Esther, Born for Such a Time as Thisনমুনা

The death sentence for the Jews was written down, sealed with the ring of the king, and sent out throughout the kingdom. On the thirteenth day of the last month everyone who encountered a Jew was free to kill him and plunder his goods. This would mean a complete genocide, to be carried out after 11 months and on one day.

This was a striking moment for this decision to be made. It was the first month of the year, when the Jews celebrate Pesach (when on the eve of Pesach the lamb is prepared to be slaughtered), that the king's scribes came together to write the decree. The next day—when the lamb is slaughtered—the king's couriers left to announce the fate of the Jews throughout the kingdom.

We see here a distinct parallel between Christ and the sacrifice He would bring. In this moment of time, the massacre of the Jewish people was declared; and at the same time generations earlier the Jewish people were liberated from Egypt. Was this so-called coincidence a wink of God to do the same thing again?