Characteristics of an Esther spirit ... by R.E. Sutherland, M.Ed.

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SUBJECT:   Characteristics of an Esther spirit

By R.E. Sutherland, M.Ed./sciences

INTRODUCTION:    Women who have intelligence and leadership abilities are usually branded by Christendom in a negative way.  Pastors usually use women in the church to do the dirty deed, and leads them to claim that the woman in question is controlled by the “Jezebel spirit”.  This type of character assassination usually leads to burning at the stake or banishment from a community of believers.  Why are intelligent educated women such a threat to Christendom?  It is because these women challenge the imposed government “belief system” that permeates the organized churches.  By merely offering observations and understanding based upon evidence and real knowledge, they threaten the theological doctrinal dogmas.  Before Christendom burns more women, it is time to use another reference point for understanding women, who are called to serve Our Lord in modern society

FIRST:  Remember that the Roman Emperor made a deal in 100 A.D. with the Gentile Christians.  He would control Rome’s national security and trade.  The Gentile leaders would create and enforce a “Belief System” that would worship on Roman holidays and mirror the pagan ways.  New converts to Christianity would be put through indoctrination and brought under control.  It is called the Holy Roman Catholic Church today, and its first cousin is called Protestantism.

SECOND:  The King James Version of the Bible, is a Freemason document.  King James VI was the most powerful Freemason who ever lived.  The King James Version is written for purposes that the men of the churches are not privy to know unless they are Freemasons.  Dr. Len Horowitz, DMD, exposed how it is used in conjunction with the Webster’s Dictionary to have coded conversations between Masonic members.  The men appear to be studying their Bibles, but that is not what they are doing.  Here is a brief history of the King James Version of the Bible.

QUOTE from Wikipedia: 
The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. The books of the King James Version include the 39 books of the Old Testament, an intertestamental section containing 14 books of the Apocrypha (most of which correspond to books in the Vulgate Deuterocanon adhered to by Roman Catholics), and the 27 books of the New Testament

In January 1604, James VI and I convened the Hampton Court Conference, where a new English version was conceived in response to the problems of the earlier translations perceived by the Puritans a faction of the Church of England.  The translation is noted for its “majesty of style”, and has been described as one of the most important books in English culture and a driving force in the shaping of the English-speaking world.

James gave the translators instructions intended to ensure that the new version would conform to the ecclesiology and reflect the episcopal structure of the Church of England and its belief in an ordained clergy. (End Quote)

THIRD:  Seventy Jewish rabbis translated the ancient scrolls of the Hebrews into the Greek language that was used by the Jewish community in 200 B.C.  As a young boy in school, Jesus would have studied the Septuagint.  The Book of Esther is in the Septuagint.

FOURTH:  Is there evidence for the existence of Esther as a person in antiquity?

QUOTE from Wikipedia:

… According to the Hebrew Bible, Esther was a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus.

Born: 520 BC, Achaemenid Empire

Died: 450 BC, Achaemenid Empire

Full name: Hadassah

Given the great historical link between Persian and Jewish history, modern day Persian Jews are called “Esther’s Children”. A building venerated as be the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai is located in Hamadan, Iran,^[23] although the village of Kfar Bar’am in northern Israel also claims to be the burial place of Queen Esther.^[24]

… She is also recognized as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox Churches. (End quote)

FIFTH:  Who was Esther?

QUOTE from wikipedia:  “…an orphan daughter of a Benjamite named Abihail. Esther was originally named Hadassah, meaning myrtle. She had spent her life among the Jewish exiles in Persia, where she lived under the protection of her cousin Mordecai.

SIXTH:  What were the characteristics of Esther?

1.  Orphan…she lived by her wits and used her intelligence.  She was alone in the world.
2. Foster Care…Her older Cousin took her into his home as a child, but he had plans to make her his wife when she came of age. [Septuagint 2:7 – And he had a foster child, daughter of Aminadab his father’s brother, and her name was Esther; and when her parents were dead, he brought her up for a wife for himself; and the damsel was beautiful)
3. Beauty – all of the virgins in the region were gathered and placed under the King’s eunuch ‘Gai” who was keeper of the women.  He noticed Esther’s beauty, so he began processing her for presentation to the King Artaxerxes.
4. Discernment – Esther did not disclose her family history as a Jew or exile
5. Cooperates – Esther followed the directions given by Gai and her uncle while undergoing the audition for Queen
6. Attention to details – Septuagint 2:15 … she neglected nothing which the chamberlain, the women’s keeper, commanded;
7. Friendly – Septuagint 2:15… for Esther found grace in the sight of all that looked upon her
8. Loveable – Septuagint 2:17 – And the king loved Esther, and she found favour beyond all the other virgins; and he put on her the queen’s crown
9. Good manners – Septuagint 2:18 – And the king made a banquet for all his friends and great men for seven days, and he highly celebrated the marriage of Esther
10. Loyal – Esther continued to listen to her cousin Mordecai, who discovered a plot against the King.  Esther brought word of the planned assassination to her new husband, and it was stopped.
11. Good listener – A plot to kill all of the Jews in the kingdom was going on and signed by the King’s seal.  The Queens maids told her what was happening.
12. Honest – did not accept gossip nor hearsay, but sought evidence before decisions – Septuagint 4:So Esther called for her chamberlain Achrathaerus,, who waited upon her; and she sent to learn the truth from Mardochaius….8 And he gave him a copy of the writing that was published in Susa concerning their destruction, to shew to Esther; and told him to charge her to go in and intreat the king, and to beg him for the people…Do thou call upon the Lord, and speak to the king concerning us, to deliver us from death”
13. Recognizes Danger – Septuagint 4:10 – The Mardochaeus said to Achrathaeus, “Go to Mardochaeus, and say, ‘All the nations of the empire know, that whoever, man or woman, shall go in to the king into the inner court uncalled, that person cannot life; only to whomsoever the king shall stretch out his golden scepter, he shall live: and I have not been called to go into the king, for these thirty days.”
14. Prepares for spiritual battle – Septuagint 4:15 And Esther sent the man that came to her in Mardochaeus, saying, ‘Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and fast ye for me, and eat not and drink not for three days, night and day:  and I also and my maidens will fast; and then I will go in to the king’s contrary to the law, even if I must die.”
15. Prays – Septuagint 4:17 – And Queen Esther betook herself for refuge to the Lord, being taken as it were in the agony of death.  And having taken off her glorious apparel, she put on garments of distress and mourning; and instead of grand perfumes she filled her head with ashes and dung, and she filled her head with ashes and dung, and she greatly brought down her body, and she filled every place of her glad adorning with the torn curls of her hair.  And she besought the Lord God of Israel, and said, “O my Lord, thou alone art our king:  help me who am destitute, and have no helper but thee, for my danger is near at hand…
16. Practices Repentance – Septuagint 4:17 – “I have heard from my birth, in the tribe of my kindred that thou, Lord, tookest Israel out of all the nations, and our fathers out of all their kindred for a perpetual inheritance, and has wrought for them all that thou has said.  And now we have sinned before thee, and thou has delivered us into the hands of our enemies, because we honored their gods: thou art righteous, O Lord. 
17. Understands Power – Septuagint 4:17 – But now they have not been contented with the bitterness of our slavery, but have laid their hands on the hands of their idols, in order to abolish the decree of thy mouth, and utterly to destroy thine inheritances, and to stop the mouth of them that praise thee, and to extinguish the glory of thine house and thine alter, and to open the mouth of the Gentiles to speak the praises of vanities, and in order that a mortal king should be admired for ever, O Lord, do not resign thy scepter to them that are not, and let them not laugh at our fall, but turn their counsel, against themselves, and make an example of him who has begun to injure us.
18. Plays her Position – Septuagint 4:17 – O Remember us, O Lord, manifest thyself in the time of our affliction, and encourage me, O King of gods, and ruler of all dominion.  Put harmonious speech into my mouth for the lion, and turn his heart to hate him that fights against us, to the utter destruction of him that consent with him.
19. Humble – Septuagint 4:17 – But deliver us by thine hand, and help me who am destitute, and have none but the, O Lord.  Thou knowest all things, and knowest that I hate the glory of transgressors, and that I abhor the couch of the uncircumcised, and of every stranger.  Thou knowest my necessity, for I abhor the symbol of my proud station, which is upon my head in the days of my splendor: 
20. Reality focused – Septuagint 4: 17 – “And thy handmaid has not eaten at the table of Aman, and I have not honoured the banquet of the king, neither have I drunk wine of libations.  Neither has thy handmaid rejoiced since the day of my promotion until now, except in thee, O Lord God of Abraam.  O god, who has power over all, hearken to the voice of the desperate, and deliver us from the hand of them that devise mischief; and deliver me from my fear.
21. Commits to take ACTION – Septuagint 5:1 – And it came to pass on the third day; when she had ceased praying, that she put off her mean dress, and put on her glorious apparel.  And being splendidly arrayed and having called upon God the Overseer and Preserver of all things, she took her two maids, and she leaned upon one, as a delicate female, and the other followed bearing her train.  And she was blooming in the perfection of her beauty: and her face was cheerful, and it was benevolent, but her heart was straitened for fear.  And having passed through all the doors, she stood before the king…

CONCLUSION:    An educated God-fearing woman who brings new information to the table for discussion and challenges the orchestrated “belief system” of the day, does not deserve to be labeled as a “Jezebel spirit,” but is displaying the same characteristics of Esther.  Be very careful with your spiritual labels.

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AUTHOR
R.E. Sutherland, M.Ed./sciences
Freelance Investigative Science Reporter since 1996
24 years – Virginia Licensed Science Teacher (biology, chemistry, physics)
9.3 years-Nuclear lab and Nuclear Radiological Protection Inspector
1992 – Certificate of Completion for “Teaching Nuclear Topics”
Author: American and Russian Alliance of 1858 (ISBN: 13: 9780595215010)
1998 – GOP Primary candidate for SC State Superintendent of Education
2000 – GOP Primary candidate for SC Governor
2004 – Libertarian candidate for US Senate
Web Archive in the Library of Congress:
http://webarchive.loc.gov/lcwa0016/2004*/www.reb4liberty.com/

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