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PURIM
(Esther 9:1-5)
Adar 13 - 15, 5772 | March 7 - 9, 2012
Purim is the celebration of the victory of the Jews exiled to the great empire of the king Ahasuerus, a kingdom "from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces." The account is found complete in the book of Esther, King Ahasuerus' queen (by default of the rebellious Queen Vashti).
Secretly a Jewess, Esther, through the alertness of her cousin, Mordecai, learned of a plot against her peole by the evil Haman, the man uppermost in the king's court and very wealthy. Haman's fierce hatred for Mordecai led him to manipulate the king into signing an irrevocable edict to slaughter all the Jews in the kingdom on a single designated day. However, Esther had found pre-eminent favour in the eyes of the king and though it meant risking her life, she entreated the king, after three days of fasting and prayer, finally revealing her identity as a Jew, and ultimately delivering her people from harm as well as condemning the wicked Haman to the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.
Although Purim is not a commanded holy feast, it deserves recognition because of its biblically prophetic, encapsulated likeness to the history of the world, from the King's highly favoured evil steward (Haman/Satan) to the rejected Queen (Vashti/the false church) to the King's beloved bride (Esther/the true Jewish God-praisers, a concealed and secret treasure of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Messiah Yeshua).
Purim is celebrated on the 14th and 15th day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
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