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Esther
STUDENT'S GOAL
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Answer the following while reading
Esther, The Romance of Providence
by J. Vernon McGee
Chapter 1
The Strange Providences of God
- What three words describe the work of God as it affects His physical universe?
A.
B.
C. - We have only two alternatives today: We either revelation or we speculation.
- “Science” has no scientific explanation for the origin of the universe; it has to .
- Providence is the means by which God all things—animate and inanimate, seen and unseen, good and evil—toward a worthy , which means that His will must ultimately .
- The Book of Esther teaches the of God. Actually, the name of is not mentioned in the Book.
- The Book of Esther is a revelation of the people of God of the will of God.
- The young Jewish girl Esther was chosen by King Ahasuerus to be of by means of a contest.
- Esther’s cousin happened to overhear a plot to slay the king. reported the plot, but his loyalty went unrewarded.
- Mordecai incurred the wrath of Haman by refusing to to him. In revenge, Haman determined to not only Mordecai but all his people throughout the kingdom.
- Why did God keep Joseph in prison?
- God permits trying situations in our lives for a .The only way He can get the of a great many folk is by sending them trouble.
- It was very important which Ruth chose, because if she had not gone into the right field, the prophecy that gave would have been wrong—Christ would not have been born in .
- The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord ( 16:33).
- By the providence of God, Caesar Augustus signed the bill that moved Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem in fulfillment of 5:2.
- The psalmist wrote long ago, “For the kingdom is the ; and he is the among the nations” (Ps. 22:28). Yes, God was and is in .
- Saul of Tarsus, a brilliant young and the biggest of all, led the group and he directed the of Stephen.
- God by his providential dealings used Stephen’s testimony to Saul for the of Jesus on the Damascus Road.
- God had said through Daniel that He was going to move the center of world out of the East, from Asia and Africa, to Europe. He did so when Xerxes lost the Battle of .
- A storm shifted the power from the East to the West and changed the entire of the world. God in the affairs of men.
- Columbus was headed directly to either the coast of or the . A flight of went by and he followed them. Consequently, the Spanish flag went up on America and the , while Protestantism came to this country.
- South America has more resources than North America has ever had, yet it has lagged and the story is told in religion.
- During the Revolutionary War, Benedict Arnold his country. He came to a crossroad and did not know which road to take—but knew. Down the road he chose were soldiers.
- In the early days of America the colonists stayed too close to the seaboard. They were to penetrate the vast expanse of the Middle West. Eventually God waved a little , and the Rush was underway.
- God says the person who does not know, who cannot see the way, or who has ruled Him out is still under His . God will such a person by a way that he or she knows not.
- What frame of mind was the lady in when she came to the church?
- What brought the Dr. to church?
- Nineteen hundred years later a Man walked into that area where Abraham had offered and of Him John the Baptist said, “…Behold the of God, which taketh away the of the world” (John 1:29).
- How did the east Texas oil man respond to the pastor when his wife and son died in the flu epidemic?
- What did it take for the east Texas oil man to give himself to God?
Chapter 2
The Wife Who Refused to
Obey Her Husband
- On the seventh day of the feast, the king commanded the seven chamberlains to bring the before the king with the crown royal.
- The queen Vashti to come at the king’s commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very , and his burned in him.
- Memucan said to King Ahasuerus, For this of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported.
- A royal was decreed that Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto that is better than she.
- The events of the Book of Esther took place in a culture, where God’s instructions were not .
- Ahasuerus is probably the . of secular history.
- Ahasuerus was not the name of the man but his . The word means “high ” or “.”
- Archaeological discoveries have confirmed the belief of many scholars that , , and were titles, and may have referred to the same person at different periods of his life as his greatness increased.
- From the time the forces of Xerxes came to until attack on Pearl Harbor in the twentieth century, no Eastern power had made a bid for domination.
- How long was the banquet that Ahasuerus hosted?
- Ahasuerus had called in all of his princes and all of his rulers from every corner of his kingdom that he might win their wholehearted for the military campaign to capture .
- Since women were kept in quarters and couldn’t go to the main banquet, Vashti the queen made a for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
- Under the influence of , Ahasuerus did some- thing that he would never have done if he had been .
- According to the etiquette of that day, Vashti did not belong in such a gathering of , so this queen her king’s commandment to come to the banquet.
- Folks in our churches are busy, but the activity is all on the of the church. They are not their King who said, “...Go ye into the world, and the gospel to creature” (Mark 16:15).
- The today is like Queen Vashti, saying that she will not go.
- Who made the statement “For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported”?
- Memucan’s proposal was, “If it please the king, let there go a royal from him, and let it be written among the laws of the and the ,that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king ; and let the king give her royal unto another that is better than she” (1:19).
- God never asks any woman to a godless man. “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands” speaks of a relationship.
- The law concerning Vashti reveals to us today the of Ahasuerus. He was a man who suffered from some form of , as many rulers have—and still do.
- Forms of abnormality have not kept men from achieving in the history of the world.
- Ahasuerus was a man of tremendous . Yet in unreasoning he allowed this of his lovely queen. Although later the king himself wanted to break the , he could not. The law of the Medes and the Persians could not be .
- “The soul that it shall die,” Jesus Christ was made for us and He died in our stead.
- It is still that “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” But, thank God, there is a Savior who, because of His vicarious , can reach down and in His marvelous receive you and take you home to glory.
Chapter 3
The First Beauty Contest
to Choose a Queen
- The king’s servants that ministered unto him said, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king and let the maiden which the king be instead of Vashti. This the king; and he did so.
- Mordecai took Esther, his daughter, for his own daughter when her father and mother died, and the maid was and .
- Esther had not shewed her nor her : for Mordecai had charged her that she should not it.
- Mordecai walked every day before the court of the house, to know how did, and what should become of her.
- Esther was taken to king Ahasuerus and the king Esther above all the women, and she obtained and in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal upon her head, and made her instead of Vashti.
- While Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamber- lains, and , sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus. And the thing was known to , who told it to Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king in name. Therefore they were both on a tree.
- Cyrus was to give a to permit the Jews to return to their own land, and those who were in the of did return to Palestine. However, very few returned to their homeland—less than thousand.
- Mordecai should have been back in his homeland, but Mordecai was not in the will of God.
- Esther had one asset, and that was . Beauty is God’s , and it is wonderful to see that it can be to Him.
- Why did Mordecai tell Esther not to let the king know she was a Jew? Mordecai and Esther were a part of a people, and - always has been a in the of the . And it had been in .
- The moment Mordecai and Esther denied their nationality, they denied their .
- Jonah did the same thing on board ship. He had revealed neither his nor the fact that he believed in and worshipped the living and true . In going to Tarshish he was out of the of .
- When men and women are out of the of God, they have very little to say about their in Christ.
- It is no that Esther is given the most promi- nent place, or that she is shown every favor and is given every consideration. There are no with God.
- The type of beautification (called “”)consisted of six months with oil of , and six months with sweet , and with other things for the of the women.
- When her time came Esther required no more than was ap- pointed for a contestant to . She went in her beauty and stood before the king and obtained in the sight of all that looked at her.
- There are many things today that are not in accordance with God’s will, but He them for His glory.
- Esther was God absolutely, but that did not mean that she was out from under the and of almighty God.
- “Sitting in the king’s gate” means that Mordecai had a new position—he was a , for the of the ancient world was the gate of the city.
- Even married to the king, Esther took instructions from the man who her.
- Chapter 2 of Esther in a very special way reveals the theme of the book: the of God.
- There is abroad in our midst today the notion that if are not favorable, God is not in them. However, are no indication at all, for God was moving in Esther’s , and He was moving in the of Mordecai.
- The Chicago Art Institute dismissed Vaughn Shoemaker saying they did not think he would ever become a .
- After Vaughn Shoemaker secured a position at the , the head cartoonist was given a position in ; the second in charge went to ; the third had to leave because of in his family, and Vaughn was the onlyone left in the office.
- What made Vaughn Shoemaker give his life to God? Realizing that his brother who had him so much could not much longer, he asked him if he knew and Roger smiled and said, “, I do,” and he was gone. Vaughn went to his room, and upon his gave his to . From that moment he has never drawn a without first to ask to him.
Chapter 4
Haman and Anti-Semitism
- All the king’s servants, that were in the king’s gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the had so commanded concerning him. But bowed not nor did him reverence.
- When Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him rever- ence, then was Haman full of . And he thought scorn to lay on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the of Mordecai.
- Haman sought to destroy all the that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of .
- Haman said unto King Ahasuerus, let it be written that the Jews may be : and I will pay thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the treasuries.
- Letters were sent by posts into the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both and old, little and women, in one day, even upon the day of the month.
- In 1 Samuel 15 you’ll find that Samuel told that he was to exterminate the Amalekites and disobeyed.
- Mordecai was out of the will of God; yet he still God. God’s law to the Jews was they were not to to anything but God Himself.
- As Mordecai began to stand out as a man of , Haman began to stand out in all his ugliness as a man of .
- Every great nation has persecuted the descendants of Abraham—the —and has tried to them. Yet the have attended the of every one of these great nations.
- No weapon that is formed against thee shall ;and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt . This is the of the servants of the Lord, and their is of me, saith the Lord. Isaiah 54:17
- No people have ever been abused by the of the as have the Jews.
- Ahasuerus himself did not know that his was Jewish, nor does he know that he is away her life.
- Haman was giving full rein and permitting a great many to do what apparently was in their hearts.
- Haman’s decree was to go out into all the provinces, which means that the Jews were scattered all over the - Empire. That empire covered two and had even penetrated into .
- The Jews had been scattered throughout the civilized world because of the captivity.
- Anti-Semitism had its origin down in the brickyards of , under the cruel hands of , where the Jews became a nation.
- must also plead guilty, and the Inquisition was leveled largely at the Jews. Under Hitler in Germany it is estimated that six Jews perished.
- What is the reason for this persecution that we call anti- Semitism? The first reason is a one; the second, .
- The natural reason the Jews are hated is simply this: The are unlovely. Any person, Jew or Gentile, is unlovely.
- The supernatural reason the Jews are hated is they transmitted the . Satan also hates them because the Lord Jesus Christ, after the , came from them.
- There is no way of escaping the fact that there is a hatred of the Jews, in part be- cause Jesus was born a Jew.
- Jews are hated by , and as a result the nations of the world are fanned into at times against these people.
- God says that if you can blot the out of the sky, if you can wipe the out of existence, then you can get rid of the nation of .
Chapter 5
For Such a Time as This
- And in every province, withersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great among the Jews, and , and , and ; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
- How did Esther respond to Mordecai when he asked her to approach the king?
- Mordecai answered Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt in the king’s house, more than all the .For if thou altogether holdest thy at this time, then shall there and arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be : and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a as this?
- Esther answered, Go, gather all the Jews and for me…and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I , I .
- The Jews were out of God’s , and consequently they made no call to whatsoever. Yet they went through the remainder of the ritual: , putting on the sackcloth and , and greatly.
- Conspicuously absent today is con- cerning sin—not only in the hearts and lives of the but also in the hearts and lives of believers.
- Hamartano, meaning “to miss the ” actually means to take an arrow, put it in a bow, pull it back, let the arrow fly, but come of the bull’s-eye. A great many people today think that is the extent of .
- Mordecai knew that only the garments of and are proper raiment when facing the reality of sin.
- In what other type of garment do people take refuge?
- Shaler Matthews of the University of Chicago’s School of Reli- gion, gave this definition of sin: “Sin is the pull of an outworn .”
- In the twenties it was taught that all we had to do was folk. If we would them right, we would get rid of this thing called sin, since it was nothing but .
- There are those who have attempted to define sin as .
- Although the great difference between liberal and conservative theology has been on the of the Lord Jesus Christ and His , the final test is toward sin.
- Because of the impact and influence of liberalism, many people have lost a of sin.
- The average definition of a Christian today is one who lives a life in the community and stays out of .
- “Are people worse today than they were years ago?” There is not sin in the world today, there is just no of sin so that sin is out in the .
- Esther did not win the beauty contest to become queen. She was in her position for a very definite , and had been arranging this all the time.
- Match the following
God was training a shepherd boy to be the king A. Abraham First voice on God’s behalf after a silence of 400 years B. Moses Called to move out and through him God brought Jesus C. David God raised him up to be the deliverer of his people D. John the Baptist Started the wave that halted the progress of the Nazi’s E. Saul of Tarsus Lloyd George said he was greatest man who ever lived F. John Wesley Brilliant young man who hated Christ and the church G. Montgomery - Billy Graham himself says he has not seen .
- When the Scottish minister gave his report to the elders at the end of the year they concluded that the year had been a com- plete . There had been only one : wee Bobby Moffat. Robert Moffat became a great to .
- During the last battle at Richmond, a young lieutenant filled his canteen and across the battlefield between the lines. The on both sides called for a cease-fire, and a shout went up from both sides as this lieutenant went from man to man bringing .
Chapter 6
When a King Could Not Sleep
- What did Esther request of the king after he had held out the golden sceptre?
- Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he not up, nor for him, he was full of against Mordecai.
- Zeresh, Haman’s wife, said, Let a be made of fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak thou unto the king that may be hanged thereon.
- On the night the king couldn’t sleep, it was found written, that had told of Bigthana and Teresh, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
- Haman came into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to Mordecai on the that he had prepared for him.
- Esther did not ask that her people be in . She asked for the Jews to fast, but she did not mention .
- When God you, it is because Somebody else paid the for your sins.
- When sinned, he turned his back on God, and a holy God must turn His back on a .
- Although the name of God is not in the Book of Esther, what technical detail is in chapter 5 verse 4 in the Hebrew?
- Esther 5:4 also tells us something about Esther. She wanted present when she let the king know that what he had demanded was not only the death of the Jews but death also.
- The king had been very to Haman but when the comparison was made with Queen Esther, Haman had to her.
- When Esther does not have the courage yet to express her request, she says, “I’m making another tomorrow.
- There is a Greek proverb that says, “Whom the gods would destroy they first make .” This was the position of exactly. Or, as the Scriptures put it, “Pride goeth before , and an haughty spirit before a ” (Proverbs 16:18).
- If little things irritate him, he is a man. If it takes big things to irritate him, he is a man. Haman revealed himself to be a man.
- Late in the evening workmen constructed a gallows fifty cubits high which is about feet.
- The meaning of the name Mordecai is “ man”— Mordecai was a fellow.
- God uses the things to carry out His program. At one time God brought together a woman’s and a baby’s to change the of a people.
- The greatest proof of the resurrection of Jesus Christ was the evidence that convinced and John. They saw the linen wrappings lying .
- The king said, “The man who saved my life must be ” and then Haman came into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to Mordecai on the that he had prepared for him.
- Out of the long ago comes this story of Esther. It speaks to our twentieth century of the sceptre of that is extended to a world.
Chapter 7
The Man Who Came to Dinner
but Died on the Gallows
- Who did Haman think the king wanted to honor?
- What did Haman do after he fulfilled the kings order with Mordecai? Haman hastened to his house , and having his head .
- What was Esther’s request to the king? Let my be given me at my petition, and my at my request. For we are , I and my people, to be destroyed, to be , and to perish.
- Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so? And Esther said,
- They Haman on the that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath .
- Although these people, the Jews, were out of the of , in the land far away from where God wanted them, they were still not out from under His leading.
- The story of the Persian monarchs was that it was difficult for a man to on the throne very long. Some of them only made it through months.
- And when the king sat on his throne and looked around him, he didn’t know who was his and who was his . He realized that any man who was lifted up would attempt to him in order that he might become .
- Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the , before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not against him, but shalt surely fall before him” (6:13).
- “Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found in thy sight, O king, and if it the king, let my be given me at my petition, and my at my request” (7:3).
- If you read the secular account of campaign which he made into Europe against Greece, you will find that he threw men about as if they all were .
- Ahasuerus asks who the man is, and Esther reveals...the adversary and enemy is this wicked .
- What did the king do when he heard about Haman? “And the king arising from the of in his went into the garden...” (7:7).
- What did Haman do when the king went outside? “...And stood up to make for his to the ; for he saw that there was determined him by the ” (7:7).
- Herodotus, the Greek historian, recorded that when returned after his defeat in the Greek campaign, the new queen whom he married was very and .If he was referring to Queen it would be under- standable that to the outside world and to the historian she would appear and in this situation.
- “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man , that shall he also ” (Galatians 6:7).
- The very gallows that Haman had prepared to hang an man on was the gallows on which he was .
- Ahab was told by Elijah the prophet that right where the dogs licked the blood of , whom he brutally and cruelly , there the dogs would lick his . And they did.
- Jacob deceived his father and in turn was deceived about his favorite .
- Paul was the man who apparently gave the orders for the of Stephen. On his first missionary journey the people him and left him for dead.
- Haman died on that cursed gallows because there was no one to for him.
Chapter 8
The Message of Hope That
Went Out From the King
- Mordecai came before the ; for Esther had told what he was unto her. And the king took off his , which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of .
- What did Esther request this time from the king? Let it be written to the letters devised by the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the which are in all the king’s .
- Mordecai commanded unto the Jews from India unto Ethiopia, an and provinces in king Ahasuerus’ name, to gather themselves together, and to for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would them.
- Many of the people of the land became ; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
- Queen Esther was given over all of Haman’s house- hold, who might do her or her people harm. That, however, did not the decree that had gone out against the Jews.
- Even the king could not his own decree, and he was powerless to the decree concerning the of the Jews.
- Mordecai could not the day of slaughter for his people, but he could send out a order, and the order permitted the Jews to themselves.
- The entire power of the king, as evidenced by his army and his officers, aligned themselves on the side of the .
- When this new decree came to the different provinces, we’re told “The Jews had , and gladness, and , and honour” (8:16).
- Haman’s decree produced , but Mordecai’s decree produced .
- Persia was a kingdom—many languages were spoken.
Chapter 9
The Feast of Joy
- In the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have over them, the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities and no man could them; for the of them fell upon all people because the of Mordecai fell upon them.
- In Shushan the Jews slew and destroyed hundred men.
- The Jews of the villages that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the day of the month a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
- Mordecai sent letters to all the that were in all the of king Ahasuerus that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, as well as the fifteenth, yearly, as the days wherein the Jews from their enemies, and the month was turned from to joy...
- The Jews called these days of celebration after the name of Pur.
- To many people on the outside it did not look as if Hitler’s men should be treated with such , but those who knew the inside story knew that they were rewarded with .
- The Jews still celebrate the Feast of each year. (Adar is the month of ). Purim comes from the word pur, meaning “.” rolled the pur like dice to determine the day of the Jews’ execution.
- The day preceding the Feast of Purim is the “ of .” The festival also includes subsequent deliver- ances such as from the German atrocities according to the promise that He made to .
- The following nations have attempted to destroy Israel.
Answer True or False
Belgium
USA
Spain
Babylon
Mexico
Assyria
Egypt
China
Australia
- in this century has depicted God as a senile old man sitting on a cloud.
- God’s decree stands: “The soul that , it shall die.” However, God has made another that has gone out from heaven. That decree is: “For God so loved the , that he gave his only begotten , that whoso- ever in him should not ...”because He bore the (John 3:16).
- The grace of God can reach down and any sinner who will come in under the provision He has made. That is .
- The literal meaning of the word is “good news.”
- What are the reasons no one can condemn a believer.
A.
B.
C.
D.
- Although God’s people in the days of Queen Esther had Him, and He had withdrawn His from them, they were not out of the reach of His providence.
- Being led by His is the method God uses with those who A at being led.
- Yet even if we slip out from under God’s A dealings, we have not slipped out from under His A dealings. God ever stands in the shadows, keeping A over His own.
