20141003 Friday, October 3 2014
Esther 06: Mordecai In The Persian History Books

by Wayne Blank
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"On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king"

Along with Esther and Mordecai, the LORD (Who was and is Jesus Christ - see Genesis 1: In The Beginning Was The Word and The Kingdom Of The LORD God) was also active in the defense of Judah - the people from whom the Messiah would be born (see Israel In History and Prophecy: The Messiah). King Ahasuerus was guided to read his own Persian history records - in which Mordecai saved the king from assassination.

"6:1 On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. 6:2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus." (Esther 6:1-2 KJV)

The king then commanded that Mordecai immediately be given the public honor that was long overdue to him. As it was also given to happen, vain and treacherous Haman, the very man who was then scheming to have Mordecai murdered (see Esther 3: Haman's Chess Board Plot), was the man who was commanded to give Mordecai the patriotic honor.

"6:3 And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?

Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.

6:4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

6:5 And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court.

And the king said, Let him come in.

6:6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour?

Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?

6:7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, 6:8 Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: 6:9 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour." (Esther 6:3-9 KJV)

Haman was then summoned to the banquet that Esther had prepared for him (see Mordecai's Sackcloth and Ashes and Esther's Invitation To The Hangman's Banquet). It would be the final act in the life of Haman.

"6:10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.

6:11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

6:12 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered. 6:13 And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him.

Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

6:14 And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared." (Esther 6:10-14 KJV)

Fact Finder: Persia became known as Iran in the 1920s. The present government of Iran has made itself a threatening and belligerent enemy of the people of Judah in the land of Israel (see Israel In History and Prophecy: Israel Of Judah). Why should the Iranians who hate Jews (most Iranians don't hate Jews - only the current regime, who, like Adolf Hitler, need someone to blame their own self-made problems on) read their own history books, not only about Mordecai, but how one of their own greatest kings of Persia, Cyrus, decreed that Jerusalem and Judea were the property of the Jews?
See Iran's Greatest Leader Was Pro-Zionist