Isaiah. 54:17

“No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgement thou shalt condemn” .

• DAILY READING 1 Corinthians 13; 2 Kings 7:3-20; Jonah 2

 

The Jewish celebration of Purim this year, starts in the evening of today 28^th February 2018. Purim, also Known as “The Feast of Esther”  is the Jewish celebration of divine escape from the massacre prepared for them by Haman, the grand vizier of the Persian King, Ahasuerus.

As Jews led by Mordecai and Queen Esther, fasted and sought God’s face, the table was turned in their favor. Haman was hanged and on the 13th of Adar, which was meant to be the day of their destruction, the Jews instead destroyed their enemies. On the 14th of Adar they rested and celebrated the victory God had given them.

In 1953 there was a replay of what happened in the book of Esther. At this time the soviet Union was under the leadership of Joseph Stalin. He was known as the mass murderer of the century, having overseen the deaths of about 20 million of his own people.

At this time, Joseph Stalin had perfected a plan to annihilate the Jews in Russia. The signal to this brutal plan was to be given on March 6 1953, with the trial of some Jewish doctors, who had been falsely accused by Stalin of plotting to poison him.

On March 3, 1953 Stalin called a meeting of top Soviet leaders and presented to them his proposed plan of public execution of the accused doctors, followed by a pogrom against all the Soviet Jews, which would lead to

transporting them to remote places in the Arctic. There they would meet a slow death in the forced labor camps prepared for them. He anticipated that none of the leaders would dare to oppose his evil plan. However he was shocked when they outrightly opposed him. As a feared dictator of the Soviet Union, it would be the first daring opposition of his plan by his leaders.

Overcome by great anger, Stalin suddenly suffered a massive heart attack and  collapsed at the meeting. Two days later, on the 5^th of march he died, just a day before his planned execution of the Jewish people. His sudden death came as a great miracle for the 3 million Jews in the Soviet Union. The false accusation against the Jewish doctors was cancelled immediately and they were released.  Stalin’s death saved the Jews in the Soviet Union from a catastrophe similar to Hitler’s annihilation of the 6 million Jews in the holocaust.

It is remarkable that the timing of Stalin’s death would be on Purim, the day of the downfall of Haman. Just as Haman died before he could execute his evil plan, Stalin also died just before he could begin the extermination of the Jews.

Again today marks another celebration of Purim. Purim 2018 begins tonight, Wednesday February 28 and continues through Thursday, March 1.  The lesson of Purim is that God delivers His people. In Gen 12:3 God says ‘I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;’ Haman, 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. The Lord pronounced a curse to blot out the remembrance of the Amalekites. It was by this curse, that divine judgment came upon Haman. Therefore, today, every Haman or Amalekite plotting your destruction the curse of The Lord is upon them. Everything and everyone contesting your glorious destiny God’s divine judgment will locate them. It is our season of deliverance. God desires that through His manifold wisdom, the Church would disarm all principalities and powers, and rule over them. We are in that age now. And as you key into this season through a closer walk with God, your dominion over every opposition is established. Your deliverance from every evil plot is 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. Let 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].

 

 [ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK TRIUMPH OF LIGHT OVER DARKNESS]