Sid: This week I’m speaking about the book of Esther because this week is Purim. And the megillah, or the scroll of Esther is read word for word in traditional synagogues throughout the world. What is far more important than that is this scroll of Esther I believe is the end time book to the church. If you want to understand what God’s doing in the last days you must read the book of Esther with spiritual understanding. And that’s why I wrote a book called “Time is Running Short.” The forward is by my friend Dr. Derrick Prince in which I take the book of Esther and weave teaching throughout that book to explain where we are in the last days. The job of the church in the last days and what God’s going to be doing with the Jewish people; how to communicate the gospel with Jewish people, and how to answer hard questions that Jewish who are asking; how to communicate with Christians that don’t understand God’s love for the Jew that are into something called Replacement Theology where they feel that the blessings promised to the Jewish people have been taken away from the Jews and given to the church. Let me tell you something God loves the physical Jew and His promises are without repentance in other words He doesn’t change His mind. And if you can trust God’s promises to the physical Jews you can trust God’s promises to the Esthers that are grafted in the spiritual seed of Abraham. And the truth of the matter is every time you see a Jew you can say “Praise God God honors His word I’m so excited about God and the Bible and what He’s doing and the job He has for me, and the job He has for the Jew. We’re going to join arm and arm and hand and hand and we’re going to run this race and no one’s going to stop us!” Because we’re getting ready for a great Jewish wedding! And you’re invited you have an engraved invitation.
Please don’t be like the foolish virgins in the Bible, be like the wise. You see the wise soaked in oil, the foolish frittered away their time and then when it was time for the wedding the shofar blasted and the Bridegroom was there, the wise could see where they were going they weren’t walking like blind people because their spirit man had been developed. But the foolish says “Give us some of your oil so that we can get in on that wedding.” And the truth of the matter is even though the wise had more than they needed and it was flowing out of them they couldn’t do it because each person must have their own intimacy with God. So don’t be foolish be wise.
It says in the book of Esther is that the preparation for one of virgins to go to the king consisted of this. “Six months they were supposed to soak in oil of myrrh.” And some of you have been soaking in oil of myrrh a lot more than 6 months. Because let me tell you what happens to the myrrh plant it is bitter you bite into one, it’s bitter! But if you get deep enough it’s sweet in the center and that’s true about us humans. When we can get rid of walking in this kingdom and in the flesh and walk in the word of God in the Spirit of God in the kingdom of God and be like a little child would smell like Jesus like Yeshua. As a matter of fact after that 6 months of crushing and many of us have been in a whole lot more than 6 months it’s a shame us humans are so tough, we got to soak. And so after we’ve been soaking in this oil of myrrh then we soak for 6 months in perfume; can you imagine how we smell because we’re getting ready for a great Jewish wedding.
Now speaking of a Jewish wedding and speaking of women I want to talk about a women in the book of Esther that doesn’t get a enough credit. Now she gets credit but credit was from the kingdom of the world not the Kingdom of God. Her name was Zeresh, she was Haman’s wife. There are 2 bits of wisdom that she give Haman one is right the other is wrong. Let’s talk about the wrong one. In Esther chapter 5 verse 14 Zeresh which was Haman’s wife said “I want you to build a gallows to hang Mordechai on and make this gallows so big everyone is going to see it 75’ tall.” That is a high gallows and here’s the bit of good advice she gave him after the story on gallows she said in Esther 5:13 “If Mordechai is a Jew you will not prevail.” So what happened? Of course Mordechai was a Jew so you know what it says in the Living Bible in Zachariah “He that touches Israel is the same as someone that pokes their finger in God’s eye.” So Zeresh understood this but it was a little too late; good advice, bad timing; she should have reversed the advice. She should have said “Haman you stay away from Mordechai because if you touch Mordechai God’s going to get you.” That’s what you should have said first; instead she said “Build the gallows” and she walked right into the law of sowing and reaping. In other words she wanted Mordechai to swing from the gallows instead her own husband Haman died on those gallows. Not only that her 10 sons were destroyed.
When you go against the Jew in Israel and God’s destiny and God’s plan you’re going against God. And as Zechariah says “He that touches Israel is the same as someone,” and this in the Living Bible translation “Pokes their finger in God’s eye.” Ten thousand talents of silver that’s what Haman offered the King to destroy all of the Jewish people. What price will the United States pay, will oil cause the United States to turn anti-Israel? I believe that God has the greatest future for the United States of America, but if you want a preview of the United States future watch the way President Bush handles the Jew in Israel. Pray for President Bush he is a man, I believe, that loves God. Pray that he be a man that has a heart like David a heart after God. Pray that he’d be tender to God’s Spirit.
I believe that our greatest years are ahead of us or a disaster for this country. The United States of America is in the balance of one point and one point only found in Matthew 25 verse 40. Jesus said “As you’ve done unto the least of these my brethren from the womb (the Jewish people) you’ve done unto me and the fate of nations contingent on it. It’s all summarized in the book of Esther in the last chapter the 10th chapter, the third verse the last verse. “For Mordechai the Jew was second to the king and was great among the Jews and well received by the multitude of his brethren.” Why was he so great why did he have all of this honor from God? For 2 things, 2 things that you can do, 2 things that you must do, 2 things that I can do, 2 things that I must do. Number 1 because he was seeking the good of his people (That’s the Jewish people.) So Number 1: He was pro-Jewish people in Israel. Number 2: He was speaking peace to all of his countrymen. When you speak peace you speak the Sar-Shalom the Prince of Peace Jesus. So what are the 2 things that we must do? Number 1: Be a blessing to Israel. And Number 2: Speak about Jesus wherever you go. I mean I am so madly in love with my Messiah He’s so good to me. You know what He loves you as much as He loves me. But this is our Purim week and as a result I got to do what the scripture say. Now the scripture say that you are supposed to send presents to one another and give gifts to people that need things.
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth