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Two Additional Feasts:
Hanukkah – John / Spiritual Exile / Miracles
Purim – Esther / Physical Exile / No miracles
Esther 9:20-22
And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year, as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
Esther 9:24-26
For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them. But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur…
Leviticus 23:28 And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before Adonai your God.
יום כפרים (yom ki-purim) = “A day like Purim”
(1:20)
“… it, and all wives shall give…”
הִיא וְכָל הַנָּשִׁים יִתְּנוּ
(5:4)
“… let come the king and Haman today…”
יָבוֹא הַמֶּלֶךְ וְהָמָן הַיּוֹם
(5:13)
“… this avails nothing to me…”
זֶה אֵינֶנּוּ שׁוֶֹה לִי
(7:7)
“… that evil was determined against him…”
כִּי כָלְתָה אֵלָיו הָרָעָה
Spelled forward = a Jew is speaking
Spelled backward = a Gentile is speaking
First letters = concerns a woman
Last letters = concerns a man
First letters + Forward = Esther speaks
REFERENCES:
Esther 3:7 In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur(that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.
Genesis 4:14 “Behold, You have driven me today away from the ground, and from Your face I shall be hidden(סתר, satar). I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
Exodus 3:6 And He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid (סתר, satar) his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
God’s Name (YHVH) in Esther:
Esther 1:20 [Memucan, the king’s adviser] “So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, all the wives will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.”
Esther 5:4 And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a feast that I have prepared for the king.”
Esther 5:13 [Haman] “Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
Esther 7:7 [Mordechai (writing)] And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.
