{"id":278,"date":"2015-02-28T17:09:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T17:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/02\/28\/god-is-always-working-you-just-have-to-look\/"},"modified":"2015-02-28T17:09:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T17:09:43","slug":"god-is-always-working-you-just-have-to-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/02\/28\/god-is-always-working-you-just-have-to-look\/","title":{"rendered":"God Is Always Working, You Just Have To Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ester
\n6 \u2013 10<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Haman\u2019s decree and his evil plot is not being undone. Verse
\n6:6 shows the arrogance of Haman:<\/p>\n

So Haman entered the king\u2019s
\nchambers.\u00a0He waited for the king to speak first.
<\/i>\u00a0
King Ahasuerus:<\/b>\u00a0Haman,
\nI want to ask you something<\/i>. What do you believe is the proper manner in
\nwhich to honor a man who has pleased me?
\u00a0
Then Haman thought to himself,
\n\u201cThere is no one the king wishes to honor more than me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Haman went ahead and told the king what HE would want. To
\nhis shock the king was honoring the man Haman hated, Mordecai. So now Haman not
\nonly had to honor him, but had to lead the procession he thought should be for
\nhimself. So Haman was humiliated in his mind and left right after the
\nprocession honoring Mordecai.<\/p>\n

As the story unfolds from the procession, Haman is rushed
\noff to dinner with the king and queen, again thinking it was to honor him.
\nVerse 7:3 opens with the queen trying to save her cousin and herself:<\/p>\n

If you favor me, my king, and if it
\npleases you,\u00a0spare my life<\/i>. That\u2019s all I\u2019m asking for\u2014that my
\npeople and I be spared. That is my wish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

I assume the king was taken back since she was not known to
\nbe a Jew until that time. Also, the king was shown that Haman had made the
\norder and therefore his fate was sealed. He was scurried off and killed in the
\nsame manner he was planning for Mordecai. <\/p>\n

As you finish the story notice a couple of things. First,
\nthe king was tied to the order that Haman had given, he could not repeal it.
\nThat sounds like today when the president makes an \u201cexecutive order\u201d that must
\nbe followed and congress claims they cannot do anything to stop it. The king
\nneeded to have another law made that counteracted the current law. Thus we see
\nwhy so many laws become necessary as a society progresses. The tax law is so
\ncomplex because loopholes were made and then closed and more were found. A
\nsimple law has become huge.<\/p>\n

Second, the queen had an opportunity to show mercy and she
\ndid not. She continued to allow the Jews to kill their opponents into the next
\nday. Reading this story with the \u201cJesus Prism\u201d it seems brutal since
\nforgiveness and grace is missing. Instead the Jews kill all those who are about
\nto kill them and when it was over, they got permission to kill even more. In
\nthe end almost 76,000 people were killed. I wonder how many were true enemies
\nof the Israelites and how many were just following orders? <\/p>\n

Today, we are told to turn the other cheek and if it means
\ndeath in the name of Jesus then so be. So while this story shows how God takes
\na story and in the end we see how it was put into play to protect the people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ester 6 \u2013 10 Haman\u2019s decree and his evil plot is not being undone. Verse 6:6 shows the arrogance of Haman: So Haman entered the king\u2019s chambers.\u00a0He waited for the king to speak first.\u00a0King Ahasuerus:\u00a0Haman, I want to ask you something. What do you believe is the proper manner in which to honor a man … Continue reading “God Is Always Working, You Just Have To Look”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}