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Tree of Knowledge and Haman’s gallows: Esther shows us how to overcome our desire to replace God

Post author By Jeff
Post date March 23, 2024
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Tree of Knowledge & Haman's gallows: Esther show us how to overcome our desire to replace God. Artwork shows a fruit tree on the left side of the image.

Bible prophecy often talks about widespread persecution against the people of God in the “latter days.” But that seems so far removed from today’s society, where we have global human rights watchdog groups, U.S. First Amendment protections for religious freedom, the International Court of Justice and the United Nations.

This study of the Torah reading וַיִּקְרָא Vayikra (“and He called,” Levicus 1:1–6:7) plus readings for the Sabbath of Remembrance (Deuteronomy 25:17–19; 1Samuel 15:2–34; 1Peter 4:12–5:11) and the Book of Esther reminds us why we keep seeing outbreaks of perplexing violence throughout history, in spite of attempts to legislate away evil.

Tags antisemitism, Esther 03, Esther 04, Esther 05, Esther 06, Haman, Leviticus, Leviticus 01, Leviticus 02, Leviticus 03, Leviticus 04, Leviticus 05, Mordecai, Parashat Vayikra, pattern of the temple in Heaven, Purim, qorban or corban - voluntary offering or wood-offering - Strong's H7133, Shabbat Zachor - Sabbath of Remembrance, Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

Appointments With God Discussions Prophets and Writings Purim Questions

Question: How are the main people in the book of Esther also thematically tied to other people in the Bible?

Post author By Daniel
Post date March 18, 2013
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Purim: Festival of Lots from the Bible book of Esther

The book of Esther presents multiple characters throughout the storyline that may have a more significant purpose than it first appears.

Tags Akhashverosh/Xerxes, Book of Esther, Esther, Mordecai, thematic pattern

Appointments With God Purim

Messianic symbols, message in the Book of Esther

Post author By Daniel
Post date February 23, 2013
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Many wonder why the Book of Esther is in the Bible, because the name of God is not mentioned in it. Yet, actually God is mentioned throughout the account. The main people in the book also are symbols for God, God’s Messiah, Israel and the Adversary, aka haSatan.

Tags Akhashverosh/Xerxes, Book of Esther, Esther, messianic figure, messianic prophecy, Mordecai, Purim

Appointments With God Discussions Purim

Structure of the Book of Esther points to messianic prophecy

Post author By Daniel
Post date February 19, 2011
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"Queen Esther" painting by Edwin Long, 1878 — "Queen Esther" by Edwin Long, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1878

Many passages in the Bible were written with a chiastic structure, which is like rhyming patterns in poetry but pairing similar information or concepts instead. That’s one reason why some passages seem to be highly repetitive. The point of chiastic structures is to point the reader to a key concept. Daniel explains that the Book of Esther is one large chiastic structure, focusing on a messianic prophecy in the middle.

Tags chiastic structure, Esther, Haman, messianic prophecy, Mordecai, Purim, Xerxes

Purim

Book of Esther dramatic reading for Purim available for download

Post author By Hallel Fellowship
Post date April 26, 2009

Hallel Fellowship has been celebrating Purim, the Feast of Lots recorded at the end of the Bible book of Esther, with a dramatic reading of the book with pantomime. The fellowship has developed an hourlong version of the book.