Haman’s Shoddily Secured Bag Is Snatched By Mordecai: Them Tables Do Turn

If securing the bag by all means necessary was a person, Haman would be it. He chased that paper savagely through predatory behavior, the legal way, but also through the lens of envy, jealousy and murderous schemes. It was cut throat. A sour tale. A plot twist.

He forgot the old adages though, what goes around comes around, pride comes before a fall and one thing about them tables, they always turn. I am always fascinated by the book of Esther. It is a marvel to behold, a dramatic series with a plot full of twists and turns!

Didn’t somebody say that freedom without law is anarchy, liberty without responsibility is irresponsibility? Let’s pick this idea apart a bit.

Let’s slaughter Haman’s chronicles and how them tables turned on him, shall we?

1. Treat me like a god oh ye mere mortals! The King genuinely promoted Haman, advanced him above all the princes who were with him, and required all the king’s servants who were within the king’s gate to bow and pay homage to him. It got to Haman’s head.
2. Nourish my thirst oh alcohol of power: When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay him homage, he was filled with wrath. He sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom—the people of Mordecai. Talk of power that bays for blood.
3. The thirst is real honey! The now wealthy and powerful Haman always went out joyfully whistling and with a glad heart until he saw Mordecai at the king’s gate. He became angry and filled with indignation. ‘’Why does he not stand or tremble before me?’’ He thought.
4. That stubborn Jezebel of a wife and boot licking friends: Haman’s wife Zeresh and all his friends advised him to erect gallows, fifty cubits high, and suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it. Haman was pleased with the advice-it would eradicate the problem quick.
5. Somebody please stop this shame and disgrace camp at my door: The king summoned and asked Haman what he should do for the man whom the king delights to honor. Haman thought in his heart that the king delighted to honor him. He suggested kingly treatment only to find out the king was referring to Mordecai! Shame galore.
6. Publicly singing hymns of praise for thine mine enemies: I kid you not, by the king’s decree, Haman dressed Mordecai in a kingly robe, sat him on a kingly horse and arrayed him on horseback through the city square, proclaiming before him and men, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!” How humiliating for Haman!
7. The venomous Kingly banquet: Haman hurried to the banquet which Queen Esther had prepared and invited him to but was outed as the adversary and enemy to the King by Esther. Eating the humble pie.
8. Everything possible conspires against you: Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that the king was angry with him. Haman then falls across the couch where Esther was- making it seems like he wanted to rape her! I mean, what are the odds?
9. Them tables Indeed have turned-against me! Haman was hanged on the gallows, fifty cubits high, which he had made for Mordecai at his own house.
10. ‘’I will contend with those who contend with you.’’ Says the Lord: Mordecai inherited Haman’s estate and was give great authority over the people.

Haman forgot that tables can turn any time, he forgot to be kind to Mordecai-the other side of the table. If this is not enough to show that indeed what you plan against innocent souls comes back to haunt you 1,000 fold, then I don’t know what does. Cause and effect, action and reaction!

On the other hand, Mordecai who was Esther’s adoptive father, mentor and advocate for the rights of their Jewish community, prospered for doing good.

1. Mordecai was humane to the needs of others.
2. Mordecai used God’s wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
3. Mordecai had the fortitude to put his foot down and defend his faith.
4. Mordecai believed in God’s purpose, resources and destiny.
5. Mordecai was recompensed by God because of his faith and uprightness.

"And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was lovely and beautiful. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.'' Esther 2:7

''And every day Mordecai paced in front of the court of the women's quarters, to learn of Esther's welfare and what was happening to her." (Esther 2:11).

“Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14).    

In conclusion, ain’t nobody got time for envy and useless power drunkenness when we tap into the triune nature of man that by design purposes as personally relating to God- spiritually, intelligently and physically as God intended- then we thrive.

Haman’s Chronicles- Bible Verses  

Esther 3:1-2: 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. And all the king’s servants who were within the king’s gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai would not bow or pay homage.      

Esther 3:4-8: Now it happened, when they spoke to him daily and he would not listen to them, that they told it to Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s words would stand; for Mordecai had told them that he was a Jew. When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was filled with wrath. But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai. In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, the lot), before Haman to determine the day and the month, until it fell on the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, 'There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from all other people's, and they do not keep the king's laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain.     

Esther 3:10-12: So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. And the king said to Haman, 'The money and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you.' Then the king's scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded'to the king's satraps, to the governors who were over each province, to the officials of all people, to every province according to its script, and to every people in their language. In the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king's signet ring.    

Esther 3:14-15: A copy of the document was to be issued as law in every province, being published for all people, that they should be ready for that day. The couriers went out, hastened by the king's command; and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan the citadel. So the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed.    

Esther 4:7: And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries to destroy the Jews.    

Esther 5:4-12: So Esther answered, “If it pleases the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.” Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, that he may do as Esther has said.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared. At the banquet of wine the king said to Esther, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!” Then Esther answered and said, “My petition and request is this: If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, then let the king and Haman come to the banquet which I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.” So Haman went out that day joyful and with a glad heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai. Nevertheless Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and called for his friends and his wife Zeresh. Then Haman told them of his great riches, the multitude of his children, everything in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and servants of the king. Moreover Haman said, “Besides, Queen Esther invited no one but me to come in with the king to the banquet that she prepared; and tomorrow I am again invited by her, along with the king.    

Esther 5:14: Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go merrily with the king to the banquet.” And the thing pleased Haman; so he had the gallows made.    

Esther 6:4-7: So the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace to suggest that the king hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. The king’s servants said to him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.” So Haman came in, and the king asked him, “What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman thought in his heart, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?” And Haman answered the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,    

Esther 6:10-14: Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry, take the robe and the horse, as you have suggested, and do so for Mordecai the Jew who sits within the king’s gate! Leave nothing undone of all that you have spoken.” So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!” Afterward Mordecai went back to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered. When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.” While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hastened to bring Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.   

Esther 7:6-10: And Esther said, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman!” So Haman was terrified before the king and queen. 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 from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, 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?” As the word left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face. 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 8:2-3: So the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai; and Esther appointed Mordecai over the house of Haman. Now Esther spoke again to the king, fell down at his feet, and implored him with tears to counteract the evil of Haman the Agagite, and the scheme which he had devised against the Jews.    

Esther 8:5: and said, 'If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight and the thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to annihilate the Jews who are in all the king's provinces.    

Esther 8:7: Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and Mordecai the Jew, 'Indeed, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he tried to lay his hand on the Jews.    

Esther 8:6-7: And in Shushan the citadel the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men. Also Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,    

Esther 9:10: the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews—they killed; but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.    

Esther 9:12-14: And the king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the citadel, and the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? Now what is your petition? It shall be granted to you. Or what is your further request? It shall be done.” Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do again tomorrow according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.” So the king commanded this to be done; the decree was issued in Shushan, and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.    

Esther 9:24-25: because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to annihilate them, and had cast Pur (that is, the lot), to consume them and destroy them; but when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letter that this wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.    

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