A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
    
                                      BORN FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS PART X

"I, Ester's cousin Mordecai, realised that not only I but all my people, The Jews, might be in great danger..... Haman might well go to king Xerxes to ask for permission to have all my people killed....The king has so many people under his control that he would not be too bothered to have some of them killed off..... Especially if he was told that these people have different customs from the other people in his kingdom.... He might even believe that it would be in his best interest if he had them killed..... And I would not put it beyond Haman if he puts a financial gift in the royal treasury as payment for those who will do the killing.... All it would need is for the king to give Haman his signet ring as a sign of agreement.".... Please read the typed out attachment when Haman goes to king Xerxes to talk to him about killing all the Jewish people in his kingdom....



                ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                                  BORN FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS PART X

As Mordecai learned, Haman went to the king to ask him to have all the Jewish people in his kingdom killed. Sadly, the king cares so little about the Jewish people in his vast Empire that he is willing for that to happen as you can read in Esther 3:8-11

Then Haman said to king Xerxes, "There is a certain people dispersed and scattered among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom whose customs are different from those of all the other people and who do not obey the king's laws; it is not in the king's best interest to tolerate them. If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will put ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury for the men who carry out this business." So the king took his signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman, son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. "Keep the money," the king said to Haman, "and do with the people as you please."

Now the king has absolutely no idea that with these words he has sent the queen to her death. While this meeting takes place, Esther will have been in the palace, completely unaware of the fact that her life is being threatened. To her life is very pleasant and comfortable. She has found favour with the people and with the king. As far as she is concerned, nothing can possibly happen to interrupt her wonderful existence.