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Caption transcript for Esther: “Justice at Last!” (6/8)

• 00:22 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
• 00:26 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
• 00:31 ♪AND A NATION WILL BE FORMED OUT OF HIM♪
• 00:35 ♪YEAH AND A PEOPLE WILL BE BORN OUT OF HIM♪
• 00:40 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
• 00:44 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
• 00:55 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:57 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:58 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
• 01:00 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:02 I LIKE THIS PROGRAM BECAUSE I LIKE IT WHEN THE WICKED GET WHAT'S COMING...ENOUGH ALREADY!
• 01:09 HERE ESTHER IS USED BY THE LORD TO LEAD HAMAN ALONG STEP BY STEP BY STEP.
• 01:16 ENOUGH ALREADY WITH THIS MAN!
• 01:17 WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE STORY
• 01:19 AS WE GO NOW TO ESTHER
• 01:20 AND CONSIDER "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS."
• 02:30 AND THE CAT HAD THE MOUSE
• 02:32 CORNERED... HEMMED IN.
• 02:36 HAMAN WAS MINDED TO DESTROY THE JEWS
• 02:39 BUT LITTLE DID HE KNOW IS THAT IT WAS ABOUT TO TURN ON HIS OWN HEAD THERE IN THE PALACE.
• 02:46 I'M COMING TO YOU FROM A PALACE RIGHT NOW...
• 02:49 A PALACE ATOP MASADA.
• 02:53 "MASADA" IS A WORD MEANING "FORTRESS".
• 02:56 WHEN HEROD BUILT IT YEARS AGO HE KNEW THAT HE WAS IN A PRECARIOUS PLACE AS ARE JEWS GENERALLY
• 03:03 AND SO HE BUILT THIS FANTASTIC PALACE.
• 03:07 WELL I GOT NEWS FOR YOU THAT ESTHER WAS IN ANOTHER PALACE,
• 03:10 ANOTHER PLACE, ANOTHER DAY...
• 03:12 BUT THERE WAS DANGER.
• 03:15 HERE YOU CAN SEE THE REMAINS IN FACT...THE PLASTER,
• 03:18 THE BLACK LINE HERE REFLECTS WHAT ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND.
• 03:22 UNDERNEATH IT IS THE ORIGINAL...
• 03:24 ABOVE IT IS THE RECONSTRUCTION
• 03:26 HERE AT THE PLACE WHERE PLANNED WAS A MEANS FOR SURVIVAL FOR THE ROYAL HOUSE.
• 03:33 ESTHER, OUR QUEEN, WAS IN THE ROYAL HOUSE
• 03:36 AND THERE WAS NO SUCH FORTRESS SAVE THE FACT THAT
• 03:39 THE LORD HAD FORTIFIED HER TO AN ACT...A SCHEME.
• 03:42 WE'RE TOLD HERE IN CHAPTER 7, VERSE 4
• 03:46 THAT SHE HAS HER HUSBAND AND HAMAN AT A BANQUET
• 03:50 AND SHE INFORMS THAT SOME ARE TRYING TO DESTROY HER.
• 03:55 LISTEN TO IT IN THE HEBREW...
• 03:56 I WANT TO TRY AND GIVE YOU THE EMOTION
• 03:58 AND THEN I WANT TO CONSIDER THE IMPLICATIONS FOR TODAY.
• 04:01 IN CHAPTER 7, VERSE 4 SHE SAYS...AND I QUOTE...
• 04:27 SHE TOLD HER HUSBAND THAT SOMEONE HAD THE NOOSE AROUND HER NECK
• 04:31 AND NOT JUST ESTHER HERSELF BUT HER PEOPLE.
• 04:34 "WHAT'S GOING ON?" SAYS XERXES,
• 04:38 "WHO'S THE MAN?"
• 04:39 AND SHE POINTS TO HAMAN.
• 04:43 TODAY FRIENDS LISTEN TO ME...
• 04:45 EVIL LURKS AS WAS THE CASE YESTERDAY.
• 04:49 IN DIFFERENT WAYS, DIFFERENT DAYS, DIFFERENT PEOPLE
• 04:54 ARE BENT ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWS...
• 04:59 THE SLAUGHTER, THE ANNIHILATION.
• 05:03 WHATEVER THREATENS ISRAEL THREATENS JEWISH SURVIVAL.
• 05:08 AND I SEE JEWS BEING HARANGUED IN THE PRESS,
• 05:11 I SEE JEWS BEING LAMBASTED IN THE UNITED NATIONS,
• 05:16 I SEE JEWS BEING ASSAILED BY NATIONS ROUND ABOUT THIS MODERN NATION STATE
• 05:24 AND IT TELLS ME AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.
• 05:30 AND HERE'S A WOMAN WHO WAS THERE FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS
• 05:34 DRAWING ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT SHE, WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE JEWS
• 05:40 ARE ABOUT TO BE ANNIHILATED.
• 05:43 OH FRIENDS WE NEED TO LIFT UP OUR PRAYERS GODWARD TO...
• 05:47 AS WE SAY AT THE END OF EVERY PROGRAM...
• 05:49 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM...
• 05:52 TO PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 05:54 AND THE REASON WHY IS AS YESTERDAY, TODAY AS WELL,
• 05:57 THERE ARE FORCES BENT ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWS.
• 06:40 MANY HAVE SOUGHT TO ANNIHILATE THE JEWS AND IT'S VERY JEWISH TO TURN THINGS ON THEIR HEADS...
• 06:46 AND I MENTION THAT BECAUSE
• 06:48 HERE ATOP MASADA WHERE YEARS AGO INDIVIDUALS MADE THE DECISION TO END LIFE.
• 06:54 HERE THE CELEBRATION OF GENERATIONS TO COME
• 06:57 IS ENACTED THROUGH THE BAR MITZVAH BEHIND ME
• 07:02 WHERE A JEWISH FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARE CELEBRATING SOMEONE COMING OF AGE.
• 07:08 IN THE JEWISH WORLD "PIKUACH NEFESH",
• 07:11 THE "PRESERVATION OF LIFE AND THE SOUL"
• 07:13 IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
• 07:15 OUR STORY OF ESTHER TAKES PLACE
• 07:17 AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE TIME WHEN THERE WAS AN INTEREST IN DESTROYING JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 07:24 AND AS YOU RECALL ESTHER BIDS ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE
• 07:29 INFORMING HER HUSBAND THAT THEY ARE FACING DREAD END.
• 07:34 IN ESTHER CHAPTER 7, VERSE 4 WE READ...
• 07:53 THAT IS TO SAY, "WHO'S TRYING TO ANNIHILATE YOU?"
• 08:02 OH IT'S A REASONABLE QUESTION.
• 08:04 IN THE DRAMA IN ESTHER WE KNOW WHO THIS PERSON IS...
• 08:08 THIS WICKED HAMAN WHO ENACTED A SCHEME TO DESTROY THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 08:13 WE KNOW WHO HE WAS YESTERDAY AND TODAY AS WELL WE KNOW IN THE PERSON OF MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD,
• 08:20 WE FIND SOMEONE BENT ON DESTROYING THE JEWS.
• 08:23 BUT OH SO SUBTLY IN VARIOUS WAYS FROM PULPITS AROUND THE WORLD
• 08:28 MINISTERS GIVE VOICE TO THE FACT THAT GOD IS THROUGH WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE...
• 08:33 THROWN IT IN THE TRASH BIN OF BIBLICAL HISTORY.
• 08:37 AND OF COURSE THUS MINDED INDIVIDUALS CAN MORE READILY GIVE CREDENCE
• 08:42 TO THIS REJECTED PEOPLE VISION
• 08:45 AND THEN MORE EASILY BE BENT ON DOING US HARM.
• 08:50 THERE'S A MANTRA IN THE JEWISH WORLD..."NEVER AGAIN".
• 08:55 AND HERE ATOP MASADA I SAY "NEVER AGAIN"
• 08:58 AND THOSE THAT WE'RE SEEING BEHIND ME IN THE SYNAGOGUE...
• 09:01 DAVID, THE KING OF ISRAEL LIVES.
• 09:05 WITH BAR AND BAT MITZVAHS WE SAY "NEVER AGAIN"
• 09:11 AS THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL LIVE.
• 09:14 WELL PEOPLE LIVED HERE BECAUSE A WOMAN STOOD UP.
• 09:19 AND HERE ATOP MASADA,
• 09:21 THIS FORTRESS WHERE JEWISH PEOPLE TOOK A STAND AGAINST ALL ODDS,
• 09:25 AGAINST THE ROMANS,
• 09:27 LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU LIKE PEOPLE WERE ENCOURAGED HERE,
• 09:30 LIKE WE'RE ENCOURAGED IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER...
• 09:33 LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU PLEASE...
• 09:34 TAKE A STAND...
• 09:36 GET BEHIND GOD'S PEOPLE, THE JEWISH PEOPLE...
• 09:38 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM...
• 09:40 CONFRONT THOSE THAT ARE BENT ON HER DEMISE...
• 09:44 AND I KNOW THAT GOD WILL BLESS YOU
• 09:46 AND I KNOW THAT GOD WILL WORK THROUGH YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR SO DOING.
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• 12:21 IT'S AN OFFER ON THIS PROGRAM...
• 12:23 "GUNS AND MOSES"...
• 12:24 A BOOK THAT I WROTE...
• 12:25 IT TALKS ABOUT SOMETIMES WE'VE GOTTA USE FORCE...
• 12:28 IT'S BIBLICAL...
• 12:29 YOU MIGHT NOT THINK SO...
• 12:30 YOU'LL THINK AGAIN AFTER YOU READ THAT.
• 12:31 THE BIG OFFER FOR THE PROGRAM IS THE SERIES ITSELF...
• 12:35 "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS"...
• 12:37 AND HERE YOU SEE ESTHER...
• 12:39 IT'S YOURS...
• 12:40 YOU'LL FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN GET IT LATER.
• 12:42 TALK ABOUT LATER...
• 12:43 COMING UP RIGHT NOW...
• 12:44 ESTHER...
• 12:46 SHE SEEMS LIKE SHE'S ASSAULTED BY HAMAN AND WHY IS THAT?
• 12:49 BECAUSE HE'S BEEN CAUGHT AND THE KING COMES IN ENRAGED...
• 12:53 "ARE YOU GOING TO ASSAULT THE QUEEN?"...AMAZING!
• 12:56 WE'RE GOING TO ATTEND TO THAT STORY RIGHT NOW.
• 14:00 HE'S WINING AND DINING
• 14:02 WITH THE GREAT KING XERXES
• 14:04 ONE MOMENT
• 14:06 ...THE NEXT MOMENT
• 14:07 HE'S CRYING AND DYING
• 14:10 AS HE IS TAKEN AWAY FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE KING.
• 14:14 NOT LONG AFTER TO THEN BE THRUST INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE KING OF KINGS
• 14:19 WHEN HE TAKES HIS LAST BREATH
• 14:21 AND WAKES UP AND MEETS HIS CREATOR ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GRAVE...
• 14:25 AND FRANKLY I WOULD NOT WANT TO BE HAMAN.
• 14:29 HIS LIFE ENDED RATHER QUICKLY.
• 14:33 BEHIND ME AT MASADA IS A SHRINE TO A LIFE THAT ENDED VERY SLOWLY.
• 14:40 THE JEWISH NATION STATE IN SOME SENSE CAME TO AN END HERE.
• 14:45 THIS IS WHERE THE WAR AGAINST THE JEWS THAT JESUS TALKED ABOUT ACTUALLY
• 14:48 CULMINATED IN THE EARLY 70'S A.D. AT A PLACE MASADA.
• 14:54 ROUND ABOUT ME ARE FORTS WHERE ROMAN SOLDIERS WERE GARRISONED
• 15:00 AND BEHIND ME ON MY LEFT IS A RAMP THAT JEWISH SLAVES WERE FORCED TO BUILD.
• 15:06 A BUCKET LOAD OF DIRT, ROCK AND SAND AT A TIME WENT INTO THAT
• 15:11 IN ORDER TO BUILD A RAMP THAT WILL BREACH THE DEFENSES
• 15:15 HIGH ATOP THE FORTRESS ROCK OF MASADA...
• 15:20 AND BREACH IT THEY DID.
• 15:22 FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS TELLS US OF THE WAY THOSE WHO DEFENDED THE FORTRESS CAME TO AN END.
• 15:29 THERE WAS VALOR,
• 15:30 THERE WAS VIRTUE;
• 15:32 THERE WAS LOVE OF GOD,
• 15:33 COUNTRY AND FAMILY.
• 15:36 NO SUCH IMPULSES RESONATED WITHIN HAMAN WHO PRINCIPALLY WAS IN LOVE WITH HIMSELF.
• 15:44 AND WE FIND IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT THAT HE LIKE SO MANY OTHERS
• 15:47 TOOK ISSUE WITH ONE JEW MORDECAI AND WITH ALL JEWS BY EXTENSION.
• 15:53 THE MAN WAS JUST DOGGEDLY DETERMINED TO SEE TO IT THAT THEY CAME TO AN END
• 15:58 BUT OF COURSE AS WE KNOW IT ALL TURNED ON HIS HEAD.
• 16:02 WE KNOW THE STORY...
• 16:03 THERE WAS A BANQUET HE WAS INVITED TO.
• 16:05 LITTLE DID HE KNOW THAT ESTHER WAS WISE TO HIM
• 16:09 AND HAD A PLAN TO TURN ON HIS OWN HEAD HIS OWN SCHEMES.
• 16:13 AS THE QUEEN TURNED AND SAID,
• 16:15 "YOU ARE THE MAN HAMAN..."
• 16:17 "THE NEMESIS,"
• 16:18 "THE ONE WHO WOULD BE THE UNDOING OF MYSELF AND MY PEOPLE."
• 16:21 HE'S GOING TO GRAB HER SQUIRMING, PLEADING, BEGGING...
• 16:25 THE COWARD THAT HE WAS...
• 16:27 ONLY FOR XERXES TO SEE THAT AND BE ALL THE MORE ENRAGED AGAINST HIM.
• 16:32 HE HAS HIS HEAD COVERED,
• 16:34 HAMAN IS TAKEN AWAY
• 16:36 AND WE'RE TOLD IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER, CHAPTER 7, VERSE 10 HOW IT ALL CAME TO AN END.
• 16:54 "ETZ" IS TREE...IT MEANS "GALLOW" OF COURSE.
• 16:56 HE HAD PLANNED TO HAVE MORDECAI SWINGING ON THAT GALLOW
• 16:59 BUT IT DIDN'T WORK OUT THAT WAY NOW DID IT?
• 17:01 WE'RE TOLD HERE...
• 17:13 WE FIND IT TIME AND TIME AGAIN IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT
• 17:16 WHERE THE WICKED COME TO AN END...THEY ARE JUDGED.
• 17:19 SOMETIMES WHEN WE'RE SUFFERING
• 17:21 WE FEEL THAT IT'LL NEVER COME TO AN END
• 17:23 BUT GOD DOES BRING RESOLUTION.
• 17:27 AND HE BRINGS JUDGMENT TO BEAR AGAINST THOSE THAT ARE HIS ADVERSARIES.
• 17:33 IT MAY WELL BE THAT YOU HAVE AN ADVERSARY AND A THORNY PROBLEM OR SITUATION
• 17:39 THAT'S BIGGER THAN YOU
• 17:40 AND YOU CAN'T CONTROL IT.
• 17:42 WE DO WELL TO SEEK THE LORD BECAUSE HE IS ABLE TO CONTROL.
• 17:47 THE WORD "OMNIPOTENT" IS USED TO DESCRIBE GOD ALL POWERFUL.
• 17:51 AND WE SEE HIM AT WORK HERE...
• 17:53 A WORK THAT FINISHES WITH HAMAN SWINGING ON THE GALLOW.
• 17:59 ♪OOOOHHH...♪
• 18:02 ♪YEAH...YEAH...YEAH...YEAH♪
• 18:08 ♪FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END IT'S BEEN♪
• 18:10 ♪THIS WAY YOUR PROMISES THEY NEVER CHANGE♪
• 18:12 ♪YOUR PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE PUT TO SHAME♪
• 18:16 ♪FROM THE FAR DESERT TO THE ENDLESS SEA♪
• 18:18 ♪THE SHORES OF EGYPT TO THE EASTERN HILLS♪
• 18:20 ♪THE EARTH AND THE SKY TREMBLE AT YOUR WILL♪
• 18:25 ♪WAKE UP AND CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD♪
• 18:29 ♪WEAK BE MADE STRONG YOU HAVE NOW BEEN RESTORED♪
• 18:34 ♪OOO THE DARKNESS IS LIGHT♪
• 18:38 ♪OH YOUR KINGDOM IS NOW IN SIGHT♪
• 18:44 ♪LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, ARISE♪
• 18:50 ♪CONSUME US NOW WITH YOUR FIRE♪
• 18:54 ♪EVERY PEOPLE AND TRIBE♪
• 18:59 ♪YEAH♪
• 19:01 ♪OH MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL,♪
• 19:04 ♪COME ALIVE♪
• 19:08 ♪IT'S TIME TO BRING FORTH NEW WINE♪
• 19:12 ♪FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME♪
• 19:17 ♪OOOOHHH...♪
• 19:21 ♪YEAH...YEAH...YEAH...YEAH...♪
• 19:26 ♪YOUR SPIRIT POURING OUT FROM ALL AROUND♪
• 19:28 ♪YOUR LIVING WATERS, NOW THEY'RE RAINING DOWN♪
• 19:30 ♪THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND♪
• 19:35 ♪WAKE UP AND CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD♪
• 19:39 ♪WEAK BE MADE STRONG YOU HAVE NOW BEEN RESTORED♪
• 19:44 ♪OOO THE DARKNESS IS LIGHT♪
• 19:47 ♪OH YOUR KINGDOM IS NOW IN SIGHT♪
• 19:53 ♪LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, ARISE♪
• 19:59 ♪CONSUME US NOW WITH YOUR FIRE♪
• 20:04 ♪OH EVERY PEOPLE AND TRIBE♪
• 20:08 ♪YEAH♪
• 20:10 ♪OH MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL,♪
• 20:13 ♪COME ALIVE♪
• 20:17 ♪IT'S TIME TO BRING FORTH NEW WINE♪
• 20:21 ♪FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME♪
• 20:27 ♪OH CAN YOU HEAR THE VOICE IN THE DESERT CALLING OUT♪
• 20:34 ♪PREPARE THE WAY!♪
• 20:37 ♪THE WAY FOR THE LORD,♪
• 20:39 ♪MAKE STRAIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS♪
• 20:42 ♪A HIGHWAY FOR OUR GOD!♪
• 20:47 ♪COME LIKE A MIGHTY LION♪
• 20:48 ♪ROAR WITH YOUR GLORY AND FIRE♪
• 20:49 ♪COME NOW WITH YOUR POWER♪
• 20:51 ♪BO YESHUA MISHEKEYNU♪
• 20:53 ♪YOUR PEOPLE WANNA SEE YOU♪
• 20:56 ♪OOO THE DARKNESS IS LIGHT♪
• 21:00 ♪OH YOUR KINGDOM IS NOW IN SIGHT,♪
• 21:04 ♪IT'S NOW IN SIGHT YEAH♪
• 21:07 ♪LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, ARISE♪
• 21:14 ♪CONSUME US NOW WITH YOUR FIRE♪
• 21:18 ♪OH EVERY PEOPLE AND TRIBE♪
• 21:22 ♪YEAH♪
• 21:25 ♪OH MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL COME ALIVE♪
• 21:31 ♪IT'S TIME TO BRING FORTH NEW WINE♪
• 21:36 ♪FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME♪
• 21:42 I LOVE LISTENING TO SHARON WILBUR SING
• 21:45 AND I LOVE TALKING TO HER IN PERSON
• 21:47 SHARON HELLO AGAIN >>HEY
• 21:49 WHAT A GREAT SONG
• 21:50 WHAT A GREAT LADY >>THANK YOU
• 21:52 WHAT'S THE STORY BEHIND THAT SONG?
• 21:53 BASICALLY IT'S SPEAKING TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 21:55 IT'S CALLING FORTH THESE PROMISES OF OLD
• 21:57 THAT WE READ ALL THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 22:00 AND SPEAKING THEM INTO EXISTENCE.
• 22:01 YOU KNOW THERE'S A RELEASE THAT COMES IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM
• 22:04 WHEN YOU DECLARE THE PROMISES OF GOD
• 22:06 OVER HIS PEOPLE,
• 22:07 OVER THE LAND OF ISRAEL
• 22:08 AND THAT'S BASICALLY THE IDEA OF THE SONG.
• 22:11 PEOPLE ARE SO NEGATIVE
• 22:12 BUT THE PROMISES OF GOD ARE SO VERY POSITIVE.
• 22:15 IT CHANGES THE ATMOSPHERE DOESN'T IT? >>EXACTLY...DEFINITELY
• 22:18 YOU KNOW THE WORD "CONFIDENCE"
• 22:19 COMES FROM THE LATIN "CONFIDES"...
• 22:21 IT MEANS "WITH FAITH"
• 22:23 AND YOUR SONG SPEAKS OF THAT
• 22:25 AND YOU SEEM TO BUBBLE FORTH WITH THAT YOURSELF.
• 22:27 WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
• 22:29 IT'S A TRIUMPHANT SONG...
• 22:33 IT'S EXCITING
• 22:34 THERE'S SUCH AN AWESOME POWER IN THE PROMISES OF GOD
• 22:38 AND THAT'S WHAT I LOVE TO SING ABOUT.
• 22:39 IT'S ENCOURAGING...
• 22:40 YOU KNOW PEOPLE NEED SOME ENCOURAGEMENT THESE DAYS.
• 22:42 HERE ESTHER CAME FROM HUMBLE ORIGINS AND GOD RAISED HER UP.
• 22:45 YOU'RE A YOUNG LADY...
• 22:47 WHEN YOU THINK OF THAT STORY WHAT PERCOLATES WITH YOU?
• 22:49 THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE STORY THAT I LOVE...
• 22:53 BUT HERE WAS ESTHER,
• 22:54 A GIRL RAISED UP IN RIGHTEOUSNESS
• 22:56 IN A RIGHTEOUS HOUSEHOLD
• 22:58 TRAINED IN THE WAYS OF THE LORD...
• 22:59 HAD A GREAT ROLE MODEL TO LOOK AT
• 23:03 AND SHE PROBABLY DID EVERYTHING TO HER BEST ABILITY
• 23:06 THE WAY SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO IT.
• 23:08 I BET YOU SHE FORSAW HERSELF MARRYING A MAN OF GOD...
• 23:11 A JEWISH MAN THAT WAS GOING TO BE HER HUSBAND
• 23:14 AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN
• 23:16 SHE'S PLUCKED OUT OF THIS ENVIRONMENT,
• 23:17 PLACED IN A COMPLETELY SECULAR ENVIRONMENT
• 23:20 AND I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT WAS GOING THROUGH HER MIND AT THAT.
• 23:24 AND YET SHE REMAINED FAITHFUL
• 23:26 TO THE WORD OF GOD
• 23:27 TO HIS PROMISES TO HER
• 23:29 AND MADE OBEDIENT
• 23:31 WHICH IS THE BIG THING
• 23:33 AND SHE WAS RAISED UP TO BE A MOTHER OF A NATION.
• 23:35 I MEAN WITHOUT HER I DON'T THINK WE WOULD BE SITTING HERE TODAY...
• 23:38 SO IT'S INCREDIBLE...
• 23:39 AN INCREDIBLE STORY.
• 23:40 IT IS AN AMAZING STORY
• 23:42 YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
• 23:43 ZOLA LEVITT'S GOING TO WEIGH IN ON IT A LITTLE BIT
• 23:46 AS HE TALKS ABOUT HOW GOD RAISES UP PEOPLE TO SAVE THE NATION.
• 23:51 IT'S ALL ABOUT THE TRIUMPH OF GOD IN HUMAN HISTORY
• 23:54 WORKING IN AND AROUND AND FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 23:59 THERE'S A PROPHETIC SIGNIFICANCE
• 24:01 TO THIS FESTIVAL
• 24:03 ALTHOUGH THE NAME OF GOD
• 24:04 IS NOT MENTIONED ANYWHERE IN THE BOOK.
• 24:05 THE SCOFIELD BIBLE POINTS OUT WHEREVER THE JEWS ARE,
• 24:09 EVEN OUTSIDE THE LAND,
• 24:10 GOD IS WITH THEM
• 24:12 AND HIS PROVIDENCE ALWAYS SAVES THEM.
• 24:14 AND IN THIS CASE ESTHER'S FAST IS LIKE THE 3 DAYS THAT THE LORD WAS AWAY BEFORE HIS RESURRECTION...
• 24:21 SHE FASTED EXACTLY 3 DAYS
• 24:23 AND ESTHER THEN TRIUMPHING OVER EVIL, OVER HAMAN, BECOMES THE CHRISTIAN WALK, A NEW LIFE.
• 24:30 WE TOO TRIUMPH OVER EVIL, OVER SIN AND OUR NEW DECREE TRIUMPHS.
• 24:35 THE KING READ OUT A NEW DECREE
• 24:37 AND OUR NEW DECREE OF COURSE IS CALLED "B'RIT HADASHAH",
• 24:40 THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 24:43 AND WE TRIUMPH ALONG WITH CHRIST THAT ONE DAY WILL BE RESURRECTED JUST AS HE WAS.
• 24:52 ZOLA'S GOT A GREAT POINT ABOUT GOD GIVING AN OFFER TO TRIUMPH ALL PEOPLE IN CHRIST.
• 24:57 WHAT SAYS SHARON WILBUR?
• 24:59 WELL YOU KNOW JESUS, YESHUA,
• 25:02 HE WAS THE ULTIMATE TRIUMPH
• 25:03 AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN REST ASSURED IN.
• 25:05 WE KNOW THE ENDING TO THE STORIES
• 25:07 AND UNFORTUNATELY I GUESS HAMAN DIDN'T KNOW THE ENDING TO HIS STORY
• 25:10 BUT ALWAYS WINS IN THE END.
• 25:13 HE'S ALWAYS GOT A PLAN
• 25:14 NO MATTER WHAT THE CIRCUMSTANCE.
• 25:15 SO MANY OF US ARE BEATEN DOWN BY SIN AND CIRCUMSTANCE,
• 25:18 HOW WOULD WE BE DIFFERENT IF WE REALLY BELIEVE GOD THAT WE'RE REALLY WINNERS?
• 25:21 I THINK A HUGE, HUGE THING THAT IT WOULD CHANGE
• 25:24 IS JUST OUR ATTITUDES.
• 25:26 A LOT OF THE TIMES WE GET IN THAT DEFEATED MENTALITY...
• 25:28 YOU FEEL DEFEATED...
• 25:29 YOU KIND OF PROJECT THAT...
• 25:31 AND THEN YOU WALK IN THAT...
• 25:32 IN THAT OPPRESSION.
• 25:33 JUST KEEPING YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE SO TO SPEAK...
• 25:36 KEEP FOCUSED ON THAT,
• 25:39 THAT WE KNOW THE ULTIMATE ENDING,
• 25:40 THAT GOD HAS A PLAN.
• 25:42 ESTHER COULD HAVE BEEN DOOM AND GLOOM IF SHE WANTED TO.
• 25:45 HERE SHE WAS...
• 25:46 "WHERE IS MY GODLY HUSBAND?"
• 25:48 "WHY DO I HAVE TO MARRY THIS KING THAT HAS BEEN WITH COUNTLESS OTHER WOMEN?"
• 25:52 "I PROTECTED MYSELF"
• 25:53 "I'VE SAVED MYSELF."
• 25:55 BUT SHE KNEW THAT GOD HAD AN ULTIMATE PLAN
• 25:57 AND BECAUSE OF THAT SHE IMPACTED A NATION.
• 26:00 SHE WAS A PEASANT GIRL THAT FALLS BACKWARD TO BEING THE QUEEN OF PERSIA...
• 26:05 GO FIGURE.
• 26:06 I KNOW ...IT'S INCREDIBLE.
• 26:07 LIKE I SAID,
• 26:08 YOU JUST NEVER KNOW WHAT GOD'S PREPARING YOU FOR...
• 26:10 YOU NEVER KNOW.
• 26:12 SO ALL YOU CAN DO IS BE OBEDIENT IN THE LITTLE
• 26:14 AND WHO KNOWS WHERE HE'S GOING TO ELEVATE YOU TO.
• 26:16 BUT WITH GOD WE KNOW LIKE THE SONG GOES...
• 26:18 "SOMETHING TELLS ME I'M IN FOR SOMTHIN' GOOD".
• 26:20 AMEN YOU KNOW?
• 26:22 THERE'S A GOOD GOD,
• 26:24 THERE'S A GOOD LIFE
• 26:25 AND IT'S AVAILABLE TO YOU.
• 26:27 NEXT WEEK WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW GOD RAISED UP MORDECAI AS HE CAME INTO HIS OWN.
• 26:31 OH, FAITH HAS PURCHASING POWER AND A CHANGED CIRCUMSTANCE.
• 26:35 HEY LISTEN, IF YOU WANT TO SEE US BEFORE NEXT WEEK
• 26:38 YOU CAN FIND US ON FACEBOOK,
• 26:40 YOUTUBE...
• 26:41 WE'RE THERE FOR YOU.
• 26:42 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:43 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:45 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM