December 8, 2013 – Esther 6 – 8

Just as with Daniel and the lion’s den, God works out His plan that those that devise evil suffer from the exact plans that they conceived.  King Darius has Daniel’s enemies thrown in with the lions.  Here Haman is duped twice.  First, thinking he is being rewarded, thinks of the grandest reward he can come up with only to find out that what he has described is going to be done for Mordecai.  Then, the devise that he had planned on putting Mordecai in is used as his punishment for his plot against the Jews.

I was curious at the king’s new order.  Instead of telling everyone that the order to kill all the Jews should be disregarded, that order appears to stand.  What is done is that a second command is given that the Jews should gather and defend themselves against those that would be following the king’s first order.  Just seems to be an odd way to go about stopping the event, or not stopping it in the manner it was supposed to happen.