Weekly Sermons
Stand Up for the Jews
Speaker: Dr. Danny Campbell- Details
- Series: Esther Teaching
- Date:
- Scripture: Esther 8-10
Stand Up for the Jews Esther 8-10
Key Dates:
4000ish BC Creation
1875 BC Abrahamic Covenant
1445 BC Moses leads Israel out of Egypt
1405 BC Joshua leads Israel back into the Promised Land
1052 BC Saul becomes Israel’s First King
1004 BC David makes Jerusalem Israel’s Capitol
956 BC Solomon dedicates the Temple
931 BC Israel is divided – North (Israel) and South (Judah)
722 BC Israel falls to Assyria (which falls to Babylon)
606 BC Judah first falls to Babylon (605-539)
586 BC Nebuchadnezzar destroys Temple
539 BC Persia (539-331) conquers Babylon
536 BC Persia: Cyrus’ Decree allows Temple rebuild
516 BC Temple completed
478 BC Persia: Esther is Xerxes’ Queen
466 BC Jerusalem’s walls destroyed
445 BC Artaxerxes I’s decree to rebuild walls
331 BC Greece conquers Persia
146 BC Rome conquers Greece
30’s AD – Christ’s Death/Rez
Divine Recompense – Mordecai receives Haman’s House and Job 8:1-2
Bad Laws ________________ Bad Leaders 8:3-8
Esther 3:13 13th of Adar March 7th 473 BC
Good Leaders make ____________ Laws 8:8-10
The date of this decree was June 25, 474 BC
The Jews are Given Legal Permission to ____________Themselves 8:11-16
Why in the world does the United Nations act like Israel is doing something wrong when it protects itself and deals firmly with people that try to kill Jews?
Mordecai’s law made it okay for the Jews to arm themselves for that day against
Proverbs 13:34
I love it when doing the right thing also leads to an evangelistic ______________!
The Genesis 12 Curse ___________ on those who cursed the Jews 9:1-17
In Genesis 12 when God gave the Abrahamic Covenant he said He would bless those who bless Israel, and curse those who curse Israel.
“As America has done to Israel” by John McTiernan.
Think about that, there were 75,000 people who hated the Jews enough to STILL try to kill them, even after the state action to allow them to protect themselves.
A New Feast for Israel – the Feast of Purim (Lots) 9:18-32
Why is it called Purim? Esther 3:7
Haman had used lots (3:7) to _________________ both the month and the day to kill Jews – God’s people used that to show Haman had reaped what he had sown!
The Call to Stand Up for the Jews 10:1-3
God still blesses people of faith today who do both those things – who are both good citizens of their countries and seek the ____________ of the Jews.
Romans 15:25-27 Psalm 122:6