I also was reading through Ester. I'm reading the NKJV, and I noticed something highly interesting. The curtains were described in Ester 1:6 as White and Blue, while the floor was described as tiled with black and white. I immediately thought of Mystery schools, with the Blue and White stripes on Epstein's Island and the Black and White Tile of the Masonic Lodge.
Then in Ester 8:4, I took the mention of the scepter to be a reference to the promise of Judah in Gen 49:10 (The scepter will not depart from Judah). I then took Esther 8:15-17 as the conferring of earthly power (Garments of Blue and White) to the Judeans.
Esther 9:5 then taught me that it was God's will that allowed the Jews to act as they have. God is allowing His people to be stressed, so that He can set apart his Remnant. The Imago Dei will be restored.
The parallels aren't perfect, and I can't read Hebrew. But the lesson that I took from 9:5 is consistent with Ephesians 1:11.
I also was reading through Ester. I'm reading the NKJV, and I noticed something highly interesting. The curtains were described in Ester 1:6 as White and Blue, while the floor was described as tiled with black and white. I immediately thought of Mystery schools, with the Blue and White stripes on Epstein's Island and the Black and White Tile of the Masonic Lodge.
Then in Ester 8:4, I took the mention of the scepter to be a reference to the promise of Judah in Gen 49:10 (The scepter will not depart from Judah). I then took Esther 8:15-17 as the conferring of earthly power (Garments of Blue and White) to the Judeans.
Esther 9:5 then taught me that it was God's will that allowed the Jews to act as they have. God is allowing His people to be stressed, so that He can set apart his Remnant. The Imago Dei will be restored.
The parallels aren't perfect, and I can't read Hebrew. But the lesson that I took from 9:5 is consistent with Ephesians 1:11.