Your discussion group will be blessed by them. You are welcome to copy the studies and share them with others. Dwight Pentecost, Things to Come: A Study in Biblical Eschatology (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1964), 235. Hagee explained it to his congregation in these terms in a sermon on Esther: Now, a politician by the name of Haman. You can do these studies yourself, but they are designed for group use as well. The Esther Bible Study provides three separate discussion studies on this part of the Bible. But more importantly, the historical record teaches a number of key lessons relevant to our spiritual lives. Her story, with its startling twists and turns, is exciting and fascinating. Campbell Morgan states it strongly, saying, “There is no situation in human life or experience for which a message of God cannot be found through the book.”Įsther was a Jewish slave living in Persia, who, through a unusual series of circumstances, was selected to replace the Persian queen. She also didn’t lose hope when it seemed that Gd ’s protection of the Jewish people was in hiding. First, she kept hidden her identity as a Jew in the palace of the Persian king. This should be a great encouragement to all believers. Here are nine practical life lessons we can learn from Queen Esther: 1. And it provides an illustration and foreshadowing of the persecution of God’s people down through history and their deliverance from it. The record points us to a Hidden Hand at work in the preservation of the Jews. But Queen Vashti refused to come: Though Vashti was by no means a follower of the true God, she had enough. But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command brought by his eunuchs therefore the king was furious, and his anger burned within him. What can we do as Christians, when crisis situations strike, and God seems distant or uninvolved? An examination of this book will strengthen our faith. ( Esther 1:12) Queen Vashti refuses to appear before the drunken guests of the feast. Mordecai was distraught over the king’s recent order that the provinces were to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews. It comes from the Book of Esther in the Bible, spoken by Queen Esther’s cousin, Mordecai. 1 This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush: v. Another describes the book as “the story of how a beauty contest and a king’s insomnia saved a nation.” Strange as it may seem, this gets us closer to the heart of the book, and the reason it is found in the Bible. Maybe you’ve seen it on a coffee cup or a T-shirt: Perhaps you were born for such a time as this. ESTHER STUDY NUMBER ONE ESTHER 1:1-22 NOTES v. The woman’ great beauty, undoubted cleverness, and remarkable courage are not even half the story.
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