After Haman paraded Mordecai around the city, he ran home to pout. His plans to have Mordecai put to death that day had gone very poorly, to say the least. The man he had gone to ask to kill, he was forced to honor in front of the entire city.

When he told his wife what had happened, she wasn’t terribly comforting, but she was smart. She knew that everything was upside down now and that because he had built the pike (like she had recommended), things were probably going to get much worse for him.

Haman barely had time to process what she was saying when the king’s servants showed up to remind Haman that it was time to attend Queen Esther’s banquet right then.

Whatever excitement Haman had felt just 18 hours prior about this banquet was probably all gone now. He must have been nervous that the king would find out exactly what this giant structure was on his property and who it was for. This was all the worst timing, in a very biblical sense.

How would you have felt if you were in Haman’s shoes?

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Esther is simultaneously a victory and a tragedy. In some ways, If you look at it through a modern lens, it should be called the Victory of Mordecai and the Tragedy of Esther. Esther loses her parents and then is taken into the harem of a despotic king to be used as he wishes. Mordecai ends up, like Daniel, a very high official and ruler in his expatriated land.

This will be a great study of Esther as we look at the emotions, the world and the meanings of one of the most cherished, and often misunderstood books of the Bible.

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