(By Kelly McDonald, Jr). The background for the celebration of Purim is found in the book of Esther. Interestingly enough, God’s name is not found one time in this book. Instead, we see God working behind the scenes to protect His people. In this process, we can see God’s plan to reveal His Bride to the entire world. The Jewish people were taken captive to the land of Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. They remained there for 70 years. While they were there, they were subject to the Babylonians and then the Persians. The story of Purim starts with the King of the Persians, Xerxes, throwing a tremendous celebration for his princes and nobles. This party lasted about six months.
At the end of this time, he had a seven-day celebration for all who live in the citadel of Susa. On the seventh day, he called forth his bride, Vashti, to display her beauty before the nobles. She refused to come, which embarrassed the king. After consulting with his officials, it was determined that she should be removed from her position as queen. The king then searched his entire kingdom looking for a queen to take her place. To read the rest of this article CLICK HERE
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Veshti was a queue, not his bride
Veshti was a queen, not his bride
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I also tried the link and it didn’t work. This is a very interesting article could you please fix it? It has always been interesting to me why the Queen refused to come at the King’s request. It must have been part of God’s plan?
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