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Is the Book of Ester a Special Message to the Formal Seventh-day Adventist Church Today?

Posted by: PowerOfChoice | Sat, Dec 8, 2007 6:13 am | Tag(s): Prayer Requests | Permalink |

Esther means star. We often think of the star of Bethlehem this time of the year. How often do we think about Esther, the Queen of Persia?

Esther served a most important mission for the saving of her people. Not only was she instrumental in saving the faithful few, the remnant, those truly being God’s own people. She also helped saving those who were merely professing being a child of God.

Today we see a star or stars as the preferred symbol on many a flag and upon many a military mission. May the two stars be compared?:

1) Esther, the Star of the bible, and

2) a man or a woman identifying with the star(s) of the State(s)? 

Does God have a message for the formal Seventh-day Adventist Church similar to the message brought to Esther the Queen via her first cousin Mordecai? Is there in existence today any power, any group or anyone having similar aspirations as did Haman? Is there anyone wishing to destroy God’s very own people, God’s very own church? Is there anyone today wishing to destroy the Seventh-day Adventist people?

Are there any plans being laid today for the destruction of God’s very own people? Are any such plans being brought before the most powerful and influential political leaders of today? Are there any plans today for enforcing the Sunday laws that’s been on the books for so long? Has Pope Benedict made any statements to that effect recently? He has, has he not?!

Recently someone sent me a link to some not so subtle plans that remind me of Haman’s suggestions to King Ahasuerus:

Est 3:8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.

Est 3:9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.

I believe that in a very real sense the formal Seventh-day Adventist Church is legally married to the State we know of as District of Columbia and Washington DC. The marriage license is perhaps not known as such, but is known instead as the General Conference Corporation of Seventh-day Adventists and is registered as such under the State of Maryland and also under the District of Columbia. Accordingly, just as in a marriage contract between husband and wife, all property of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, not necessarily excluding its membership (as quite clearly delineated in the SDA Year Book (cf. the first few sections of the Year Book as revised at the GC in Toronto!)) is now under the trusteeship of Washington DC.  Who is the stronger party in this marriage? Which one of them is to be considered the husband? Which one is the wife? Or are they both women? What is the nature of this relationship? In biblical terms: How is this relationship best described?

What seems to me even more worrisome, however, is that a similar relationship is being entertained between a great many, even most, of the individual members of the church and the State. Indeed, from my point of view, in a very real sense, our formal church, individually as well as congregationally, is as truly wedded in matrimony to the State as was Esther to King Ahasuerus of Persia.

Interestingly too, I find that in not a few instances, it appears as though just as Esther enjoyed a very favored relationship to King Ahasuerus so also at present our beloved SDA church is enjoying a very favored relationship to various State governments throughout this world. Perhaps, as with Esther, this situation has come to pass for a very particular purpose?

Est 4:14… Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Indeed, isn’t there also a cousin like relationship between various factions within our church body which is reminiscent of the following words?:

Est 4:3 And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Est 4:4 So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.

Accordingly, would it be out of place for me at this time to reiterate the very words of Mordecai who was being seen as an eye sore sitting at the gate of the king?:

Est 4:13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.

Est 4:14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Is there anyone within the formal Seventh-day Adventist church membership that is willing to do as Esther did? Anyone willing to risk something, even his or her life, for the sake of all of our people?:

Est 4:15  Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,

Est 4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.  

Now, what was the very beginning of Esther’s rise to becoming the King’s bride and the Queen of the nation? Was it not the failure of certain parties in power, the King and the Queen, to recognize and respect each their responsibilities for guarding the the sanctity of their own as well as each and every family regardless of all appearances? (Cf. Esther 1:7, 9, 12, 15-18.)

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