And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
In Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. It belongs to the plot of Haman, a descendant of Agag, who in hatred of the Jews obtained a decree of extermination to destroy them all under Medo-Persian rule in the reign of Ahasuerus, continuing the war between God and Amalek from generation to generation after Saul failed to scatter the Amalekites. Through a counter-decree and through the efforts and prayers of Mordecai, Esther, and their people, the Jews who had been targeted for destruction were able to defend themselves and overcome their enemies instead.
Their victory in Shushan was God's deliverance by overruling providence and Heaven's intervention, preserving the godly line and delivering His people from destruction from a deadly threat. It was the frustrating of Satan's purpose, the triumphant vindication of God's people, and the utter and absolute defeat of wicked Haman, the devil's agent. In this Satan had perverted Medo-Persia, the second head of the beast, the abnormal satanic church-and-state system of government warring against God, His Christ, and His church, seeking through Haman to destroy all the people of God, the woman through whom the Man Child should come.
The close of the book to which the verse belongs gives the origin of the feast of Purim, named from Pur meaning lot for the casting of lots, when great danger was followed by joy.
In Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. It belongs to the plot of Haman, a descendant of Agag, who in hatred of the Jews obtained a decree of extermination to destroy them all under Medo-Persian rule in the reign of Ahasuerus, continuing the war between God and Amalek from generation to generation after Saul failed to scatter the Amalekites. Through a counter-decree and through the efforts and prayers of Mordecai, Esther, and their people, the Jews who had been targeted for destruction were able to defend themselves and overcome their enemies instead.
Their victory in Shushan was God's deliverance by overruling providence and Heaven's intervention, preserving the godly line and delivering His people from destruction from a deadly threat. It was the frustrating of Satan's purpose, the triumphant vindication of God's people, and the utter and absolute defeat of wicked Haman, the devil's agent. In this Satan had perverted Medo-Persia, the second head of the beast, the abnormal satanic church-and-state system of government warring against God, His Christ, and His church, seeking through Haman to destroy all the people of God, the woman through whom the Man Child should come.
The close of the book to which the verse belongs gives the origin of the feast of Purim, named from Pur meaning lot for the casting of lots, when great danger was followed by joy.