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876. Bible Study: Esther 7 (What is Sown will be reaped) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 7 from the book of Esther.
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  Dear Lord, please help us as we go through this chapter.
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  Give us wisdom and insight. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  This is about Haman being impaled.
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  So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther's banquet, and as
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  they were drinking wine on the second day, the king asked
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  again. Asked Queen Esther, what is your
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  petition? It will be given to you.
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  What is your request? Even up to half the Kingdom it
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  will be granted. Then Queen Esther answered, If I
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  have found favor with you, your Majesty, and if it pleases you,
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  grant me life. This is my petition, and spare
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  my people. This is my request, for I and my
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  people have been sold to be destroyed, killed, and
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  annihilated. If we had merely been sold as
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  male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such
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  distress would justify disturbing the king.
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  King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, Who is he?
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  Where is he, the man who has dared to do such a thing?
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  Esther said. An adversary and enemy, this
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  vile Haman. Then Haman was terrified before
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  the king and queen. The king got up in a rage, left
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  his wine, and went out into the palace garden.
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  But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his
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  fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.
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  Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet
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  hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was
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  reclining. The king exclaimed.
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  Will he even molest the queen while she is with me in the
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  house? As soon as the word left the
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  King's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
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  Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said a pole
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  reaching to a height of 50 cubits stands by Haman's house.
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  He had set it up for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.
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  The king said impale him on it. So they impaled Haman on the
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  pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the King's fury subsided.
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  That's the end of Chapter 7. I will read the questions and
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  answers for this one. Would Xerxes really have given
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  Esther half the Kingdom? Probably not.
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  Xerxes oath to Esther appears to have been a stop stock phrase
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  used by ancient monarchs to express favor and was probably
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  not intended to be taken literally.
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  Would Esther really have kept quiet at being sold into
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  slavery? Slavery in the ancient Near East
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  did not carry the same dreaded connotations it bears today, so
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  it is entirely possible that Esther would not have risked
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  death at the threat of slavery. Further, Esther might have been
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  hinting that it was in Xerxes own best interest to prevent the
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  Jews, who were productive workers in the in his realm from
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  being annihilated. Why didn't Xerxes remember that
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  he had authorized the annihilation of the Jews?
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  Historical records outside the Bible depict Xerxes as a cruel
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  tyrant. He would not have hesitated to
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  exterminate an entire race of people at the whim of a favored
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  deputy. However, he may not have been
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  aware that the deal he had approved was to destroy the
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  Jews. Haman had told him only that a
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  italicized certain people with different customs were not
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  obeying the king, and Xerxes had given Haman his signet ring to
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  finish the necessary paperwork in his name, Xerx.
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  Xerxes didn't bother to learn the details.
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  Furthermore, Xerxes did not know that Esther was a Jew, nor did
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  Haman. When Esther, having gone to
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  great lengths to gain the King's favour, told Xerxes that her
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  people would be destroyed because of Haman's order, the
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  volatile king repaid his deputy as he deserved.
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  Why did they cover Haman's face? It was customary among the
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  Greeks and the Romans to cover the face of a person sentenced
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  to death. So it's reasonable to assume
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  that it was also a practice of the earlier Persians, the
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  attendants who were present and covered Haymans face as soon as
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  possible or as soon as the word left the King's mouth,
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  presumably the execution order. And that's the end of Chapter 7.
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  And there was some, there were a couple verses that came to mind
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  reading this and it was it was about sowing and reaping.
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  And back in the book of Job chapter 4 verse 8, it said, he
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  says, as I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow
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  trouble reap it. And then in James chapter 3
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  verse 18, it says peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest
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  of righteousness. So it's kind of like what we do
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  is what we will receive. And in Hosea chapter 10, verse
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  12, it says sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit
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  of unfailing love and break up your unplowed ground, for it is
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  time to seek the Lord until He comes and showers his
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  righteousness on you. That really sounds prophetic to
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  me from that verse. So anyway, this is very timely
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  about what's going on in the world right now.
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  And you know, we should all keep in mind that what we sow, we
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