The Destruction of Haman by the Ministry of Esther Pt.3
I CORINTHIANS 15:25-26
25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
(Death has been our greatest enemy since the death of Abel in Genesis)
I CORINTHIANS 15:54
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality (Immortality is something we put on – that is why the message has come - to release a faith for the body change from mortal to immortality) then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
The Destruction of Haman by the Ministry of Esther Pt.3
ESTHER 7:5-6
5 Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so? (The whole known world at this time was under the power and control of this one man Haman – but Esther by the message of Mordecai knew that it was this very Haman who was the author of the law of death that was degreed upon her people. Notice, a mystery revealed from Mordecai to Esther through the ministry of Hatach regarding the enemy of her people, and this was the secret that she held in her heart right up until the time of this second banquet of wine. I trust we also have this same secret within us of who our enemy is in this hour – that was what the first 4 seals revealed to us)
6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
Notice that Esther is the final voice that begins the process of judgment on Haman – it wasn’t Mordecai, it wasn’t Hatach, it was Esther.
The destruction of Haman by the ministry of Esther, but what was her ministry, it was the secret that she had kept in her heart from the first banquet right through to the second banquet of wine.
Last week we finished on this quote regarding the dream that we studied in the message “And Knoweth it Not”, about how brother Branham would ride the trail of the message of the hour again a second time, but not in an earthly body ministry but in the ministry of the voice of the tapes and books which was the food that was stored up for the bride because many were yet to be born and to come upon the earth.
ON.THE.WINGS.OF.A.SNOW.WHITE.DOVE_ SHP.LA V-7 N-5 SUNDAY_ 65-1128E
225 Why, me an old man, suffered all my life, why did He heal me now? I believe I'll ride this trail again, I got to bring a Message! (Did he bring this message to you and I? Yes, but not by his earthly body ministry, but by the ministry of the stored up food of the tapes and books)
“why did He heal me now? I believe I'll ride this trail again, I got to bring a Message!”
***This healing that he is referring to is of his souring stomach condition that he had had since a young man – and he is now 56 years old, and God finally heals him right at the very end of his life because in less than a month from making this statement (on the 24th December 1965) he is gone off the scene. And we know that the trail was the trail of the message of the hour of how it progressed in revelation all the way from the beginning of his ministry through to the 7 church ages in 1960 and the seals in 1963 and right on to the end of 1965, because the voice that shook the earth in the dream was the voice of the brother Branham who was the messenger to this entire age of people, and the horse that brother Branham was riding symbolised the power of the opening of the word which we know is the chief authority of the king – and this is 1965 where he is declaring that he must ride this same trail in that he would bring the message again – but that could not be in his earthly ministry ride because he was taken off the scene for good as far as his earthly life’s journey, but it was that he would ride this trail again in the form of the voice of the tapes and books and also through the support of the 5 fold ministry – and that is what has been going on for all these years since he first road that trail while he was here with us – God has interpreted this dream by bringing it to pass over these last 56 years.
**So the bible is written in seed form, and we know that all that is in the seed is manifested in its reality form in its full expression at harvest time. So the first banquet of wine of Esther’s banquet was in seed form, but in its reality form was when the seals were opened in 1963 – Esther held that secret in her heart of whom this enemy was right from the first banquet of wine all the way through to the second banquet of wine of which the judgment of Haman followed.
It would be at this second evening time banquet that Haman is dealt with in judgement by the king because of the ministry of the secret that Esther had kept in her heart.
****Remember how Jesus appeared on the trail to the two on the road to Emmaus, he walked that trail with them from Jerusalem to Emmaus, and as they walked, He was opening the word to them as they progressed along the trail, but that first trail walk didn’t open their eyes, it took the breaking of the bread at supper time – it was then that their eyes were fully opened to recognise him, and that’s what caused them to have a brides revival of that hour.
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253-2 {182} Now, that's what's the reason today that the--the revivals that we're supposed to have... We have denominational revivals; we haven't had a real stirring. No, no, no, no. No, sir. Don't think we got revivals. We haven't. Oh, they've got millions and millions and millions of church members, but not a revival nowhere. No, no.
The--the Bride hasn't had a revival yet. See? There's been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride yet. See? We're looking for it. It will take those seven unknown thunders back there to wake her up again. He will send it. He promised it.
**So as we have been studying this book of Esther, we are beginning to see very clearly of how it has been showing us a clear vision of the events of our day concerning the bride of this hour and the resurrection of this hour.
**Esther was the bride of that hour at the resurrection of that hour, so that history that was written in seed form in the bible is repeating itself again in this day at harvest time in reality form and showing us that this book of Esther is a prophecy and a vision that has been opened to us for this end time hour.
**We know that when God revealed a vision to brother Branham, it was an absolute to him, and we know that it was the vision revealed from God that gave him the faith to perform the events of what the vision showed him.
Jesus also said that he did nothing except the Father showed him by the revelation of a vision from God – so faith is connected to a revelation from God by a vision - and the word reveal is the same as a vision.
**So as message believers of this hour we do not see visions in the way brother Branham did, but because of the opening of the seven seals we have none the less been shown a clear vision that has been projected to us in this hour concerning our part in the events of these last days as a people that have been called out and anointed by an eagle anointing to live out the part of the word prophesied for this hour.
***And so this book of Esther is a book that the mystery of this book was sealed until the time of the opening of the seven seals, and now God has shown us by the opening of this book of Esther a clear vision of the prophecy that we are to play out in this end time hour.
*We see how that in this day that the spirit that is on the woman of the world is to act like Vashti, they are out of their position from under the headship of man, and man in this day is also out from under his headship to Christ in the same way – it’s the same spirit on both.
Woman is to be in the feminine role to man, and man is to be in the feminine role to Christ in relation to the headship of the word – it’s the pattern of God’s order of protection and position.
Small diversion from subject, but will bring it back onto the subject…
ROMANS 4:13-16
13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
We know that God called Abraham four hundred and thirty years before the law was given by Moses. The law was given by God so that man could know that he is a sinner. The law was never intended by God to save anyone, it was given to man to prove that man is corrupt and that he cannot keep God’s word and that he is condemned and in need of a Saviour - that was the purpose of the law.
Remember that grace was before law, and grace was during law, and grace was after law, grace was an unconditional covenant between God and man, a covenant by election.
Adam broke his covenant of the law – he couldn’t even keep one law of God, Noah also failed God, Moses disobeyed, David sinned, Samson failed the Lord – he got messed up with the ladies, every man great or small has broken the covenant of law of God, and so by the law God proved to man that he cannot keep his covenant, he’s corrupt and fallen.
GALATIANS 3:21-27
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. (Life could never come by the law)
22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
And so God gave the unconditional covenant of grace to prove that He’s man’s Saviour. And this is what was to unfold God’s great plan of the Lamb that was slain in the mind of God before the foundation of the world. Even before Adam came into existence, the Lamb of God was slain. And so that is why God didn’t put the woman in the original creation; He made her a by-product so the fall could take place, because God had wanted to reveal Himself as a Saviour,
but if He didn’t have a man that was lost and in need of salvation, then He couldn’t prove that He was a Saviour. If he didn’t have a man who was sick, He couldn’t display Himself as a Healer. All these attributes of God as Provider, and Deliverer, and Comforter, He was all those things even before sin existed, but there was no way for him to express those attributes of Himself unless by the fall of man.
TIMOTHY 2:13-14
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
***So by the woman being deceived and doubting the word of God, it began the fall of man and the process for the attributes of God to be revealed, but then at the end time, God was going to take this same woman, and by her submission to the word he would now cause her to bring about the resurrection of life like how Mary brought forth Christ by her faith in the angel’s message to her.
***And so this is what we see is taking place in the events of the book of Esther – Vashti like Eve fell from her position, but Esther who represents the end time bride brings a resurrection to her people through her marriage union and submission to the word of the king and the secret revelation that she held in her heart.
So Esther is the end time bride while Haman represents the enemy of death to the people of God, because death has reigned over the human race for the past 6000 years.
***So because of the plot of the enemy and the fall of man, a predetermined death sentence has had the victory over every human being since Adam – but by the ministry of a woman in her obedience to the message of Mordecai, we see that this brings about an end to the death sentence of where we see that death is swallowed up in victory.
I CORINTHIANS 15:54 opening scripture…
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
We know that this is an end time prophecy that God will bring to manifestation in this hour because of a people that have come under full submission and obedience to the word.
JOB 14:14
14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
This word “appointed” in the book of Job is to do with warfare and service – “all the days of my service and warfare”, and especially the warfare that rages in the human mind which is where the greatest battle ever fought takes place between God and Satan of the battle of worldly reason verses faith in the word of God, but those days have a limited number – you have been allotted so many days upon the earth, and so you must hold fast your service and warfare until your change comes.
HEBREWS 9:27-28
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (This word “appointed” in the New Testament has quite a different meaning in the Greek, it means “a reserved time awaiting”, or in other words, an appointed time of death like Hezekiah – so we understand by this that we are all born under a death sentence at an appointed time, and there is only one who can change this law of death, and that is the king of Kings - Christ.
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
We have seen the appearing of Christ the second time in our age in the revealing of the son of man ministry – so the real King Ahasuerus is on the scene in this age, and the real queen Esther is on the scene in this age, and so we know that the real Haman is also on the scene in this age, and so we also know that this is the time for the death sentence that we were born with is to be dealt with by a message of Mordecai that would be published to all peoples tongues and nations.
I CORINTHIANS 15:24-26
24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
***So the law of the death sentence of Haman would be conquered by a greater law of a message that would be published to all people, and that greater law would overcome the law of death so that death would be swallowed up in victory.
ESTHER 5:4-5
4 And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
**Notice that there are three people required at the banquet, three main characters in this drama - the king, the wife of the king, and the enemy.
**So we notice here that it required both the king and the queen to come together at this first banquet of wine in order to bring about the destruction of Haman at the second banquet – so these events were important and key parts of the plan in order to bring about the destruction of Haman.
We have already seen the event of the first banquet take place in this day. The queen was there, the King was there, and the Devil was also there. Then we have seen the ride and the promotion of Mordecai in between these two banquets. But now we are approaching the second banquet of wine in this hour of when the husband and the wife are to meet together again, and she is going to be the voice that will speak that secret out that she had kept in her heart from the time of the first banquet, and that will be her ministry that will cause the destruction of Haman and start the process for the resurrection.