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The Hebrews suffered terrible abuse from Haman. Little did the vizier realize however that his own wife, Queen Esther, was Jewish!
Esther's cousin ** Mordechai (see below for info on this) encouraged her to stand up for her people and confront Haman.
Likewise today all who claim to be God's people are called upon to stand up, confront Hamas
Esther 4 (in the World English Bible):
1 Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai tore 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 he came even before the king`s gate: for none might enter within the king`s gate clothed with sackcloth.
3 In every province, wherever 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 Esther`s maidens and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent clothing to clothe Mordecai, and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he didn`t receive it.
5 Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king`s chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend on her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it was.
6 So Hathach went forth to Mordecai to the broad place of the city, which was before the king`s gate.
7 Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact 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 out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to charge her that she should go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.
9 Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai [saying]:
11 All the king`s servants, and the people of the king`s provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.
12 They told to Mordecai Esther`s words.
13 Then Mordecai bade them return answer to Esther, Don`t think to yourself that you shall escape in the king`s house, more than all the Jews.
14 For if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father`s house will perish: and who knows whether you haven`t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
15 Then Esther bade them return answer to Mordecai,
16 Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast you for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in to 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.
(emphasis mine).
Will you stand with Israel today?
Or will you stand with Haman/Hamas?
... if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father`s house will perish...
** It is commonly believed that Mordecai was Esther's uncle rather than her cousin. This is explained by Rabbi Gurkow as follows:
Esther was the daughter of Avichayil, who was the uncle of Mordechai, which makes them cousins... Mordechai adopted her after his uncle's death....
Probably because of the difference in their age. It is much more logical to assume that an orphaned infant raised as one’s own child is of a lower generation—i.e. a niece—and not the same generation, such as a cousin. Be that as it may, it is probably a misunderstanding of Esther 2:15, where it reads: “...Esther the daughter of Avichayil the uncle of Mordechai...”, which, when quickly skimmed over, reads “Esther... Uncle Mordechai” and hence the confusion.
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