Esther 9:1-16
On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them.
And all the nobles of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because fear of Mordecai had seized them. Mordecai was prominent in the palace; his reputation spread throughout the provinces, and he became more and more powerful.
“If it pleases the king,” Esther answered, “give the Jews in Susa permission to carry out this day’s edict tomorrow also, and let Haman’s ten sons be impaled on poles.”
Meanwhile, the remainder of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces also assembled to protect themselves and get relief from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of them but did not lay their hands on the plunder. This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.
The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth, they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.
there might never be a time when these days of Purim would not be kept among the Jews,
When the appointed day arrives, the Jews rid themselves of their enemies, including Haman's ten sons; but there is no looting. There can be no excuse for Esther's vindictive request (unless it simply accounts for the feast being celebrated on different days in Susa and the county). She shows herself to be a child of her age. The bodies of Haman's sons are hanged to make their fate public knowledge.
Some have taken the casualty figures a reader. They are certainly very high, though had Haman's plan succeeded, perhaps ten times as many Jews would have been slaughtered.
In commemoration of the nation's deliverance, the 14th and 15th Adar became annual feast days, preceded by a fast on the 13th. TO this day the Jews celebrate Purim, reading the book of Esther aloud, and remembering many more recent miracles of deliverance.
Why?
This notable day is called Purium day to memory the event of Jews be rescued by the Lord. Through the hand of Esther queen and Mordecai.
So am I have remembered the grace of the Lord on me. What I can do and what I have are the grace of the Lord.
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此時全國的勢力已經倒向猶大人,猶大人必須自己起來反擊敵人。情勢對基督徒有利,基督徒還是要起來爭戰。神已經勝過捆綁惡者的勢力,我們還是要起來打擊惡者。好像打足球,神已經把球帶到球門旁,且使守門人受阻撓,但是還是要我們去把球踢進去。對付敵人不可手軟,他們殺的是恨猶太人的。雖然哈曼已死,但是他們的殘餘勢力仍在。前面已經有機會給他們入籍猶太人,但是他們沒有。許多的小錯,例如以前以色列人沒有迦南人員以致後來亡國。屬靈的爭戰不可留下任何尾巴。
屬靈的爭戰為誰可戰?猶太人沒有奪取他們的財物,講三遍。因為這個戰爭是為了保命,不是匪徒掠奪一切。屬靈的生命表現在生活中,得人的敬重,讓人尊敬,讓人喜愛的。
多求一天,確保以後沒有後患,多這一天將哈曼的兒子掛起來,在書珊城多殺300人,神給的恩典不是剛剛好,而是有餘。比賽只嬴1分,但是差距太小,有些危險。過犯不如恩典,就是我們可以抬頭挺胸,大大得勝,不是險勝。如還清債務,但是自己無分文,還是很難過生活。神給我們不僅除去仇敵,並且使我們有餘。我們要求豐盛的生命。
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How?
Keep obey the word of the Lord and keep loving others around me. May I could be the grace of others around me.
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