PURIM

Purim



Purim

Purim teaches us also that we are part of a conflict that is not where Elohim uses ordinary people as an essential element of victory. We identify with Queen Esther and her cousin Mordecai, who, like us today, living in the Galut (Diaspora) and concealed their Jewish identity to protect and prosper Nazarene. Mordechai teaches us how to face a conflict that is not visible and Esther how to intercede in prayer (Jacobs, 1999). In this narrative are described weapons Elohim gives us to face the unseen forces that seek to destroy, to ourselves and our people when people assume to be one of them reminds YHVH. Esther marries King Ajasverosh and becomes queen, but hides his identity, his cousin Mordechai becomes now an influential figure at court and uncovers a plot to assassinate the king. Mordechai tries to hide his Jewish identity and that becomes the critical point of the entire History. Ester 3:1-2 says that "After these things the king Ajasverosh exalted Haman son of Ham-MEDAT the Agagite. The honored and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. Entire servants of king; who were in king's gathering knelt down and bowed to Haman, the king had appointed, but Mordechai did not bow or humiliated" (Jacobs, 1999).

In verses 5 and 6 is triggered the battle: "When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or be humiliated in front of him, was enraged. But not content to just punish Mordechai, as I had reported what the people Mordechai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews in the kingdom of Ajasverosh, the people of Mordechai". In the story we get that while Esther and Mordechai are inclined to assimilation, are kept safe, but when Mordechai says he was Jewish, was unleashed a ferocious attack. We can discover this reality in our own lives. While we remain quiet about our spiritual condition, our identity and we stand in the shade, in complacent with the prevailing culture, we have big problems. But once or externalize our commitment to the Jewish people or the Jewish Messiah, or especially both, which is the case we Nazarenes we find all kinds of oppositions from different and varied angles, even where less the hope. Why Mordechai refuses to bow to Haman? Their rejection comes not from rebellion against established authority, as surely it did before the king; his rejection comes from what ...