Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
“Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews-- young, old, women and little children -- on a single day” Esther 3:13 “In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.” Esther 4:3 The day was coming. The fateful day on which all the Jews under King Xerxes’ rule would be murdered. It was genocide and it had behind it only the fury of a selfish madman. A man who was angry because one person out of thousands would not bow to him: Haman. He tricked the king into creating an edict that would allow him to murder every single person of Jewish heritage because Mordecai would not bow to him. The Jews went into deep mourning - fasting, weeping, and wailing. A great cry went out among the Jewish people at their impending doom. There was nothing they could do. There was no hope. The king h...