12/16/2023 0 Comments Esther bible study rentals![]() ![]() They have done well in business, and percentage- wise, a majority of the Nobel prize winners have been Jewish.Įsther 3:8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom and their laws are diverse from all people neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.Įsther 3:9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries. Despite the persecutions (or perhaps because of them), and through the principles of the Law of Moses, Israelites have prospered. Today anti-Semitism continues because the Jewish race has been an accomplished over the centuries. The fact that four Jews had received top positions in the Empire may have provoked other princes to envy. Daniel had been cast into a den of lions, and his three friends were thrown into a fiery furnace. When Daniel and his three Hebrew companions were elevated, their religion marked them for persecution. Also, an anti-Semitic feeling may have risen earlier in the Persian Empire. In Haman’s animosity toward Mordecai, Haman wished to get rid of all the Israelites. When Haman entered or exited the gate leading to the inner court of the king’s palace in Shushan, the people gave deference to him because of his status. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence. However, the narrative respecting Haman in the Book of Esther, is about Satan efforts at the beginning of the kingdom.Įzekiel 39:11-16 even reflects the name Haman - in this case as Hamon - for Hamon-gog is the cemetery for the forces of Gog defeated by God, and Hamonah is the name of the city where the cemetery is located.Įsther 3:2 And all the king’s servants, that were in the king’s gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. Satan will then also seek to thwart the success of the kingdom, by stirring up rebellion against it. Gog and Magog are mentioned again in the rebellion in the Little Season at the end of the Millennium ( Revelation 20:7-9). Thus, if he can destroy Israel, he could thwart the plan of God. Satan knows that the Kingdom is to begin at Israel. Haman is a picture of Satan, the enemy of God. The name reminds us also of the term “Gog” of Ezekiel 38:2, the enemy from the north that will attack Israel at the introduction of the kingdom. ![]() But the name association reminds us that both were enemies of Israel. It is not clear whether he was related to “Agag … of the Amalekites” of 1 Samuel 15:8, Haman was from Persia, and the Amalekites from the distant southwest. Esther 3:1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. ![]()
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