{"id":1934,"date":"2022-08-03T06:43:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2023-02-20T10:51:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:51:58","slug":"lesson-7-esther-a-woman-who-saved-her-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/03\/lesson-7-esther-a-woman-who-saved-her-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 7: Esther: A Woman who Saved her People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Key Verse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Psalm 64:1
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Key Verse Thought: <\/strong>Read\nthe Key Verse. Begin to understand the importance of prayer. We will learn in\nthis lesson of one who was fearful for her life and the lives of her people \u2013\nso they fasted, and God spared their lives. Although prayer is not mentioned in\nthe book of Esther, knowing that prayer and fasting go together at times in the\nBible, one may consider the idea that prayer was included with their time of\nfasting.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emphasis: <\/strong>Be\nencouraged to recognize the power of prayer \u2013 and use that prayer to pray for the\neternal lives by salvation for our friends and family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lesson Summary:<\/strong> Remembering\nthat we are studying the Bible in as close to historical order as possible, we\nwill leave the book of Ezra for a week. The events that took place in the book\nof Esther happened after the seventy-year captivity and after a remnant had\nreturned led by Zerubbabel. However, it also took place before Ezra led another\ngroup back to Jerusalem, and before\nNehemiah returned to rebuild Jerusalem\u2019s\nwalls. That places the timeframe for the events from the book of Esther in the\nmiddle of the book of Ezra.       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are only two books in the Bible named after women: Ruth and Esther.\nEsther is a most unusual book because God is never mentioned, and we see no\nmiraculous intervention by God recorded. Nevertheless, we can most definitely\nrecognize God working behind the scenes. Read a little insight we find in the\nbook of Isaiah. \u201cAnd when ye spread forth your hands,\nI will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not\nhear: your hands are full of blood\u201d (Isaiah 1:15).     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

King Ahasuerus was king of Persia\n(remember they defeated the Babylonian kingdom). When he sought for a new\nqueen, Esther was chosen from all of the fair virgins of the land. Her cousin,\nMordecai, who had raised her after her parents\u2019 death, told her to keep her\nJewish heritage a secret. When Esther became queen, Mordecai sat at the king\u2019s\ngate, where he made an enemy \u2013 Haman. Haman had been promoted above all of the\nking\u2019s princes, but Mordecai would not bow to him. Haman\u2019s hatred turned from\njust Mordecai to all of the Jews in the land. He asked the king to sign a\ndecree stating that all of the Jews in the land could be killed on a certain\ndate. The king agreed. Mordecai mourned. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mordecai sent a message that Esther must go to the king to plead for the\nJews lives. After fasting and prayer by all, she went into the king\u2019s presence,\nfearful for her life. Anyone who entered the king\u2019s presence without first\nbeing called would be put to death \u2013 unless he held out the golden scepter. When\nthe king saw Esther, she found favor in his eyes, he held out the golden\nscepter, and asked what she wanted \u2013 up to half of the kingdom. She asked the\nking and Haman to dinner. After the second dinner, she asked the king for her\nlife and the lives of her people to be spared. When the king found out Haman\u2019s\nplot, Haman was hung. Mordecai was elevated to Haman\u2019s position and another law\nwas written to circumvent the first law. God\u2019s people were spared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again, we read a book in the Old Testament with a very familiar event. In this lesson, we will actually read much of the scripture. If you happen to be in a group or class, read them aloud together, for the events could never be retold any better than it was recorded in God\u2019s Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y2Q4 – Lesson 7 Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y2Q4 – Lesson 7 Children’s Worksheets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are teaching this lesson to children, here are a couple of craft ideas to go along with this lesson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One time we made a coloring book by cutting out the different pictures of Esther’s life and glued them into a construction paper book we made. Another time we used stickers of Esther to make a scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Key Verse Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. \u2014Psalm 64:1 Key Verse Thought: Read the Key Verse. Begin to understand the importance of prayer. We will learn in this lesson of one who was fearful for her life and the lives of her people \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946],"tags":[758,947,753],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year-two-quarter-four","tag-lesson-7","tag-quarter-four","tag-year-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}