The Destruction of Haman by the Ministry of Esther Pt.2
ESTHER 3:13-14
13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
14 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.
Notice – a death sentence predetermined for a certain day. This is actually the sentence we are all living under from the day that we are born into this world –all through our lives living under a law of a predetermined death day, but in this story of Esther we notice that this death day against the people of God that was written into the law of the Medes and Persians was averted because of the ministry of Esther.
I CORINTHIANS 15:54
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
So in the book of Esther we see that death is swallowed up in victory.
And that is brought to pass by a series of events.
Esther had first been raised by the ministry of Mordecai just as we have been raised under the ministry of the 7th Angel’s ministry in this day, then she comes into a marriage union with a king by the choosing of a bride which is also a perfect parallel of this hour. So this whole story of Esther is giving us a vision and a pattern for the hour that we are living in today and shows us the events concerning the end time virgin bride that precedes the resurrection of the people of God in this hour.
The Destruction of Haman by the Ministry of Esther Pt.2
…we are still on our study in the book of Esther which we have been studying in the light of the revelation of the opening of the seven seals of Revelation 10, because we know that Revelation 10 is the book of Esther in the book of Revelation.
- The mighty angel of Revelation 10:1 was Christ who in the book of Esther represents king Ahasuerus. The seventh angel of Revelation 10:7 represents Mordecai, while John in Revelation 10 is Esther, and Hatach is the 5 fold ministry that prophecies again the words of Mordecai just prior to the destruction of Haman.
ESTHER 2:19-20
19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time (Notice a second gathering of virgins. Remember that the shout of the message is what gathers the virgin bride of this end time hour together – The revealing of the Son of Man ministry gathered the first virgin bride church in Jesus day, and the same Son of Man ministry of this hour is what has gathered the evening time bride together the second time), then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.
20 Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her (Her identity was kept a secret to the outside world – just like our identity of what nation we are of is also a secret to the outside world in this hour – we are of a heavenly eternal nation): for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
Look at Esther’s obedience to Mordecai’s raising before and then the same after her marriage to the king - and then as this story goes on we see that the ministry of Mordecai continues through the ministry of Hatach the chamberlain, and it is while she is under the ministry of Hatach that we know she comes into a maturity of character where she becomes willing to put her entire life on the line for the resurrection of her people (we have studied this in previous services).
***So we see a progression from the beginning of the story of the ministry of the seven chamberlains to the ministry of Mordecai and then to the ministry of Hatach – and each ministry played a role in bringing Esther a stage further along to a maturity where she would actually come into her own ministry, because the destruction of Haman comes at the time of the ministry of Esther after she comes to a maturity of character.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.THE.SEALS_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324M
494-4 {232} 22. ... Would the Bride of Christ have a ministry before the rapture?
Sure. That's what's going on right now. See? The Bride of Christ... Certainly. It is the Message of the hour (See?), the Bride of Christ. Sure, She's consist of apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors. Is that right? That's the Bride of Christ. Sure, She's got a ministry, great ministry; it's the ministry of the hour; it'll be so humble...
That is where multitudes will miss what God is doing in this hour because it won’t look great in the eyes of man – and that is how God always hides himself is by the humble way that he brings his word to pass. Look at his first coming - A little baby born in a manger of hay, how could that be anything great or unusually to anyone looking on? The Pharisees of the day were looking for the clouds to part and the red carpet to roll out from the sky, and the messiah to come walking down to the high priests doorstep and announce his coming.
**And at this time of the bride coming of Christ, who would ever believe that he could come to earth in the form of the human flesh of humble and rejected people called the bride of Christ.
ESTHER 5:6-8
6 And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;
8 If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
**We notice that chapter 6 of Esther is placed between the first banquet of chapter 5, and second banquet in chapter 7, and so we find that it was in between these two banquets that Mordecai was rewarded for his service to the king of what he had done by exposing to Queen Esther the attempted destruction against the king.
That is what the ministry of Mordecai (The seventh angel) has also exposed in this hour – the opening of the seven seals has exposed the plot of Satan and his evil ride of the four coloured horses of Revelation 6 to the bride of this hour.
ESTHER 2:21-23
21 ¶ In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.
23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
**So the opening of the seven seals in our day was a banquet of wine because we know that wine represents the stimulation of the revelation of the word of God.
THE.THIRD.SEAL_ JEFF.IN WEDNESDAY_ 63-0320
271-3 {306} Now, oil typifies Spirit, and wine symbolizes stimulation of revelation. Boy, I like to run all over the place. It's a wonder I didn't wake up the neighborhood when the Lord showed me that. Stimulation of revelation... See? Oil and wine in the Bible is associated together always. I got the concordance and looked, and there's a string of them that like--like that, where wine and oil goes together all the time. See?
271-4 {308} When the truth of a promised Word of God has been truly revealed to His saints that's filled with oil, they all get stimulated. Wine is a stimulation.
***So at the first banquet of wine of the king and queen at the opening of the seven seals in 1963, we see that Haman wasn’t dealt with in judgement at that time, neither was Esther and her people identified publicly.
***So we notice that it was between these two banquets of wine that Mordecai is given a change of garment and a crown and is seen riding on a military horse – the kings horse, and a horse we know in the bible is a power.
ESTHER 6:1-11
1 ¶ On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. (Sometimes when you can’t sleep, maybe the Lord wants you the read the chronicles also)
2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
3 And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him. (To Mordecai, it looked like his good deeds towards the king had been forgotten, and often it may seem like that for us also when we serve the Lord year in and year out and it just seems like more trouble and trials come, but remember, every one of your deeds of service for the Lord has been written down in the great chronicles of God’s book also – and one day there will also be a reward for you – a change of garment, a new body and a crown and a white horse to ride)
4 ¶ And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
5 And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, (Notice carefully that there are 3 things mentioned here)
8 Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear (First – a change of garment), and the horse that the king rideth upon (Not just any horse, but the kings horse), and the crown royal which is set upon his head (The kings royal crown. Three things - a change into a royal garment, the king’s horse, and the kings crown):
9 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.
11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
12 ¶ And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
***Now for us to understand why the events of this chapter is placed in the book of Esther between the two banquets of wine, we must understand a little more of the message of this hour. So we want to go to a dream that brother Branham relates in 1965 in the message “And Knoweth it Not”.
AND.KNOWETH.IT.NOT_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-10 SUNDAY_ 65-0815
254 … Mr. Hildebrandt, which is a friend of mine, that had been the man playing the tapes. Said Mr. Hildebrandt had a word from Roy Borders (and that's one of the managers, you know), that I was going to hold a meeting back here, for from the twenty-eighth through the first, come back and see for himself.
255 He said, "Now, looky here, them guys trying to pull me in something like that!" See? And he just flipped the letter over in the wastebasket, and went on, see, like that. Went on in and held that meeting that night. And the next morning...
256 Then he started holding his heart, to crying, right there in the room.
257 He said, "Mr. Branham, I realize I got to stand before God." He said, "I don't know whether I was asleep or what happened." He said, "I dreamed. I'm going to say I was asleep and I dreamed."
258 Said, "I thought my son, in the market, stuck his hand in a--a sack." And said, "When he did, it was a sack of apples, and they all turned over." Said, "When I went to pick them up, they was all green apples with one bite taken out of them." Said, "I was picking them up, put them back in the sack." Said, "Some of them rolled out, and rolled down, so I went to try to get them, and under... on the grass." And said, "They rolled under one of these chain-lock fences. And there was a big super highway run in there. I looked back east, and," he said, "the--the--the chain was hooked against a--a big rock back in the east. And I went back there, and thought I'd let this chain down, then go over and get the apples for the man." Said, "I started to let the chain down."
259 Said, "A voice shook the whole earth." Said, "The earth shook, from under my feet." And said, "After it quit shaking, I heard a voice." And said, "Brother Branham, it was your voice," said, "I knowed; there was something said that." Said--said, "It said, 'I'll ride this trail once more!'"
260 And said, "I started looking up the rock, like this, and looked on, in a past the clouds. And way up there, standing on a rock that reached from the east to the west, in a pointed shape like that, like a pyramid, run back here to the east, and," said, "there you were standing there, on a horse that I never seen anything like it in my life; great white horse, white mane hanging down." And said, "You was dressed like an Indian chief, with all the things the Indians use." Said, "He had a breastplate; them bangles on the arms, and all down around like that." Said, "You had your hands up like that." And said, "That horse standing there like a military horse, with a prance like this, walking," me standing still. And said, "You pulled on the reins, went riding off towards the west."
261 Said, "I looked down there, and there was a whole lot of scientists." And the next morning... That was Saturday. On the next morning, I preached on scientists, you know, being of the devil. And said, "Scientists there were pouring things in tubes, and mixing it." Said, "You stopped the horse, raised up your hands again and screamed, 'I'll ride this trail once more!'" And said, "The whole earth shook. Them people shook," said, "looked up and looked at one another, like that, and looked up to you. They just shrugged their shoulders, went on with their scientific research." And said, "You started going on towards the west.
262 "And when it did," said, "I seen this man that called himself a prophet, you know," said, "he come up on a horse that was mixed with white and black together." And said, "He got up behind this great big horse." Said, "It was," said, "way up above the clouds, and the road wasn't over about that wide." And said, "That horse just danced, to the wind blowing the feathers and everything on--on your garb," and said, "then the horse mane and tail blowing. Great master, big white horse, walking right in line." And said--and said, "This guy ran up behind you, come from towards Canada," and the man lives in Canada. And he said, "Come back, and," said, "he took his little horse, trying to knock your big horse off; turning him around; make his hips hit against the..." Said, "It never moved the big horse; he just kept walking."
263 Said, "Then, all of a sudden," said, "you turned around." Said, "That would be the third time you had spoke, but the second time you said 'I'll ride.'" And said, "You didn't speak like you did. You commanded." Said, "You turned around and called the man by name, and said, 'Get off of here! You know that no man can ride this road here without God be ordaining him to do it. Get off of here!'"
264 And said, "The man turned around." And said, "The man has wrote me letters." And said, "Across his horse's hips," that black and gray, and mixed up together, said, "across his horse's hips was wrote his name, signature just exactly like is on his letter. And he rode off towards the north."
265 Said, "Then you went on down; that big horse turned around, way as far west as you could." Said, "You stood and raised your hands up like that." Then he started crying. Said, "Brother Branham, to see that horse standing there; all that war bonnet and everything like that, and," said, "that breastplate and everything shine." Said, "You held your hands up a little while." And said, "You looked down again, picked up the reins, said, 'I'll ride this trail just once more!'" Said, "The whole earth shook back and forth, like that." And said, "There was no more life left in me; I just fell down aside of the rock. Then I woke up."
Said, "What does it mean, sir?" I said, "I don't know."
ON.THE.WINGS.OF.A.SNOW.WHITE.DOVE_ SHP.LA V-7 N-5 SUNDAY_ 65-1128E
225 Why, me an old man, suffered all my life, why did He heal me now? I believe I'll ride this trail again, I got to bring a Message!
***So the trail was the trail of the progression of the revelation of the message of the hour, and the horse that brother Branham was riding was the opening of the word which we know is the chief authority of the king – and this is 1965 where he is declaring that he must ride this same trail again, that he would bring the message again – not in his earthly ministry of his body, but that he would ride this trail in the form of books and tapes and of the 5 fold ministry.
So when is Brother Branham riding this trail for the second time? Between the first banquet of wine and the second banquet of wine, and when is Mordecai riding his trail? Between the first and second banquet of wine – it’s the same thing.
The first banquet of wine of was when the seals were opened in 1963, that was when the food was being stored up for the time of the second banquet of wine of when the revelation of the message of the hour would come into the hearts of the elect to cause the brides revival by the revealing of the word – that is what Jesus did with the two on the road to Emmaus – he broke the bread and their eyes were opened.
THE.THIRD.SEAL_ JEFF.IN WEDNESDAY_ 63-0320
253-2 {182} Now, that's what's the reason today that the--the revivals that we're supposed to have... We have denominational revivals; we haven't had a real stirring. No, no, no, no. No, sir. Don't think we got revivals. We haven't. Oh, they've got millions and millions and millions of church members, but not a revival nowhere. No, no.
The--the Bride hasn't had a revival yet. See? There's been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride yet. See? We're looking for it. It will take those seven unknown thunders back there to wake her up again. He will send it. He promised it.
Pick up next week Lord willing…