Esther the Church

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Working on a series of study showing how Vashti, the queen stands for Old Testament Israel who dishounoured the Lord, and Esther the CHURCH.

Thought to share.


Matthew 21:43 KJV Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

Sounds like:

Esther 1:19 KJV If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.

ESTHER CAME TO THE KINGDOM INSTEAD!


Vashti would be judged by LAW.

Esther 1:15 KJV What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?

Esther was not UNDER LAW but GRACE.

Esther 2:17 KJV And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Israel dishonoured the Lord and would not recognize his kingship in his triumphal entry in Matt 21. The Kingdom would be given to another.

We have come to the KINGDOM by water and Spirit in God's GRACE for such a time as this!

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Haman comes along and wants to destroy the Jews since he did not get the hoonour and worship of Mordecai. So he sets to kill all Jews. Meanwhile Esther is a Jew.

Mordecai informs Esther about the plot and tells her to inform the king and save the Jews. But Esther knows the law that says anyone entering the inner chamber of the king uninvited could die, unless the king holds out his sceptre.

Mordecai says she'll die anyway. So she summons all Jews to fast three days and nights and she proceeds.

Mordecai is a Benjamite Jew. Like Paul the apostle. Typology comes here.

Paul taught the church to present itself to God as those alive from the dead. THE INNER CHAMBER OF THE KING stands for the HOLIEST OF HOLIES. Under LAW no one could enter without being killed except the High Priest.

Paul encouraged the church they're dead to sin through Christ and can enter. THEY WERE BORN IN THE KINGDOM and have COME TO THE KINGDOM! We can enter the holiest.

Heb 4 tells us to come boldly to the throne and find grace. Heb 120 says we have remission of sins so can come with boldness into the holiest!

And if we do not, then we will never have the faith to overcome our enemies such as lusts and devils and our own flesh. We are told to go to God boldly in the holiest because the tendency is to live int he flesh and not go, due to fear, However, Paul taught we died with Christ so that everything God hated about us is dead! We're freed from sin, and sin was the only thing warranting death if we enter! But so many live in the flesh and never stand against enemies that are bigger than themselves, for fleshly power that they live by is weaker. But we've been born into the Kingdom and are in union with Christ our groom of the church bride!

Esther was told she had up to half the kingdom when she finally entered. And she only entered after three days and nights of fasting. This speaks of the three days and nights between Christ's death and resurrection! When we have THIRD DAY FAITH, meaning we KNOW we resurrected with Jesus due to our deaths with Him, then we won't fear entering the holiest. We will rely upon power greater than our own fleshly power, and ACT AND LIVE like people alive from the dead. That means acting like people who are freed from sin, and are in Union in the church with Christ! We have HIS NAME! We share the KINGDOM WITH HIM since the King's Queen is one flesh with Him.

Esther is ROMANS 6 all over!

[KeptByTheWord]

Very encouraging words Bro. Blume!

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Keptbytheword, you are always there to compliment about a post!

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Est 5:1-2 KJV Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house. (2) And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.

Heb 10:18-22 KJV Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. (19) Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, (20) By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; (21) And having an high priest over the house of God; (22) Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Esther stands for the church Bride who needs to know who she is and enter the holiest inner court. And she did this the THIRD DAY after prayer and fasting for three days.

Some people have ministered about a particular THIRD DAY FAITH. Many have not heard it noted this way and some wondered what the message was. But it really only stands for the kind of faith that understands our deaths with Christ caused us to rise again with Him the third day, so to speak, since He arose the third day from the grave.

We died with him to be free from sins (Rom 6:7). And the believers who KNOW THIS realize that being alive from the dead is what it is to be saved!

Rom 6:13 KJV Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Paul just stated in 6:7 that being dead means we're free from sin. So, saved people are freed from the sins that would otherwise disallow one to enter the most holy place. When we know we're freed from the sin that separated us from God, because we died with Him to rid ourselves of that sin, and we're alive from the dead -- which means alive from the state of being a sinner, then our faith is in our resurrection with Him on that third day. That is called THIRD DAY FAITH.

We've moved beyond knowing we get saved by our deaths with Christ to a greater level of understanding where we are risen with Him to walk in newness of life. We know we are not in the oldness of life where our sinful old man is rejected by God and so unholy. We died to that and rose again into a new creaturehood and new creation. So we are fit to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus-- in other words, by our deaths with Him on the cross that freed us from sin.

So, Esther passes through a three days and nights before she dons the royal apparel, just like we will ACT LIKE THE QUEEN as the bride of Christ, who belongs in the inner court where the throne is, symbolizing the holiest of holies where the ark's mercy-seat (throne) is. And we will draw near.

When people look at their own righteousness and goodness, they know they're not fit enough to enter a MOST HOLY place. But we know our righteousness is gone and that God has given us HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. So we can go boldly into the throne having HIS PERSONAL RIGHTEOUSNESS! And we draw near.

When Esther drew NEAR as Heb 10:22 tells us to draw nigh, she touched the sceptre which speaks of touching KINGDOM POWER over anything that might come against us, that we cannot handle in our human strength but can handle with God's power!

[KeptByTheWord]

This post makes me want to shout, and praise the Lord for the freedom, joy, power, and grace afforded us because of the righteousness of Christ given to us at Calvary!

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After Esther entered the shadow of the Holiest of Holies, we read she touched the sceptre and came into contact with KINGDOM POWER. Believers who cannot see themselves holy enough to enter the holiest will never touch KINGDOM POWER.

Once there, the queen was offered up to half the KINGDOM!

Esther 5:3 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom.

We're one with the KING as the bride of Christ, and He and us together comprise the entirety of the KINGDOM POWER!

She asked the king to come to her banquet of wine with the enemy to deal with Haman.

She took three days and nights to prepare to see the king in his inner chamber for starters, as we prepare our faith by understanding what the three days and nights of the death, burial and resurrection did for us. We learn he made us worthy! Not by our works, but His work on the cross. His work in having Christ die as us and rise as us is what makes us worthy, not any works of the law.

And then next came the Banquet of wine which speaks of the feasting on the truths of the BLOOD that the wine represents. We drink of it new in the KINGDOM!

Matthew 26:28-29 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. (29) But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

We feast n the truths of what his shed blood did for us, and we are being built up to destroy the enemy fighting against our lives, just as we were built up to enter the holiest by the three days and nights that stand for learning the truths of the cross.

LOOK OUT, HAMAN!

[Jay]

Hmmmm. I have never seen that approach to the Book of Esther before. At the very least, it is a fascinating study, and the correlations are well expressed and worthy of contemplation.

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Originally Posted by Jay

Hmmmm. I have never seen that approach to the Book of Esther before. At the very least, it is a fascinating study, and the correlations are well expressed and worthy of contemplation.

It's going to be a book soon!

[Jay]

Cool! Print or electronic, and where will I be able to get it?