Deuteronomy 28:7 “The Lord shall cause thine enemies who rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face; they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.’

DAILY READING Mark 7:14-37; Samuel 18; Daniel 11:21-45

The Jewish celebration of Purim starts in the evening of today, 25th February 2021. Purim, also Known as “The Feast of Esther” is the Jewish celebration of divine deliverance.
As recorded in the book of Esther, God had turned the table against the enemy of the Jews and given His people the victory.

Rabbi Yitzchak Zilber, is a Jewish hero and author of the book, “To Remain a Jew”.
In this book he recounts the climatic events of 1953, when God stopped another plot to annihilate the Jews.
Rabbi Yitzchak Zilber had been among those imprisoned when Joseph Stalin, leader of communist Russia had targeted thousands of Jewish scientists, politicians, and intellectuals for destruction. At this time, Joseph Stalin was known as the mass murderer of the century, having murdered about 20 million of his own Russian people.
In February of 1953, Stalin had commissioned the construction of four camps in Kazakhstan, Siberia and in the Arctic North, where he planned to exterminate all the Jews in Russia.
While Rabbi Zilber was in prison, as the feast of Purim drew near, on 5th March 1953, he tried to encourage a group of Jewish prisoners from the Book of Esther, recounting the miracle of Purim. However, one prisoner had bitterly responded, “Who needs your tales about what happened 2,500 years ago? Tell me, where is your God today?’
Rabbi Zilber had confidently replied him that God was able to deal with Stalin just like He did to Haman, because Joseph Stalin was only a mere mortal that could expire within half an hour.
Rabbi Zilber’s words indeed proved to be prophetic because within thirty minutes of his utterance, Joseph Stalin was dead.
What happened was that two days earlier, Stalin had suddenly suffered a massive heart attack that led to his death on the 5th of March. He had died just a day before his planned execution of the Jewish people.
To the 3 million Jews in the Soviet Union at that time, Stalin’s death was indeed a great miracle of Purim, because he had died during this season of the Jew’s celebration of divine deliverance. .

The lesson of Purim is that God is always able to deliver His people.
Just as Haman died before he could execute his evil plan, Stalin also died just before he could begin the extermination of the Jews.
Certainly, God is able to fight our battles and deal with every Haman of our destiny.
Haman’s plan to exterminate the Jews was not accidental. He was a descendent of Agag, the king of the Amalekites. The Amalekites, hated the Israelites and treacherously attacked the unarmed Israelites when they passed through the Sinai desert during the exodus. At that time, the Lord had pronounced a curse to blot out the remembrance of the Amalekites.
When Haman rose, just like his forefathers, to attack the Jews, the curse of the Lord had located him.

Indeed God has put a ‘touch not’ seal upon His children and any attempt to harm them provokes His divine wrath.
Today, though we may be living in perilous times where the wicked often plot the downfall of believers, let us also be assured of God’s continual divine deliverance. In these end-times, God desires that through His manifold wisdom, the Church would disarm all principalities and powers, and rule over them.
Therefore, be assured that every Haman or Amalekite plotting your downfall, will certainly come under swift judgment.
Every gang-up against your destiny will experience total failure. Though they may come one way, they will scatter from you in seven ways. Any pit they dig for your feet, they will fall into that same pit, while your soul escapes as a bird out of the snare of the fowler.
Certainly as you key into this season of Purim through a closer walk with God, your dominion will be established. Your deliverance from every evil plot will be certain. Whosoever shall gather against you must fall for your sake, and every tongue that shall rise against you in Judgment, you shall surely condemn in Jesus Name.

PRAYER: Lord, please in this season of Purim, let your deliverance be made fully manifest in my life. Indeed May Your divine judgment come upon everything contesting my glorious destiny in Jesus Name.

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When you obey God’s instruction you are delivered from destruction [WORDBITE 222].