God delivers His people from annihilation: 

In the historical narrative of Esther the Jews are delivered from great physical harm. However, the time of complete deliverance promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob only began to be fulfilled five hundred years later, with the arrival of the Anointed One, the Messiah. Condemned to die for His people Messiah Yeshua, Ben Yoseph, Ben David, became the supreme sacrifice of atonement for the sins of Jew and Gentile alike.  

Only throrugh the life of Messiah is fulfilled the prophecy of old: "All the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him" (Genesis 18:18). Today we see millions of people in all parts of the earth who have received these blessings through the Seed of Abraham, the Messiah. 

The administration of Mordecai and Esther:  

The historical figures of Mordecai and Esther spiritually represent the full administration of God's grace. Mordecai represents the administration of grace (that is given to Jew and Gentile alike) through the ministry of the Holy Spirit.  

Esther (Gentile bride) and Hadassah (Jewish bride) represent the yet to be established International Rule of God promised to Abraham that can only be established through the governance of His bride, elect Israel and Israel's King, Messiah Ben David. 

God's sovereign grace will overrule Israel's sin:   

It is the grace of Yahweh that has preserved Israel in the past and will continue to preserve Israel in the future. In spite of Israel's rejection of the Messiah Yeshua, God will remain faithful to His promises to His friend and servant Abraham.  

God's sovereign grace will inevitably overrule Israel's sin.  One day the Messiah of all the earth will reappear, Israel's unbelief will be overcome, the nation's enemies will be overthrown and the (thousand year) millennial reign of the Messiah will begin. 

The resurrection of Messiah and the nation of Israel: 

There is a three-day resurrection depicted in the Purim narrative. Esther fasted for three days and on the third day she arose to go before the king. This reminds us of Habikkurim (firstfruits), when the Messiah was resurrected on the third day after Passover. The third day after Passover also reminds us of Pharoh's failed attempt to annihilate Israel at the border of the Red Sea (Exodus 14:24-31). Both these incredible events occurred on Nisan 16. 

The story of Esther illustrates both the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah (in His first coming) and the resurrection of Israel (at His second coming). In His first coming Yeshua triumphed over the law of sin and death (the old decree). Once the administration of Haman (the world, the flesh and the devil) are overthrown, the administration of Mordecai (the ministry of the Holy Spirit) will be given unlimited free reign (the new decree). The Jews were delivered by the king's second edict in the Purim narrative in the month of Sivan. Sivan is the month when Moses received the Torah. Deliverance does not come from the covenant of the Law (first edict). Deliverance from evil comes from the covenant of Grace (the second edict). 

The conception of a new decree: 

Sivan is also the month when God gave His Living Torah (the gift of the Holy Spirit) to the church in Jerusalem (on Shavuot, Pentecost). The conception of the new decree (giving the Jews the means to thwart the earlier annihilation decree) was the first act of Mordecai's administration. The decree of life was conceived on Sivan 23. I believe this is the exact same day John the Baptist was "conceived." As for the prophet John's birth, his birth was on Passover, Nisan 14 (286 days later):   

1. Elizabeth's "birth pangs" began on Nisan 14 ("at twilight," 3-6 pm).  

2. The prophet, whose name means, the "Grace of God," began exiting the birth canal of "God's Promise" (his mother Elizabeth's name) just as he was "crossing over" from Nisan 14 to Nisan 15.  

3. The crossover occured between the evenings of Pesach and at sunset, Chag HaMatzot, at the "dawning of a new day."  

4. Thereafter, the "full delivery" (birth) of the prophet was being celebrated at the time of the Passover Seder, when shortly after sunset the prophet Elijah was "welcomed" as a honored guest in every Jewish home.  

The forerunner of the Messiah was born during Passover and his birth was celebrated at the same time Elijah was being welcomed as a honored guest by all who were observing the Passover Seder. Since John came in the spirit of Elijah and his name essentially means, the "Grace of God," it could be said that the Grace of God was being welcomed and honored in every observant Jew's home on Pesach. 

The decree of God's Grace was conceived on Sivan 23: 

The conception of the decree of "God's Grace" (the prophet Yochanan) was the first act of the Mordecai administration to thwart the annihilation decree of the Torah of Death. 

The conception of John marked the beginning of a new order, the Torah of Life, the administration of salvation by grace. 

The governance of God's grace is administered by the Holy Spirit through the rule and reign (appearance) of the Messiah. 

The 180 day observance that leads to eternal life:  

The Prophet John was conceived on Sivan 23, exactly "180 days" before the Messiah Yeshua was conceived on Chislev 25 (Chanukkah). The period of time from Elizabeth's "prophetic" birth pangs on Nisan 14 to the Messiah's actual birth on Tishri 15 (the first day of Sukkot), is exactly "180 days." 

The beginning of Chag HaMatzot (Unleavened Bread, Nisan 15) to the beginning of Sukkot (Feast of Booths) represents the festal procession, exodus that ultimately will lead God's people into the age of Messiah's millennial rule on earth. Thereafter, Messiah will process His people (out of this creation) into the final eternal age in the new heaven and the new earth (new creation). 

The Messiah, who is the Light of the World, was born on Sukkot (Tishri 15). On this same date Israel will one day be reborn. Israel's national rebirth will occur immediately following Yeshua's "second coming." The Second Coming of Messiah will occur on Yom Kippur (for more information, cf. articles on Chanukkah, Sukkot and Yom Kippur located in our web site's "archives"). 

The 180 day feast that leads to death: 

The story of Esther opens at a time of material prosperity and peace as witnessed by the Persian king Ahasuerus' 180 day feast. It was at this time that the Princes of Persia and Media were enjoying a mild winter climate with the king in his capital city of Shushan. 

According to the Rabbis, this 180 day banquet was concluded on the 8th of Nisan.  Nisan 8 is a very special day (cf. our article, "Year of the King"). This means the pagan feast began on the 6th of Tishri (482/3 B.C.), at the "middle" of the Yamim Noraim (the ten Days of Awe) in the third year of the reign of King Ahasuerus, Xerxes 1. 

Tishri 6 is the anniversary day of Solomon's feast of dedication of the First Temple. The 6th of Tishri is the day when the Rabbis say Adam was created and "fell" (sinned).  

Tishri 6 (in the autumn) prophetically speaks of the time (in the near future) when the False Messiah will stand up in a rebuilt temple at Jerusalem and falsely announce he is the Eternal One come in human form. The actual month the False Messiah will stand up and make this claim will be in Nisan (in the Spring), at the "middle" of the seven year tribulation period (at the three and one half year mark).   

A time of testing: 

It is important to recall that Yamim Noraim is a somber time of testing and judgment. Seven of the ten great days of awe are called the "intermediate days" (the days between the Feasts of Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur). The middle of the intermediate days of trial and testing is Tishri 6. 

The seven intermediate days are prophetic: 

One of the prophetic applications of these holy days speaks of God's time of greatest judgment on the earth, the seven years of "Jacob's Trouble," the Great Tribulation.  

In the middle of these seven years, when a new Temple has been built in Jerusalem, the False Messiah (who will come in his "own name") will stand up in the Holy Place and declare himself to be God. This act of self-glorification at the Temple is in stark contrast to the glory Solomon gave to God and not himself, at his dedication of the first Temple.  

At the end of the seven years of Great Tribulation this desecrated Temple will be destroyed and a magnificent new Temple will be built by the true Messiah in Shiloh (cf. our articles, "Return to Shiloh" and "Year of the King").  

The seven day local banquet: 

When Ahasuerus' (in Persian Khshyarsha is a title, meaning Lion-King) royal banquet ended, he proclaimed a local banquet for the people of Shushan that lasted seven days, from the 9th of Nisan to the 15th, the first day of Passover (Pesach).  

The chief instigator of this banquet was Haman who (as a son of haSatan) schemed to trap the Jews into sin (Drash L'Purim). During this holy season God's chosen people were charged with cleansing their homes and persons of all chametz (yeast, sin) and to prepare for the observance of Pesach (Passover). God's chosen people forsook His commandments.

They chose of their own "free-will," for there was no compulsory edict to attend, to join themselves to the world, eating and drinking at the pagan Gentile banquet instead of faithfully observing God’s Passover. This means God's people got in trouble in the first place because they failed to "observe" Pesach. The Messiah taught that the Holy Spirit convicts of sin (chametz) because of "refusal" to believe in Him (the true Pesach) and His mission to remove the sin of the World through the voluntary sacrifice of His own life and replace that sin with the indwelling righteous life of the Holy Spirit. 

Mandatory attendance:  

Attendance at Passover is mandatory. Whoever does not observe Pesach is to be "cut off" by God's people. Refusal to believe in the Lamb of God who takes away the sin (chametz) of the world results in one's sins remaining upon him; rather than being cleansed through the Messiah's sacrifice on the accursed tree. What about you?  Have you observed God's Passover?  Have you been cleansed of your sin (chametz) through faith in God's Messiah?  

At the banquet, on the seventh day, the king desired to have his Queen present. He sent for Vashti who publicly insulted the king by refusing to appear before him as he had commanded. At the counsel of his wise men, Ahasuerus had Vashti banished from his kingdom and three and one half years later, on the 10th month, Tevet (479/478 B.C.) there appeared before him the Jewish virgin, Hadassa, whom he made his Queen. Hadassa, whose Hebrew name was changed to Esther, was a descendent of King Saul (king of the first royal administration of Israel) who had previously been ordered by God to annihilate all the Amalekites. 

The wicked Haman's rise to power: 

In the approximately three and one half year interim period, Haman (descendent of King Agag, king of the Amalekites, who God ordered slain by King Saul) had been appointed the number two man in the kingdom, second only to Ahasuerus.  

Mordecai thereafter, lead his people in opposition to Haman (no one followed) by refusing to bow before him as he demanded. Consequently, Haman (again led by the power of haSatan) secured from the king permission to issue an annihilation proclamation on the 13th of Nisan (Esther 3:12).  

Over 500 years later (30 A.D.), the Chief Priests and other religious leaders in Jerusalem (God's capital city) made covenant with Judas Iscariot (another son of haSatan), on the 13th of Nisan, to kill the Messiah Yeshua.  

The Rabbis believe that wicked Haman's decree was a "judgment" for the transgression of the Jews, who four years before had joined in the Shushan, Persian capital's secular festivities instead of fullly participating in the observance of Pesach (Passover). In other words, the Jewish people were in trouble because they failed to observe Yahweh's Passover. 

Pesach prophetically has to do with the Messiah's atoning death on the cross, the redemptive shedding of the Lamb's blood on Nisan 14 that covers Israel's and the Gentile world's sin.

The three night, three day fast: 

Queen Esther, led by Mordecai, called for a three night, three day fast from the day of the 14th of Nisan (Unleavened Bread) to the night of the 17th of Nisan. God's sequence of time begins with the evening and ends with the daytime (Genesis 1:5). Rabbinical tradition says this Jewish fast was to atone for the transgression that was committed previously against God's festival of Pesach (Passover). 

In 2 Chronicles 7:14, God says: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 

At the risk of her life, Queen Esther appeared of her own volition before the king's throne. Holding out his golden scepter, Ahasuerus accepted Queen Esther into his presence and under his protection. The date of this event was Nisan 15. The Sovereign also accepted Esther's invitation to a banquet that she had prepared for him and Haman to be held that day. 

Feasts of life: 

The Jew's transgression is now to be erased through a reversal of circumstances. Unlike the Shushan feast, where the Jews ate defiled foods as guests of Ahasuerus and Haman, the king and Haman had now become the guests of Esther at a feast that she had prepared in accordance with God's commandments (no chametz allowed).   

Esther's first banquet of wine was given on the day she extended her invitation. However, Esther was still fasting the day of the 15th and could not break her vow to partake of her own meal. Esther consequently requested that Ahasuerus and Haman come dine again the next day, the 16th of Nisan. Therefore, at Esther's "second" feast she was able to join in the festivities: "So the king and Haman came to drink with Esther the queen" (Esther 7:11).

The first Adam and the last Adam:

Vashti being caught up in pride and self-will represents a type of fallen humanity who has been banished from God's kingdom, here (in the King's garden) presented as a type of the Garden of Eden (Gan Eden); whereby refusal to submit to Ahasuerus (God's sovereignty) leads to exile from the presence of the king and his kingdom. Esther's appearance on the scene in Tevet, four years after Vashti's banishment represents the highpoint in God's plan of redemption. Esther is a type of redeemed Israel. Esther's timely reign is inaugurated, conceived at Chanukkah (Chislev 25-Tevet 2); the same time as the conception of Israel's Messiah (Yeshua) in the Jewess Mary's womb.

The first and second days of Tevet are the seventh and "eighth" days of the "Feast of Dedication" (rededicating the temple, i.e. Chanukkah). The first day of Tevet is a day of completion (seventh day). The second day of Tevet represents a new beginning (eighth day; cf. article, "Messiah in Hanukkah," for more information about these two special days).

Conflict among two closely related peoples:      

Israel and Amalek are both first: "Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the first fruits of his increase..." (Jeremiah 2:3). "Amalek was the first of the nations..." (Numbers 24:20). The Numbers 24:20 verse does not refer to Amalek being the first of the nations to come into existence. Rather, this refers to Amalek being the first among all the nations to come against Israel.

Israel is presented as the root of holiness. Israel's name means, the "Rule of God." In contrast, Amalek is identified as being the root of defilement. Amalek is derived from the Hebrew root word amal, meaning works, labor, toil. As a descendent of Esau, Amalek is literally the "works of Esau." Since Esau's works are "centered" on self-glorification and self-satisfaction it could be said that Amalek's name means, "Rule of Man." Esau could have served under the rule of God as the high priest of his family. Rather, he chose to throw that great privilege away for lentil stew.

Esau despised his birthright. He chose self-rule and self-satisfaction over privileged service in God's kingdom. Esau preferred the Rule of Man "over" the Rule of God.

Jacob is loved and Esau is hated:

Jacob went into Egypt for 430 years. Isaac's descendants were required to make this sacrifice because God said "the iniquity of the Amorites was not yet full" (Genesis 15: 13,16; Exodus 12:40). The term "Amorites" means mouthy and blatant, therefore, these people were characterized as being full of pride (the root of all sin).

Unlike his Amorite counterparts Esau (Jacob's twin brother) did not have to immediately be expelled from the Holy land; in spite of witnessing his neighbors judgment, Esau's mouthy pride remained quite intact.

When Israel's subservience in Egypt had ended (where they were to have learned humility), they emerged from their bondage as free men, "Then came Amalek..." (Exodus 17:8). Amalek is the grandson of Esau (Genesis 36:12). Haman, the Agagite, is the descendent of Amalek (Esther 3:1).

The picture here is that pride must be destroyed before salvation can be received. When salvation (Yeshua) is manifest, Amalek (haSatan) comes (Matthew 4:11). When the Jews were released from the Babylonian captivity, "then came Amalek."

It was Amalek who delayed the rebuilding of the Second Temple, the city of Jerusalem, and its walls of defense. It was Amalek (haSatan) who was behind Haman successfully acquiring a total annihilation decree against all the Jews (for along with its own indigenous territories, the Persian Empire also ruled over the entire land of Israel).

A picture of the false Messiah:

There is an interesting prophetic thread woven here, as already stated Amorite means mouthy, blatant pride. Haman is a type of the False Messiah (Antichrist). In Revelation 13:5-6, the False Messiah is depicted as "the mouth." Once again, as it has prophetically happened before, when "the iniquity of the Amorites [is]...full," then the False Messiah will be defeated and judged just as has been the case with his predecessors who have gone before him (Pharaoh, Haman, Antiochas Epiphanes, etc.).

A picture of the true Messiah:

Another parallel is of God's people being in Egypt and Yeshua's paying their debt by promising to become their Pesach sacrifice (as the Lamb of God). This Yeshua did that those who believed in Him (His sacrifice of His life over the doorposts of their hearts) might one day become free citizens in God's Kingdom.

Yet many did not take heed and remember "then came Amalek:" When Israel came out of Egypt, God had them wander in the wilderness to humble them, to prove them, to know what was in their heart, whether they would put their trust in Him, or not (Deuteronomy 8:2).

Six hundred thousand men plus women, children, and a mixed multitude of people, or approximately 2-3 million people in all came out of Egypt. However, due to their unbelief and refusal to wholly follow the Lord, a vast number of them died in the wilderness (Hebrews 3:19 & Numbers 32:11).

Only two men, over the age of twenty who had come out of Egypt, entered the Promised Land. Joshua and Caleb were the only two men who refused to be moved by what they saw and walked by faith.

Two opposing agendas, sin versus righteousness:

On the 13th of Nisan, in preparation for deliverance, the Passover, God issued the annihilation decree of Bedikat Chametz, "out with leaven, out with sin." On the 13th of Nisan, in preparation for destruction, Haman (haSatan) issues an annihilation decree, "out with the Jews and out with righteousness" (the calendar date of Nisan 13 is when Judas Iscariot betrayed the Messiah Yeshua).

The battle is set:

It took three months for news to travel to all the ends of the Persian Empire. The annihilation proclamation was issued on the 13th of Nisan. Three hundred and thirty-six days later, on the 13th and 14th of Adar (473 B.C.), the battle of good vs. evil was fought. 

Esther is a picture of the new inner person, the new inner self, who once regenerated by God refuses to be guided by anything other than the ministry of the Holy Spirit (symbolized by the administration of Mordecai). Esther represents a new creation order that includes the reign of both a Gentile bride (Esther) and a Jewish bride (Hadassah) who are both merged together to form one united body of believers.

Esther died the day she committed herself to go before the king. She fasted for "three days"  (symbolizing she was dead for three days). On the 3rd day Esther arose to go into the king who held out his golden scepter to her, whereby she by faith obtained the king's favor and grace and deliverance from the Law (the edict of death). This is why Esther went in to the king on the 3rd day, even though she was still fasting and could not partake of her own banquet (due to her sacrifice) and consequently, had to hold a second banquet to eat and drink (have communion) with the king the next day.

It is at the time of the second banquet that evil is destroyed and God's righteousness begins to reign in the kingdom. The first banquet represents life under the covenant of the Law. The second banquet represents life under the covenant of Grace, mediated by the Messiah, and administered by the Spirit of Grace.

Resurrection occurs in three days and three nights:

Resurrection occurs on the third day, after three days and three nights, if you "count" the horrible night that came over the holy land at the Messiah's crucifixion. This unusual, unique night marks the beginning of an additional night and day. Esther did not see Haman removed from office until after a full three day, three night fast was completed; read carefully chapters five through seven.

The hidden day that Job prophetically asked God to "remove" from the calendar is the day of the Messiah's birth pangs: "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a man-child conceived.' Let that day be darkness; don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it. As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let that night be blotted off the calendar, never again to be counted among the days of the year, never again to appear among the months. Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan [the sea monster]. Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. 'Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? Why did my mother let me live? Why did she nurse me at her breasts? For if I had died at birth, I would be at peace now, asleep and at rest'" (Job 3:3-13).

This is the sacred, hidden day of tormenting death for Messiah our Pesach. This additional "hidden day" of the Messiah, turns the Nisan 16 resurrection day into a Nisan 17 resurrection day.  

The cursed day of Job and the hidden day of Messiah:

The three days and three nights (in the belly of the earth) began after Nisan 14, the day that ended Friday, at 12 noon, at the moment of the strange darkness that came over the land at midday. In His crucifixion the Messiah first experienced the wrath of man from 9 am to 12 noon; then He suffered the unspeakable, unfathomable wrath of God from noon to 3 pm. The Messiah's innocent soul (as well as body) was in torment from twelve noon to three.  

After Yeshua, the Lamb of God, completed our redemption, He took "captivity captive" (Ephesians 4:8). He claimed our salvation and was thereafter resurrected on the third day. Messiah's  resurrected life, thereafter, became the firstfruits (HaBikkurim) of God's "new creation."

It is important to point out that in the Scriptures, God has altered the length of a day by several hours and minutes (Joshua 10: 12-14; 2 Kings 20:10-11). This was done to demonstrate God's sovereign rule over the universe (matter, energy, space) and time. These variations in the amount of time a Hebrew day consists of supports our assertion that God made a special sacred day of Nisan 15. This day consisted of a shortened three hour night and a three hour day. It should also be pointed out that a normal Hebrew day begins with night (sunset-sunrise) and ends with day (sunrise-sunset). Biblical days are not defined by hours and minutes but by the succession of one period of night followed by a period of day.

Another unique facet of the Hebrew day is how it is counted. Any portion of a day (or night), no matter how small, is counted as a full day. Therefore, the Messiah was literally in the heart of the earth for three nights and three days. This is so because our Lord died in the darkness (night) just before the (Hebrew) ninth hour (approximately 3pm). The timetable below demonstrates how Yeshua (Jesus) was physically dead for three nights and three days.

By the way, it is curious that the Messiah refers to the period of His being physically dead as being three days and three nights. The only way His death should be sequenced this way, as I see it, is if He were looking back at the crucifixion. It is as if the Messiah is viewing His death from the vantage point of a later time. It appears the Lord actually viewed His death from the future, as if He prophetically saw it as having been already accomplished (Hebrews 12:2).         

                                      The Hidden Day of Messiah

                     Number      Sacred Date       Secular Date       Day         Hours 

                     Night  1      Nisan      15         April 7, 30 AD    Friday     Noon-3pm

                     Day    1      Nisan      15         April 7, 30 AD     Friday      3pm-6pm

                     Night  2      Nisan      16         April 7, 30 AD     Friday      6pm-6am

                     Day    2      Nisan      16         April 8, 30 AD     Saturday  6am-6pm

                     Night  3      Nisan      17         April 8, 30 AD     Saturday  6pm-6am

                     Day    3      Nisan      17         April 9, 30 AD      Sunday    At sunrise

Isaac died:                   

Isaac (a type of the Messiah Yeshua), prophetically died the day God called Abraham to sacrifice his son. After a three day journey Abraham and Isaac climbed up Mount Moriah, the same mountain on which Yeshua was sacrificed. Thereafter, in a prophetic role-play Isaac was sacrificed and resurrected (given back to Abraham) when God provided "Himself a lamb" (Genesis 22:8).

This is a graphic prophetic picture of God the Father's sacrifice of His Son, the Messiah, two thousand years after Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. Without the Messiah's righteous sacrifice (the shedding of His blood) there would be no forgiveness for sin. Our righteous heavenly Father requires that our sins be paid for. God warned the first Adam that the penalty for His disobedience would be death (spiritual and physical). The last Adam paid the penalty for sin for all who believe on His name (trust in His Word). Messiah Yeshua is the Head of the new creation order. The Messiah died so that His followers might receive forgiveness of their sins and the Father's gift of eternal life.

Esther represents the entire body of saved Israel and those who are counted among God's elect Messianic (Christian) church. This elect assembly includes God's Son Yeshua and all who believe in Him (both Jew and Gentile). The believer dies with the Messiah that he or she might be resurrected with Him in a glorified body that is incapable of engaging in sin or dying. This "final solution" was inaugurated at Yeshua's incarnation when He said from heaven: "Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me)... I have come to do Thy will" (Hebrews 10:7). The Messiah was speaking of the Tenach, the old testament (the New Testament had not been written yet). Thus Yeshua came to give His body not only as a sacrifice for sin but also as a means to permanently cause His righteousness to rule within, through and upon His redeemed people.

Yeshua's plan is to establish a new creation order out of His own righteousness. ln reference to the prophet Jonah, Yeshua said, "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" (Matthew 12:40). Yeshua was crucified on the 14th of Nisan. The same day Esther fasted death to herself.

Three nights and three days later, on the 17th of Nisan, in communion with the Father God, Yeshua is seen triumphant over haSatan. It is through the Messiah Yeshua's sacrificial death and triumphant resurrection that all His followers (Esther/Hadassah) are able to receive eternal life through the gift of the Holy Spirit given at Shavuot (Pentecost). Three nights and three days after Nisan 14, on the 17th of Nisan, in communion with Ahasuerus (a type of God's Sovereignty), Esther and the complete assembled body of God's elect triumphed over Haman and thereafter, were granted a decree of life in the place of Haman's decree of death.

God’s Sovereign Grace:

Ahasuerus is a picture of the Sovereignty of God. God has decreed from heaven that only judgment will be awarded to those who live according to the Law (self-justification). However, those who put their faith in the Messiah Yeshua, will freely be given the gift of eternal life. 

When Ahasuerus cleansed the ruling house in his kingdom (Haman's house, the flesh, which gives place to Abaddon, the destroyer), he immediately refilled it with the righteous administration of Mordecai (the ministry of the Holy Spirit). What changed was the Administrator and thereby, the administration of the kingdom. What God plans to do is replace the rule of the evil one with the rule of the Righteous One, the Messiah. He will accomplish this through the Ministry of the Holy Spirit.

Haman, like his ancestor Esau is a type of the flesh (living a life that is ruled by sin). As long as sin rules supreme (individually and collectively) there can be no peace on earth. Haman's rule must be "overthrown" through the power of the new life that comes through faith in Yeshua in the power of the Qodesh Ruach (the Holy Spirit). In Romans 8:6 it is written, "For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."

Esther and Rabbi Shaul's book of Romans:

The Book of Esther is the Old Testament version of the Book of Romans. Esther teaches us about the law of the flesh and the law of the Spirit. God brought us out of Egypt into the wilderness where the evil of the flesh is revealed, and where the battle of the flesh and the Spirit ensues: "And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments, or not" (Deuteronomy 8:2).

Moving from the wilderness into the Promised Land requires a war-like resolution to walk in the Spirit (trust in the instruction and promises of God; as did Caleb and Yehoshua, Joshua). God's people must not allow themselves to be ruled over by the flesh (as the ten unbelieving spies did when they failed to believe and thereby were condemned to die in the wilderness because they chose to walk by physical sight instead of faith in God's Word ).

The flesh (the root of sin in the body) must be crucified:

Haman's name means literally magnificent, figuratively "the root of defilement" (as a descendent of Amalek, whose name means valley dweller), and his wicked seed, the fruit of defilement is witnessed to by the names of his ten sons, who were all hanged, impaled (nailed) on a tree:

1.   Parshandatha (his name means given by prayer, given forth to light, religious self);

2.   Dalphon (his name means dripping, as in tears, self-pity);

3.   Aspatha (his name means given by the horse, self-sufficient);

4.   Portatha (his name means ornament, self-indulgent);

5.   Adalya (his name means I shall be drawn up by God, self-preoccupied);

6.   Aridatha (his name means the lion of the decree, self-assertive);

7.   Parmashta (his name means superior, strong fisted, self-preeminent, competitive);

8.   Arisay (his name means lion-like, self-confidant);

9.   Ariday (his name means strong, the lion is enough, proud, self-superior);

10.  Vayzatha (his name means strong as the wind, self-righteous).    

Death to one's self-life is the first evidence that one has truly discovered the secret of Esther and Mordecai. Romans 8:13b, "...but if you through the Spirit do destroy the deeds of the body, you shall live." The death of one's self life is visible to all. This sanctifying process causes the life of the Messiah to dominate our thought life and break out through our behavioral and relational life into the world.

Without death to self the life of the Messiah is not able to reside upon, in and through us. Without death to self our sinful life cannot be exchanged for the righteous life of Messiah Yeshua. Stubbornly holding onto your own selfish will and way will lead you to lose the gift of eternal life (cf. our article, "Live Forever"). If your self-life is not freely given up to God then like Haman and his ten sons, you will hang forever impaled upon it.

Haman is linked to the ten nations in Revelation 13:    

There is a kingdom of darkness and a kingdom of light. One must make a choice as to which kingdom one will be a citizen of. If we humbly choose to live by faith, according to God's Covenant of Grace, we will be empowered to walk in His Spirit. This is the decree of life. Victory over Satan's world rule can only be achieved by following the Living Torah of Esther and Mordecai. 

If we choose to walk according to the rule of the prince and power of the air we will walk in haSatan's spirit. This is the decree that leads to eternal death. Haman's ten sons are a graphic depiction of the sinful life that will be lived by those who follow the False Messiah during the seven year Great Tribulation. All who submit to the rule of God's enemies will live like Haman's sons and will be judged like Haman's sons.