Esther Speaks to the King and Haman at the Banquetby Joel
7:1Esther 7:1
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
The verse belongs to the history of the Jews under the Persian king Ahasuerus, that is the great king Xerxes. The queen who makes the banquet is a Jewish maiden brought to the throne of Persia in the providence of God. Haman comes with the king as prime minister, at the head of the Amalekites, the wicked and sworn enemies of God's children who stand in the favor of the king, while plotting to destroy the Jews.
It opens Esther's second banquet, held early on the same day Mordecai was honored. The king's chamberlains came and hasted to bring Haman while his wife Zeresh and his wise men were still telling him that, having begun to fall before Mordecai of the seed of the Jews, he would not prevail against him but would surely fall before him. So Haman came to the banquet mourning with his head covered after arraying Mordecai and proclaiming his honor through the city, not merrily as he with his wife and friends had planned the evening before.
Behind Haman's plot Satan was working through Haman as the devil's agent to destroy all of God's people. That threat was an attempt to eliminate the people through whom the promised Man Child would come. God frustrated that purpose, and by His overruling providence the banquet leads to the triumphant vindication and deliverance of God's people and the utter defeat of Haman.
The verse belongs to the history of the Jews under the Persian king Ahasuerus, that is the great king Xerxes. The queen who makes the banquet is a Jewish maiden brought to the throne of Persia in the providence of God. Haman comes with the king as prime minister, at the head of the Amalekites, the wicked and sworn enemies of God's children who stand in the favor of the king, while plotting to destroy the Jews.
It opens Esther's second banquet, held early on the same day Mordecai was honored. The king's chamberlains came and hasted to bring Haman while his wife Zeresh and his wise men were still telling him that, having begun to fall before Mordecai of the seed of the Jews, he would not prevail against him but would surely fall before him. So Haman came to the banquet mourning with his head covered after arraying Mordecai and proclaiming his honor through the city, not merrily as he with his wife and friends had planned the evening before.
Behind Haman's plot Satan was working through Haman as the devil's agent to destroy all of God's people. That threat was an attempt to eliminate the people through whom the promised Man Child would come. God frustrated that purpose, and by His overruling providence the banquet leads to the triumphant vindication and deliverance of God's people and the utter defeat of Haman.