Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

2 Edicts of the King

Esther 3:13 (ESV)

13 Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

Edict of death for all Jews

Esther 8:11–12 (ESV)

11 saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods, 12 on one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

Edict of defense for the Jews

13th of Adar

world(people) n. — all of the people of the world understood according to the place in which human beings live.

(Biblical Sense)

Time to Fight (Defend themselves)

Time to Rest (Rest and Celebration)

“Esther 9:20–10:3 recounts the steps required to regularize the Festival of Purim.

It is recorded in Esther as a legal Persian festival, observed by the Jews.

The Purim festival celebrates the end of fighting, not the days of fighting.

A combination of letters by Mordecai (vv.

20–28) and Esther (vv.

29–32) makes Purim a permanent festival.

In Purim, a two-day festival is established, a celebration for every Jew (v.

20), wherever they may be.

As it is prescribed in the book of Esther, Purim has no religious substance.”

(Schmutzer, Andrew J. “Esther.”

Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther.

Ed.

Mark L. Strauss and John H. Walton.