WEBVTT - Esther 9

0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:06.720
<v Speaker 1>Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your

0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:10.720
<v Speaker 1>walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Study Headquarters

0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.600
<v Speaker 1>dot com. You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible.

0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:21.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm John Stangi, and today we're in Esther chapter nine,

0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:25.840
<v Speaker 1>and we'll be reading from the New English translation. In

0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.880
<v Speaker 1>the twelfth month, that is the month of Adar, on

0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.559
<v Speaker 1>the thirteenth day, the edict of the King and his

0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:36.120
<v Speaker 1>Law were to be executed. It was on this day

0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:38.960
<v Speaker 1>that the enemies of the Jews had supposed that they

0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:43.760
<v Speaker 1>would gain power over them. But contrary to expectations, the

0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:48.400
<v Speaker 1>Jews gained power over their enemies. The Jews assembled themselves

0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.279
<v Speaker 1>in their cities throughout all the provinces of King ahashu

0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.600
<v Speaker 1>Harris to strike out against those who were seeking their harm.

0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.360
<v Speaker 1>No one was able to stand before them, for dread

0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:04.319
<v Speaker 1>of them fell on all the peoples. All the officials

0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:08.200
<v Speaker 1>of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and those who

0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:12.200
<v Speaker 1>performed the king's business were assisting the Jews, for the

0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.280
<v Speaker 1>dread of Mordecai had fallen on them. Mordecai was of

0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.440
<v Speaker 1>high rank in the King's palace, and word about him

0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.880
<v Speaker 1>was spreading throughout all the provinces. His influence continued to

0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:28.759
<v Speaker 1>become greater and greater. The Jews struck all their enemies

0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.039
<v Speaker 1>with the sword, bringing death and destruction, and they did

0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.920
<v Speaker 1>as they pleased with their enemies. In Susa the Citadel,

0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:41.000
<v Speaker 1>the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men. In addition,

0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:53.760
<v Speaker 1>they also killed Partian Datha, Dalphon, Aspatha, Poratha, Adelia, Aredatha, Parmashda, Airipsi, Aridai,

0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.440
<v Speaker 1>and Vasatha, the ten sons of Haman, son of Himatatha,

0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.720
<v Speaker 1>the enemy of the Jews, but they did not confiscate

0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:07.040
<v Speaker 1>their property. On that same day, the number of those

0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:12.000
<v Speaker 1>killed in Susa the Citadel was brought to the King's attention. Then,

0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.520
<v Speaker 1>the King said to Queen Esther, in Susa the Citadel,

0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.160
<v Speaker 1>the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and

0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.440
<v Speaker 1>the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done?

0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.840
<v Speaker 1>And the rest of the King's provinces, What is your request?

0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.000
<v Speaker 1>It shall be given to you. What other petition do

0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:33.880
<v Speaker 1>you have? It shall be done. Esther replied, If the

0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.840
<v Speaker 1>King is so inclined, let the Jews who are in

0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:41.280
<v Speaker 1>Susa be permitted to act tomorrow. Also according to today's

0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.400
<v Speaker 1>law and let them hang the ten sons of Haman

0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.440
<v Speaker 1>on the gallows. So the king issued orders for this

0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.760
<v Speaker 1>to be done. A law was passed in Susa, and

0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.120
<v Speaker 1>the ten sons of Haman were hanged. The Jews who

0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:58.000
<v Speaker 1>were in Susa then assembled on the fourteenth day of

0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.040
<v Speaker 1>the month of Adar, and they killed three hundred men

0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:05.680
<v Speaker 1>in Susa, but they did not confiscate their property. The

0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.400
<v Speaker 1>rest of the Jews who were throughout the provinces of

0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.160
<v Speaker 1>the king assembled in order to stand up for themselves

0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.560
<v Speaker 1>and to have rest from their enemies. They killed seventy

0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.440
<v Speaker 1>five thousand of their adversaries, but they did not confiscate

0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.519
<v Speaker 1>their property. All of this happened on the thirteenth day

0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.560
<v Speaker 1>of the month of Adar. They then rested on the

0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:31.239
<v Speaker 1>fourteenth day and made it a day for banqueting and happiness.

0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.720
<v Speaker 1>But the Jews who were in Susa assembled on the

0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:39.480
<v Speaker 1>thirteenth and fourteenth days and rested on the fifteenth, making

0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.240
<v Speaker 1>it a day for banqueting and happiness. This is why

0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.000
<v Speaker 1>the Jews who are in the rural country, those who

0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.360
<v Speaker 1>live in rural cities set aside the fourteenth day of

0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.760
<v Speaker 1>the month of Adar as a holiday. For happiness, banqueting holiday,

0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:58.480
<v Speaker 1>and sending gifts to one another. Mordecai wrote these matters

0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.000
<v Speaker 1>down and sent letters to all the Jews who were

0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:05.480
<v Speaker 1>throughout all the provinces of King Ahashuaras, both near and far,

0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.320
<v Speaker 1>to have them observe the fourteenth and the fifteenth day

0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.320
<v Speaker 1>of the month of Adar each year as the time

0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.000
<v Speaker 1>when the Jews gave themselves rest from their enemies, the

0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.040
<v Speaker 1>month when their trouble was turned to happiness, and their

0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:24.080
<v Speaker 1>mourning to a holiday. These were to be days of banqueting, happiness,

0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.559
<v Speaker 1>sending gifts to one another, and providing for the poor.

0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.920
<v Speaker 1>So the Jews committed themselves to continue what they had

0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.840
<v Speaker 1>begun to do and to what Mordecai had written to them.

0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.240
<v Speaker 1>For Haman, the son of Hamatatha, the Agagite, the enemy

0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.640
<v Speaker 1>of all the Jews, had devised plans against the Jews

0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.640
<v Speaker 1>to destroy them. He had cast purr, that is the lot,

0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.719
<v Speaker 1>in order to afflict and destroy them. But when the

0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.839
<v Speaker 1>matter came to the King's attention, the king gave written

0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:59.039
<v Speaker 1>orders that Hayman's evil intentions that he had devised against

0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:03.160
<v Speaker 1>the Jews should fall on his own head. He and

0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.880
<v Speaker 1>his sons were hanged on the gallows. For this reason,

0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.920
<v Speaker 1>these days are known as Perham, after the name of Perr. Therefore,

0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.800
<v Speaker 1>because of the account found in this letter, and what

0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.520
<v Speaker 1>they had faced in this regard and what had happened

0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:22.640
<v Speaker 1>to them, the Jews established as binding on themselves, their descendants,

0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.719
<v Speaker 1>and all who joined their company, that they should observe

0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.200
<v Speaker 1>these two days without fail, just as written and at

0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:33.600
<v Speaker 1>the appropriate time, on an annual basis. These days were

0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:37.000
<v Speaker 1>to be remembered and to be celebrated in every generation

0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:41.560
<v Speaker 1>and in every family, every province, and every city. The

0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.680
<v Speaker 1>Jews were not to fail to observe these days of Perham.

0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:49.000
<v Speaker 1>The remembrance of them was not to cease among their descendants.

0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:54.200
<v Speaker 1>So Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail and Mordecai the Jew,

0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:59.560
<v Speaker 1>wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Perham.

0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.000
<v Speaker 1>Letters were sent to all the Jews in the one

0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:06.520
<v Speaker 1>hundred and twenty seven provinces of the Empire of ahashueiras

0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.839
<v Speaker 1>words of true peace, to establish these days of Perham

0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.279
<v Speaker 1>in their proper times, just as Mordecai the Jew and

0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.960
<v Speaker 1>Queen Esther had established, and just as they had established

0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:22.919
<v Speaker 1>both for themselves and their descendants matters pertaining to fasting

0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:28.279
<v Speaker 1>and lamentation. Esther's command established these matters of perham, and

0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:37.320
<v Speaker 1>the matter was officially recorded. Let's pray, Lord, we thank

0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:38.919
<v Speaker 1>you for your word, and we thank you for the

0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.000
<v Speaker 1>privilege of looking at this portion of scripture today and

0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.599
<v Speaker 1>meditating on its content, and watching as you chose to

0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.479
<v Speaker 1>deliver the Jewish people, and seeing how they celebrated this,

0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.920
<v Speaker 1>and seeing how they rejoiced in what you had accomplished,

0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:57.080
<v Speaker 1>how you delivered them from their adversaries. Lord, we know

0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.920
<v Speaker 1>that through Jesus Christ, you've done the same for us.

0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.120
<v Speaker 1>You tell us in your word that we have an adversary,

0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.720
<v Speaker 1>the devil, who prowls around like a lion looking for

0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.760
<v Speaker 1>someone to devour, but you have delivered us from him.

0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:17.680
<v Speaker 1>In Christ's resurrection death, Sin and Satan were defeated. So

0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:22.120
<v Speaker 1>Satan is a defeated adversary because you have chosen to

0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:26.040
<v Speaker 1>share your victory with us. And we rejoice in that fact, Lord,

0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.200
<v Speaker 1>and we thank you for your protection and your defense

0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.920
<v Speaker 1>of us. We pray Lord, that we would be people

0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.960
<v Speaker 1>who honor you and love you in all contexts of

0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.040
<v Speaker 1>our life, that every day that we live would be

0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.640
<v Speaker 1>a day that we would put you first. And Lord,

0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.080
<v Speaker 1>we pray that we would rejoice in this new life

0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.840
<v Speaker 1>and the gift of salvation that we have through faith

0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.480
<v Speaker 1>in Jesus Christ, and that throughout the course of this

0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.720
<v Speaker 1>day that you would be first on our minds. We

0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.680
<v Speaker 1>love you, Lord, We thank you for your presence with

0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.040
<v Speaker 1>us today, and we commit this day to your care

0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.640
<v Speaker 1>in Jesus' name. Amen.