Jewish people mourn everywhere when the plot is discovered to eradicate them.

Esther 4:1-3

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A plot to exterminate the Jews from the kingdom of the narcissistic and grandiose King Ahasuerus was devised by Haman in chapter three of Esther. Haman’s scheme resembles the terrorist attack by Hamas against the State of Israel that occurred on October 7, 2023. It also mirrors the plot to eradicate the Jewish people who were living in Hitler’s Germany who suffered the gas chambers of the Holocaust. Chapter 4 reveals how Queen Esther discovered Haman’s scheme to annihilate the Jewish people, who were her own people.

 “When Mordecai learned all that had happened, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. He cried out with a loud and bitter cry.” Esther 4:1

When Mordecai discovered Haman’s plot to wipe out him, Queen Esther, and all the Jewish people, he wept and wailed in the middle of the city. His grief was as intense as that of the Jewish people in Nazi Germany who faced mass extermination. They felt bitterness, mourning, hopelessness, and helplessness as they were dragged away from their homes never to be seen again.

In today’s world, each person who follows Jesus Christ see how faith in God the Creator, the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ, and the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the human spirit and conscience are being wiped out. It is a day of mourning for Christianity. The global culture is dominated by an entity giving them what to think, feel, speak, and act, instead of listening to their own conscience and honoring God above all. This entity animates the image of the beast to live and speak through people in every city around the world. They conform to the global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do. “It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.” Revelation 13:7 The “him” refers to the beast associated with the image and mark of the beast.

“He went as far as the front of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.” Esther 4:2

Narcissistic people cannot tolerate criticism, resentment, or grief directed at them or their actions, past or present. They despise complaints and expect admiration, praise, and absolute loyalty. King Ahasuerus was such a person. The king banned anyone who showed signs of discontent from entering the gates leading to his palace. He would consider bitter mourning as hate speech, terroristic threats, etc. If he were here today, he would even ensure that any self-writing AI programs would filter out any criticism of the governing agenda.

People who live for the Gospel of Jesus Christ see that the global government (United Nations) is the government of the beast. That is why this world’s system eradicates Christianity and are putting the followers of Jesus quietly out of the picture, out-of-sight out-of-mind. We see that the global culture are those who serve the one “…who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Click here for a post on the “man of sin”.

We, as Christians, offer our body as the home of the Holy Spirit, the temple of God. We witness how the government of the beast is defiling God’s temple and they will face their destruction as a result, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 As Christians, we grieve deeply for how the global culture has destroyed the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we are considered to be hostile and critical of the governing authority, even though we act in the spirit of Christ’s peace, meekness, gentleness, and harmlessness. We are lambs led to the slaughter.

“And in every province where the king’s command and decree arrived, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.” Esther 4:3

This verse vividly portrays the atmosphere in Hitler’s Germany, where the cries and lamentations of the spirit of the Jewish people filled the air. The same sorrow is echoed by the State of Israel and the followers of Jesus Christ who foresee the doom of Israel under the beast’s global rule. And the same grief is felt by Christians who face the ban on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and foresee great tribulation.

This verse refers to the beast that is linked to the image and mark of the beast. “And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:5-8

Revelation 12 details the extermination of births born through Jesus Christ to exterminate Christianity.

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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