ESTHER 4 CONTINUED... LET’S HANDLE THIS TOGETHER

My comments are in italics. Scripture is in “straight” text.

 I wonder how Mordecai felt, (well I guess we do know), when his personal choice to refuse to bow to any other than God affected EVERYONE in God's family! Whew. 

 Esther 4:3 And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. 

 Esther was so cloistered she was oblivious: 

Sound familiar?!  

 v4 So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.  

v5 Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was. 

v7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.

v8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them,

Then followed Mordecai's choice to offer Esther's life... 

v8 continued: ... to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.

Mordecai MUST have known God would accept the offering of her life for His people and would spare her.

I am reminded of Abraham’s faith that God would resurrect Isaac: 

Hebrews 11:17,19 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, [19] Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

 I know God knew what was ahead for me. 

I did not!!!!

It is labeled “faith when in darkness,

 in the tunnel,

 or in the trough

 -  and trust”.  

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Esther 4:13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. 

v14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?  

(MY message from GOD through the servant Harold Stewart, see "My Story", 1987,)

 v15 Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer, 

v16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

(I had one powerful Intercessor: 

Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

And, in my view, I felt the same reply, 

"if I perish, I perish,” -

be put out of the work.)

Esther 4:17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

And the God of all the universe made the final decision.