{"id":2473,"date":"2017-10-09T07:36:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T07:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2017-10-09T07:43:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T07:43:42","slug":"the-story-of-queen-esther-part-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=2473","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Queen Esther (Part Five)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Enter Haman\u00a0<\/u><\/em><\/h1>\n

Esther 3: 1-15<\/u><\/h1>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 We now\u00a0 see\u00a0 the villain of the story come into view. Haman was a very ambitious and proud man who couldn\u2019t stand the sight of\u00a0 Mordecai outside the king\u2019s palace\u2026<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When all the other men would bow and scrape to him, Mordecai remained upright. This made Haman boil inside and when he found out that Mordecai was a Jew, that made him even angrier. Who did he think he was? So he plotted to destroy all the Jews.<\/p>\n

The king thought so much of Haman that he agreed to do whatever he suggested. Haman made his plans and presented them to the king. The date for the slaughter of all Jews was set and\u00a0 notification sent out.<\/p>\n

Haman certainly is a type of Satan who goes around among believers doing all sorts of mischief and looking for those he can devour and trip up. Peter says that Satan\u00a0 is like a roaring lion and we are told to resist him firmly (1 Peter 5:8-9)<\/em>. The only way we can do this is to be firmly based in the teachings of Scripture. This is called the sword of God and it\u2019s no use holding it without using it! (Ephesians 6:11-17)<\/em><\/p>\n

So we see Haman rubbing his hands with glee at the thought of getting rid of the man he hated so much as he was\u00a0 going to the king with his request!<\/p>\n

Haman came in\u00a0 filled\u00a0 up with pride, But Mordecai he couldn\u2019t abide;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To bow and scrape he\u2019d just\u00a0 refuse, So Haman planned to kill\u00a0 the Jews.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Enter Haman\u00a0 Esther 3: 1-15 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We now\u00a0 see\u00a0 the villain of the story come into view. Haman was a very ambitious and proud man who couldn\u2019t stand the sight of\u00a0 Mordecai outside the king\u2019s palace\u2026. When all the other men would bow and scrape to him, Mordecai remained upright. This made Haman boil … Continue reading The Story of Queen Esther (Part Five)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[367,368,369],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morning-musings","tag-mass-slaughter","tag-plotting","tag-resisting-satan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-DT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}