For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?
Esther 4:14
Allow me to share with you a BiteByte of truth the Holy Spirit share with me. Divinely appointed times and seasons exist that determine the course of destinies.
The important 1st clause is to say specifically this truth that based on God’s prophetic plan for the Jewish people, it would not be possible that they would be exterminated.
Somehow, deliverance would come, from somewhere. Divinely appointed times. The destiny would flow one way or the other but God’s plan for Israel would still be fulfilled in the end.
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?
15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16“Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”
Esther 4:14,15
The Creator tells us in Holy Scripture here at the same time that Queen Esther and her family’s destiny trajectory would depend on her willingness to trust and obey God’s leading. If Esther would choose God’s way, not only would the Jews be delivered but she and her family would also stay in the center of God’s divinely appointed will. Thank God Queen Esther choose the better path. She chose the path of Faith and Courage for the just shall live by faith!
The faith and courage of Hadassah also known as Esther then Queen Esther and the faith and wisdom of her cousin 7Mordecai gave birth to their obedience and a great victory celebrated by the Jewish people annually in the days called PURIM.
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?
Esther 4:14
And these days of Purim should never fail to be celebrated by the Jews—nor should the memory of these days die out among their descendants.
29 So Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.
Purim 2023 Purim for the year 2023 is celebrated/ observed on sundown of March 6 ending at sundown on Tuesday, March 7. Purim is celebrated on the 14th day in the month Adar using the Jewish calendar. For the Gregorian calendar the day falls in the months of February and March.
Allow me to share with you a BiteByte of truth the Holy Spirit share with me. “The silver-haired head in our society many commonly call gray is meant to speak of a crown of glory i.e. meant by the Creator as a sign of honor.
The important 2nd clause is to say specifically this truth applied to the scenario where it found combined with a life lived in the path of righteous living. it is found in the way of righteousness.
The Creator tells us in Holy Scripture that he cares how a society treats and reverences or fails to reverence it’s more elderly members.
45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
Now Jesus knew, there had been a touch, not like the others touching him but this one was a touch …
46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.
Aha, unlike the others, this one was a touch, with faith!
Elisha and the Widow’s Oil. Â This story teaches us that if we truly hear God’s directions accurately and obey them He will provide our needs even supernaturally and miraculously if need be.Â
2Ki 4:1 Â Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
2Ki 4:2 Â And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
2Ki 4:3 Â Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
2Ki 4:4 Â And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
2Ki 4:5 Â So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
2Ki 4:6 Â And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
2Ki 4:7 Â Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
Burnt offerings carried aromas as they were sacrificed.
Those that spread the knowledge of Christ are as an aroma before the very Creator of the sense of smell. Â Selah
But thanks be to God!
For in union with Christ we are always led by God as prisoners in Christ’s victory procession.
God uses us to make the knowledge about Christ spread everywhere like a sweet fragrance.
For we are like a sweet-smelling incense offered by Christ to God, which spreads among those who are being saved and those who are being lost.
For those who are being lost, it is a deadly stench that kills; but for those who are being saved, it is a fragrance that brings life. Who, then, is capable of such a task?
2 Samuel 5:20Â is a great scripture for meditation and memorization:
 And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim.
2 Samuel 5:18-25Â (KJV)
18Â The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
19Â And David enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the Lord said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
20Â And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, TheLord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim.
21Â And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
22Â And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
23Â And when David enquired of the Lord, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
24Â And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the Lord go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
25Â And David did so, as the Lord had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
