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Mordecai the Jew was King Ahasuerus’s (Xerxes) closest man and great among the Jews, and had found favor (conditional, arbitrary grace; accepted - Heb. ratsah) from the multitudes of his brothers. He sought the good of his people and spoke peacefully (spoke shalom, all kinds of blessing) to all his seed (all his descendants) [probably referring not only to Mordecai’s own children and grandchildren but to all Jews in the generations after him]. [God’s name hidden in Esther None of the names of God (Yahweh, Adonai, Elohim, etc.) appear in the book of Esther and no other attributes of God either. However, Yahweh is encoded in the text four times as an acrostic, see Est. 1:20; 5:4; 5:13; 7:7. There is a very nice structure here. The name YHVH consists of four letters and there are four unique occurrences of this name. All are different and are shaped by a combination of the first or last letter and whether the text is read forwards or backwards. 1. JHVH is formed by the first letter of each word backwards - God changes man’s mind, see Est. 1:20. 2. YHVH is formed by the first letter of each word forward - God controls Esther’s actions, see Est. 5:4. 3. YHVH is formed by the last letter of each word backwards - God reverses Haman’s plan (Haman’s end is approaching), see Est. 5:13. 4. JHVH is formed by the last letter of each word forward - God rules and Haman is punished (this is the end of Haman), see Est. 7:7. These four passages involve different speakers: 1. memochan - the words are about a queen, see Est. 1:20. 2. Esther - the words are spoken by a queen, see Est. 5:4. 3. Haman - the words are spoken by Haman, see Est. 5:13. 4. the author - the words are about Haman, see Est. 7:7. Four different pairs can be formed: 1. first letter | backwards 2. first letter | forwards 3. last letter | backwards 4. last letter | forward The four pairs are: first letter (1 & 2), last letter (3 & 4), backwards (1 & 3) and forwards (2 & 4). The backwards pairs refer to the Gentiles and the forwards to the Israelites. In the two cases where God’s name is spelled backwards (1 & 3), it is God who rejects the plans of the Gentiles to let his will be done, see Est. 1:20; 5:13. Where the name is spelled forwards (2 & 4), it is God who acts directly for his people, see Est. 5:5; 7:7. The first and last letters describe the start and end of an event. In the two cases where the name is formed by the first letter (1 & 2), it is God who introduces the facts. In the last two cases where the name is formed by the last letters (3 & 4), the events are completed and lead to the end. Four more times four of God’s names are encoded: 1.”Messiah” encoded at a distance of every 8th letter, see Est. 1:3. 2. ”El Shaddai” (God Almighty) encoded at a distance of every 7th letter, see Est. 4:2. 3.”I Am” is encoded at a distance of every 3rd letter, see Est. 7:5. 4.”Yeshua” encoded at a distance of every 8th letter, see Est. 9:17. There is also another strange almost ironic message encoded in Est. 3:11–12 which describes how Haman is given the silver and the people. With an interval of six letters it says haman v´satan raj´jach which means: Haman and Satan stink. The number six is man’s speech. We can see that even though Satan operates in Haman’s life, the Messiah is still there in the background watching over his people, even today. You have to be a little careful with Bible codes, but they are still remarkable coincidences that point to the Bible being a divinely inspired book.]
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