Feast of Purim (Feast of Esther) is officially established by Mordecai and Queen Esther

Esther 9:20-32

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 “And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews, near and far, who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to establish among them that they should celebrate yearly the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar,” Esther 9:20-21

Every year, on the 14th and 15th day of the Jewish month Adar, the Jewish people celebrate their salvation from the massacre planned by Haman (and approved by king Ahasuerus), as Mordecai instituted. As followers of Jesus Christ, we also celebrate the victory of the Jewish people over their enemy. Without their victories, the Lord Jesus Christ would not have been born because His lineage would have been wiped off the face of the earth.

Sadly, the Jewish people do not acknowledge the Salvation God offers them through Jesus Christ. From the suffering of His soul, Jesus yearns for their Salvation and ours, and His Gospel is nothing to be ashamed of, “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” Romans 1:16-17

“…as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending presents to one another and gifts to the poor.” Esther 9:22

Only through Jesus Christ is rest given in our spirit and soul and our mourning is turned to joy. “… as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:” John 1:12This world is full of pain and suffering, but joy will be complete in the New Jerusalem when our Lord Jesus Christ triumphs over His enemies., “Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.” John 16:20 On this earth, we rejoice over and celebrate our fellow Christians and do what we can to enrich those who are poor in spirit.

“So the Jews accepted the custom which they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,  because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to annihilate them, and had cast Pur (that is, the lot), to consume them and destroy them; but when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letter that this wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.” Esther 9:23-25

The text explains why the Jewish people celebrate on the 14th and 15th of Adar. It started off when Haman, the hater of the Jewish people, plotted to annihilate them, to totally destroy them. The king, Esther’s husband, decided to let the Jews fight back when she told him about the threat they faced. Haman was hanged on the gallows as were his ten sons.

“So they called these days Purim, after the name Pur. “Therefore, because of all the words of this letter, what they had seen concerning this matter, and what had happened to them, the Jews established and imposed it upon themselves and their descendants and all who would join them, that without fail they should celebrate these two days every year, according to the written instructions and according to the prescribed time,” Esther 9:26-27

To this day, the Jewish people celebrate the Feast of Purim also known as the Feast of Esther. The two days on the 14th and 15th of the Jewish month of Adar have been established as the days to celebrate Queen Esther’s actions of saving the Jewish people from extinction. The Feast of Esther has been celebrated for about 2400 years from the time of the life of Queen Esther.

“…that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city, that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, and that the memory of them should not perish among their descendants.” Esther 9:28

While the days of the Feast of Purim (Feast of Esther) are still being celebrated by the Jewish people, the Israelis of today have drifted far from their Biblical heritage. The festivities have become contemporary and lost the meaning of what God did through Queen Esther and Mordecai to save the Jewish people from genocide.

The Israelis of today join in protests and riots to demand the government of the State of Israel to conform to the goals of the global government of the beast. Far, far from what Queen Esther and Mordecai would ever have done. The Israeli citizens have conformed to the will of the global culture by living for the entity forming what they think, feel, do, say, and believe. This entity animates the image of the beast to live and speak through people in every city around the world to unite the masses around the world as one. The Israeli citizens have conformed to the global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

“Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Purim. And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews, to the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth, to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had prescribed for them, and as they had decreed for themselves and their descendants concerning matters of their fasting and lamenting. So the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim, and it was written in the book.” Esther 9:29-32

Queen Esther and Mordecai had full authority to establish the Feast of Purim (Feast of Esther) as an international holiday.

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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