A Servant Announces Haman to King Ahasuerusby CBPepper
6:5Esther 6:5
And the king’s servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
Esther 6:5 belongs to the account during the reign of Ahasuerus in Medo-Persia of Haman's effort to destroy all of God's people, but God frustrated that purpose. In that account Satan was working through the Medo-Persian government to destroy the people of God, the woman through whom the Man-child should come. Medo-Persia was the second head of the Satanic beast system of church-and-state government succeeding Babylon, and Haman's plot was Satan's attempt to use that head against the truth and the church.
Haman was waiting in the court when the king asked who was there, the servants reported his presence, and the king ordered him brought in. This was early in the morning, before Haman could present his request against Mordecai. That very night God was working for His people in answer to the faith of the believing ones. The king could not sleep, had the chronicles of the kingdom read before him, and so heard of Mordecai's faithfulness and loyal service in saving his life.
Haman's arrival at court and summons to advise the king on how to honor Mordecai became part of God's providential preparation to protect Mordecai and Esther's people and to bring Mordecai honor and help save his people, even while Haman intended Mordecai's ruin and before the king decided Esther's petition. Supposing the king desired to honor him, Haman became the means of promoting Mordecai to great honor, beginning the reversal in which he was made to honor Mordecai. The episode shows God's providence for His people and the retributive justice that fell on Haman. A counter decree was issued for the Jews to destroy their enemies, and Haman was hanged on the gallows he had erected to hang Mordecai.
Esther 6:5 belongs to the account during the reign of Ahasuerus in Medo-Persia of Haman's effort to destroy all of God's people, but God frustrated that purpose. In that account Satan was working through the Medo-Persian government to destroy the people of God, the woman through whom the Man-child should come. Medo-Persia was the second head of the Satanic beast system of church-and-state government succeeding Babylon, and Haman's plot was Satan's attempt to use that head against the truth and the church.
Haman was waiting in the court when the king asked who was there, the servants reported his presence, and the king ordered him brought in. This was early in the morning, before Haman could present his request against Mordecai. That very night God was working for His people in answer to the faith of the believing ones. The king could not sleep, had the chronicles of the kingdom read before him, and so heard of Mordecai's faithfulness and loyal service in saving his life.
Haman's arrival at court and summons to advise the king on how to honor Mordecai became part of God's providential preparation to protect Mordecai and Esther's people and to bring Mordecai honor and help save his people, even while Haman intended Mordecai's ruin and before the king decided Esther's petition. Supposing the king desired to honor him, Haman became the means of promoting Mordecai to great honor, beginning the reversal in which he was made to honor Mordecai. The episode shows God's providence for His people and the retributive justice that fell on Haman. A counter decree was issued for the Jews to destroy their enemies, and Haman was hanged on the gallows he had erected to hang Mordecai.