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Pastor’s Comments
March – April 2015
Book of Esther
Then Esther told them to return this answer to Mordecai: “Go, gather all the
Jews in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or
day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is
against the law, and if I perish, I perish!”
Esther 4:15-16
D
uring his recent speech before the United States Congress, March 3, 2015, Prime
Minister Netanyahu of the small nation of Israel spoke of the sobering holiday
PURIM that is explained by the small Book of Esther. He returned the following day
to observe it with the Jewish people.
PURIM is observed one month before the observance of God’s Passover.
Realizing there is little known knowledge about the hidden names of God that
otherwise cannot be found in the Book of Esther. It is my purpose to bring to light
God’s name that connect with the ongoing happenings taking place during that Book;
also to make known within the Book of Esther a prophecy that was fulfilled in 1946.
Background to Esther. It was possibly written in 455 B. C.
This was written during the close of a seventy year captivity that began when God
brought Nebuchadnezzar of the Babylonian Empire against Judah, conquered it and
enslaved its people – carrying them away into Babylon. This punishment was due to
their abominable sins.
Jeremiah 39:1-2 In the 9
th
year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the 10
th
month,
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and
besieged it. . . . the city was penetrated. (605-585 B.C).
This was explained to Jeremiah by a captain of Nebuchadnezzar why they were
conquered and went into captivity.
Jeremiah 40:1-3 . . . And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to
him,
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