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- Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The book of Esther, this is one of the second books named after a woman.
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- We saw Ruth and now we see Esther. Esther is a book that is written at the time of the
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- Persians. She is a Jewish person who ends up after the king gets rid of his wife and she's disposed, he looks for a new queen and it turns out as God's providence that Esther would be that woman.
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- Now some criticize this book because this is one of the few books that do not mention God throughout the book and it should be noted that this is really the account of God's miraculous care for his people
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- Israel as They were in a foreign land and being threatened with annihilation ism though God was
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- Providentially and fully sovereign and in control and that's what you see in the book of Esther as you go through this book you see the account of God working through Esther and her uncle
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- Mordecai in such a way that even when there is a threat on the whole nation of Israel by Haman and he's
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- Boasting about how he's going to do all these things to the nation of Israel the tables get turned on him in a miraculous way so that God gets all of the credit and This is actually the
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- Feast of Purim that gets celebrated every year by Jews Celebrating what Esther had done
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