Esther 8:2
And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
Esther 8:2 belongs to the history of the Jews in captivity under the great Persian king Xerxes, called Ahasuerus in the Bible, when Medo-Persia was ruling. Haman was the prime minister in the king's favor, at the head of the Amalekites, the wicked and sworn enemies of God's children; as an Agagite and the Jews' enemy and the devil's agent, he devised mischief and a plot and a decree to destroy the Jews. On the same day Haman died, after Esther told the king what Mordecai was to her, the king gave Mordecai, the faithful Jew, the royal signet ring taken from Haman, thereby transferring Haman's authority to him. Because the king had given Haman's house to Queen Esther, she set Mordecai over Haman's house and estate, and after his death his property was given to Mordecai.
Heaven intervened by God's overruling power to save the Jews from their enemies and bring about their salvation through a counter decree against Haman's decree to destroy God's people in captivity. This led in the triumphant close of the book to the vindication of God's people and the complete overthrow and utter and absolute defeat of their enemies, preserving the godly line. The deliverance shows God frustrating Satan's purpose to destroy all His people, for the people attacked through Haman were the woman through whom the Man Child should come. The attack came when Medo-Persia was the second head of the beast system of church-and-state government that Satan had perverted to his own ends. The book containing the verse gives the origin of the feast of Purim and does not use the name of God in English, containing it in the original only five times in the form of an acrostic.
The verse shows God working deliverance when a law seeks to put to death those who will not worship according to man's command. It belongs to the continuing contest between God's way and man's way seen when Cain slew Abel for refusing his way of worship and when the Jews persecuted Christ for refusing their ideas of Sabbath-keeping. It illustrates the final Sabbath controversy that will end in an effort to put to death those who will not yield to man's Sabbath demand. Even after this promotion, Esther again risked her life by approaching the king uncalled, falling at his feet and begging with tears to put away the mischief and plot Haman had devised against the Jews.