An Esther Call on the Ekklesia- Purim 2026

God’s Timing is perfect. He is perfect in all His ways.

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Timeline of Events

• 606–605 BCE: First deportation (Daniel and nobles).

• 597 BCE: Second deportation (Jehoiachin taken).

• 586 BCE: Destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple.

• 538/537 BCE: Cyrus of Persia issues decree allowing return; 1st return led by Zerubbabel.

• 520–516 BCE: Second Temple rebuilt.

• 483–473 BCE: Esther becomes Queen of Persia; events occur between Ezra 6 and 7.

• 458 BCE: 2nd return led by Ezra.

• 445/444 BCE: 3rd return led by Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem's walls.

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ESTHER 1 – Queen Vasthi removed. Making room for Esther!

The KAIROS MOMENTS dictates the chronos!

ESTHER 2 – CHOSEN AND NAMED

Esther, the woman once known as Hadassah , met with a childhood that hardly looked like the future she would come to know. Her humble origins remind us how God brings beauty for ashes and works through suffering and misfortunes to position us for our true purpose.

• Esther was orphaned, only spared from total abandonment by her cousin, Mordecai who took her in as a daughter.

• She lived in a foreign land as a Jewish woman, serving a God who was not served or known by the majority of those around her.

Through all of this, the story of Esther shows us God’s hand was upon her, just as Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.” God knew her even before she was born and was setting her apart for a divine purpose beyond what she could dream. 

True Identity and The Power of Names

When the king of Persia sought a new queen, young women from around the land were brought to the palace. Hadassah was among them, and she was renamed Esther to hide her Jewish identity. This must have been a terrifying experience for Esther, but God was with her, protecting her and giving her favour. Even in her name change, God was speaking. When we look at the meaning of Hadassah and Esther, we see powerful symbolism and divine intention. 

Hadassah means myrtle tree. Biblically, the myrtle tree is often associated with the recovery and the establishment of God’s promises - a plant mentioned in ( Nehemiah 8:15 ; Isaiah 41:19 ; 55:13 ; Zechariah 1:8-11. Modern Jews still adorn with myrtle the booths and sheds at the feast of tabernacles. Formerly, as we learn from Nehemiah, ( Nehemiah 8:15 ) myrtles grew on the hills about Jerusalem. The Myrtus communis is the kind denoted by the Hebrew word. (It is a shrub or low tree sometimes ten feet high, with green shining leaves, and snow-white flowers bordered with purple, "which emit a perfume more exquisite than that of the rose." The seeds of the myrtle, dried before they are ripe, form our allspice.

Neh 8:15 - and that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: “Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make temporary shelters”—as it is written.

Isaiah 55:13 -  Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the LORD’s renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.”

Zech 1:11 - And they reported to the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have gone throughout the earth and found the whole world at rest and in peace.”

For a season, Esther needed to be Hadassah to recover from the grief of losing her parents and to establish the promise God had for her. Esther means star, secret, or hidden. As Esther, she no longer lived in a time of recovery. She no longer stood fixed to one place like a myrtle tree, where only a few might see her. With her new name, she prepared for and entered into her time as queen. She was hidden, obeying her cousin as she hid away her Jewish roots like a precious secret. But she also, as Esther, transitioned to where she would be seen. And, through the sure faith and favour of God that rested within her, she shone. Like a star shining bright in the darkness.

“Esther had not revealed her people or family, for Mordecai had charged her not to reveal it.” Esther 2:10

PREPARED AND PROTECTED

Suddenly, the once-obscure Jewish girl, Hadassah, became the Jewish Queen Esther of the Persian Empire! Yet, even before she became the queen, God was moving behind the scenes, preparing her throughout her life. Through her humble origins and childhood, she experienced what living in lack and plenty was like growing in gratitude and gentleness of spirit. When she entered the palace before being chosen as queen, she underwent a year of beauty preparations, symbolizing her preparation for authority and royalty in her God-given role. 

• “Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after she had completed twelve months’ preparation, according to the regulations for the women, for thus were the days of their preparation apportioned: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women. Thus prepared, each young woman went to the king, and she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the women’s quarters to the king’s palace.” —Esther 2:12-13

The number of women brought to be candidates for queen is not provided in the book of Esther, though it was likely hundreds. Yet, from the first moment of her arrival at the house of the women at the king’s palace, it was obvious that God’s favour was upon Esther.

• “…Esther also was taken to the king’s palace, into the care of Hegai the custodian of the women. Now the young woman pleased him, and she obtained his favour; so he readily gave beauty preparations to her, besides her allowance. Then seven choice maidservants were provided for her from the king’s palace, and he moved her and her maidservants to the best place in the house of the women…Esther obtained favour in the sight of all who saw her.” —Esther 2:8-9 & 15

Throughout the fear and uncertainty of being taken to the king’s palace, God’s favour protected and positioned Esther for what would come next. Bold courage and uncommon faith would be needed.

Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”  The level of favour she had been granted throughout her time as Esther had been immense, but to have faith large enough for the assignment ahead, the evidence of things she could not see would require supernatural strength and courage.

ESTHER 3 & 4 – POSITIONED FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS

Not long after Esther came into her role as queen, a man named Haman experienced a rise to power.

• “After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.” Esther 3:1

The Agagites were descendants of the Amalekites, an ancient enemy of Israel. The first to come against them when they left Egypt. It wasn’t long before this spirit of the Amalekites attached to Haman’s lust for power and pride, prompting him to plot an attempted annihilation of the Jewish people. 

• “Then the king’s scribes were called… and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded… And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions.” —Esther 3:12-13

The king had been tricked into signing this decree and he had no idea his beloved queen was of Jewish heritage. When the decree went out, the Jewish people went into great mourning. Mordecai sought Esther and implored her to use her authority and position to expose Hamon’s plot and rescue her people, even if it came at a cost, knowing the cost of silence would be far greater.

• “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” —Esther 4:14

At the time, the king had not called for Esther in 30 days. No one, not even the queen, could appear before the king uninvited, and entering his presence without his initiation could prove fatal. Despite this, Esther chose incredible courage and sacrificial devotion to the God of Israel and the people of Israel. She called for a fast and prepared to face the king. 

• “Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!” —Esther 4:16

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ESTHER 5, 6 AND 7 - DIVINE REVERSAL

God’s favour again poured out on Esther in the midst of her courage, and the king held out his golden scepter towards her, sparing her life (see Esther 5:1-2). Esther invited the king and Haman to a banquet as part of her plan. When they came to the first banquet, she didn’t expose Haman but invited them to a second banquet the following night. This apparent delay in revealing her true request was part of God’s purpose. During the 24 hours between the first banquet and the second, several things happened: 

• Haman, thinking he was building a gallows for Mordecai, actually built his own. 

• God directed the king’s sleepless night and reading of the Chronicles to rediscover how Mordecai had saved his life.

• The king, wishing to honour Mordecai, asked Haman how to honour a person of great valour. Haman, of course, thought he was the one to be honoured by the king and suggested the way Mordecai would be honoured.

• Haman, humbled by God, had to lead Mordecai through the streets in the same manner he had thought he was to be led.

• Because the king now favoured Mordecai, Haman did not press the king to put Mordecai on his gallows.

• The Jewish position was strengthened because the king not only favoured Esther but now, unknowingly, the cousin who raised her.

At the second banquet, Esther exposed Haman, telling the king all the evil that was about to befall her people:

• “Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king. When the king returned… Haman had fallen across the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, ‘Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?’…” —Esther 7:7-8

Hearing that Haman had built a gallows for Mordecai, Esther’s cousin and the man who had just been honoured for saving the king’s life, the king ordered that Haman should be hung upon the same gallows…

• “Now Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, ‘Look! The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good on the king’s behalf, is standing at the house of Haman.’ “Then the king said, ‘Hang him on it!’ “So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided.” —Esther 7:9-10

  
  

ESTHER 8-10 – YOU YOURSELVES DECREE!

God had performed a divine reversal, but even though Haman had come to justice, the Jewish people still lay in peril due to the irreversible decree. 

·       For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?” King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther, and they have impaled him on the pole he set up. ⁸ Now write another decree in the king’s name in behalf of the Jews as seems best to you, and seal it with the king’s signet ring for no document written in the king’s name and sealed with his ring can be revoked.” Esther 8:6;8

The king gave Mordecai and Esther full authority to author another decree, allowing the Jewish people to defend themselves from the coming assault against them.  

• “By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to gather together and protect their lives—to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province that would assault them…” —Esther 8:11

With the decree set forth, the Jewish people were victorious against all who hated them, and this day ordained for sorrow became a day of great joy! Esther and Mordecai enacted another decree to honour what God had done and remember it always, implementing the celebration we know today as Purim.

• “And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews, near and far, who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus,”…“Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Purim.”—Esther 9:20, 29

  
  

PURIM

While we do not know much about Esther’s life after these events, we do know that she was blessed. She was given the house of Haman, which she gave to Mordecai to tend, and both she and Mordecai were responsible for not only the decree that saved the Jewish people in Persia but also for enacting the festival of Purim.  The story of Esther is one of incredible faith and courage. She wrote decrees of justice, righteousness, and deliverance with full authority. She did not remain silent in the face of evil but spoke the truth boldly, reflecting her deep love for God and her people. 

Her legacy lives on, and may her story inspire us to live lives of courageous obedience, devoted to speaking truth on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves, even if it means speaking and standing alone. Just as God gave Esther favour, fought for her, and ultimately worked through her to do more than she could ask or imagine, He will be faithful to you as you partner with Him in your Kingdom purpose “for such a time as this.”

EKKLESIA - What You Do Next Will Rewrite the Future

As the enemy ruthlessly advances his demonic assault on this generation, are you praying for change that never happens? For victory that never comes?

We live in critical, twisted times where wickedness is celebrated and truth is reviled. Yet from the Book of Genesis onward, God has revealed His supernatural solution to an increasingly upside-down world: supernaturally empowered men and women. Like Queen Esther, we're up against abhorrent evil that demands a response, and what we do or don’t do next will change the course of history.

Driven to see a generation of Esthers mantled for such a time as this, we want to empower you to identify and embrace your pivotal role in this urgent moment in history, arising with supernatural boldness, power, and truth that prevails over the demonic destruction of our day.

We need to learn to:

• Recognize your Kingdom position and influence.

• Reject the demonic narratives redefining sin and morality.

• Raise a standard of truth for generations to come.

• Thwart the enemy’s tactics to deceive and disciple this generation.

• Become the agent of transformation your sphere of influence is desperate for.

• Bring prophetic solutions that heal and restore.

  
  

Esther’s story is a beautiful example of stepping out in faith, trusting God’s plan, and seeing how good wins! “There is a spiritual battle surrounding you, but take heart and have courage, I have already won the war. It is time for the spirit of Haman and his sons to hang on the gallows. I am the God who avenges evil. Rise up; it is a time of judgment. The proud will receive what they deserve, and the righteous take refuge in My fortress.” Ask the Lord to purify your heart as you enter the heavenly courtroom. He will make you aware of the things that need to be removed and placed at the feet of the Righteous Judge. Trust that in His perfect timing, He will judge the accuser and lift you up. Remain humble and pure. Now Is the Time… Now is the time of repentance, identifying spiritual warfare, seeking God’s wisdom to overcome challenges, and affirming the truth of His Word and promises. The Word of God tells us we are victorious, more than overcomers! “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.”—Romans 8:31-33 Move forward, trusting the war has been won!

The King’s scepter has been extended toward you. Now is the time to approach the throne of grace with confidence, seizing this prophetic moment and overthrowing the tyranny of evil in our day. Esther became the bride, and as Believers in Yeshua, He made you His Bride! “I willingly sacrificed My life for yours so we could be in covenant relationship, permitting you to approach the King. I want to hear your requests.

What will you write as a decree for your nation? A few things I am led to pray and decree over our nation and ekklesia - Psalm 33; Psalm 94; Mene Mene tekel peres, Isaiah 22, Isaiah 28 (justice of God) Amos 9:11-15

Encourage each of you to draw the Word from the Lords heart and decree over your nation, city, church, family and your own life.