13 So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.
14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.”
15 Moses built an altar and called it The Lord is my Banner. 16 He said, “Because hands were lifted up against the throne of the Lord, the Lord will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation.”
Purim Season: From Curse to Blessing – Jane Hamon - YouTube:
"... A lot of people treat the book of Esther like it's a Cinderella story, like it's the story about this orphan girl carried away captive into a foreign land that ends up becoming queen of the empire. What a beautiful Cinderella story. But let me just say that is not it at all. ... I do encourage people this Purim week to take some time and read the story. But I will say this. I believe Esther is a book about Reformation. And I believe the modern day church, the modern day Ecclesia, yes, is Esther.
Listen to this. This is Esther chapter 9 verse 24. And it says this. Hamon, the son of Hamadatha. And let me just pause right there--it goes on to say he's an Agagite. So Hamon was a descendant of the Amalekites. The Amalekite tribe from the very beginning when they came out of Egypt, the Amalekite tribe, every time they show up, they're robbing, they're plundering, they're stealing, they're destroying. Sounds like John 10:10, the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Agag was the king of that tribe. And so Hamon is a descendant of Agag or a descendant of the Amalekites, which just shows the character spiritually. And he was a Persian prince, if you will. He was the right-hand man of the king. And when it says Hamon, the son of Hamadatha, "Hamadatha" actually means double wickedness. Double wickedness.
So here he had this lineage that came down through the enemies of Israel, and he had another lineage that came down through the Persian line. And it calls him the archenemy of all the Jews. And it says that he had schemed to destroy all the Jews. And I think that we're looking at that with Israel today. We're looking at a Haman spirit and a Amalekite spirit that wants to wipe out the Jews and a Persian spirit that out of Iran has cried for death of Israel. And it says that he schemed to destroy all the Jews. He cast the "pur" or the lot, which was actually an occultic practice. And it says that he did this to throw them into panic and destroy them.
Listen, I think that we as believers can see ourselves in this story is that the enemy hates us. The enemy still wants to steal, kill, and destroy not just Israel, but every single believer. And it says that what his goal is is to throw us into a panic and to destroy us. Let me say to you, you are never ever helpless or hopeless when you are in Christ. God always has a plan. So it goes on to say, "But when Queen Esther intervened with the king,". So guess what? There's all kinds of craziness going on in the world today. Who is God looking at? Yes, he's looking at Israel and President Netanyahu. Yes, he's looking at America and President Trump and all the players. But ultimately, who God is looking at is He's looking at you and I. We are Queen Esther that can go before the king and intervene. And it says when she did that, he gave written orders that the evil scheme that Hmon had worked out should boomerang back on his own head. This is a boomerang season, guys. Come on.
The plots, the plans, the schemes of the enemy that he has made against you, against your family, against your children, they're getting ready to boomerang back on his own head. All the plans that the Prince of Persia, and we'll get into that a little bit, the Prince of Persia made against Israel is right now before our eyes boomeranging back on his own head. And it says he and his sons were hanged on the gallows. A better translation is that they were impaled on spikes. When you actually get into the translation, that seems so much more gruesome, but that's actually what they did. These days are called Purim from the word pur or lot. And so we have to understand that we're living in a boomerang season.
In June of 2022, I was awakened from my sleep at 3:00 in the morning and I heard the voice of God say, "It is time for the hanging of Hemon's 10 sons." So that kind of threw me back into the story of Esther to find out, you know, that that Hamon ended up getting impaled on his own spike that he made for Mordecai or hung on his own gallows, but then his sons also were executed in that way or hung that way after they were dead. And I just want to say to each and every one of you that God is a God that knows how to come and turn the curse to a blessing for you.
This book of Esther is not a Cinderella story. It is a book about the church. It's a book about reformation. It's a book about how you and I can go before the throne of the king. We can intervene. We can intercede. We can see the overturning of decrees of death and destruction. We can see that God anoints us to say something different than what the enemy is saying. So we see that the whole plot, I mean, Esther goes before the king. He stretches out his scepter of favor to her, which every one of us needs to picture ourselves that way. Going before the king, God's scepter of favor being extended to us. And God saying to us, so what is it that you need? Come on. That's what the king said to her. What do you need, Esther? What do you want? I'll do it up to half my kingdom. Come on. God is stretching out his scepter of favor and saying, just ask. Yes.
And it's really interesting what she asked. She asked for him to attend a banquet with Haman. And then after he she pleased him, she said, "Can you come back for another banquet?" And during that banquet, she exposed Haman's plot. And the king got very angry. And Haman kind of started like begging Queen Esther, you know, help me. And he fell across the couch that she was laying on. The king walks back in. It looks like he's trying to attack the queen. And the king says, "Guards, come get this guy. Carry him out and hang him on his gallows or hang him put him execute him on that spike.
Hamon is dead in Esther chapter 7. And in and in Esther chapter 8, the first thing it says first of all is it
says that God gave, I mean the king gave Esther the house of Hamon. So in other words, he gave Esther all his wealth, all his palaces. I mean, this was the second guy to the king, okay? All his wealth, all his palaces, all the authority that he carried was put into the hands of Esther. Wow. Can you see that? Where the enemy looked like he was in control, in a moment, God turned everything around. Yes. [a Great Wealth Transfer]
And yet, she still went before the king. So I asked the Lord, why is she still going before the king? And the reason that she still has to go before the king is because Haman was dead, but his decree was not dead. His sons were not dead. And now they're really angry.
I think it's very interesting in this whole scenario of Iran, is that God took out the head. He took out the Haman in he Ayatollah and then took out all of his sons. Basically, all the advisers, all the people that were lining up to take his place, all of those got taken out as well. And so we actually see that Esther goes before the king because the battle's not done yet because there's still a decree in motion that says on such and such a day you can rise up and kill the Jews and take their property.
So she goes before the king. She says, "Here's the situation, king. I need you to intervene." And this is what the king says to her. And this is what God's saying to us. This is Esther 8:8:
You yourselves write a decree. Write it in the king's name. Seal it with the king's signet ring. For whatever is written in the king's name and sealed with his signet ring cannot be reversed.
Amen. So when God, she's saying, "I need help." He's like, "Here's your help. Write a decree and I'll authorize it." See, some of us are praying and praying and yes, we need to pray. We we need to cry out. We need to ask God. But sometimes God turns around and goes, "Now make a decree. Decree something different. Decree what My word says. Yes. Because Haman's decree was still moving. It was still going forward. God said, "Write as the king said, "Write a superseding decree." [just as Jesus was a superseding decree for Adam]
So, here's what happens to us. We get into a situation. We've maybe got a decree or let's call it a diagnosis by a doctor. Yes. Okay. You're going to die or you've got this or you've got that. We need to write a superseding decree that says, "But by God's by the stripes of Jesus, I've been healed." That's so good. Yes. So good. Okay. So, it thwarts what the enemy has planned. Yes. ,,,
And it says whenever the Jews got this decree, they celebrated with joy and gladness and a feast and a holiday. I mean, have you seen the pictures in Iran of these women throwing off their hijabs and they're celebrating? They are experiencing the celebration of Purim. And then it says this, "And many among the people of the land became Jews because the fear of the Jews fell upon them." Think about this. These are Persians that see what God is doing for His people and they get saved. Yeah. Come on. This is Revival in the book of Esther. Many of the people of the land became Jews. The Revival broke out. ..
Over the last couple of decades, whenever somebody would come and present the Gospel to somebody and tell them about Jesus, 70% of new converts would say, "I know this man Jesus. I see him in my dreams." Oh, my goodness. He's known as the man in white. And he's showing up all across the Middle East in people's dreams. He's showing up all across sub-Saharan Africa in people's dreams. And anywhere in any of those nations from 50 to 70% of new converts had been having dreams of Jesus because it's time. It's time. That is so incredible. You know God's up to something. You know that God is turning nations. I mean it we are in a time of divine reversals. We're in a time where God is on the move not just for us personally but he literally is shifting things within the nations."
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