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Where is the Queen?
“There is a picture of a chess game hanging in Paris.
On one side of the painting is the Devil, and on the other side is a lad about sixteen years of age.
They are playing chess.
The Devil has a leering, triumphant expression on his face.
He has just licked this boy at chess, and the boy is sitting there with his head bowed and big tears trickling down his cheeks.
The Devil has just won in the game of life over this lad.
He has no strength, he has no way out, and he has given up.
The title of the picture is "Check Mate".
He had him.
A famous chess player came through one day.
He looked at the painting.
He felt sorry for the boy and he hated the looks of the Devil.
He began to study the board where the men were placed, and all of a sudden he shouted: "Son, I have found a move, one move . . .
if you will make that move you can lick the Devil."
He forgot himself, he forgot it was a painting-he was so engrossed in it.
One of the key lessons always taught about chess is always keep your eye on the queen.
The queen is to be protected and guarded as much as the king.
The queen is the most powerful offensive piece on the chess board.
Never ignore the movement of your opponent’s queen.
Most professional players will tell you the key to the game of chess is the queen.
Haman needed a lesson in the game of chess.
The cause of his downfall was that: he failed to keep his eye on the queen.
He had overlooked her … underestimated her … failed to consider her importance in the match.
And that would be his undoing.
Good Luck, Haman!!!
Haman had built the gallows to hang Mordecai on as a preview for the jews.
He felt like he had every move mapped out.
Haman arrives for the second dinner in high spirits feeling he has the game in the bag.
Little did he know that he was about to lose both the game and his life.
The king had not forgotten why these dinners were being held… he was not distracted like Haman.
Esther quotes almost word for word the edict against her people.
Certainly the light must have gone on in Haman’s head.
Esther says, “ All I want is to live...” Esther declares twice in her request that she is a part of the people destined to die.
She doesn’t tells the king she is in grave danger… he probably didn’t even know what the issue was or why she was in danger.
Ahasuerus it doesn’t appear was the one who signed the edict… he was simply told that traitors would die and he would be rich… sounded good to him.
Haman had just discovered to his great shock that Esther was a Jewess… it was going to get worse when he found out she was also Mordecai’s niece.
May be he was putting two and two together, but he was probably freaking out that he had signed the queens death warrant without even checking with the king.
Ahasuerus didn’t care why… he just wants to know who… and Haman is sweating bullets.
Now Haman is looking for just one more move to get out of the reach of the queen.
She doesn’t say, “Haman made a mistake… I am sure he didn’t know...” Nope, She lays it on thick, “He is the adversary, enemy, and he is wicked.”
Good luck, Haman!
Game Over
The blood drains from his face, the room started closing in around him.
Fear gripped him from the depths of his soul.
He knew it was over.
and then the king stood up.
Ahasuerus had quite a dilemma on his hands
How could he punish Haman for an edict stamped with his own royal seal?
How could he deal with Haman without admitting his own role?
How could he rescind the decree which was now the Law of the Medes and Persians?
How could he possibly soften the law that demanded the total destruction of all Jews when it left no loophole?
How could he somehow protect Esther’s life, while at the same time protect his own reputation?
And if he couldn’t … how was he going to explain her death?
No doubt Ahasuerus was mad at himself for allowing all this to happen.
• Why did I trust Haman so completely?
• Why in the world did I sign that edict?
• And why didn’t I read the fine print?.
Who knows how many edicts Ahasuerus had signed on that day?
Who knows how many pressing matters of government had been on his mind?
He had countless decisions to make.
And Haman, who was a trusted official, had proposed it in such a way that he seemed to be solving a problem that directly affected the good of the kingdom.-Chuck
Swindoll
Haman starts begging for the same mercy he refused to give Mordecai.
It is always interesting how culture shifts from aggressor to victim so quickly.
Haman obviously realized he had been outwitted on every side.
What he couldn’t figure out was why or how?
God had put Mordecai in just the right spot to hear a plot against the king… God had put Esther in just the right spot to become the queen, just so Haman could beg for life from someone who his edict had condemned to death.
If you look closely you can see the shadow of the cross… We have to beg fo life from the one whom our sin condemned to death.
No picture is perfect and here we see that Esther can’t give Haman life… and she can’t condemn him to death either… that is up to the king… and ultimately obviously up to God.
In fact they are all three subject to the law… in this case the law of the Medes and Persians… and the king may not be able to save them… one thing is for sure he can’t save them both.
We are subject to the law… and one thing is certain someone has to hang on the gallows… thank God for the willing sacrifice of Jesus Christ for our sins.
We can go from Haman to Esther in a moment because of the blood of Jesus Christ.
Persian law states that no man is permitted within seven feet of the kings harem and especially the queen.
Touching the queen was a violation punishable by death.
It keeps getting worse for Haman.
No doubt he is grasping at the queen as he begs for his life or he was grasping at the queen in outrage, “Who do you think you are? I’m the prime minister of Persia and you’re just a common Jewess.
You’re the one who ought to die.
How dare you trap me like this.”
However, this went down the king felt that Haman was threatening his queen.
Will he assault the queen right in front of me?
Persian law required that a condemned man’s face be covered as he was not worthy to be looked at.
and the fact they covered Haman’s face immediately indicates that this was over before it began… no trial was necessary.
Obviously the king would stop the plot against the queen, punish Haman for raising his hand to her, and then out of nowhere a third strike comes flying in from the back.
Haman was going to kill the very man that the king had ordered him to honor.
Haman is having a bad day… and it would be the last bad day he ever had.
Three strikes leads the king to believe that Haman was plotting against the throne.
Looks like the game is over.
The Great Strategist
Once again even when God is invisible… He is invincible.
Even when God is silent… He is present.
Even when God is removed… He remains Sovreign.
Even when God is running late… He is right on time.
Four lessons we learn:
1. God often uses reversals in our lives to move us forward and make us wiser.
Had this edict never been signed and propagated throughout the Empire, Esther would have never revealed her secret.
She and Mordecai may very well have lived their entire lives in the comfort of the palace, refusing to identify themselves with the remnant of God.
It was the threat of impending death and the hopelessness from this decree that brought about their own personal revival.
Fear and hopelessness brought them back to faith again and the reversal of their fortune took them back to the roots of who they really were.
God still uses reversals in our lives to bring us back to trust and dependence on Him.
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