The Prophetic Presbyterian & His Narrow Way

  7  So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.  2  And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”  3  Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request.  4  For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.” 5  Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared[a] to do this?”  6  And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen. H...

Joy Is Who You Share It With This is the Way!  Oh LORD, Hear our prayer(s)! O LORD, Hear our prayers! 

  The King Honors Mordecai 6  On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.  2  And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana[a] and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.  3  And the king said, “What honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” The king's young men who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”  4  And the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows[b] that he had prepared for him. 5  And the king's young men told him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”  6  So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done to the man whom the...

Joy Is Who You Share It With This is the Way!  Oh LORD, Hear our prayer(s)! O LORD, Hear our prayers! 

  The King Honors Mordecai 6  On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.  2  And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.  3  And the king said, “What honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” The king's young men who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”  4  And the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him. 5  And the king's young men told him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”  6  So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done to the man whom the king ...

67  To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. 1  May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah 2  that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. 3  Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! 4  Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah 5  Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! 6  The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us. 7  God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!  ( Psalm 67:title–7 , ESV)

Esther 4-5   Esther Agrees to Help the Jews 4  When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.  2  He went up to the entrance of the king's gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.  3  And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes. 4  When Esther's young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.  5  Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.  6 ...

Those who appeal to the Design Argument via their understanding of Romans 18 - 32 don’t understand the implications of their own argument.  How so?  The tradition bound view entails the belief that Adam & Eve were created male & female & also heterosexual; or, it was a preference either God set (since they were created as adults); or a preference that they themselves reflexively set.  Genesis 2:16–17 (ESV) : And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” According to Genesis, LORD’s morals test for Adam & Eve was very specific & had nothing to do with marriage or sexual preference/orientation, &tc.    Consequently, if they had decided against heterosexuality in favor of homosexuality, it would not have been a sin.     Therefore, the existence of homose...

Haman Plots Against the Jews 3  After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him.  2  And all the king's servants who were at the king's gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage.  3  Then the king's servants who were at the king's gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king's command?”  4  And when they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mordecai's words would stand, for he had told them that he was a Jew. 5  And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury.  6  But he disdained[a] to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy[b] all the Jews, t...

  The King's Banquets 1  Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces,  2  in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the citadel,  3  in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him,  4  while he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his greatness for many days, 180 days. 5  And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the citadel, both great and small, a feast lasting for seven days in the court of the garden of the king's palace.  6  There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and pr...