Benjamin & The Agagite

This week, as we close out the last part of Esther 2 and then chapter 3, we will come face to face with the very embodiment of satanic opposition to the people of God. And even as we leave it off this morning, that satanic opposition is going to look cast iron. It’s going to look insurmountable.

But we will hopefully catch a glimpse before the end of our time together that the solidity of evil, the seeming solidity of evil’s triumph, is an illusion. Let’s pray, then we’ll get to work.

Mordecai’s Choice (19–23)

Look with me at Esther 2:19,

“Now when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate. Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him. In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai…”

-Esther 2:19–22a