I started this blog Lessons and Blessings just for writing messages of encouragement to the folks who were following my other content on social media. I wanted to also encourage those who were praying and interceding for loved ones and difficult situations that they were up against. However, over the years, I believe that this blog has really also been an instrument to bring awareness to the fact that some of the Spiritual Warfare that we face, is not just concerning ourselves, family, workplace, church/ministries, or even our neighborhood and local community. As I consider what is going on in the world naturally and spiritually, sometimes it can be overwhelming to try and pinpoint one topic to focus on to write about. While I know that my style of writing pertaining to Spiritual Warfare, Intercession, and Current Events may not be everyone’s cup of tea, I do ask that for this one, please hear me out…
Whether you are Christian, Jewish, or neither there is a great chance that you are familiar with the story of Queen Esther from the Bible. In the book of Esther is an almost fairytale-esque story of King Xerxes who divorces his wife Queen Vashti because she ignored his drunken request to come to a party. After the divorce the king realized that he still needed a queen so he decided to have his men round up all eligible virgins and of those young women he would select only the best to become part of his Harem or possibly become queen. As the story goes Esther was chosen by Xerxes to become queen. Meanwhile, a power hungry bigoted attendant to the king, Haman, was plotting on how he was going to get the king to allow total annihilation of the Israelites living within the Persian kingdom. There are so many nuanced details that really make this book of the Bible interesting as well as entertaining (There are many movies and depictions of the Book of Esther). The character that I am focusing on in this blog is Haman, the King’s vizier, was a high ranking official that was considered a trusted advisor to the king. While Haman truly was loyal to the King, his hate and bigotry towards the Israelites is what became his downfall. While he is not the first person in the Bible to plan a genocide against the Israelites, remember Pharaoah issued an order to kill all of the male Israelite children – but Moses was spared, however Haman is the first to want to do this out of offence and hate towards people who were different from him and also practiced a different religion. Most of the other people who could afford to plan a genocide, were rulers who were already in power and were making power moved to attempt to continue oppressing the Israelites.
Haman was also a person who definitely cared about social and political influence. He is always depicted as vain, proud, and arrogant, and someone who loves to be praised and venerated publicly. When the king finds out that Mordecai (Esther’s uncle/guardian) actually saved his life by reporting a plot to harm him and that he never honored or showed gratitude to Mordecai for this, he consulted Haman – who actually hated Mordecai so much that he was planning to kill him on how to honor a person who deserved a great reward. Haman was so full of himself that he immediately thought that the king wanted to honor him. So Haman gave the grandest and most flamboyantly luxurious suggestions thinking that he would be the recipient. If you want to know how that turned out, read the book of Esther for the full story. The point is that image really was EVERYTHING to Haman. This is why he thought of himself as superior to the Israelites and wanted other people to view him that way as well.
So what do we know about Haman so far? He is a power hungry, high ranking official, who is vain, arrogant, and bigoted. Well, that sounds really bad, in the sense that someone like this would be unpleasant to be around, but is it actually evil to display those types of attitudes and behaviors?
Prideful – The Lord detests the proud; they will surely be punished (Proverbs 16:5 NLT)
Boastful – May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things (Psalm 12:3 NKJV)
Regarding self as superior – Haughty eyes, a proud heart, and evil actions are all sin (Proverbs 21:4 NLT).
AntiChrist – The wicked are too proud to seek God. They seem to think that God is dead (Psalm 10:4 NLT)
So yes, as we have read from those scriptures, those attitudes and behaviors are considered evil to God, so that is how we should consider them as well. As you can see, Haman was already not doing so well in this story, then things went even further downhill after he persuaded the king to sign into law a day of violence, using deadly force against the Israelites, in which the Israelites would not be permitted to fight back. Now, stay with me, because this is not going where you think this is going. Yes, of course we could pause right here and discuss the disparities of the Israel / Hamas war. We could compare the similarities of the Palastinians being oppressed to how in this story it was the Israelites who were being targeted. Those are good points, however that is not the focus of this particular blog post – Check out my previous blog for more on that topic.
So basically, Haman masterminded this plan to essentially wipe out the Israelites from King Xerxes kingdom because Mordecai, and other Israelites would not bow to him. I’m no psychologist but Haman seems to have a lot of Narcissistic and Psychopathic traits… Basically, Haman’s ego and pride were hurt by not being bowed to for being a high ranking official to the king by people whose religion did not permit them to do so. If anyone… and I mean anyone decides death is the only solution for people who value their religious practice in a way that is inconvenient to that person, they are the ones who have issues not the people committed to their faith. For clarification, the king did not mirror Haman’s attitude at all, he was told by Haman that the people who he wanted to eliminate were troublesome people. He painted a very negative picture of Israelites to justify the use of deadly force on them. Now if a heinous and horrific plan could be signed into law so easily in ancient times, why do we believe that nothing like this could happen, especially happen to us, during our lifetime? If you have not heard about this, it was in the news briefly, you need to know about this – investigate this for yourselves: Project 2025.
Project 2025 is a whole strategy on having the next Conservative (right-wing Republican) President shift the function and culture of the United States of America from democratic to authoritarian. This plan wants to dissolve whole branches of government like the US Department of Education, Department of Justice (DOJ), etc. and restaff those jobs with people who are only loyal to the president and do not have the interest of the people at heart. This plan would effectively give the office of the Presidency more power than both branches of the US Congress, and DOJ. Ah, yes let’s not forget the bigotry and racism embedded into this plan, which is published by the Heritage Foundation. The claims that were made by the former president while at a campaign rally that if he were elected again that he would allow law enforcement to question anyone that “looked foreign” or “illegal” and have them prove that they are US Citizens or be deported are supported in the Project 2025 strategy. In other words, Project 2025 would kick off the “New World Order” if a conservative right-wing Republican president is elected in 2024. That’s less than a year and a half from now. See, wicked Haman likes to plan, he plans for genocide and destruction like some people plan vacations or weddings. What is the Kingdom of God planning??? What are righteous and virtuous people of God planning? What’s our strategy for 2025 and beyond?
Haman did not hide his plan. He confidently went to King Xerxes and explained all of his points, he had his presentation well prepared. I wouldn’t be surprised if Haman was in the King’s office with graphs, charts, statistical data and the like to make sure that his evil plan for terrorizing the Israelites was approved. From what I understand, the Heritage Foundation has been publishing documents like this for years, but this one hits different… It’s peppered with plans of overthrowing the government, seasoned with strategies for division and civil war, it’s a recipe for disaster if we sit by and not take this seriously. This is actually the key to defeating Haman. Take his plans seriously. Mordecai tore his clothes and lamented when the law that Haman proposed was announced that it was signed into law. Because the law was signed without a vote (because there was no democratic process then), the people were forced to give a reactionary response instead of offensively and strategically responding. Now in the Bible this is beautiful, because the Israelites unite in a 3 day fast, praying that Queen Esther will not be killed when she makes her appeal to the king for the lives of her people. But in 2023, we do not have any excuse to sit idly by and let something like this get signed into law, especially when the plans of evil against us have been openly published. Now, it would be easy to blame the media for not doing more coverage on this, however it was covered in the news, though briefly, and no one responded. Now, I saw plenty of content creators speaking out, but no major outcry from the masses. This leads me to believe that a lot of people still do not know about this. So instead of putting up prayer points and key scriptures, I am going to link some of the news coverage videos on Project 25 below. My disclaimer is that I do not own any of these videos, am not sponsored by any of these new stations, and if any of the videos are taken down or deleted – please do your one research on this and formulate your prayer and activism strategies after evaluating the actual document.
Humility, prayer, fasting, boldness, and elegance are all traits that Queen Esther displayed when exposing Haman’s evil plan to the king. This once again is beautiful and really poetically shows the various expressions of being a powerful person. However, I must reiterate that Queen Esther would not still be remembered and revered today if she had not taken the evil plans of Haman seriously.
***Also, just a friendly reminder to look within, repent if necessary, and be led by the Holy Spirit before engaging in any warfare regarding Pride, High Ranking evil spirits, Leviathan, Racism, and cover yourself with the armor of God and prayers of protection during this if you are led to take on this as a pray assignment.
Project 25 News Clips
https://youtu.be/_I0y0I1QLDc?si=Mu2qalIlTxJ8Btc_
https://youtu.be/dZm9wczO32w?si=v2_YnY8cp_8d38S4
https://youtu.be/Bj7butDWLtg?si=0BbqjGoB-T7qEnSx
https://youtu.be/grZgVgntWeE?si=EoOU7bWD0nAQNeML
https://youtu.be/tty4ituwQcU?si=zufltpKvpfuBlzxD
https://youtu.be/FRy403v02OM?si=A3ELpyzzVGuut734
https://youtu.be/QTd5g9NYue8?si=vI9o6WXL4LHk-54g
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Blessings Always,
Dionne Renae ♥♥♥
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