The spiritual battle continues through the Agagites…
King Saul of the tribe of Benjamin was given orders by G-d (Samuel 15.3) around 1,000 BCE
“Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
500 years later…
The Agagites (Amalekites) sought revenge to destroy all Jews through Haman.
Esther 3.13
“Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.”
The tribe of Benjamin through Hadassah and Mordecai foiled those plans. Haman and his 10 sons were hanged on gallows (Esther 9.13)
The names have changed but the spirit of evil to destroy the Jews continues….
“But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.”
“the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods,”
The Jews of Susa did not lay a hand on the plunder.
They remembered King Saul
Every year the story of Esther brings light and meaning. Evil against Israel will not ever succeed.