Esther 9:29
Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim. Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.
Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with full authority to confirm the second letter of Purim. That letter was the counter-decree after a decree to destroy the captive Jewish people had been issued. The plot had come through Haman in the reign of Ahasuerus, when Satan worked through Medo-Persia, the second head of the beast, an abnormal satanic system of church-and-state government. Through Haman Satan attempted to destroy God's people, the woman and the line through whom the promised Man-child was to come.
God frustrated Satan's purpose and delivered the Jews from the threat of death, saving them and overthrowing their enemies so the godly line was preserved. The outcome was a triumphant vindication of God's people and the utter and absolute defeat of wicked Haman as the devil's agent. The verse gives part of the origin of the feast of Purim, which takes its name from Pur, meaning a lot or the casting of lots.
The book to which the verse belongs does not contain the name of God in English, containing it in the original only five times in the form of an acrostic. Just as the Jews faced a death decree and were delivered, so God will deliver those who in the coming persecution refuse to obey human commands about Sabbath-keeping.