then the third was zedekiah was taken to Jerusalem and when it was burnt finally in the third Siege so you need to understand those three sieges because
A lot that in your understanding will hang on that stuff and Kish belonged to to the second captivity anyway and he brought up hadassa that is Esther his uncle’s daughter that’s mori’s uncle’s daughter um for she had neither father nor mother and the maid was fair and beautiful whom
Morai when her father and mother were dead took for his own daughter okay I’ll give you a a genealogical chart here a little bit hadasa that is Esther that’s as we know her uh his uncle’s daughter for she had neither father or mother and her maid was fair and beautiful whom
Mori when her father and mother were dead took for his own daughter and ginius who’s one of the greatest Hebrew authorities says that Esther is taken from the word to hide it means something hidden and let me tell you before we’re through with the study you’re going to
Be surprised you’ll be astonished at what’s lurking underneath the text but we’ll move on now she was a Jewish named hadasha which means Myrtle but when she entered the Royal heram she received the name by which she was henceforth become known and she was the daughter of Abel a
Benjamite her family did not Avail themselves of permission granted by Cyrus of the ex to the Exiles to return to Jerusalem she resided with her cousin morai held some office in the household of Persian king at shushan the tal so these both she and morai were residuals they
Didn’t go back to Jerusalem and uh from our point of view it’s good that they didn’t because they had they became major instruments of God’s Province there it came to pass when the king’s commandment and his decree Was Heard and many and when many maidens were gathered
Together into shushan the palace to the custody of hegi the uh that Esther was brought also unto the King’s house to the custody of hegi The Keeper of the women that name by the way occurs in herodias as an officer of Xerxes in herodes 9:34 anyway and the Maiden
Pleased him and she obtained kindness of him and he speedily gave her her things for purification with such things as belong to her and seven maidens which were meat to be given her out of the King’s house and he preferred her and her Maids unto the best place of the
House of the women you know it’s very interesting he very similar to Joseph in Egypt somehow caught the patronage of the jailer so to speak well she’s the same boat she’s in a similar situation she’s a captive in effect but U the one in charge takes a liking to her and he
Sort of knows the ins and outs of the system there Esther had not showed her people nor her Kindred for morai had charged her that she should not show it she had not showed her people other words she is Jewish but NE Mori tipped her off not to let anyone know that that
Would not serve her purpose it’s an interesting issue here Mori walked every day before the court of the women’s house to know how Esther did and what should become of her he couldn’t go in but he could get some Clues from the Unix what’s going on he
He he stayed as best he could informed on what’s going on now when every mage’s turn was come to go into the king of hezus after that she had been 12 months according to the manner of the women for so were the days of their purification
Accomplished to it 6 months with the oil of myrr and six months with sweet odors and with other things for the purifying of women now I don’t know how many of you gals go through that for your husbands but uh wow you know then thus came every Maiden unto
The king whatsoever she desired was given to her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the King’s house in the evening she went and on the tomorrow she returned into the second house of the women to the custody of jahaz Gaz the king’s Chamberlain which
Kept the concubines she came in unto the king no more except the king delighted except the king delighted her and that she were called by name you need to understand there heram genium is comprised of three houses a residence for the queen herself corresponding to that which Solomon built for the
Daughter of pharaoh in first king 7 a second house for secondary wives or concubines a third house for virgins Upon returning from her first visit of the king’s chamber she ordinarily would become an inmate of the second house and it was under the care of this other unic okay now in the turn
Of Esther the daughter of abale the uncle of Mori who had been taken her for his daughter was come to go in unto the king she required nothing but what hegi the King’s chaper and The Keeper of the women appointed and Esther obtained favor in the sight of all them that
Looked upon her let me at this point just insert Abel is the uncle of Mori literally the paternal Uncle of the father’s brother the genealogy to give you a perspective here under Kish was shimi and he had two sons Jer and abale Jer was the father of morai ab abale was
His father’s brother has a daughter Esther but he and his wife die so Esther falls under the guardianship of Mori got the picture okay and so so Esra was taken in the king of hezus into the house Royal in the 10th month which is the month of tith in the 7eventh year of
His Reign the great feast that we talked about was four years earlier just keep keep that in Focus here the month Toth is this the only mention of it in the in the scripture by the way it follow klev and corresponds to the end of December
Early part of January on our on our calendar and the king oh here’s the big news and the King loved Esther above all the other women and I I I wouldn’t presume that he has the capacity to really love her as we would use the term but he obviously had a preference here
That turns out to be very operative because she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins so that he s the Royal Crown upon her head and made her Queen instead of vashy praise God that does that have an impact on human history turns out then the king
Made a great feast unto all his princes he’s going to find any excuse to throw a party I guess anyway made a great feast unto all his princes and servants even Esther’s feast and he made a release get this he made a release to the provinces
And gave gifts according to the state of King he forgave their taxes or Le some portion of them he gave a release that was a big deal for everybody and so U here this how a humble Jewish Maiden an orphan dependent upon her living as a cousin on a cousin’s
Charity became the first woman in all Persia the wife of the greatest of living monarchs the queen of the Empire which comprised more than half of the Known World wow so that’s how it happened and when the virgins were gathered together the second time Mori
Sat in the King’s day now we’re going to get into a little episode here this is a little plant this is the kind of thing uh that uh should catch your attention Esther had not yet showed her her Kindred nor her people as Mori charged her for Esther did the
Commandment of morai like as when she was brought up with him other words she did what she was told and so even though she was just a you know Award of morai she followed his directions precisely and it was it’ll prove to be very important anyway a
Little episode’s going to occur here in those days while Mori sat in the king’s gate now a apparently morai suddenly has been upscaled here probably we guess that with Esther’s being favored she whispered in the right ears and got morai promoted because he’s now in City Hall he’s in
The king’s gate that’s the the the legal place things are decided he sat in the king’s gate while he was there two of the king’s chamberlains big fan and terish of those which kept the door these are Insiders were wroth and sought to lay hand on the king of
Hezus morai somehow picks up there’s a plot to kill the king okay and uh this so he’s in a very key position to do that and by the way just so you know Xerxes later on actually lost his life through a conspiracy formed by artabanus the
Captain of the guard and aspam a unic and a Chamberlain so he was later on a victim of the intrigues in the palace but let’s get on with this one the thing was known to morai who told it to Esther the queen and Esther certified the king thereof in mori’s name so Esther
Communicates the king there’s a plot to kill him and gives Mori the credit for having revealed it right and and by the way um Josephus even had some details here that a certain farasis a slave of one of the conspirators betrayed them to Mori that’s how he found out that’s in
Josephus for what it’s worth and when Inquisition was made of the matter it was found out therefore they were both hanged on a tree that’s not quite true I’ll come back to that and it was written in the book of The Chronicles before the king now don’t
Think they’re hanged like a Gallows many of your English translation gives you the impression they were hung on a Gallows that’s the word they use no they were crucified they were impaled on a post crucifixion was invented by the Persians about 90 years before the Roman
R an picked up on it and the Romans of course used it widely crucifixion wasn’t a Roman thing it was something they learned from the Persians that’s what they’re really talking about here it’s a translational issue okay so so rather than being hanged in a modern type Gallows they apparently were impaled on
A stake or post and that was not an unusual method of execution because xerx father Darius apparently crucified 3,000 men on one occasion so this was the way they did things and a record of this this incidentally a record of this assassination attempt was then written in the annals that is the official
Record that it was discovered the the perpetrators would be perpetrators were executed and mori’s name is there for credit and this is going to be a plant in the plot this is a u this is cool now couple of genealogical things a mistress is the term that shows up in
The Greek literature was the mother of AR Xerxes who ruled from 464 to 425 she probably was vashy vashy was deposed in 482 it was a year before that AR xeres was born so apparently basy was her his biological mother but she apparently is the stepmother then of AR exer and
Apparently influenced him greatly so what’s what we don’t know we know that his mother was a great influence on her but that would probably not be Vash you’d be Esther because she would be the the what we would call a stepmother it was her son Aris Xerxes who ruled during
The times of Ezra and also in Nehemiah and that’s what leads of course to the 70 we trigger which is big stuff that’s kind of fun okay we have this little plant and we’re going to discover that Mori is never acknowledged because God knows when the
Time is right and we’re going to see a very very interesting plot twist come later on in the story but we’ve talked about morai we’ve talked about Esther we’ve gotten a glimpse of this guy Xerxes and he’s uh uh tall dark and handsome but not very mature very
Impulsive but there’s another guy to be introduced into the story next time and am malachite by the name of hmon so I want you to study for next time’s uh Esther chapter 3 and chapter 4 and we’re going to introduce the villain of the peace you want to take a
Look at Hon’s background you’ll find some of that in 1st Samuel 15 because Saul is supposed to kill King AAG and does not and he goes to the Penalty Box because of that but there’s a thread here that actually begins in Genesis and involves a notable ancestor of bari’s family the
First king of Israel namely Saul so the the story of Esther in a sense starts back there with Saul with a Y okay signification two ways so you’re going to also want to study for next time review mori’s background in 2 Samuel 16 and 19 in First Kings 2 and
You can use your resources to poke around in that but study that three and four and the plot gets thicker it’s going to be one of the most um dramatic uh dramas that you’ll ever encounter so much so it’s irresistible as a story and uh you’re going to discover that this
Guy hmon is bad news and this guy morai is uh in in in in uh refuses to yield to him shows character and earns a death sentence because of that but God has a way of introducing twists that no playright would have dreamed up it’s just a kick and so very very interesting
Time all is a Prelude to some really huge huge dramatic scenes so great time let’s stand for a closing word of Prayer Book of Esther it’s interesting what diversity of books make up the Bible what diversity of books make up the Old Testament this narrative is so different
Than almost everything else in the Bible very colorful very enticing u a real kick let’s bow our hearts father we thank you that you are a God who intervenes in history we thank you Father that the lot is in your lap but you oversee its disposition we thank you Father that we
Every one of us are right here by your Divine appointment not by chance but by Your Divine appointment and we thank you Father for your word and we thank you for your holy SP Spirit we would ask father that you would illuminate for each of
Us just what it is you would have of each of us in the days ahead reigniting us a new passion a new Hunger for your word in this time in this age of Deceit we thank you for your truth help us father to embrace it help us to
Understand what you would have in response that we might more might be more effective stewards of the opport opportunities before us more pleasing in th sight as we commit our way into your hands in the name of Yeshua our Lord Our Savior our coming King in whose name we do pray Amen Don’t do that well that sounds kind of like a pton place doesn’t [Laughter] it okay okay okay gosh our little group is all huddled around one table now instead of spread out over too that’s that’s pretty nice well hopefully we all got a uh little bit of
A history lesson into what the book of Esther is all around all about and you might have noticed that I started this with the Book of Esther rather than the Book of Ruth about halfway through and we will do Ruth when we’re finished these are are very very short
Um little four four session uh books and so uh My Hope Is that we can do Esther then Ruth and then Peggy and and I are going to huddle she doesn’t know it yet and we’re going to try and figure out uh something that Peggy has wanted to do
And we’ll try and see if we can’t go forward with that if that’s if that works for you um and the reason I swapped uh Ruth and Esther is because um I think it ties That Esther ties in pretty well with some of the sermons that you have just given uh and a
Presentation that Jerry has given with respect to Israel the attacks upon Israel and the fact that uh the neighbors of Israel continue to try and wipe them off the face of the Earth and uh I I know everyone has read their Bible so this is not a spoiler but
The Mr Nasty in this whole program uh gets the king to issue a decree to wipe out every uh Jewish man woman and child in the entire uh the entire Persian Kingdom understand that the Persian kingdom is at least half the known world right so when they were trying to wipe out Jew
Je within the kingdom of Persia they were wiping out the vast majority of Jews because the the Persian kingdom included not only Elam or Persia but also Israel right y can and Canan and and uh and all of the all of the Nations that we’re that we uh that are recorded
We normally think about Syria Assyria Lebanon uh Kush right Egypt they were all under the control of uh Xerxes or a hasu you know in in in the in in the uh in in in the Hebrew so when he decided that he was going to wipe out
Well when hmon decided that he was going to trick uh Xerxes who uh Chuck refers to his tall dark handsome and not the brightest bulb on the tree if he gets uh his tail kicked around a frat boy well no I was in a
Fret he he got his he got his me he got his tail kicked kicked pretty good by the Greeks right and they were they were outnumbered by at least nine or 10 to one so and he’s got this big this giant army whether it’s 2 and a half it
Doesn’t make any difference how many it is he drinks like a fish well it wasn’t his drinking that got him and it was his arrogance that got him I think but in any event when they were going to wipe out the Jews they were going to wipe out
The vast majority of Jews 80 public to do it I’m sorry they were going to make a law that allowed the public to attack the Jews right it wasn’t just the military and and and attack Purge right and attacked the Jews to steal their stuff right yeah
Yeah so that’s a little bit of background as to why I thought we’ll swap these two and we’ll do with Esther first because I think it ties in with with the uh message that you have been sending and the presentation that Jerry has given on that behalf
Okay so uh we we’ve uh had a little bit of homework and I understand that that uh Chuck gets into thing things pretty deeply he he sifts pretty fine but hopefully now we have a pretty good idea number one of who Xerxes is or aasher or whatever how youever you pronounce his
Name and where he fell you know in in in the genealogically right because it’s Cyrus that comes in and uh overtakes uh uh um not uh what they so Cyrus conquered Babylon okay so Cyrus that overtakes Babylon right and Daniel meets him right says oh hey I got a letter for you it’s
300y old letter but I got a letter for you right well I was 300 years old but the Pony Express hadn’t been ex invented yet so it took a little while to deliver right and time right right on time and and Cyrus takes a look at this I mean first
Who’s this guy oh well he was uh uh he was a big chief right he was a principal counselor for the uh the uh father of the guy that you just opposed right oh all right well what’s he got to say well he’s got this letter
This old old letter and in the letter it says hey some dude named Cyrus is going is going to overtake uh uh Babylon what a coincidence yeah and he called and in the letter God calls Cyrus out by name right and it’s on on the stone of Cyrus it’s recorded and
That’s currently in the uh um British Museum and I’ve had the privilege of actually seeing that it’s a little thing about the size of a football and I can’t read uh ancient uh uh Hebrew or whatever what anyway they they it it was a a a football made out of clay and they
Did the uh the stick imprints on it where they were writing right then when it dries it’s a a record but in any event it’s a so it so Cyrus’s name in this event is memorialized in in history and of course it’s really memorialized in the
Bible all right so Cyrus’s Grandad or uh uh xerx grandpa is Cyrus right xerx Dad is the guy uh daras Darius who goes out and he thinks he’s going to conquer the world and he was it was was explained to him in no uncertain terms that he wasn’t
Right and then so Xerxes decides oh I got I got to avenge my dad and by the way I’ll just take over the world while I’m doing it and so he goes out and he’s going to comes up with a plan and I think it’s interesting that his
That his uncle xerx uncle I think it is says you know he’s one of his advisers says you know son are you sure you might want to rethink this CU I’m not so sure I I was around when you’re so if he’s his uncle he’s his dad’s brother right
Uh I was there I saw this this play uh roll out before with your pop and it didn’t end well you probably also spent a little time watching the troops on On Maneuvers and said uhoh these guys I don’t know what they’re doing where they even Trouble boy well you’re probably
Right and also he had the um Keystone Cops well and and he had he was there for the first go around where they Tangled with so I think you make a good point Jerry where where uh uh he sees uh the troops that that he sees the uh the uh Xerxes
Troops and he remembers remembers how tough other guys are the Greek troops and he was saying uh right so you know vas is giving them 12 1 12 points here this is not good he may have some scars in his own body think Dallas Cowboys here
Okay well and and and if you stop and think about it so you have Xerxes here we’ve just been told and and uh it is recorded in in history how volatile this guy is I i’ I’ve in in some of the histories that I’ve read it is they they
Now speculate that he actually had uh he was bipolar right I mean this guy was he was very on the edge he was on the edge and and rarely medicated except for a strong drink yeah but you stop and think about his uncle who’s trying to tell him you know
Uh King I’ve seen these Greeks fight and I see our guys but but the uncle can’t this guy is so volatile the uncle is probably very very limited in what he you know he can’t go up to the king and say hey what are you thinking about
Doofus these guys are going to Stomp all over it stomp all over my troops you call me doofus off of his head so Xerxes uh bravado you know led to xer se’s downfall right and he’s got people there saying you might want to go Softly on
This thing right and what was it 1, 995,000 troops as well ex troops well he went out with 2 million came back with 5,000 I’m running the math here are you saying he lost a lot are you saying he was a loose canon uh I’m saying that I that that his uh
His uncle who was advising him not to do this in the first place had to tread very lightly that’s what I’m saying yeah multitude counselor and uh also Chuck makes a point that by the time uh so now he by the time he comes back four years
Later after his big Invasion with his tail tucked between his legs and he he goes home and he finds out that that there’s nothing in the cupboard but peanut butter and jelly uh can’t even get his Queen to show up for a party and well that that happened four
Years priv previous right so now he comes back to the basic the the the the the point I’m trying to make it came back to an empty house right yeah he’s he has just gotten a thumping he’s probably very concerned that uh his people and those
In the palace you Pro you know Royal palaces are a good place to get dead right because there’s always Intrigue I mean just look at uh uh the British royal palace right and they have two heirs that are found dead Under the Stairs right and Shakespeare tells us
All the British royal pal our Royal palaces are not a healthy place to be particularly if you’re not strong right if you’re weak or seen to be weak now you just go out with an army of uh of uh two million a bunch right 2 million 2 and a half
Million 900 th doesn’t make any difference how big it is it’s a it’s a big army you’ve given these parties for six months convincing all the people uh all the um the administrators right the uh those who were in ch whoever you you appointed as the governor of uh SE traps
And all that right I mean the governor of India the governor of of Ethiopia the all these people were what who he was having uh uh these parties for to impress them to say hey give me your support he goes out with 2 million he comes back with
5,000 all these Governors all the people that can actually end up putting him uh on a uh a tree are probably not all that happy with him right and to to make matters worse he comes home he’s all alone he’s deep in the he’s in the dumps he’s already bipolar
Or some you know he’s not really not too tightly wrapped not too tightly wrapped and so he says you know what maybe it’s time for a queen I need somebody who’s going to say there there there it’s okay you know and she’s got to be good looking well of course no duh
So um that’s the intro to our story uh anybody else get anything out of this so far or learn anything that you didn’t know before every everybody knew that uh that uh morai was uh was the uh the great grandson actually of the guy who sat and
Th threw rocks at David when he everybody knew that and knew that David had spared him if David hadn’t spared him there wouldn’t be any morai and the guy we’re going to meet next time right is hmon remember when Saul goes out and and God through his prophet Samuel says okay
I want you to kill every man woman and child everything Brees of these certain tribes that you’re going to go into battle with and don’t take their their sheep etc etc etc and Saul goes out and defeats all those guys but he doesn’t do what the Lord said and
We’re sitting here think thinking wow that’s really harsh I mean to kill every man woman and child I mean the even the innocent little babies and the girl that didn’t do anything wrong and well why should you do that maybe because God said to do it
That’s a pretty good idea and because he didn’t he brought back the uh King I can’t remember what his name is yeah well they call AAG but really AAG was the name for the king okay so they so instead Saul brings the king and his wife he captures them both
And he brings them back to Camp as trophies right and you remember that that uh and then he calls for for uh um uh for Samuel to to say wow you know we really we really did a good job we did a number on these guys we and and look look at
All my trophies right and Samuel said flies into a rage remember that and he takes I think he took Saul sword I think he took the king’s sword what is this bleeding I hear right and he takes he takes the I believe Samuel took Saul’s sword sword
Right and he went out and he found the king that he was supposed to kill WAP chops off his head cut him in pieces and then he he looks he’s looking around for the queen and he sees her disappearing Over the Horizon through the through the desert remember that right so he so
Samuel s oh man There She Goes Over the Horizon you in even Trouble boy and it just so happened that she was pregnant pregnant right the queen was pregnant and had uh had uh the king had Saul done what he was told to do there would never have been a
Mori but because he didn’t the queen escaped she was pregnant as she’s raising up her kids hmon hon yeah yeah so uh you’re you’re right hmon as so the queen disappears Over the Horizon she’s pregnant now you can imagine that when she’s raising her kids the the the queen that escaped she’s
Telling him stor she doesn’t she doesn’t probably doesn’t have anything good to say about the Israelites do you think well these These are the guys that killed your daddy these are the guys put him in pieces these are the guys that made me run for my life these are the
Guys that that made it so you don’t have your kingdom you’re not able to inherit you know you are a prince but you’re not able to inherit your PR your kingdom and you know why you know whose fault it is it’s those dogon Israelites those Jew those Hebrews those Jews that’s right
And so just like in uh what they refer to as Palestine today right the Palestinians if you will the I I’m not even going to use that term the gazin the people in Gaza Arabs they have been brought up for Generations that the reason for their
Their troubles is not I mean they were originally syrians right and it’s not or or or or um um Jordanian jordanians but it’s not that Sy neither Syria nor Jordan nor any of the of the countries from which their their parents and the grand religion by the way
Who when when when when the Arabs ganged up against the Israelites they lost and they told all their people well you can just stay there so you can infiltrate the Israel and you can give us all kinds of info and by the way don’t worry about it
Because we’re going to take over Israel real fast and you’re going to be right there to move in things didn’t go the way they expected it to go and Israel uh was was uh successful and won the won the war after which Israel said to all the all the Jews that were
In in Syria and the Jews that were that were uh in Jordan and all the rest of that kind of stuff sure come on come on in if you want but when the people that are currently in Gaza and quote unquote the West Bank that still cracks me up the West
Bank of what but it anyway the West Bank said said to Jordan and Syria and and their home quote unquote Homeland hey let us back in Jordan Syria said no way you stay there and that is true to this day when they try and get back when when the folks from Gaza from
H when Hamas attacked and murdered 1,00 uh Israelis right unprovoked right what was the very very first thing that Egypt did now if if you know if you’re familiar with a map another fence if if you’re familiar with a map the southern uh border of of Gaza the Gaza
Strip is Egypt right against Egypt yeah Israel gave back the sign peninsula there yeah there’s so there’s a checkpoint right so you can walk back and forth but between the Gaza Strip in Egypt except that the very first thing that Egypt did when the when the Hamas
And the people of Gaza killed 1700 murdered 1700 Israelis the Egypt the Egyptians said hm we’ve been we’ve Tangled with these guys in Egypt or in Israel before it didn’t go well I don’t think it’s going to go well for these the for us they’re going to be heading our
Way they they shut the border so Egypt immediately and to this day will not let any Gins cross the border again same religion and all so now think and and none of these Arab states not Egypt not Syria not uh Leb none of them will let the Gin freely migrate why
Is that they’re trouble bers yes ma’am that’s exactly right I see what’s going on in Gaza I don’t want that going on in Cairo thank you very much right I don’t want that going on in in Aman Jordan they’re troublemakers let’s keep them out of the
Country the other thing is what what did the the the those poor people of Gaza do you know the the innocent civilians and children and stuff like that in Gaza you mean the ones that voted Hamas in as their leadership well yeah those guys those are the guys you understand that Hamas
Is is in power in in uh in Gaza because they were elected by the people of Gaza right so those poor poor innocent people in Gaza what did they do when they heard about the uh Massacre of the Jews on the 7th October 7th C they celebrated they
Danced in those poor innocent women and children in Gaza celebrated so when when the United States and others un send in all the quote unquote humanitarian Aid when when when uh Joe Biden says Hey Netanyahu prime minister of of uh Israel you need to have a ceasefire
Because we need to get humanitarian Aid in to help those poor women and children in Gaza and and they send sent truck after truck after truck what happened to that humanitarian age does anybody know Terror got it what’s that Hamas got it Hamas right and
When when the people tried to get at the trucks what what did Hamas do when the gazen people the poor widows and stuff like that tried to get they were beaten profusely they were shot that’s right so when us tax dollars go to for humanitarian Aid into
Gaza we are funding Hamas is what’s happening right yeah So This Book of Esther is you know what they say uh uh history may not rhyme but it repeats itself right that’s what’s going on right now which is why we’re studying Esther anybody else have any thoughts
I’ve been yammering away here no it’s all true the one thing resonates in my mind I saw a picture of one of the Hamas lead ERS with weapons and they had the little three and four year old son uh holding on to the weapon as he was
Sitting in his father’s lap how how the children grow up to be their parents sure and and not only that but there you have might have seen some of the some of the uh uh teachings if you if you’ve ever seen the books and and uh The Learning Materials the teaching
Materials that are used in Gaza in schools right they’re taught about how the Jews killed all the all the innocent uh uh people from Palestine and how this is really yeah etc etc so it’s it runs pretty deep it runs pretty deep and I just heard today that that uh
Uh Biden had uh Anthony blinkin secretary of state was just rebuffed by uh Netanyahu because he he went over to Israel to demand that uh Netanyahu and the Israelis accept a uh a peace deal that included a second uh second state right and and Netanyahu said you know I
I don’t think that’s going to fly go don’t sell crazy somewhere else no no not only no but hell no go tell that old bag of oatmeal in the White House what I said I’m sure that’s what Netanyahu Jerry that’s a little bit harsh as diplomatically as he could that’s a
Little bit harsh you know that’s in Hebrew right in Hebrew that’s kind of an and what did he say that’s kind of an in insult to oatmeal isn’t itous insult to Quaker Oats but if but think about it for a second here we have had a two-state solution at least since
What was it 2005 I think when what up until one of the states attacked Israel well Israel had pulled out of Gaza I think it was in 2005 you can you can look up the the examp date but I think that’s that’s right and they forcibly removed any Jewish people who lived
There and and had built business entire thing over to the people of Gaza who in turn formed their own government that’s right and and they left behind in Gaza a uh a a uh worldclass hydroponic um uh Factory if you will basically there’s water is not well you’d know better than
Than I would but water is not plentiful uh in Israel and so trying to grow things hydroponically you know without without rain and water and that kind of stuff so they had a an entire complex there where they were very successfully growing vegetables and plants and all the rest of that kind of
Jazzz and the first thing that that the gazin did when they took over was they destroyed all that right well was it was it the UN or who was it was providing all this concrete so that they could build roads you mean what they used it for the tunnels exactly
They used it to build tunnels underneath for weren’t they letting them have work faces too to go over work yes yes you got of your mind there’s no way I would do that and I think they’ve now discovered so far I think what was it 300 miles of tunnels Now understand that
You’re talking about notice a tunnel we can build well God is what 9 Mi long something like that yeah yeah a little a little outfit that’s 9 Mi long has over 300 miles of tunnels tunnels going all over yeah principally underneath their hospitals and their synagogues and cuz
They figure that’s what won’t get bombed right so because Saul did not do what God said because he did not perform the the the extermination that was recalled for then was not per performed which means it will have to be performed later and we’re and and now we’ve got people that
Are saying oh no we need a ceasefire we need a two-state solution we need all these things so that we can let this Fester all over again history Yahoo and the rest of his people are history doesn’t rhyme but it does repeat itself for this yeah because
They’re going to need to crush that and eliminate completely Linate them and they will even at that you’re not going to end the whole thing they’re still going to lob in Jordan and and will have to do that despite everything that that uh the US the US is now applying excruciating
Pressure on uh on Netanyahu to stop uh getting rid of Hamas and to force them as a matter of fact anybody know about the Abraham Accords right so so uh president Trump had well his team actually had negotiated the Abram Accords right where they were going to they were going to have
Treaties signed between Israel and Saudi Arabia and some other countries and that’s why that that’s why this attack everybody else already knows I’m sure that Hamas and Hezbollah and for that matter the houti rebels in in Yemen all work for and are financed by Iran right we all know that
And so when we go and and land on in an airport in uh in tran and drop off pallets you know what a pallet is shipping pallets stacked with US cash how many billion was it 100 billion 100 billion1 billion doll everybody knows that’s what happened right yeah okay that way it’s not
Traceable and we had in the last administ ation we had uh uh sanctions against Iran so they were bottled up and they effectively couldn’t sell their oil which is the only thing they Iran exports two things right oil and terrorism right and they they Iran was on the verge of
Bankruptcy when this current Administration took over and this Administration immediately uh lifted lifted all the sanctions so that Iran could then start selling oil billions and billions of dollars of oil and then we last year we just gave them another I think it was $8 billion or something like that to Iran
MH so it was frozen assets but yeah so we Frozen in a bank and Qatar right exactly so we are the ones the United States are the ones that are funding the terrorism the terrorism thanks Joe yeah okay um I guess really we need to get a
Handle on this whole mess otherwise uh things like Esther and October 7th are just going to keep happening over and over and over again anybody got any thoughts or suggestions or okay Michael what do you think we should do should we just all get our
Guns and go over there and take care of it Annie and he I just bought a whole bunch of bullets I’m just stocking up I think not going to quit until he kills him well I hope he’s strong enough to continue and not give in to the United
States and pressures from the UN and all that that’s the he’s strong enough to to get the job done and I hope and like you I hope he’s strong enough to do so in spite of the excruciating pressure he’s getting right now as a matter of fact
Part of the deal that blinkin just negotiated so Iran the whole reason for the October 7th attack is is Iran saw that the abrahamic Accords were going to be signed by Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia is Sunni Muslim and Iran is Shiite mus Muslim Muslims right
They hate each other I mean to the point where but for this purpose they’ll get together that’s right the enemy of my enemy is my friend right and so in order to derail the abrahamic Accords that the previous administration the Trump administration had negotiated the Saudis were just about to sign Iran
Says wow this is bad for us if they do that then then we’re then we’re going to have Saudi Arabia and Jordan who’s already signed it you know there there we’ll have all these Arab countries that will that will be uh uh in treaties with and trading with
Israel we can’t have that so we need to do something to provoke a backlash because if we go out and we kill a bunch of Israelis they’re going to come back and kill a whole bunch of Hamas which they work for us but we don’t care care
We can always there’s always more of them there more hymans out there right right and they’re sunis as well at believe so but they they are but that that if Israel then attacks Hamas we’ll have a big PR campaign about how they’re they’re really beating up
Poor widows and orphans in Gaza uh and the world will say oh gee they’ll pressure uh uh from The River To The Sea isra they’ll pressure Israel to pull back and we’ll then be able to go to to uh Saudi Arabia and the countries that
Were just about to sign and say do you really want to support these people that are these Israelis that are are Massac massacring uh Muslims and that way we’ll be able to break up the abrahamic Accord and that’s just just exactly what happened so I just heard on the way here
That that Anthony blinkin US Secretary of State went to he’s been in the Middle East mess things up as he normally does and he went to Netanyahu and Netanyahu told him to go out and play in the street right and and then he and then he
Goes to uh to Saudi Arabia and he was able to how that go actually it went wonderfully from the standpoint of uh of the Biden administration because he he persuaded the Crown Prince who now runs Arabia at least they’re announcing that he he uh he convinced the Crown Prince
We’ll see if that’s really true or not to accept the to to go ahead and sign the Abraham ham Accords on the condition I’m try to use it as a chromogen to Israel pull out that Netanyahu stop all actions immediately and two-state solution you’re exactly right and a two-state solution a
Two-state solution in other words give in other words leave the terrorist there to keep lobbing shells in no matter what well I’m sorry that’s just not an option for me well that’s that’s interesting because apparently Netanyahu wasn’t enthusiastic about that either but he mentioned com comment about oatmeal didn’t he in
Hebrew but that’s what’s going on right now which looks to very much like very much like what was going on in Esther when they start jumping onah they are stopping think who attacked who they know who attacked who the but the difference act like they know it the
Difference is that that uh good people of goodwi think they care they don’t they’ve got they’ve got an agenda that’s different than yours and mine what not accompl something with all this was who he in the meanwhile Netanyahu he was he was right he was a military
Commander yeah but if you realize that then he’s a seasoned Warrior attack is very different than if oh they’re really concerned about life no they’re not so we address different the other thing along that same lines anybody know uh uh remember the raid on inbi when uh in
Uganda where where the uh hijackers took all the Olympic yeah they had the Olympic athletes they they took all the all the all the They hijacked it an airliner flew it to Uganda and were helding were holding them captive there in Uganda back in the’ 70s or early ‘
80s something like that so everybody remember that and the Israelis uh got a special force and they flew in and remember they had a a uh like a C130 or something like that that and and they had a a uh Mercedes limousine in there with the gandan flags on it and they had
A guy posed like he was Ed Ain remember that and they drove it out this all happened at night and they drove it out and the drove drove up and and tricked the the guards at the anbi airport to think that Ed Amin had arrived and all
That stuff remember that and the Israeli Special Forces went in and I I think uh they there were very I don’t think there were any uh hostages that were killed very very few if there were maybe one or two okay out of the 130 or however many were there right uh there
Were uh two or three Israeli special forces that died in that firefight and the commander of of the special forces the commander of that that unit that went in and rescued all those who was he Netanyahu netanyahu’s brother oh was it that’s right it was netanyahu’s brother
So when somebody with all the gravitas of Anthony blinkin goes to Netanyahu and demands demands I say here’s a shekele go call somebody to care that’s right so uh you know our our current Administration is in over their heads they what was that they always said
Never again I mean you know yeah yeah it’s very very true okay well um we’ll uh do this again uh next unless anybody’s got something to say or any thoughts to add we’ll go ahead and uh uh wrap up for tonight uh at 6 o’ uh next Wednesday we’ll have uh our fellowship
Meal and at 6:30 we we will start up the uh next session session number two of of Esther for uh everybody including you folks uh in live stream Phil thank you very much for joining us did you tell them about that last so I won’t be here this Sunday or next Sunday got
Be that’s kind of like
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