Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Esther 8:3-8, 16-17
by: Gabrielle Watt.
Have you ever watched someone scheme, fight, crush, and manipulate to climb the ladder of success, only to lose everything they worked so hard to achieve? Oh, how the mighty fall. Haman had so much and ended up with absolutely nothing, not even his life. Notice that King Ahasuerus did not revoke his first decree. Rather, he made a counter decree that offered the Jews an option of protection. It is interesting how that mimics what God did for us. “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Jesus coming to earth did not eliminate this fact. Instead, Jesus fulfilled the law and took our place by dying on our behalf.