Queen Esther and Mordecai are rewarded by the narcissistic king.

Esther 8:1-2

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 “On that day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told how he was related to her. So the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai; and Esther appointed Mordecai over the house of Haman.” Esther 8:1-2

“On that day…” refers to the day Haman was hanged, in Esther 7, for his terroristic plot against the Jewish people. The king also wanted to get rid of Haman as the sole person who could expose his involvement in the plot. Esther 3 reveals the collaboration between Haman and king Ahasuerus. The king gave his wife, Esther, the house once occupied by Haman and gave Mordecai the position that Haman once held as the right-hand of power for the king. We can envision how Queen Esther and Mordecai felt to be given the “gifts” that put them in the shoes of Haman, who was killed by the narcissistic and grandiose king simply to avoid any implication of wrongdoing.

A narcissistic and grandiose person would see refusing their gift as a sign of rejection or betrayal, and they would seek revenge. In Esther 1, we see how the narcissistic king destroyed his ex-wife’s life because she said “No” to him in a way that humiliated him publicly. Then we read in Esther 7 how Haman was executed because he was the one person who could have implicated him in the terroristic plot against the Jewish people.

A narcissist’s gift is not a generous offer, but a trap. Anyone who accepts it would incur a debt that could only be settled by surrendering their autonomy to the narcissist. A narcissist is not going to surrender his life for the welfare of others. However, the gift of eternal life is 100% free through the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:8-10

Queen Esther and her cousin Mordecai were faithful to God and followed the Ten Commandments. Their hearts were not swayed by costly gifts, power, or influence. Their spirit and soul ached to the point of suffering to save the lives of the Jewish people and were filled with mourning for them. The suffering of the soul of Jesus Christ yearned to bring eternal Salvation of His people the Jews, but they rejected Him. He feels that same yearning for everyone and suffered the agonizing death on the Cross to atone for the sin of the whosoever. “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit…” 1 Peter 3:18

Esther and Mordecai have been glorified together in their role in saving the Jewish people from annihilation. Without their intervention, Jesus Christ would not have been born because He is Jewish. Just as Queen Esther made Mordecai the ruler of her house, the Lord Jesus Christ wants us to make Him the Lord of our life. Esther made Mordecai a joint heir of the house, and Jesus makes us joint heirs with Him in the New Jerusalem. “…and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.” Romans 8:17

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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, 3:11