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Caption transcript for Esther: “Beautiful Inside and Out” (1/8)

• 00:22 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
• 00:25 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
• 00:31 ♪AND A NATION WILL BE FORMED OUT OF HIM♪
• 00:35 ♪YEAH A PEOPLE WILL BE BORN OUT OF HIM♪
• 00:40 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
• 00:44 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
• 00:52 WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF
• 00:56 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:58 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 01:00 AND I AM THRILLED...
• 01:01 SUPER THRILLED IN FACT TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
• 01:03 TO ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:07 WE ARE BEGINNING A GOOD ONE.
• 01:10 AN 8 PART SERIES ON THE FASCINATING BOOK OF ESTHER.
• 01:16 THERE ARE SO MANY WONDERFUL COMPONENTS HERE
• 01:19 AND THERE'S TRAGEDY AND IRONY IN IT AS WELL.
• 01:23 ITS NOT JUST A STORY FOR YESTERDAY,
• 01:26 IT'S A STORY FOR TODAY
• 01:28 FOR INASMUCH AS YESTERDAY WICKEDNESS RAISED ITS HOARY HEAD TO DESTROY THE JEWS
• 01:35 AND ESTHER WAS THERE TO STOP IT, SO IT IS TODAY.
• 01:38 WELL FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS AND GO ON A JOURNEY WITH ME "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS".
• 01:48 IT ALL HAPPENED IN THE DAYS OF KING ACHASHVEROSH
• 01:52 ALSO CALLED XERXES.
• 01:55 HAVING OVERTHROWN THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE
• 01:59 HE RULED OVER 127 PROVINCES FROM INDIA TO ETHIOPIA.
• 02:05 AND THE KING RULED FROM HIS MAGNIFICENT PALACE IN SHUSHAN.
• 02:10 IN THE THIRD YEAR OF HIS REIGN THE KING MADE A FEAST WITH ALL HIS PRINCES AND SERVANTS
• 02:18 WHEREIN HE DISPLAYED THE WEALTH OF HIS ROYAL GLORY AND THE MAJESTY OF HIS GREATNESS.
• 02:43 ALL WERE AMAZED AT THE GREAT WEALTH
• 02:45 EXCEPT FOR ONE WHO REFUSED TO ATTEND.
• 02:52 QUEEN VASHTI WOULD HOLD HER OWN FEAST
• 02:55 SENDING A MESSAGE TO THE KING
• 02:57 THAT SHE WOULD NOT ATTEND HIS FEAST.
• 03:00 THE KING'S RAGE WOULD SHAKE THE VERY EMPIRE
• 03:03 AND HIS TRUSTED ADVISORS WERE SWIFT TO BRING JUDGMENT.
• 03:35 AN INSULT LED TO A DIVORCE
• 03:37 THAT A KING WOULD COME TO REGRET.
• 03:40 AND THE DIVORCE WOULD LEAD TO A MARRIAGE
• 03:42 THAT THE WORLD WOULD NEVER FORGET.
• 03:46 AND THIS FRIENDS IS THE BASIS FOR THE OPENING OF A DRAMA,
• 03:50 A FASCINATING DRAMA
• 03:52 KNOWN IN THE HEBREW BIBLE AS THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
• 03:57 THIS STORY IS PLAYED OUT AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF A RISE OF A KING XERXES
• 04:02 WHO PUTS A BIG FEAST TOGETHER FOR ALL OF HIS 127 PROVINCIAL LEADERS...
• 04:09 THE KINGDOM'S DIVIDED UP...
• 04:11 AN ENORMOUS EMPIRE...
• 04:14 2 MILLION SQUARE MILES EXTENDING ON THE EAST ALL THE WAY TO INDIA...
• 04:19 TO THE WEST ALL THE WAY TO ETHIOPIA...
• 04:22 AND HE GATHERS TOGETHER HIS GOVERNORS TO PREPARE FOR HIS INVASION OF THE WEST.
• 04:28 HE'S DRINKING A LITTLE BIT...
• 04:29 WELL MORE THAN A LITTLE BIT ACTUALLY...
• 04:31 THE PERSIANS FOR THAT MATTER WERE KNOWN FOR THEIR MEGA-FEASTS REPLETE WITH WINING AND DINING.
• 04:41 THE GOLD VESSELS WERE FASCINATING...
• 04:44 THE TABLEWARE FOR THESE FEASTS WAS KNOWN TO THE GREEKS.
• 04:48 HERODOTUS THE HISTORIAN TALKS ABOUT IT AS DO OTHERS.
• 04:52 WELL THE BIBLICAL AUTHOR OF ESTHER TALKS ABOUT THIS STORY
• 04:56 AND NOTES HOW A DRUNKEN KING XERXES WANTS HIS QUEEN VASHTI TO COME AND PRESENT HERSELF
• 05:04 AS SOMETHING OF BEAUTY QUEEN TO SHOW HERSELF IN FRONT OF HIS DRUNKEN GUESTS.
• 05:09 SHE REFUSES.
• 05:11 HE IS ON THE OUTS WITH HER AS A RESULT AND HE IS GOING TO LOOK FOR ANOTHER QUEEN.
• 05:18 IN ESTHER CHAPTER 1, IN VERSE 19 WERE TOLD...
• 05:23 "THAT VASHTI CAME NO MORE"...
• 05:31 SHE CAME NO MORE BEFORE THE FACE OR IN THE PRESENCE OF THIS KING.
• 05:38 AND WHAT DOES HE DO?
• 05:41 HE GOES ON THE HUNT FOR SOMEONE ELSE.
• 05:44 THERE'S A STORY HERE OF DEMENTED THINKING, DRUNKEN KINGS,
• 05:49 THERE'S AN ORGY OF POWER,
• 05:52 THERE'S PREPARATION FOR WAR,
• 05:54 THERE'S A WOMAN WHO'S "THROWN UNDER THE BUS"
• 05:57 BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T WANT TO SUBJECT HERSELF TO INDIGNITIES.
• 06:01 WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN THIS STORY IS THERE'S A GOD AT WORK.
• 06:06 PROVIDENCE IS PLAYING PROVIDENCE'S HAND
• 06:09 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 06:11 IT'S NOT INTRODUCED INTO THE NARRATIVE YET
• 06:13 BUT THERE'S A WORLD THAT'S GOING TO TURN ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 06:18 EMERGING LATER IN THE NARRATIVE IS A FELLOW HAMAN HELL BENT ON DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWS.
• 06:26 THEN AS NOW THERE ARE THOSE BENT ON KILLING THE HEBREW PEOPLE.
• 06:33 AND THEN AS NOW GOD RAISES UP MIRACLE, VICTORY;
• 06:41 RAISES UP INDIVIDUALS "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS" TO HOLD BACK THE TIDE OF DESTRUCTION.
• 06:49 AND HERE I'M COMING TO YOU FROM A FORTIFICATION OVERLOOKING SYRIA.
• 06:56 BATTLES WERE FOUGHT HERE AS JEWS DUG IN TO HOLD BACK THE FORCES OF ANARCHY AND DECAY TODAY AS YESTERDAY...
• 07:06 THE STORY CONTINUES.
• 07:08 A STORY THAT WE'LL LOOK AT AS WE CONSIDER "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS".
• 07:16 MORDECAI, ESTHER'S COUSIN WAS AMONG THE CAPTIVE JEWS IN SHUSAN.
• 07:21 WHEN ESTHER'S PARENTS HAD DIED
• 07:23 MORDECAI HAD TAKEN HER AS HIS OWN DAUGHTER
• 07:26 AND RAISED HER, CARING FOR HER DEEPLY.
• 08:03 AND SO IT WAS THAT ESTHER WAS TAKEN BEFORE HEGAI, THE GUARDIAN OF THE KING'S HAREM.
• 08:10 AND SHE WAS PLEASING TO HIM.
• 08:13 IT WOULD TAKE 12 MONTHS OF PREPARATION BEFORE ESTHER WOULD APPEAR BEFORE THE KING.
• 08:22 ATTENDED TO BY 7 MAIDENS SHE WOULD RECEIVE 6 MONTHS TREATMENT WITH OIL OF MYRRH
• 08:28 AND THEN ANOTHER 6 MONTHS TREATMENT WITH PERFUMES AND COSMETICS.
• 08:36 ESTHER HAD NEVER LOOKED SO LOVELY.
• 08:46 OUR HEROINE ESTHER HAS MADE HER WAY INTO THE PALACE AT MORDECAI'S BIDDING
• 08:52 IN THE HOPES OF NOT JUST MAKING IT INTO THE PALACE
• 08:56 BUT MAKING IT INTO THE HEAD AND INTO THE HEART OF THE MAN WHO RUNS THE PLACE...XERXES.
• 09:02 IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THAT SHE'S PAMPERED TO BE SURE.
• 09:06 NOT ONLY IS SHE GIVEN A GLOSS WITH THE FINEST OF OINTMENTS
• 09:10 BUT SHE'S GIVEN A FINE PIECE OF ADVICE, OR SO IT'S CONSTRUED IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT, BY MORDECAI
• 09:15 WHO TELLS HER SOMETHING THAT TO ME IS STRIKING BECAUSE AT ONE LEVEL IT'S SO VERY PATHETIC.
• 09:21 IN ESTHER CHAPTER 2 IN VERSE 10 WERE TOLD,
• 09:24 "ESTHER HAD NOT MADE KNOWN HER PEOPLE".
• 09:33 IT SEEMS THAT THE WORD FROM MORDECAI TO HER WAS
• 09:37 "SHHHH - DON'T LET THEM KNOW THAT YOU'RE A JEW",
• 09:44 BECAUSE SOMEHOW BY VIRTUE OF HER BEING JEWISH THAT WOULD BE CONSTRUED AS A DEFICIT.
• 09:51 THE FACT THAT THERE'S PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH BEING JEWS,
• 09:54 I'M REMINDED OF THAT AS I AM HERE IN THIS BUNKER
• 09:59 THAT SPEAKS OF TROUBLES WITH THE JEWS OF DAYS NOT SO LONG AGO.
• 10:04 ON THE ONE SIDE IS SYRIA,
• 10:07 ON THE OTHER SIDE IS ISRAEL,
• 10:10 HERE IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS THERE'S A BARRIER BETWEEN THE TWO...
• 10:14 A BARRIER THAT IS SACRED TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO BE DEFENDED AT ALL COSTS.
• 10:20 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 10:21 TO HAVE A STRATEGIC POINT TO HOLD BACK THE FORCES OF DESTRUCTION
• 10:28 THAT ARE ALIVE TODAY...HERE,
• 10:31 JUST AS THEY WERE YESTERDAY...HERE.
• 10:36 WHY IS THAT?
• 10:37 WHEN WE LOOK IN BIBLICAL HISTORY AS MODERN HISTORY
• 10:41 WE DISCOVER THAT INDIVIDUALS BENT ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWS RAISE THEIR HOARY HEADS.
• 10:49 KINGDOMS HAVE DONE IT AND THEY HAVE RISEN AND THEY HAVE FALLEN.
• 10:54 THE EGYPTIANS HELD THE ISRAELITES IN THEIR CLUTCHES IN THE DAYS OF EXODUS
• 10:59 AND WHERE IS EGYPT TODAY?
• 11:02 THE BABYLONIANS DID, THE ROMANS DID IN THEIR DAY;
• 11:05 DIFFERENT PEOPLES HAVE COME AND GONE BUT THE JEW IN SOME SENSE IS IMMORTAL.
• 11:13 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 11:14 WELL TO PLAY OFF A SONG YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD
• 11:17 HERE AS I'M REMINDED OF ESTHER'S BEING TOLD "SHHHHH - DON'T' LET THEM KNOW YOU'RE A JEW".
• 11:24 IF YOU'LL PERMIT A LITTLE PLAY ON WORDS WITH A SONG...
• 11:27 YOU MIGHT OF HEARD IT...
• 11:28 IT GOES LIKE THIS...
• 11:30 "AMAZING GRACE HOW SWEET THE SOUND"
• 11:33 "THAT HAS PRESERVED GOD'S PEOPLE THE JEWS"
• 11:37 "FOR WE'VE BEEN HATED, OFTEN BERATED,"
• 11:41 "AND STILL WE'RE CASTIGATED,"
• 11:44 "YOU CAN BET WE HAVE PAID OUR DUES,"
• 11:47 "WE'VE BEEN PUT THROUGH MANY DANGERS, TOILS AND SNARES"
• 11:51 "FOR REASONS WHICH WE HAVE NOT DESERVED"
• 11:55 "BUT IN SPITE OF MEN'S ATTEMPTS TO KILL US OFF,"
• 11:59 "BY THE GRACE OF GOD WE HAVE BEEN PRESERVED."
• 12:03 "NOW WE THE JEWS HAVE BEEN HERE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS"
• 12:07 "AND LIKE THE SUN WE'VE BEEN SHINING IN OUR PLACE"
• 12:11 "AND IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING WHY IT IS THE JEWS DON'T SEEM TO DIE,"
• 12:17 "THE ANSWER'S CLEAR IT'S CAUSE OF GOD'S AMAZING GRACE."
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• 13:42 THERE'S THIS WONDERFUL INSPIRATIONAL QUALITY ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 13:48 PEOPLE GO THERE AND THEY REPORT CHANGES IN THEIR PERSON, THEIR HEARTS, THEIR MINDS.
• 13:54 PLEASE...FOR YOU NOT FOR ME...
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• 14:18 IT COMES REPLETE WITH STORIES
• 14:20 ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ISRAEL.
• 14:22 WE LOOK AT IT ALL WITH BIBLICAL EYES
• 14:24 TO CONSIDER WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD...
• 14:26 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORD AND HOW IT MIGHT RELATE TO US TODAY.
• 14:30 THE LEVITT LETTER...
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• 14:33 THE OFFER IN THIS PROGRAM
• 14:34 WILL BE A BOOK I WROTE SOME YEARS AGO WITH SANDRA LEVITT
• 14:37 CALLED "WOMAN BY DIVINE DESIGN".
• 14:40 HEREIN I LOOK TO EXPLORE WITH SANDRA
• 14:42 WHERE JESUS SPEAKS TO, FOR, AND ABOUT WOMEN
• 14:45 AND LOOK AT WHAT PAUL SAYS WHEN HE SPEAKS TO, FOR, ABOUT WOMEN.
• 14:49 IT'S A GREAT STORY.
• 14:50 AND SPEAKING OF WOMEN...
• 14:52 THERE'S ONE WOMAN IN PARTICULAR...
• 14:54 ESTHER...WHO WAS RAISED OUT OF OBSCURITY
• 14:58 TO HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH DESTINY
• 15:01 AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN TO CONSIDER HER STORY
• 15:05 AS WE LOOK AT HER EMERGENCE AS THE QUEEN OF PERSIA.
• 15:59 ITS EVERY GIRL'S DREAM ISN'T IT?
• 16:01 TO BE CHOSEN.
• 16:03 IT'S A RAG TO RICHES STORY.
• 16:07 IT'S A STORY ABOUT A GREAT GIRL WHO MADE GOOD.
• 16:11 AND WHAT IS THAT?
• 16:13 YOU MAY WELL KNOW THE STORY.
• 16:15 WERE TOLD IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER, CHAPTER 2, VERSE 17,
• 16:19 "THAT THE KING LOVED ESTHER ABOVE ALL WOMEN",
• 16:29 AND THE NET RESULT AS HE'S PROCESSED WHO THE NEXT QUEEN'S GOING TO BE, WE'RE TOLD,
• 16:34 "AND HE SET THE CROWN OF ROYALTY ON HER HEAD".
• 16:46 WHAT A STORY IT IS...
• 16:48 AGAIN, THIS LOCAL GIRL WHO'S MADE GOOD.
• 16:52 I WANT TO RAISE THE QUESTION RHETORICALLY:
• 16:56 WHAT IS IT THAT FACILITATED HER RISE?
• 17:00 WERE TOLD RIGHT BEFORE THIS,
• 17:02 AND I THINK THIS IS SIGNIFICANT I SHOULD SAY PARTICULARLY TO OFFSET THE FANTASY ABOUT JEWS.
• 17:09 YOU KNOW HOW JEWS ARE DEPICTED AS GREEDY, COVETOUS, AFTER EVERYONE'S MONEY...
• 17:18 THAT'S THE MYTH.
• 17:20 WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THE WOMEN THAT WERE BEGGING THE KING'S AFFECTIONS
• 17:26 WERE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO WEAR ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THEY WANTED.
• 17:30 AND SO THE LADIES WERE CHOOSING THE GOLD AND THE SILVER AND THE DIAMONDS AND ALL THE FINERY.
• 17:36 ESTHER, HOWEVER, AS DISTINCT FROM ALL OF THAT, WENT MODEST.
• 17:42 AND IT WAS WHO SHE WAS THAT SHINED MORE THAN ANY DIAMOND.
• 17:46 AND WHAT HAPPENED IS XERXES CONCEIVED THAT SHE WAS DIFFERENT.
• 17:51 THIS GIRL WAS NO GOLD DIGGER; LITERALLY,
• 17:54 SHE DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO ADORN HERSELF WITH ALL OF THAT.
• 17:57 AND IT'S NOT JUST THAT, BY THE WAY,
• 17:59 WE'RE TOLD SPECIFICALLY IN THE TEXT HOW SHE WASN'T GIVEN TO THAT KIND OF ARRANGEMENT.
• 18:05 MORDECAI, HER PATRON WHO'S GOING TO BE ELEVATED LATER AND RECEIVE LARGE SUMS OF MONEY,
• 18:13 HE HIMSELF WITH THE MONEY IS GIVEN TO LARGESS, TO BENEVOLENCE,
• 18:18 TO GIVING TO THE NEEDS OF OTHERS RATHER THAN BEING PARTICULARLY GREEDY HIMSELF.
• 18:25 IT'S A GREAT STORY IN PART I THINK BECAUSE JEWS ARE SO OFTEN DEPICTED IN A WHOLE OTHER LIGHT THAT IS ABSOLUTE FANTASY.
• 18:36 JEWS ARE GOOD PEOPLE, A DECENT PEOPLE, A KIND PEOPLE.
• 18:40 EVEN HERE IN ISRAEL THE JEWS AREN'T INTERESTED IN GOBBLING UP OTHER PEOPLE'S REAL ESTATE.
• 18:47 WELL THIS IS A STORY OF A WOMAN WHO HAS COME INTO HER OWN.
• 18:52 WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT REAL ESTATE AS MUCH AS REGAL ESTATE.
• 18:57 IT'S A STORY ABOUT A WOMAN, ESTHER, WHO'S COME INTO HER OWN "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS".
• 19:04 AND THIS ESTHER IS GOING TO IN EFFECT STAND AS A SAVIOR OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 19:09 FOR WHEN THE FORCES OF HELL ARE BENT ON THEIR DEMISE
• 19:14 ESTHER IS THERE TO TAKE A STAND AND STAND SHE DOES.
• 19:21 ♪(ESTHER SINGING IN HEBREW)♪
• 21:22 BEAUTIFUL PSALM...
• 21:24 GREAT WOMAN...
• 21:25 AND SPEAKING OF "GREAT WOMEN"...
• 21:28 SPECIAL GUEST TODAY, DR. BARRI MALLIN.
• 21:31 SO GLAD YOU'RE WITH US TODAY.
• 21:34 GREAT TO BE HERE.
• 21:35 MESSIANIC JEW, SCHOLAR, MINISTER OF THE WORD...
• 21:38 WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK OF ESTHER PERSONALLY?
• 21:42 HAVING GROWN UP WITH HER
• 21:44 FOR OVER 5 DECADES
• 21:46 I THINK OF HER AS
• 21:47 THE QUINTESSENTIAL JEW
• 21:49 BECAUSE SHE EXEMPLIFIES HOW GOD LOVES HIS PEOPLE THE JEW,
• 21:53 THAT SHE CAME OUT OF NOWHERE,
• 21:55 SHE WAS SMALL, MINOR, HIDDEN
• 21:57 AND HE BROUGHT HER TO GREAT STATUS,
• 21:59 TO LIGHT.
• 22:01 DOES GOD JUST DO IT FOR HER?
• 22:03 IS HE STILL IN THE BUSINESS OF DOING THAT SORT OF THING?
• 22:05 OH HE'S STILL IN THE BUSINESS TODAY.
• 22:07 WHAT AN ENCOURAGEMENT THAT IS FOR US
• 22:09 WHO LOVE ISRAEL AND LOVE HIS PEOPLE,
• 22:11 THAT NO MATTER WHAT HOSTILITY ISRAEL FACES,
• 22:15 WHETHER ITS FROM THE NORTH OR FROM IRAN, LEBANON OR OTHER POWERS,
• 22:20 GOD STILL LOVES THE PEOPLE, GOD STILL LOVES ISRAEL.
• 22:23 AND GOD RAISES UP PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN HER REDEMPTION...
• 22:27 IN THIS CASE, A WONDERFUL WOMAN ESTHER.
• 22:30 IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE THIS WOMAN IS MARGINALIZED IN THE BIBLICAL DRAMA.
• 22:33 NO, I THINK SHE EXEMPLIFIES,
• 22:37 OF COURSE WHAT EVERY YOUNG GIRL WOULD LIKE TO BE,
• 22:40 BUT WHAT A MESSAGE TO US AS A BELIEVER
• 22:42 THAT BY CLINGING TO THE LORD,
• 22:44 TRUSTING IN HIM AND PUTTING OUR EYES ON HIM AS SHE DID
• 22:50 HE BROUGHT HER TO A GREAT PLACE OF PROMINENCE
• 22:53 AND ALSO AS A TOOL TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE.
• 22:56 YES PEOPLE ARE ANXIOUS TODAY ABOUT THEIR LIFE AND THEIR FUTURE
• 22:59 AND THE ESTHER STORY TELLS US THAT WE DON'T NEED TO BE IF WE WALK WITH GOD.
• 23:02 TOTALLY
• 23:04 AND OFTEN WE NEED TO TAKE OUR EYES OFF OF THE NEWS
• 23:07 AND GET IT BACK INTO GOD'S WORD FOR THE TRUE ENCOURAGEMENT.
• 23:10 SPEAKING OF WHICH, COMING UP NOW
• 23:12 THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT HELPS US TO DO JUST THAT.
• 23:16 TEN YEARS AGO HE DID A SERIES CALLED "THE HOLY DAYS OF THE LORD"
• 23:20 AND HE EXPLORES GOD'S CALENDAR THAT HELPS US TO GET OUR EYES ON HIM
• 23:24 AND THE BOOK OF ESTHER IS PART OF THE STORY THAT'S CELEBRATED IN THE HOLY DAYS OF OUR LORD.
• 23:32 PURIM IS ANOTHER FESTIVAL WHERE THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE DELIVERED...
• 23:35 THIS ONE OVER IN PERSIA AND ESTHER IS THE SUBJECT OF IT.
• 23:39 OF COURSE THE BOOK OF ESTHER TELLS THE ENTIRE STORY.
• 23:42 SO EVERY YEAR ON ADAR 14,
• 23:46 THAT IS THE 14TH DAY OF THE TWELFTH MONTH,
• 23:49 OR SOMETIMES THERE IS AN ADAR II,
• 23:52 A LEAP MONTH ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR,
• 23:54 SEVEN TIMES IN EVERY 19 YEAR CYCLE, IF YOU'LL BELIEVE ME, THERE IS A LEAP MONTH.
• 24:02 BUT IN ANY CASE PURIM IS ALWAYS EXACTLY ONE MONTH BEFORE PASSOVER.
• 24:06 SINCE PASSOVER IS ON THE FIRST FULL MOON OF SPRING,
• 24:09 PURIM IS ALWAYS ON THE LAST FULL MOON OF WINTER AND IT'S EASY TO LOCATE THAT FESTIVAL.
• 24:15 THEY ARE ALL DESIGNED THAT WAY AS WE SAID IN OTHER PROGRAMS IN THIS SERIES,
• 24:19 GOD PUT THE HEAVENLY BODIES UP THERE FOR SIGNS AND FOR SEASONS
• 24:23 AND THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY DIDN'T HAVE CALENDARS DEPENDED ON THE HEAVENLY BODIES.
• 24:28 IT'S ALSO KNOWN AS THE FESTIVAL OF LOTS
• 24:30 BECAUSE LOTS WERE DRAWN
• 24:32 TO CHOOSE WHAT DAY THE JEWISH PEOPLE WOULD BE DESTROYED
• 24:36 AND SO THEY REMEMBER IT THAT WAY.
• 24:40 HEY I AM ALL ABOUT THOSE BIBLICAL FEASTS...
• 24:45 HOW ABOUT YOU DR. MALLIN?
• 24:47 I AGREE WITH YOU 100 PER CENT JEFF.
• 24:49 AND WOULD YOU AGREE WITH ME 100 PER CENT...
• 24:51 DOESN'T EVERY GIRL WANT TO GROW UP AND BE A PRINCESS?
• 24:56 THAT IS THE DREAM
• 24:57 WHETHER YOU ARE 5 OR 50...
• 25:00 YOU STILL SEE YOURSELF
• 25:01 AS A JEWISH ESTHER.
• 25:03 YOU KNOW THERE'S THE EXPRESSION
• 25:04 "JEWISH AMERICAN PRINCESS"...
• 25:06 I MEAN THIS GIVES IT A WHOLE NEW MEANING.
• 25:08 YEAH I THINK SHE EXEMPLIFIED AT LEAST A JEWISH PRINCESS FOR SURE.
• 25:11 NOW IN OUR CULTURE THERE'S CINDERELLA...
• 25:13 IS THIS THE BIBLICAL VERSION OF THE CINDERELLA DRAMA?
• 25:18 VERY MUCH SO,
• 25:20 A WOMAN OF HUMBLE MEANS THAT WAS PREPARED FOR A BEAUTIFUL ROLE
• 25:26 TO COME AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF HER PEOPLE
• 25:31 TO COME TO THE PRESENCE OF THE KING
• 25:33 AND FOR THE BEAUTY TREATMENTS OF 6 MONTHS AND OILS OF 6 MONTHS
• 25:37 ALL TO REALLY COME ONE NIGHT, FACE TO FACE,
• 25:41 INTIMATE WITH THE KING.
• 25:43 ISN'T THAT WHERE WE SHOULD SEE OURSELVES IN OUR LIFE
• 25:46 AS SPENDING TIME IN THE WORD,
• 25:48 LOOKING AT GOD "AL PENEY", FACE TO FACE.
• 25:52 INTIMACY WITH THE KING
• 25:53 YES AND SHE CERTAINLY DID.
• 25:56 WHAT AN AMAZING WOMAN.
• 25:58 ANYTHING PARTICULAR THAT RESONATES WITH YOU AS WE FINISH UP ON THIS INTRO PROGRAM?
• 26:02 HER HUMILITY...
• 26:03 AND AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF GOD'S PEOPLE.
• 26:06 SHE WAS A JEW...
• 26:08 SHE EXEMPLIFIED WHAT WE ALL WOULD LIKE TO BE LIKE...
• 26:11 TO SPEND TIME IN THE PRESENCE WITH HIM
• 26:15 SO THAT WE CAN RADIATE AND SHINE AS SHE DID.
• 26:18 YES AND SHE CERTAINLY SPENT TIME IN THE PRESENCE...
• 26:22 SHE ALSO SPENT TIME IN ANGUISH.
• 26:26 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 26:27 BECAUSE THERE WAS HAMAN, A NEFARIOUS, INHERENTLY EVIL SORT.
• 26:34 OH THIS WOMAN WAS NOT TO BE BESTED BY HIM, HOWEVER,
• 26:37 SHE GOT THE BETTER AS SHE LOOKED TO GOD
• 26:40 AND WAS A TOOL IN HIS TOOL BOX TO GET THE VICTORY FOR HIS PEOPLE.
• 26:44 WILL BE LOOKING AT HAMAN NEXT WEEK.
• 26:46 AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:48 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:50 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM