Hi, Pastor John;
I have been thinking about Haman, since the beach, Monday evening. A scene keeps coming back in my mind from the book of Esther.
Esther 7 King James Version (KJV)
7 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.
3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.
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?
6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
7 And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
9 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.”
I had a thought that when Haman’s “face was covered”, he never saw the king or anyone else for that matter again. He was taken to the gallows (immediately) which Haman’s servants had built for Mordecai, and was hanged with Haman’s sons. After Jesus’ sacrifice was accepted by the Father in Heaven, we know God cleansed Heaven of every unclean being (Satan and his angels (servants) and Satan (they) fell from Heaven like lightening NEVER to see the face of God again. Haman’s judgment was pronounced the moment Haman’s face was covered, just as Satan’s judgment was pronounced the moment he fell as lightning from Heaven; it was just a matter of carrying the sentence out.
Satan’s utter judgment: Rev. 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Satan can’t find (see) us because God has Satan covered; We are “hidden in Christ”. Once Esther knew Haman’s presence had been covered, Esther, Mordecai, and all of the Jews had no more fear of Haman and what he could do to them. And, if God will grant us wisdom and understanding. God’s people will not have fear of what of Satan or his sons can do to them (us).
Billy M