Esther 4
Esther 4:1 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes,
and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city,
and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
2 And came even before the
king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with
sackcloth.
3 And in every province, whithersoever the king's
commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews,
and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4 So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was
the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and
to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.
5 Then
called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had
appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to
know what it was, and why it was.
6 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai
unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate.
7 And
Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the
money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews,
to destroy them.
8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the
decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther,
and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the
king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her
people.
9 And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
10 Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto
Mordecai;
11 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's
provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto
the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to
put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden
sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the
king these thirty days.
12 And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.
13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that
thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
14 For
if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there
enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou
and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art
come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
15 Then Esther bade them
return Mordecai this answer,
16 Go, gather together all the Jews that
are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three
days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I
go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I
perish.
17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that
Esther had commanded him.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.