The Endime Bride -Esther - Intercession

A Picture of the End-Time Bride

1.The book of Esther is a magnificent allegory that describes

The book of Esther is an amazing story of a young Jewish girl who saved her people from total destruction.

This beautiful book is saturated with incredible allegories that offers us a lense through which we get some sort of glimpse of the call, the purpose, the preparation, the position, and the role of the end-time bride of Christ.

Allegory

An allegory is a story in which people, things, and events have a hidden or symbolic meaning.

Whenever we interpret a passage allegorically, however, we must make sure that the truth we are establishing is clearly revealed elsewhere in the Bible. (Are you still with me?)

The word allegory is used only once in the Bible: when Paul says that Hagar and Sarah "are an allegory" of the old covenant and the new covenant (Gal. 4:23-24, KJV).

Within the overall theme of Allegories you will find types and shadows-

people, things, or events that symbolizes something else, something that is expected to take place in the future.

There are 6 main characters in the book of Esther each of them foreshadow the present day end-time apostolic church.

1. King Ahasuerus represents Jesus.

Even though Ahasuerus is far from a perfect type of Him, Jesus, like Ahasuerus, is a King, and He will rule a worldwide kingdom.

In 483 B.C., after Persia overthrew Babylon and before many of the deported Jews had returned to the land of Judah, King Ahasuerus, the king of Persia, gave a banquet for the leaders of the 127 provinces of his kingdom.

On the seventh and last day of this banquet, Ahasuerus called his bride, Queen Vashti, to come before the princes and all the people to display her beauty.

We know the story. She refused and the king was enraged.

2. Vashti represents that part in all of us that is independent, self- willed, rebellious, and unwilling to submit to authority. (Jews reject Christ)

Vashti means beautiful woman or one who is desired. Vashti was so beautiful that King Ahasuerus wanted to display her beauty to every one in his worldwide empire.

Jesus will also search for a worthy bride to be His queen and He will display her beauty to the world.

Vashti was of royal blood. She was a Persian princess by birth, identified by some as the daughter of King Alyattes of Lydia. Grand daughter of Nebucanzer

Vashti held all of the right credentials to be queen; she came from a royal line and was very beautiful. But she was also independent, self-willed, rebellious, and refused to submit to authority.

When we are born again, all of us are like Vashti. Joined with Christ as His bride and we become partakers of a royal bloodline, but we have an independent, self-willed nature that has not been broken by the power of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 11:2; 1 Peter 2:9). Ps 51 we need to be broken before His Presence.

I never want to become familiar with the presence of God.

And Because of her rebellion, Ahasuerus issued an unbreakable edict that prohibited Vashti from ever coming into his presence again, stipulating that her royal position be given to another "more worthy than she" (Est. 1:19).

Can we do that right now and just begin to display praises unto him!!!!

You are chosen to be In God's showcase to the world. You are the Ecclesia. You are Gods called out!!! We have no business being here but since we are here let's show forth his praises!!!!

It's Showtime!!!! you were called out to be a visible expression of Gods Glory.

It is the same position lucifer was in before he was expelled out of Heaven. He was the angel of light. You ain't his partner or coworker you are his replacement!!!!

If we continue to refuse the kings Request he will replace you with someone more worthy.

Examples - Saul and David, Eli and Samuel

3. King Ahasuerus begins now to search for a bride more worthy than Vashti. (Gentiles)

The king's law required, each of the beautiful young virgins was required to go through 12 months of preparation: six months of myrrh oil baths and six months of spices and cosmetics.

When the preparation was complete, each young girl would be evaluated by the king, and the one who pleased him the most would be chosen as his queen.

Pleasing the King

Esther, a Jew, was one of the candidates. Mordecai, her uncle who raised her after her parents died, carefully watched over Esther during the preparation process.

4. Esther is a beautiful picture of the worthy bride of Christ.

Esther is a Persian name whose root means "a star."

Esther portrays one who is hidden in obscurity and arises to prominence and power.

In the king's harem, Esther had great favor with Hegai, the king's eunuch, and he gave her the best that the palace had to offer.

After completing the 12 month preparation process, Esther, along with the other virgins, went in for her night with the king.

She is given myrrh baths of embalming oil that is bitter to the taste but releases a beautiful fragrance.

Application:

This work of the cross will crucify the Vashti-like nature.

Through this long and extended preparation process, the Holy Spirit will heal the wounds of rejection, break demonic strongholds, and liberate the bride.

After this evaluation, each young lady was sent to a second room to wait and see if she had pleased the king. She would not appear before the king again unless he took pleasure in her and requested her by name.

As the storyline goes, Esther pleased the king so much that he chose her as his queen.

5. Hegai the eunuch, along with the other overseers.

-in all the provinces who gather the virgins to the capital city symbolize pastors in the nations who are going to the highways and byways to invite people "to the wedding feast" (Matt. 22:9).

Hegai, the king's eunuch responsible for the preparation of the virgins, symbolizes several things.

First, he is a picture of the Holy Spirit's assignment to prepare a worthy bride for Jesus.

There are three things that will happen when you prepare yourselves:

Preparation - Joshua

Joshua was about to take the long awaited journey to possess their inheritance. And Joshua said to the people, sanctify yourselves for tomorrow The Lord will do wonders among you. GOd was aboutIn other words prepare yourselves to see the greatest miracle of your life.

When Esther's turn came to go to the king. She accepted the advice of Hegai, She asked for nothing except what he suggested. She took the king's servants advice.

And she was admired by everyone who saw her. Probably mocked for being holy, simple, different. But she was admired.

All things are lawful but not all things are expedient. You will be admired for your difference with men.

but most importantly:

1. You will find Favor with the King:

When the Bride pleases the King in the secret place, she is given authority to rule and reign with the King to destroy the Antichrist and his kingdom. She has to be delivered in order to deliver her generation.

Isaiah 6

She obtained grace and favor in his sight. Not from the outward but from the inward.

Strive not to be men pleasers, but God pleasers.

Grace and Favor gets the crown!

The Crown is a position of authority.

Altar Call

The Holy Spirit wants to transform all of us from the proud, rebellious nature of Vashti into people who are humble, meek, and selfless like Esther. Esther represents those who willingly submit to the Holy Spirit's preparation process to become a bride worthy to partner with Jesus in the end times and for all eternity.

Within the overall theme of Allegories you will find types and shadows-

people, things, or events that symbolizes something else, especially something that is expected to take place in the future. There are 6 main characters in the book of Esther each of them foreshadow the end-time Bride of Christ.

The land is yours.

2. Mordecai Represents The Holy Spirit - The Holy Spirt will Guide

Like the Holy Spirit, Mordecai was Esther's guide and counselor (John 14:26). He oversaw her preparation to be the wife of the king, and he told her to intercede for the Jews' deliverance (Est. 2:11, 4:13-14).

Essther had no mother or father. Mordecai was Esther's adopted father (Est. 2:7). Not her natural but adopted.

We are not just called to the kingdom to enjoy the kingdom but if we listen carefully to the voice of the spirit we can hear the desperate crying of our generation. And we are uniquely positioned as the bride of Christ to destroy the works of the devil.

A. Esther rescued the Jews from certain annihilation.

Some time later, Ahasuerus promoted Ha man—who was from the royal family of the Amalekites, Israel's ancient enemy—to second in command.

To honor Haman, the king required that everyone in the kingdom bow before Haman and pay homage to him.

Mordecai, an observant Jew, would not bow down to him. Thus, Haman detested Mordecai and initiateda plot to kill him—and all of his people, the Jews.

Haman sent a letter to all the provinces authorizing the people to kill all of the Jews in the land.

As you would expect, the Jews were terrified and began to cry out for deliverance.

Mordecai asked Esther to intercede to the king for the Jews' deliverance.

Though she did not recognize the threat at first, Esther finally realized what was at stake. If she did not act, her people would be annihilated. Perhaps she had "attained royalty for such a time as this" (Est. 4:14).

Determined to act, yet knowing the consequences of not receiving the king's favor, Esther uttered her now-famous words, "If I perish, I perish" (Est. 4:16).

After a three-day fast, Esther approached the king to request that he spare the Jews. To her great relief, Ahasuerus extended his golden scepter, asked what was troubling Esther, and granted her up to half his kingdom.

Esther's intercession ultimately led to deliverance for the Jews and death for Haman and his 10 sons.

Whether it was Abraham or Jonah or Noah. God has always had a person or a people who would stand in the gap as intercessors between God and his wrath upon the a godless generation and a antichrist society.

4. Haman and his 10 sons symbolize the Antichrist coming to power in the end times.

In Haman, we see the demonic power that will motivate the Antichrist and his kingdom in the end times.

Haman was an Agagite from the line of the Amalekites. From the beginning, the Amalekites hated Israel and pursued them with unrelenting spite (Ex. 17:16; Deut. 25:17-19). Consequently, Israel came close to exterminating them on several occasions (1 Sam. 15:8, 30:17; 2 Sam 8:12; 1 Chron. 4:43). Utterly Destroy

Haman planned to destroy Mordecai and all of the Jews in Persia because Mordecai refused to bow down and worship him (Est. 3:5-6). Though this plot was established in the first month of the year, it was not scheduled to take place until the end of the year (Est. 3:12-13).

Likewise, we know that Satan's strategy to destroy mankind— especially the Jews—has been planned from the beginning but will not be fully released until the end times.

Just as Haman had 10 sons, the Antichrist will partner with 10 kings to conquer the world and annihilate God's people—both Jews and Christians (Rev. 17:12-14).

What you refuse to destroy in your past will return to destroy you. (Haman)

When you refuse to totally get rid of the stuff God tell you to get rid of in your life they have a way of coming back to Totally get rid of you.

What you refuse to deal with now will destroy both you and your house. Time to confront Hamaan:

In your church

In your relationships

In your house

In yourself!

Generational curses

Agents who Refused-

Fallen Angels

Dead without Chrst

Reprobate Mind

Because Saul refused to totally get rid of Amelikites this whole Boeing thing happened and sombody has to stand up to the Devil. Every body vacant be bowing to hip hop, Beonce, worshipping Jay Z. Thank God for a Mordecai who will look the spirit of the Antichrist that is present in.mThe world now an say say I ain't bowing to you.

It was in Johns day.

1John. 2:18Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

5. The Jews celebrated their deliverance and were exalted in the land.

Following Haman's and his 10 sons' death, Mordecai was placed over Haman's house, many of the Persians converted to Judaism, and dread of the Jews fell upon the leaders of the kingdom.

Filled with joy and gladness, the Jews feasted and celebrated their great victory. Because of Esther, the Jews escaped certain annihilation and were exalted in the land.

The book ends with this enlightening verse:

3For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

God used Esther in unprecedented ways to deliver the Jews from the wicked schemes of the enemy.

The Bride of Christ in the End Times---Key---

1. In the book of Esther, we see a glimpse of how the bride will partner with Jesus in the end times and for all eternity.

After overcoming every test in their wilderness of preparation (Est. 2), these "Esthers" will be ready to partner with Jesus in end-time events. As the modern-day Haman is promoted in the land and the world moves toward a one-world government, religion, and economy (Rev. 17-18), the prepared bride will be ready to take action. She will not sit idly by waiting for the rapture; instead, she will be poised to act.

Realizing that she was born "for such a time as this," she will go before the King and intercede for her people—both Jews and Christians. Because she has pleased the King in the secret place and knows Him deeply, she will be granted the golden scepter—the rod of authority. She will use this authority in spiritual warfare to liberate her people from the forces of evil that are increasing their attacks in the land. As she partners with Jesus, she will release judgments against the Antichrist and his kingdom (Rev. 5:8, 8:1-6).

She will be a prime reason why sin is judged, the devil is bound, and the end-time harvest breaks out in the land.

After engaging in intense spiritual warfare at the end of the age, the bride of Christ will feast and celebrate at the marriage supper of the Lamb and will partner with Jesus for all eternity.

After seeing these types and shadows of the end-time bride of Christ, let's embrace the rigorous preparation process so that, like Esther, we can be transformed into a bride who is worthy of the King.

Nuggets

Esther gives us a beautiful picture of the church in the age pushing back against the spirit of the antichrist. - only he that letteh will let.

Esther was effective in the end because of what she did in the beginning and continue.

Many are called but few are chosen. Ecclesia. Favor

2Thess 2:7

1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 14Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. 16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, 17Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work

Application:

First call Vashti was replaced for not responding to the king

Second cal Esther will be replaced for not responding to the kingdom. -Brownsville Call

She didn't pursue the enemy until after she had pursued the presence of the King

When you pursue his presence. He will grant you power for your purpose. - Rod of Authority - To destroy the works if the devil.

The enemy has set against you a decree but you must intercept it.

Intercept the plan and purpose of the enemy against your house against your children. (Camouflage, deception, subtle, counterfeit) antichrist counterfeit christ- first decree counterfeit decree it's a trap of the enemy.

Not only should you war you must give your children the tools to war.( the true decree) prayer, fasting, the word, to know and counter the counterfeit.

1Chron12:32And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.

Reconfirming their allegiance to David.

Saved to serve.

Sought for a man to stand in the Gap.

God revealed the condition of the people of the land and how destruction was coming

Ezekiel 22:30And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

Naaman was in the same kingdom along with Esther.