The king pretentiously asks Esther who would dare to annihilate the Jewish people.

Esther 7:5

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“So King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing?” Esther 7:5

The king, who was narcissistic and grandiose, was aware of the scheme to exterminate the Jews, but he pretended to be ignorant while Haman, the mastermind of the plan, sat there (very nervously) and heard his lies. Back in chapter three this is written, “So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. And the king said to Haman, “The money and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you.” Esther 3:10-11 Esther 3 explains the whole collaboration between king Ahasuerus and Haman.

People with a narcissistic and grandiose spirit never confess to their involvement in wrongdoing, always insist on their innocence, and use others to pin their errant behavior on. By executing Haman (verses 9-10), the king removed the only person who could implicate him in the plot to annihilate the Jewish people, among whom were his own wife Queen Esther and Mordecai.

No matter what affliction happens to the State of Israel or Christianity, the United Nations will always deny any involvement in wrongdoing. They will maintain their innocence in the name of humanitarian reasons and will find someone to blame by referring to terrorism or hate crimes.

To come into a relationship with God through Jesus Christ is to confess we have a sinful nature and not to claim our own rightness or blame others to justify ourselves. “No one is good but One, that is, God.” Matthew 19:17 Admitting we are sinners means we humble ourselves so that we decrease in self-importance and allow Jesus Christ to increase in our spirit and soul, “He must increase, but I must decrease. He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.” John 3:30-31

“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.” 1 John 1:8-10 Jesus Christ had a deep suffering in His soul for the Salvation of the suffering souls of humankind. He physically suffered death on the Cross to give us life through the atonement He made for sin.

“Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.” Psalms 24:3-5

Today, the people of the global culture lives by an entity which gives them what to think, feel, do, and say. This entity enlivens the image of the beast to live and speak through people in every city around the world and replaces the human conscience. They feel empowered to exalt their own will and version of innocence above the will and rightness of God our Creator. They feel no remorse or guilt and abhor the idea of seeing themselves as sinners in need of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin. They see the Holy Spirit as someone to oppress, accuse, exploit, and kill. People around the world conform to the anti-Christian culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1