Esther sought the King Xerxes’ Favour by showing him honour and respect, BEFORE MAKING HER REQUEST.
Timing was everything in the account of this attack on the very existence of all God’s people. Esther asked the king and Haman to return the next day, when she would make her request known.
9 Haman went out that day happy and in high spirits. But when he saw Mordecai at the king’s gate and observed that he neither rose nor showed fear in his presence, he was filled with rage against Mordecai. 10 Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. Esther 5
Haman went home and boasted to his wife and friends about his wealth and honour, but he was still enraged by Mordecai. His wife told him to build a set of gallows and hang Mordecai the next morning. He BOASTED AND BUILT.
But that night (so close to Death) King Xerxes couldn’t sleep and he ordered the chronicles of his reign be brought in and read to him. Mordecai’s exposure of the plot against the King was read and he was told, ‘Nothing has been done for him’. READING AND REWARDING, GOD’S TIMING!
Haman arrived in the court and mistakenly thought the king wanted to honour him (always thinking of himself). He was greatly humiliated when he had to lead to lead Mordecai around the city on horseback proclaiming the king delighted to honour him.
3 Then Queen Esther answered, ‘If I have found favour with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me my life – this is my petition. And spare my people – this is my request.
5 King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, ‘Who is he? Where is the man who has dared to do such a thing?’
6 Esther said, ‘The adversary and enemy is this vile Haman!’
Esther finally made her plea and exposed what Haman had done to her and her people. The King was outraged and sentence followed swiftly.
As soon as the word left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face. 9 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, ‘A gallows fifty cubits high stands by Haman’s house. He had made it for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.’ Esther 7
The king said, ‘Hang him on it!’ 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king’s fury subsided.
Haman was HUMILIATED AND HANGED on his own gallows. His final destruction came because a servant of the king revealed the existence of the gallows on which he’d planned to hang Mordecai.
We are living in a day when the dark deeds of the enemies of God’s people will be exposed and there’s always a Harbona who has that information. One day Haman was BOASTING AND BUILDING, the next day he was gone. Justice came to him very swiftly and with finality. He had greatly overstepped the mark in his attack on God’s people.
May God bless and keep us in these days when the King’s Justice comes upon men.