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God saved Mordecai and the Jews

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(Esther 9:31)

to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their times of fasting and lamentation.

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This happened long ago when King Xerxes ruled over Persia.
King Xerxes had a queen who was a Jew. Her name was Esther.

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In Persia, there was a man named Haman Haman was a very evil and boastful man.
People were afraid of Haman so all of them knelt down to him.

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But only Mordecai did not kneel down to him.
Mordecai was a faithful man. He knelt down only to God.
He worshipped and praised only God.
Haman hated Mordecai so much.

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To kill Mordecai and the Jews, Haman lied to the king about the Jews.
"O King, the Jews don't follow the customs of this country. You should destroy them so that your country may become one and get even stronger. If you will allow me to destroy them, I will bring a lot of silver to you."

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King Xerxes allowed Haman to do what he wanted to do.
King Xerxes took off his signet ring and handed it to Haman.
Then, the king said, "Do with the people as you please."
Finally, Haman got a chance to kill Mordecai and the Jews.

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The ministers followed the order of Haman and posted notices in the whole country.The notice was telling the people to kill all the Jews, not minding young or old, on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar. It was such a scary thing.

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Haman and the people of Haman wanted to kill Mordecai more violently so they made a very high gallows. The height of the gallows was about 50 cubits. 50 cubits is higher than 20 meters. For American listeners, that's about 75 feet high.

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But a surprising thing started to happen. One day, the king was not able to sleep so he read the book that recorded the things that happened at his kingdom. Then, in that book, King Xerxes found out one event that happened before. There were people trying to kill the king but someone told about that to the king and that someone was Mordecai.

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So the king ordered Haman to give a big reward to Mordecai.
The king put his royal robe on Mordecai and had him to be ridden around on a horse and ordered Haman to shout, 'The king will do these things to those people the king wants to lift up' and they went around the towns.

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Haman became very angry. Haman wanted to kill Mordecai but for that whole day, he had to lift up Mordecai. Haman became very angry. Haman's friends realized that God was with Mordecai but Haman did not realize that.

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Queen Esther invited Haman and the king to a feast. In that place, Queen Esther told the king that she was a Jew and she also told that Haman was trying to kill her people. Upon hearing that, King Xerxes got very angry.

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The king found out that Haman had made a high gallows to kill Mordecai so the king ordered the servants to hang Haman on that gallows to kill him. In the end, Haman died on the high gallows that he had made by himself.

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Then, King Xerxes took the signet ring from Haman and gave it to Mordecai and let Mordecai rule over all the things that Haman had. God destroyed the plans of Haman and protected Mordecai and the Jews.

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Haman believed his own power and tried to kill the people of God but God did not allow that plan to happen.
God destroyed Haman and protected the Jews. And God lifted up Mordecai.

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God is powerful and almighty than any other people in this world.
If you serve God the best, God will protect you from any difficulties.
We should believe this. So from now on, lift up and praise God the best. Believe and follow only God.