11 ‘This is what is done for the man the king delights to honour!’ Esther 6
Haman led Mordecai on a royal horse through the streets proclaiming his honouring by the king. The Bible speaks in various places of people being caught in their words, God actually uses their own mouths to judge them. Mordecai had humbled himself publicly before God and others and now he was lifted up. Haman on the other hand sought occult guidance, drank on the success of his plot and boasted to family and friends.
As I said yesterday, the prayer and fasting of Mordecai and all the Jewish people moved their predicament onto a higher spiritual plane. GOD SAW AND INTERVENED ON BEHALF OF HIS PEOPLE. (Haman sought occult guidance and the Jews sought Yahweh, Father God. NO CONTEST!)
Haman realised the tide had turned and his own inner circle confirmed his downfall was at hand.
13 and (Haman) told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him.
His advisors and his wife Zeresh said to him, ‘Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him – you will surely come to ruin!’ Esther 6
His complete ruination was to follow swiftly when he was led by the King’s eunuchs to the second feast with Esther and King Xerxes. The king again pressed Queen Esther for her request and was astonished and outraged when she asked for her life and the life of her people, the Jews. Haman, unknown to him, had plotted to kill the wife of the king. In many places today the devil is deceiving people into attacking God’s Children and sooner or later, like Haman, they will realise their folly.
King Xerxes came back from the garden to find Haman kneeling beside Queen Esther on her couch and immediately had him taken out to be executed. Once again he was ‘hoisted by his own petard’, hung on his own gallows. God’s Justice is often so precise and so exact, so we in turn must be careful what we say about servants of the Lord. David, though he was called to be king, refused twice to touch Saul because he was the Lord’s anointed. David recognised that something of God, something sacred, still rested upon his life. May God give us wisdom to leave the judgement of others, especially our own brethren to Him.
24 ‘“‘The Lord bless you
and keep you;
25 the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
26 the Lord turn his face towards you
and give you peace.’”
27 ‘So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.’ Numbers 6
God bless and keep you today. Immanuel, God is with us.