In Esther, chapter nine, verse twenty-six, Mordecai established the feast of Purim, as in verses twenty-through twenty-three, a two-day festival celebrating God’s deliverance of His people from Haman’s sinister plot of genocide toward the people of God. The feast was called “Purim,” recalling that Haman used the “Pur” or lot to determine the day the people of God were to be destroyed. Purim reminds us that God can overrule the laws of chance.
God’s people should never see themselves as victims of fate. God has a plan for each of our lives. An arrangement that fits in with His extraordinary plan of redemption. But we must take a stand in a righteous and winsome way, as did Mordecai and Esther.
The key verse comes from the section entitled “The Feast of Purim instituted,” from verses twenty through to thirty-two, which is the end of the chapter. Mordecai wrote and sent letters to all the provinces to keep a yearly observance of the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month Adar. The Jewish feast is a public declaration of the truth of the Old Testament scriptures. The following verse in Esther nine, verse twenty-two explains, “As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.”
Believers today should be celebrating what God did through His only Son, Jesus Christ, who took our sinful place to have the opportunity to accept salvation to potentially receive a future heavenly place with Him in the end. However, the decision remains with those who have heard the Word of God and are aware of the truth.