SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/26/2011 9:42:10 AM
My Worship Time Focus: His Authority
Bible Reading
& Meditation Reference: Ester 3:1b
Message of the verse: “and
advanced him and established his authority over all the princes who were with
him.”
I
am not the best when it comes to working a computer, but above you should be
able to double click on the mp3 in order to hear Psalm 37, a Psalm that will
help to understand what will happen eventually to Haman. As we look at this last part of Ester 3:1b
and then think about how Mordecai was not even given a thanks for saving the
kings life we may wonder why we see this kind of thing happen to Haman who did
nothing to be advanced into the position that he now has. Again listening to Psalm 37 will help put
this into prospective.
When
we look at the life of Haman we will see that he was a proud man and his goal
was to achieve power and so he probably used flattery on the king, for we
already have learned some of the weakness of the king and one was that he was
gullible and therefore was susceptible to flattery and he was also anxious to
please people.
Dr
Wiersbe points out that there have been Bible scholars who have recognized that
some of the vary traits that are found in Haman will be seen in who the Bible
calls the antichrist. Haman received his
power from the king and the antichrist will receive his power from Satan. Haman had a deep hatred for the Jews and so
will the antichrist, who at first will be nice to them signing a treaty with
them to keep them safe, but will latter, come against them and try to kill all
of them. (Daniel 9:27-27) In 2 Thes. 2 and also Rev 13 there is more
info on the antichrist and by reading those passage and comparing them to some
of the things that we will see Haman do one will be able to see the
similarities between the two.
God
permitted Haman to come to power and He will permit the antichrist to come to
power, and in the end God will receive glory just as He received glory from
Pharaoh and will receive glory from those who will invade Israel in the last
days as described in Ezekiel 39 where it says that God will put hooks in their
jaws and bring them down against the nation of Israel in order to defeat them,
for it will be God who will do a miracle and defeat those nations that will
come against Israel in the last days. I
have written before that all of God’s attributes bring glory to the Him
including His justice. This however is
harder for us to understand than having His Love bring glory to God. One must think only of the cross in order to
see His attributes of love and justice bringing Himself glory, for it was love
that held Christ on the cross so that God’s justice could be satisfied and all
who have believed in the fact that Christ died for them and was buried and rose
again will one day be with the Lord in glory.
“Dr.
J. Vernon McGee use to say ‘The Jew has attended the funeral of every one of
the nations that tried to exterminate him’ and Haman was not to be an
exception.” You see God cannot go
against His promise and His covenant that He made with Abraham and so even when
one reads of the sin that Israel had committed, and even though God was so
upset with them you will always read that God will accomplish His purposes that
He made for Israel and will bring them back into their land, something that
happened in May 5, 1948. Take the time
to read the 15th chapter of Genesis to see the covenant that God
made with Abraham, and because there was no one greater God swore to Himself
that this covenant will come to pass, and even though Satan has tried to stop
it that will never happen.
Haman
had authority given to him by the king, and when a person receives authority it
will test their character as to how they use that authority, and we will see
that his character left a lot to be desired.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I have stated in earlier SD’s that I desire
not to be as gullible as I have been in the past. I do not want to be anything like Ahasuerus
and that is one of the reasons for studying the OT that is to see mistakes that
were made and then not make them. A
pastor we were listening to while living in Hawaii was telling the benefits of
having all age groups in the local church and gave some of the benefits of
having all of the age groups, and what he said about having the older people in
a church was that they could let the younger people know of the mistakes that
they have made so that the younger group will not make them. That is kind of like reading the OT; the thing
is not to repeat the mistakes.
My Steps of
Faith for Today:
1.
Learn from mistakes and not make them again.
2.
Continue to learn the difficult thing of being
content.
9/26/2011 10:52:21 AM
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