Esther 6:14-7:10 - The Tables Have Turned
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Intro
Intro
the bad guy looses
a story we all like
end game scene
all these guys coming out of nowhere
we love these stories
Read Esther 6:14-7:10
14 While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared.
1 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.” 3 Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. 4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.” 5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared to do this?” 6 And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
7 And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king. 8 And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman’s face. 9 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.” 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.
proverbs 11:21
Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished,
but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
the Jewish reader will see clearly the hand of God here
the wicked are punished haman
the righteous esther
Esthers posture
Esthers posture
14 While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared.
1 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.” 3 Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. 4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”
Esther’s humble posture
she does not persume to have favor with the king
yet she makes her request known with confidence
a confidence that says if I die I die
clearly articulating her position
without making it personal with haman
she humbly lays out her request
The kings response
The kings response
5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared to do this?” 6 And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
7 And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king. 8 And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman’s face. 9 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.” 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.
Oh how the tide has changed
something has turned the heart of the king
This king who has stood by and let these advisers have their way
This king who let haman have his way
Who has been so self absorbed that he would allow the man who heaps empty praise be allowed to do as he pleases
This king is once again filled with anger
This time he takes his rage to the palace garden
And upon his return he find Haman pleading with the queen
infact his hands are on her as he begs for his life
This king pronounces a sentence for haman to be hung on the same gallows
God’s triumph
God’s triumph
The take away
God is faithful even when he seems distant
God is working do what he says he will do
The wicked will not succeed
7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Sin does not go unpunished
21 Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished,
but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
God will work even in the bleakest of situations
We may feel abandoned and forsaken left to our peril
But God steps in
in this situation we see the heart of the king changed
This king who once stood with Haman is now standing with his Jewish Queen
God has placed Esther here for this time of desperation
To work through her so
“the offspring of the righteous will be delivered”
God has completed his plan for this part of the story
11 I will punish the world for its evil,
and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant,
and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
The arrogant have been layed low
The prideful have been destroyed
Let this story be a ringing reminder of God continuing to work
Even in the situations where he seems absent