RTW 2022

So on March 7 the two decrees of the king were put into effect. On that day, the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but quite the opposite happened. It was the Jews who overpowered their enemies.
Esther 9:1

Mordecai sent this reply to Esther: “Don’t think for a moment that because you’re in the palace you will escape when all other Jews are killed. If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?”
Esther 4:13-14

• Esther is an exciting book.
• Welcome to Literature with Mrs. Nance.
• It has all the marks of a great story: a beautiful heroine, love story, death threat to the good guys, a villain that everyone loves to hate, and a happy ending!
• Synecdoche is a type of metonymy: it is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole, or vice versa.
• Chiasmus is a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect.
• https://www.gotquestions.org/chiasm-chiastic.html
• Chapter 6 is the pivot in the structure of the story.
• God’s providence is at work in everything to save and deliver His people.
• Esther’s story pushes us to look at life and consider what God might be doing behind the scenes, even in the face of a great threat or tragedy.
• God is in control….even when His name is not mentioned.

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Choose to believe that no matter how horrible things get, God’s plan is to redeem His good world and overcome evil.