Esther 9:18
But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
The verse belongs to the time of the captive Jews under the Persian king Ahasuerus, identified as Xerxes, when Haman the descendant of Agag, the devil's agent, plotted and decreed the destruction of all the Jews as God's people. God frustrated Haman's purpose and saved the Jews through His providence by a counter decree, bringing about the defeat of their enemies and preserving the godly line. It is the triumphant vindication of God's people and the utter and absolute defeat of wicked Haman.
The Jews at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth day, and on the fifteenth day of the same month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness to mark their deliverance from the threat against them. Their joy followed deliverance from great trouble and was brought about through the efforts and prayers of Mordecai, Esther, and their people. The account gives the origin of the feast of Purim, whose name comes from Pur meaning lot for the casting of lots, in a book where the name of God does not occur in English and is found in the original only five times in the form of an acrostic.
Esther 9 stands among the proofs that Christ will come between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, bring all His saints with Him, and reward every man as his work shall be.