It seems there are different passages within the Scriptures when someone follows after evil, especially in regards to hurting another, God will turn "the story" around and good triumphs.
Here in Esther, two things have been made quite clear:
1. Haman had enacted an Edict that had a promise of wealth to those who obeyed it. In this scenario, Haman had proclaimed the wealth of all the Jewish people within the empire of Persia would be given to everyone who participated destroying every person of Jewish origin.
In the end, Haman's property was given to Queen Esther (A Jewish person) by the command of King Xerxes.
2. Queen Esther then gave Mordecai total control to manage the estate of Haman....the man Haman hated most of all.
There is a justice...there is a favor...there is mercy...all attributes of the Great God we serve...and His ways have not changed...not in 450 B.C., and not in 2012 A.D....
Gleanings from Esther 8:1-8
" On the same day Haman, who had sought to destroy all Jewish people...was executed himself instead. King Xerxes gave all the property of Haman to his Jewish Queen, Esther.
Then, Mordecai, a Jewish cousin of Queen Esther, was brought into the presence of the king. Esther had already related to King Xerxes the story of both her and Mordecai, how they were related, and how Mordecai had cared for her.
The King then called Mordecai into his presence, and in front of the Royal Court, removed his own signet ring from his hand, the very same ring he had given Haman and then had stripped it off of him earlier that day as Haman neared his own death.
He then gave the signet ring to Mordecai, and all the authority that accompanies the powerful ring.
Meanwhile, Queen Esther assigned Mordecai all of Haman's property, to be run and manage as he saw fit.
Yet, with all this turn of events, Queen Esther went again...into the presence of the King. She fell before his feet, and with much feeling to the point of tears, requested of King Xerxes to entirely revoke the Edict Haman had communicated(through written Law) the order to exterminate all Jewish people.
King Xerxes, once more lifted his golden scepter to Esther, and she arose and stood before the king. Esther then spoke to the king and said: "If it pleases you my King, and you continue to regard me with your favor and your wise counsel to know what is right, along with our love for one another, I ask this. Let there be a new decree...one which reverses the order dictated by Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite. For the decree which currently is in force declares all members of Jewish origin are to be executed on March 7th of this upcoming year.
For how could I, my great king, idly sit by and endure my very own life while the history of my own origin and members of my own family are slaughtered. And myself, dear king, am I not of Jewish origin...and I too will be slaughtered with my people?
Then, King Xerxes spoke to both Queen Esther and to Mordecai, replying to Queen Esther's request: " I have given my Queen the property of Haman, while he has faced his own death for all the treacherous things he has done. Haman was impaled on the very pole he had devised for you, my dear Mordecai!
Now, here is where it can become a "little tricky". First, you can certainly construct an Edict to all your people and throughout the Empire..and with my signet ring at your disposal, all peoples in each of the provinces will obey whatever this new Edict may command.
But, there is a condition as in all Edicts sent out in my name and sealed with my signet ring...it is irrevokable. An Edict with my name on it...can never be cancelled."....to be continued....
Here in Esther, two things have been made quite clear:
1. Haman had enacted an Edict that had a promise of wealth to those who obeyed it. In this scenario, Haman had proclaimed the wealth of all the Jewish people within the empire of Persia would be given to everyone who participated destroying every person of Jewish origin.
In the end, Haman's property was given to Queen Esther (A Jewish person) by the command of King Xerxes.
2. Queen Esther then gave Mordecai total control to manage the estate of Haman....the man Haman hated most of all.
There is a justice...there is a favor...there is mercy...all attributes of the Great God we serve...and His ways have not changed...not in 450 B.C., and not in 2012 A.D....
Gleanings from Esther 8:1-8
" On the same day Haman, who had sought to destroy all Jewish people...was executed himself instead. King Xerxes gave all the property of Haman to his Jewish Queen, Esther.
Then, Mordecai, a Jewish cousin of Queen Esther, was brought into the presence of the king. Esther had already related to King Xerxes the story of both her and Mordecai, how they were related, and how Mordecai had cared for her.
The King then called Mordecai into his presence, and in front of the Royal Court, removed his own signet ring from his hand, the very same ring he had given Haman and then had stripped it off of him earlier that day as Haman neared his own death.
He then gave the signet ring to Mordecai, and all the authority that accompanies the powerful ring.
Meanwhile, Queen Esther assigned Mordecai all of Haman's property, to be run and manage as he saw fit.
Yet, with all this turn of events, Queen Esther went again...into the presence of the King. She fell before his feet, and with much feeling to the point of tears, requested of King Xerxes to entirely revoke the Edict Haman had communicated(through written Law) the order to exterminate all Jewish people.
King Xerxes, once more lifted his golden scepter to Esther, and she arose and stood before the king. Esther then spoke to the king and said: "If it pleases you my King, and you continue to regard me with your favor and your wise counsel to know what is right, along with our love for one another, I ask this. Let there be a new decree...one which reverses the order dictated by Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite. For the decree which currently is in force declares all members of Jewish origin are to be executed on March 7th of this upcoming year.
For how could I, my great king, idly sit by and endure my very own life while the history of my own origin and members of my own family are slaughtered. And myself, dear king, am I not of Jewish origin...and I too will be slaughtered with my people?
Then, King Xerxes spoke to both Queen Esther and to Mordecai, replying to Queen Esther's request: " I have given my Queen the property of Haman, while he has faced his own death for all the treacherous things he has done. Haman was impaled on the very pole he had devised for you, my dear Mordecai!
Now, here is where it can become a "little tricky". First, you can certainly construct an Edict to all your people and throughout the Empire..and with my signet ring at your disposal, all peoples in each of the provinces will obey whatever this new Edict may command.
But, there is a condition as in all Edicts sent out in my name and sealed with my signet ring...it is irrevokable. An Edict with my name on it...can never be cancelled."....to be continued....
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