Church in the home Wed.evenings 24th Feb 2010, The book of Esther.

Church in the home Wednesday evenings 24th Feb 2010


The book of Esther.


Form the tropical coast in Spain tucked between La Herradura and Almuńecar, the “Marina del Este”, is a quiet refuge for yachts and mariners and where the sun shines for almost 11 months of the year, the “Book of Esther” was studied over a period of 5 days.

Five Bourke’s from Almere spent 5 days of the crocus holidays in this sunny part of Europe.

Scholars have searched the scriptures of Esther and nowhere can the Divine names be found. This sets the Books of Esther is a unique position. In Hebrews 1: 1,2 it states that

“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, (V 2) Hath in these last times spoken unto us by His Son”.

The divers manners, surely has to include a book of the bible, a part of the Word of God, which does not mention God by name explicitly.

The account in the Book of Esther traces the fortunes of Judeans in exile, and two in particular, Mordecai, and his cousin Esther, whom he took very good care of when her parents were not there to care for her. Esther eventually got chosen to take part in a pageant for the reigning monarch, King Ahasuerus, who ruled over a kingdom from India unto Ethiopia.
Esther ended up being chosen as the Queen to King Ahasuerus, and Mordecai remained on in his role being employed in the palace.
A plot to destroy Mordecai and the Judeans, by Haman, a descendent of Agag, the King of the Amalakites, was foiled when Mordecai and Esther intervened, and the Judeans of the realm were able by royal decree defend themselves and spare the Judeans as a nation even though in exile and dispersed abroad.

Though the words “Thus said the Lord” or “the Lord said unto me” or “then the word of the Lord came unto me a second time” as in the book of Jeremiah, do not occur in the book of Esther, the spiritually minded readers will quickly recognize the hand of God throughout this bible record though never explicitly stated.

The “divers manners” of Hebrews 1:1 is here to read.



http://www.biblicalunitarian.com (Biblical Unitarianism website)
http://www.truthortradition.com (Truth or Tradition web site)
http://www.stfonline.org/ (Spirit and Truth fellowship online website)