826 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 69 - For such a time as this - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 69 FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS – PART 3 Book of Esther Okay, it’s good to have everybody back again. For those of you joining us on television again, we always like to invite you, if you’re ever headed toward Tulsa, to try to make it to one of our tapings for an afternoon. We just have a good time, and the hospitality is just overrunning. Again, we want to thank all of our folks out there for your prayers, especially. Because I’ll tell you what – prayer does everything. And we’d like to thank you for your letters. Now, I forgot to do it in the last program. When I speak of letters, this is my way of responding to the hundreds of letters that I can’t answer personally. We do have a quarterly newsletter. We send it out free. If you aren’t getting one and you would like to, you can just send us a request, or call the girls and give them your name and address, and you can get it. Now rest assured, we never share our database. So, you don’t have to worry about getting a whole mailbox full of junk. And all you’ll get from us is the newsletter, and we don’t even beg for money in that. I know this is one of the fears people have. They don’t want to get on a mailing list. You ought to see my mailbox. Where’s Ruby? Ruby, where are you? Yeah, Ruby knows! Oh, junk mail – that high. It’s just unbelievable! So, no, we never, never share our database with anybody, and you won’t be bombarded with appeals. Let’s get right back into where we left off in this Book of Esther. Somebody reminded me during the break that I had failed to mention that the name of God is not visible in the whole Book of Esther. There’s not one single reference to God. There are three or four what they call acrostics. In other words, there are some hidden things that you have to be a real deep scholar of the Hebrew to find. But, there is no visible mention of the name of God. But God’s presence is so evident! There’s just no doubt. Just like in the Book of Ruth, how everything fell into place so that she married just exactly the man that God wanted her to marry. It is the same way here. This is one of Satan’s efforts to destroy the Nation of Israel, but God in His providence has a young Jewish girl in place to keep it from happening. All right, let’s go back into Esther then, chapter 1 verse 16. Esther 1:16 “And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, (Now watch this guy!) but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.” What’s he driving at? Why, that she had the wherewithal to not obey the king?! What man could have a woman like that, for goodness sakes! That’d be awful. So, that’s their big worry. Look at the influence that she’s having in this kingdom. Esther 1:17-18 “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, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not. (She still doesn’t obey him.) 18. Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king’s princes, who have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.” That is from the women. I’m not going to do as my husband says. Vashti didn’t. Why should I? Esther 1:19-20 “If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it not be altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she. 20. And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,)(All the way from India. All the way up to beyond the Mediterranean.) all the wives shall give to their husbands honor, both to great and small. Esther 1:21-22a “And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan: 22. For he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language,…” Now you want to remember, there were all kinds of different dialects and languages and so forth in that large a kingdom. Esther 1:22b “…that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.” Okay, now we’re going to move on. We’re going to get more involved with Esther. Esther 2:1-2 “After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. 2. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible