Evil plans, excessive contraptions that destroy the maker, and the good guy coming out on top. This is a classic plot of my favorite cartoons, the one's with Bugs Bunny, Marvin the Martian, and Yosemite Sam. It also happens to be exactly what happens in today's reading.
If you read yesterday, you have the back story, if you didn't, its good enough to go back and read it. Today we see the finale to Haman's plot, Esther's plan, and Mordecai. Haman has built a giant gallows (you might say he put out enough rope to hang himself) and sent letters so he can exterminate all the Jews because Mordecai didn't bow to him. Marvin the Martian has built a device that will blow up the earth, because it blocks his view of the moon.
If you've seen the cartoons, you know that Bugs Bunny saves his home planet of earth and Marvin blows up his own planet instead. If you read today, you see that Queen Esther saves her people, the Jews, by telling the king of Haman's plans. The king has Haman hanged on the gallows he built for the purpose of killing Mordecai.
Mordecai becomes great, second only to the king, and does many amazing things. So many in fact that the king gives him a tribute, that all should know. This is one of those stories we feel good about, we see good triumph over evil, we see evil undone by their own evil plan. Bugs Bunny saves the earth, Esther saves the Jews. Marvin's planet-blower-upper backfires and Haman hangs from his own gallows.
In the end of it all, the story that never mentions God directly, we can still see the hand of God working things out to exalt the righteous and bring ruin to those who would do evil, even when we don't see Him working in an obvious way.
Pray on everyone
PQ
If you read yesterday, you have the back story, if you didn't, its good enough to go back and read it. Today we see the finale to Haman's plot, Esther's plan, and Mordecai. Haman has built a giant gallows (you might say he put out enough rope to hang himself) and sent letters so he can exterminate all the Jews because Mordecai didn't bow to him. Marvin the Martian has built a device that will blow up the earth, because it blocks his view of the moon.
If you've seen the cartoons, you know that Bugs Bunny saves his home planet of earth and Marvin blows up his own planet instead. If you read today, you see that Queen Esther saves her people, the Jews, by telling the king of Haman's plans. The king has Haman hanged on the gallows he built for the purpose of killing Mordecai.
Mordecai becomes great, second only to the king, and does many amazing things. So many in fact that the king gives him a tribute, that all should know. This is one of those stories we feel good about, we see good triumph over evil, we see evil undone by their own evil plan. Bugs Bunny saves the earth, Esther saves the Jews. Marvin's planet-blower-upper backfires and Haman hangs from his own gallows.
In the end of it all, the story that never mentions God directly, we can still see the hand of God working things out to exalt the righteous and bring ruin to those who would do evil, even when we don't see Him working in an obvious way.
Pray on everyone
PQ
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