I don’t know about you, but I’m proud of Esther.\u00a0 She is finally breaking the silence and telling her man what is on her mind.\u00a0 Remember earlier in this study, Esther had asked the Jews to join her in a fast for three days. \u00a0I believe it was in preparation for coming before the king and exposing Haman.\u00a0 Now was her time to speak up.\u00a0 The stage was set as the king, queen and the wicked Haman sit down together and wham! Esther courageously announces her nationality and exposes Haman.\u00a0 Can’t you hear his jaw dropping? \u00a0 And I imagine his heart stopped beating for a moment, he broke into\u00a0a sweat and lost color in his face! \u00a0He learns for the first time that the Queen herself is a Jew—the same race he wants to annihilate! \u00a0Remember what Haman’s wife had said to him that day? “Since Mordechai, before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him~you will surely come to ruin.”\u00a0 Now he finds out the Queen herself is also Jewish!<\/em><\/p>\n I imagine the King was speechless as well. \u00a0He didn’t know Esther was a Jew either.\u00a0 He just thought he was sitting down to hear his wife’s petitions.\u00a0 Now he realizes that his own wife’s life is at stake\u00a0and she, herself, could die.\u00a0 His own wife is not safe in his own kingdom.<\/p>\n Esther 7:5-6 – Recap<\/strong><\/p>\n King Xerxes asks, “Who is he? Where is the man who has dared to do such a thing?”\u00a0 Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this vile Haman.” \u00a0Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.<\/p>\n The king demands to know who is out to get his wife.\u00a0 What a turn of events, what a fall from grace! \u00a0Wasn’t it just yesterday that Haman thought the king would always honor him? \u00a0Now the king wants revenge.<\/em>\u00a0 Yesterday Haman had the world in his hands…today his death is imminent. Now Haman is about to beg for his life….<\/p>\n Esther 7:7-10 – Recap<\/strong><\/p>\n The king got up in a rage, left his wine, and went out into the palace garden. \u00a0But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life. \u00a0Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. \u00a0The king exclaimed, “Will he even molest the Queen while she is with me in the house?”\u00a0 As soon as the word left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.\u00a0 Then one of them, who was named Harbonah, said “Haman even went so far as to build a gallows at his house so that he could hang Mordecai, who saved Your Majesty’s life, and it’s 75 feet tall.” “Hang Haman on it!” the king commanded. So Haman was hanged on the gallows that he had built for Mordecai.\u00a0 Then the king’s anger cooled down.”<\/p>\n Haman is a type of what the Bible calls ‘flesh.’ \u00a0Meaning that he is, and has, the self-centered type of nature that we all have naturally.\u00a0 We are born this way and it can dominate us just the way it dominated Haman.\u00a0 Instead of us all coming together as the Body of Christ, we sometimes end up fighting the very ones we should be teaming up\u00a0with and fighting the real enemy—Satan. Sometimes we say, “Well that’s just who I am, or it won’t ever change;” that’s a lie also. Sometimes, as Christians, we don’t even realize or recognize the “Haman” in us.\u00a0 Yet the Bible promises us that we no longer have to be ruled by that principle anymore.\u00a0 Haman doesn’t have to stay on the throne!\u00a0 Stand on the promise that “in Christ” that old nature has no hold on you and you are sending it to the gallows. The Bible says “walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh” (Galatians 5:16).<\/p>\n Revelation concerning the true nature of Haman had come to the king and he sent Haman to his own gallows and hung him.<\/p>\n
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