These Days - Esther 9:28

“And that these days should be remembered and

kept throughout every generation….”

What are “these days” and why were they to be

“remembered and kept”?

28 And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.

Esther 9:28

The little Book of Esther reveals a man whose name was Haman. This man became a great hater of the Jewish people. Also, around the same time, this man became a man of great power and authority given to him by a Gentile king. Having this authority, he used it to devise a plan to kill all the Jewish people under the king’s rule. A date was set, and rewards were offered to all who would begin killing the Jewish people at an appointed time.

There is another man in the Book of Esther named Mordecai. His uncle had died, so Mordecai became the father of his uncle’s daughter, Esther. Esther became queen, and through her position, she goes before the king. She reveals that she herself is a Jew. It is through the faith of Esther and Mordecai that the king hangs Haman. The king also signs a decree that the Jewish people have the authority to fight for their freedom. An earlier date was set (before Haman’s decree came into effect) in which the Jewish people would be prepared and ready to attack those who hated them. The day came, and by God’s grace and His power, they defeated the enemy, saved their families, and preserved their heritage. Even to our present day, the Jewish people still celebrate what their ancestors so bravely did 2,500 years ago!

Tomorrow, may we as Americans be thankful for all those men and women who, from the forming of this great nation, and throughout all the great wars, went to the battlefield to preserve our freedoms, and give us a wonderful heritage. We owe a great debt to those great men and women who counted it a great honor to lay down their lives if necessary so that our nation could be “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”.