A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                                          BORN FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS PART XI

"I, Esther's cousin Mordecai, found out that there was indeed a plan to kill my people the Jews.... I then knew it was time to inform Esther of this plan.... It is true, I had always told to her not to tell anyone that she is Jewish..... But the situation has changed.... It is now time for her to tell everyone, including the king, she is Jewish.... She must go to him and plead for mercy for herself and her people.... She is our only hope."... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Esther's cousin Mordecai did indeed find out about the edict signed by king Xerxes at Haman's proposal to have all the Jewish people killed....


                ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                                   BORN FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS PART XI

It is time for Esther to realise that God has a purpose for her being queen. He, therefore, allows Mordecai to learn about the plot to kill all the Jewish people and Mordecai is able to send a message to Esther's servant Hathach as you can read in Esther 4:6-9

So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king's gate. Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews. He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict for their annihilation, which had been published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain it to her, and he told him to urge her to go into the king's presence to beg for mercy and to plead with him for her people. Hathach went back and reported to Esther what Mordecai had said.

Esther learns from Mordecai about the grave danger all her people are in. She is challenged by him to go before the king and plead for mercy for her people.