On God's Name Not Appearing In The Book Of Esther

This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush... Esther 1:1

"You are probably aware that some persons have denied the inspiration

of the Book of Esther because the name of God does not occur in it. They might with equal justice deny the inspiration of a great number of chapters in the Bible, and of a far greater number of verses. 

Although the name of God does not occur in the Book of Esther, the Lord Himself is there most conspicuously in every incident which it relates."

Charles Spurgeon

My Oldest Memory of the Bible

The oldest memories of Reading the Bible was in 2nd grade---reading multiple times over the year the following passage.....because I kept looking it up to picture the colors in my head....

Now Drum Roll Please......

 

And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; 

Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.

Esther 1:5,6

SDA Issues- We Need Mordecai's & Esther's

 "The agencies of evil are combining their forces and consolidating.
They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones." E.G.W.

Then Mordecai told them to return answer to Esther, 

Think not that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father’s house will perish. 

And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this? 

Esther 4:13, 14

Mordecai End Time Lesson [LEARN IT - STUDY IT]

But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him.....To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them. Psalm 103:17,18

 

"The decree which is to go forth against the people of God will be very similar to that issued by Ahasuerus against the Jews in the time of Esther. 

 

The Persian edict sprang from the malice of Haman toward Mordecai. Not that Mordecai had done him harm, 

---but he had refused to show him reverence which belongs only to God. 

---The king's decision against the Jews was secured under false pretenses through misrepresentation of that peculiar people. 

---Satan instigated the scheme in order to rid the earth of those who preserved the knowledge of the true God. 

 

But his plots were defeated by a counterpower that reigns among the children of men. 

Angels that excel in strength were commissioned to protect the people of God, and the plots of their adversaries returned upon their own heads. 

 

---The Protestant world today see in the little company keeping the Sabbath a Mordecai in the gate. 

---His character and conduct, expressing reverence for the law of God, are a constant rebuke to those who have cast off the fear of the Lord and are trampling upon His Sabbath; the unwelcome intruder must by some means be put out of the way. 

 

The same masterful mind that plotted against the faithful in ages past is still seeking to rid the earth of those who fear God and obey His law. 

Satan will excite indignation......Men of position and reputation will join with the lawless and the vile to take counsel against the people of God. 

*Wealth, genius, education, will combine to cover them with contempt. 

*Persecuting rulers, ministers, and church members will conspire against them. 

*With voice and pen, by boasts, threats, and ridicule, they will seek to overthrow their faith. 

*By false representations and angry appeals they will stir up the passions of the people. 

*Not having a "Thus saith the Scriptures" to bring against the advocates of the Bible Sabbath, they will resort to oppressive enactments to supply the lack. 

*To secure popularity and patronage, legislators will yield to the demand for a Sunday law. Those who fear God cannot accept an institution that violates a precept of the Decalogue. 

 

On this battlefield comes 

--the last great conflict of the controversy ----between truth and error."

E.G.W.

On the Streets of Babylon: "Esther" fast

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,...  Come out of her, my people,

Revelation 14:8/18:4

 

There seems to be an "Esther Fast" on the Streets of Babylon...

"Revivalist Lou Engle, co-founder of The Call, issued a call for fasting and prayer on behalf of our country....... "There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens," he wrote. "Great revolutions, either good or evil, spring up in the vacuum created by these openings. In such divine moments, key men, women and entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of

history—the 'pivot point' that determines which way the door will swing."
Noting the connection between present-day events and those recorded in the Book of Esther, Engle wrote that we now face a "cataclysmic battle for the soul of our nation," and that Christians can no longer "live the same way we lived yesterday." And so, like Esther, he's calling on us to fast and pray March 8-11.

He wrote:

Recently, two women contacted me and asked me to use my influence to call for a three-day Esther Fast to answer this challenge. Immediately after, I experienced a life-changing dream where I saw a nation-wide Esther movement arising that alone could break a major spiritual power of death.

I knew then that I was to take my place as a Mordecai and call not only "Esther and her handmaidens" but the whole nation, to fast and pray for three days leading up to Purim. The Jewish holiday Purim celebrates God's deliverance of the Jews through Esther's fasting, sacrifice and courage. This year, Purim begins on Saturday evening, March 11th.

Therefore, we are seizing this sudden moment for a three-day Esther Fast from sundown on Wednesday, March 8th through the evening of Saturday, March 11th..." Charisma