"11 So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”
Don't you just love God style?
As you know, Haman HATED Mordecai! This guy would not bow before him.
Everyday as he passed by where Mordecai was sitting, He got angrier and angrier. The more Mordecai sat, the angry or he got. He was so furious that he wanted to kill not just Mordecai, but all the Jewish people.
Haman in this story is a depiction of the devil. He hates it when you seated, resting in Jesus' finished work.
(Mordecai sits as Haman walks by.)
The night before he was going to go to the king and request to hang Mordecai on his gallows, the king could not sleep so he asked for the Book of Chronicles to be brought to him. It just so "happened" that his attendant opened right to the page that told of Mordecai's great deed in bringing the two eunuchs' plot to assassinate the King to the attention of his cousin, Queen Esther. The plot was foiled, the two wicked servants executed and King saved!
Upon finding out that nothing had been done to reward Mordecai, he asked his attendant if anyone was in the courtyard at that hour.
It just so "happened" to be Haman who was there very early to ask hang to hang Mordecai on his gallows. So the King had him brought in and asked him what he should do for someone he wanted to honor.
Esther 6:6-9
"6 Now Haman thought in his heart, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?” 7 And Haman answered the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor, 8 let a royal robe be brought which the king has worn, and a horse on which the king has ridden, which has a royal crest placed on its head. 9 Then let this robe and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that he may array the man whom the king delights to honor. Then parade him on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him: ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”
Then the King said:
"10 Hurry, take the robe and the horse, as you have suggested, and do so for Mordecai the Jew who sits within the king’s gate! Leave nothing undone of all that you have spoken.”
LOL! Wouldn't you love to have seen the look on his face!? He had to go and shower all that upon the very one he HATED! I LOVE IT!
(Haman forced to publicly honor Mordecai.)
"12 Afterward Mordecai went back to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered. 13 When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”
It was the beginning of the end for Haman.
Church, that's how God deals with our enemies! Whatever your particular "Haman," you have One to whom you can turn for your need: JESUS! He prepares a banquet table of feasting in our honor IN THEIR PRESENCE! This story perfectly portrays what He tells us in Psalm 91:
““Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.”
HALLELUIA! I LOVE IT!
Psalms 91:14-15
HALLELUIA! I LOVE IT!
That's how God deals with our enemies!
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