The Jewish people are legally allowed to protect themselves from their legal annihilation.

Esther 8:11-14

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 “By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to gather together and protect their lives—to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province that would assault them, both little children and women, and to plunder their possessions…” Esther 8:11

The order Mordecai sent out to allow the Jewish people to defend themselves is a mirror image of the order Haman sent out to destroy the Jewish people in Esther 3:13 This is like the wheat and the tares harming each other instead of coexisting.

Since the coming of Jesus Christ, He teaches us to let the wheat and the tares grow together until His return, when He will separate the chaff from the wheat, Matthew 13:24-30. We could say that Mordecai’s decree symbolizes favoritism for the wheat, while Haman’s decree symbolizes favoritism for the chaff. Our Lord Jesus Christ says, “Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’” Matthew 13:30

A contrast exists between the global culture and us. The global culture lives for the anti-Christian entity that gives them their thoughts, feelings, words, and actions which enables the image of the beast to live and speak through them. We, on the other hand, aspire to conform to the image of Christ in our thinking, feeling, speaking, and doing. Our Lord Jesus Christ calls us to live in His peace, mercy, grace, and Salvation towards others, not to take any destructive action against them. We all live and grow together in this world. Jesus Christ, who lives in us by the Holy Spirit, came to save life, not to destroy it.

“…on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. A copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province and published for all people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.” Esther 8:12-13

The decrees of Mordecai and Haman took effect on the same day. One to permit a terrorist attack on the Jewish people and the other to permit the Jewish people to resist the attack. The decrees are both designed to expire on the same day they are issued, resulting in a single day of conflict. That day is “the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.”

This verse from Esther 3:13 can be compared to the verse above, “And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions.” Esther 3:13

“The couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s command. And the decree was issued in Shushan the citadel.” Esther 8:14

The Shushan citadel, in the territory of Iran today, was a place of political power to where Haman issued his decree to launch a terrorist attack on the Jewish people. Now, Mordecai’s order was sent to Shushan citadel to put the terrorist forces on notice that the Jewish people will be allowed to defend themselves.

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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