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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
Esther 4:1-17
While the king and Haman are sitting drinking, the unfortunate Jews are going through the deepest distress. Prophetically we find ourselves in that future age known as "the great tribulation" which will follow closely upon the rapture of the Church. Two main actors dominate the scene: the king known as "the Beast", head of the Roman empire, and "the Antichrist", an evil character who will in his hateful enmity to Israel, lean for support upon the civil power of the former. This is the moment when the remnant of Israel will be able to address the LORD, according to Psalms 83 : "Lo, thine enemies make a tumult . . . they have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come and let us cut them off . . . that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance" (Psalms 83:2-4). How can we explain the world’s hatred of which this people has ever been, and more than ever will be, the object in the time of which we are speaking? It is the result of unprecedented efforts by Satan to have done with Christ, the Messiah, whose return will mark his own ultimate perdition. And we understand that if behind Haman we see the figure of the great Adversary, in Mordecai we have by contrast a remarkable type of the Lord Jesus Christ.
