▪︎ God is King of all, sovereignly providing divine grace – Ps 47:6-8;
▪︎ He executes plans from long ago – Isa 25:1;
▪︎ God controls even the smallest turn of events – 2Chron 10:15;
▪︎ Even kings are subject to God’s rule – Prov 21:1;
▪︎ God used Joseph’s brothers’ evil plot to kill him and instead sold him into slavery in Egypt; ultimately, making Joseph Pharoh’s right hand man, saving the whole family, the nation Israel and the known world from a world wide drought – Gen 45:5, 7, 50:19-20;
▪︎ Ruth happened by “chance” to go into the field of her kinsman redeemer, Boaz to gleen for food – Ruth 2:3, 8;
▪︎ God controlled events causing Persian King Ahauseras to loose sleep and have records read that ultimately saved the Jews from extenction – Esther 6:3, 10, 11 – (full text: Esther_6:1-11
1During that night the king could not sleep so he gave an order to bring the book of records, the chronicles, and they were read before the king. 2It was found written what Mordecai had reported concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who were doorkeepers, that they had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 3The king said, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.” 4So the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace in order to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared for him. 5The king’s servants said to him, “Behold, Haman is standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.” 6So Haman came in and the king said to him, “What is to be done for the man whom the king desires to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king desire to honor more t han me?” 7Then Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king desires to honor, 8let them bring a royal robe which the king has worn, and the horse on which the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown has been placed; 9and let the robe and the horse be handed over to one of the king’s most noble princes and let them array the man whom the king desires to honor and lead him on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king desires to honor.’”
10Then the king said to Haman, “Take quickly the robes and the horse as you have said, and do so for Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate; do not fall short in anything of all that you have said.” 11So Haman took the robe and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king desires to honor.”
)10Then the king said to Haman, “Take quickly the robes and the horse as you have said, and do so for Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate; do not fall short in anything of all that you have said.” 11So Haman took the robe and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king desires to honor.”
▪︎ Haman was ultimately hung on the gallows he built for Mordecai the Jew – Esther 7:9, 10;
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