The Book of Esther Class 7; The Ten Sons of Haman and Nuremberg

hi everyone and welcome to this class number seven in our course on the book of esther today's class is in some ways going to be a little bit different than the previous six classes in that we're going to look very specifically at the hebrew text that's on the scroll and so at first it may appear to be somewhat technical but i encourage you to to stick with it and i really think you will enjoy uh what will be revealed especially towards the end of today's class and yes i purposely kind of held it to the end so you would have to watch and listen through towards the end but as we talk about world war ii and the nuremberg trials and the relationship that those have with the scroll of esther and also as we look at the hebrew text of everything i think you will find that it's quite amazing and i think it will truly enhance your appreciation and your love for the word of god and you'll see how prophetic the scriptures really are and how nuanced and specific and just divinely inspired they really are so it may take a couple of times through the class to kind of absorb some of the the hebrew and because of that i definitely want to encourage you to make sure you go to the website drchad.faithweb.com and get the handout for today it's a two-page handout and on the second page of that handout specifically are some images or an image from the scroll of esther chapter 9 as well as some other hebrew that's on there that we'll be talking about that can kind of serve as a good reference for you specifically when we get to that point of talking about world war ii and the nuremberg trials and so forth but again i think it's just a time to truly appreciate the uniqueness of the word of god and it's truly divine uh nature and and even for you to get a glimpse of how that's uh written out on the page what that looks like even in in black and white so i think it'll be a good class it'll be a different class a different uh but i think it'll be enlightening for you so let's go ahead and get started and we'll begin with the prayer before the study of scripture we pray father bless the lord since you have caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning grant that we would so hear them read mark learn and inwardly digest them so that by patience and comfort of your holy word we would embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life and we pray this through jesus christ your son our lord who lives and reigns with you in the holy spirit one god now and forever amen all right so today uh once we get into the text we'll be primarily in uh esther chapter nine so up until class uh through class number six hopefully you have read esther's chapters one through eight and then by the end of today's class we will have gotten through esther chapter nine which really only leaves us a short little bit there in that final chapter and so there will probably only be one more class after this one in our esther course and that final class will deal with talking a little bit more about the festival of purim so where we're at is that heyman has been hung on the gallows uh he had the very gallows that he had constructed to hang mordecai immediately following the banquet with esther and king saurus soon quickly turned out to be not for mordecai and for jews but for haman and his ten sons his ten sons are going to be as we're going to see slain at a later date um but we as we saw in the last class uh the jewish people mordecai esther still had to deal with the oncoming day of the 13th day of adar but when we get to esther chapter nine which is going to show the outcome of that how the king had given mordechai his signet ring and mordecai was able to write a decree where the jews could defend themselves that they could take their own bounty and so forth to try to detour the previous uh haman's edict from being carried out we have this in chapter 9. we have heyman has 10 sons and they also go to the gallows but in the text of esther esther chapter 9 each son's name is listed separately names are listed in scripture to show a special significance names are never just names but also if a name is mentioned it means it's significant in this case one of the things it does is it shows that each son was prominent in addition the names of the ten sons are written uh singly as we're going to see i'll show you in a minute on the scroll each one has a separate line of text in the original hebrew it's not all clumped together the way it is in your english bible is just kind of separated by commas ten names but each name gets its own line in the hebrew text and usually when names or other words are set apart in hebrew scripture they're stacked in the manner of bricks one whole over two halves and so forth but this is not the case with haman's sons their names are written as a whole name over another whole name and this type of stacking and architecture would fail as a sturdy foundation and what is being seen in this picture is that although haman's son enjoyed power and prosperity they were easily taken down and defeated because they lacked a true foundation now in the hebrew of the scroll of esther also known as a a megillah the scroll of esther when it lists the ten sons names one of the letters in those names is written very large right it's much larger it's twice if not larger than twice the size of all of the other letters on the page it truly sticks out and that is the hebrew letter vav all right and there's an image there for you both on your handout as well as here on the screen and uh this also means there's some significance to this i want to now take a scroll of esther here and hopefully you'll be able to see what i'm speaking out here let me unroll it hopefully you can see how one page it has all the text kind of together but then over here on this side here you can see kind of how the names the ten names of haman's sons are listed on each line that's also on page two of your handout is an image of this particular page of the esther scroll but if you just look you can see that graphically it's very different than the other pages you don't even have to read hebrew you can just see graphically it's different and so that's it's it's common sense then that if it's different it's different for emphasis so we want to spend some time talking about that particular page of the scroll again it's on the back of page two of the handout on the very bottom when it says larger than usual that's the larger vav that we're going to talk about here and we're going to continue to talk about it throughout the class because it has many reasons why it is significant including tying to the tabernacle tying to messiah the lineage of messiah and then even the specific dating of the nuremberg trials and so it's a very important and again just look at that on page two of your handout how that particular page is laid out it's very different than any other page in the scroll of esther but also on any other page in the entire hebrew bible okay so the megillah the hebrew scroll of esther written in hebrew but here we're going to look at that one particular character that large one that as you'll see on that handout there are three smaller ones and we'll get to those three smaller ones as well but we're going to talk first about that one that stands out differently than the others because it is larger this vav is the first character of the last sun's name it and again it's appearing larger than other hebrew characters making it have special significance the rabbis taught that this letter is larger in order to show the manner of death of the ten sons the larger vav resembles a large stake it represents a very large post upon which the ten sons were impaled on one above the other rather than ten separate gallows that's the historic image is that it's one large stake and that the suns were each impaled one on top of the other the way it's portrayed in the hebrew scroll of esther in fact the term gallows can be misleading to modern readers the sons and haman himself were not presumably hung by a noose which represented capital punishment in the old west instead the victims of hanging in persian times the time when esther was written were run through a large stake and then left to hang for public exhibition not only to humiliate them even after their death and to humiliate their families but also to kind of serve as a warning lest anyone else get any kind of crazy ideas they can see what will happen to them uh and this would then lead some credence to how the rabbis have always taught about it the rabbis speculated another reason for the vav and the last son's name being larger in that it was pointed to the sixth millennium in the hebrew alphabet the letter vav is the sixth letter of the alphabet and in hebrew letters aren't just letters they're also numbers so in english that would be like the letter a also represents number one and the letter b also represents number two and the letter c also represents number three and then after you get up to 10 going by single digits it then goes by tens 10 20 30 40 60 80 to 100 and then after 100 it goes by hundreds and that's how the hebrew numbering system works and so the letter vav is the sixth letter of the hebrew alphabet and it links to the sixth day of creation when man was created and it also links to many other things because of its number six but it does indicate the number of man for having been created on the sixth day and it being the sixth letter of the alphabet if adam had not sinned humanity would have remained immortal so to speak but when adam fell all of creation became subject to chaos to entropy to death the recording of the generations in genesis also makes a distinction involving the vav the vav is a very mystical number and letter in hebrew thought and this is where again just keep following the train of thought listen again if you have to but just keep following it because it's quite amazing so in genesis chapter 2 verse 4 it says these are the generations and the hebrew word it uses for generations is the hebrew word told which is on your handout it's also now appear on the screen these are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created and the day that the lord god made the earth and the heavens again it's genesis 2 verse 4. in this verse genesis 2 verse 4 the word for generations told is spelled out what i would call in full and the letter vav occurs twice in the word told in genesis 2 4. however in all other places in scripture except for one more that we'll talk about the spelling of toldot is what i would call defective are reduced in other words it's spelt differently it either has uh one vav at the beginning uh or it has one vav at the ending two different ways but either way all of the time except for two occurrences genesis 2 verse 4 is one of those we'll see the other one in a second everywhere else the word for generations in the hebrew bible is only spelt with one vav all right and so the fact that only twice does it have this fuller spelling with two vavs causes us to look more in depth of where they are used where where it's used and as we're going to see it points us to the messiah told spelled out in genesis 2 4 the other place is in ruth chapter 4 verse 18 it says now these are the generations the todos and notice it's spelled out with two verbs of perez and perez fathered hezron now that is very significant because in hebraic thought in a torah worldview from a hebraic worldview from a hebraic roots perspective from a jewish perspective perez is always code for messiah and don't just think that's crazy it's in the gospels matthew specifically when he wants to list the genealogy of the messiah make sure perez is mentioned and so two times in scripture in genesis 2 verse 4 and then in ruth 4 18 you have the two vavs in the word told now ruth chapter 4 verse 18 not only indicates the restoration of man but also that this restoration is accomplished through the work of messiah and don't worry after we finish our course on esther we will be doing a course on ruth and we will be sure to unpack some of this but this can also be seen in a traditional song that is sung by the jewish people on the shabbat it's known as sung each week on friday evening as the sun to kind of welcome in the sabbath the eighth stanza of the song reaches uh that kind of looks forward to the day of messiah says these words stretch out your borders to left and to right fear but the lord when fear is delight the man the son of perez shall gladden our sight and we shall rejoice to the fullness of days and so there is an example in hebraic liturgy hebrew liturgy that perez is actually a title for messiah because it's always been understood that perez is an ancestor of the messiah and and when the world was created there was no death but then adam sinned and as a result the offspring the told of man diminished and that's why after genesis 2 4 it loses one of its valves in total so in genesis 2 4 when everything's perfect told has two vibes when man falls told loses one of those vavs representing man man has fallen and so it's missing one of those vavs but with the coming of messiah the one who is a descendant of david who in turn stems from perez when death is swallowed up forever the offspring told will then be complete again and that's why in ruth the second comes back it signals that in messiah in perez there is the restoration of man okay and so you that's why in the genealogy of perez the second vow is there and told is spelled out in full now we're going to keep talking about this vav because the vav also connects to the idea of the tabernacle uh another reason why the vav is larger within the text on the 10th son of haman this character is used several more times in scripture with very special significance this letter of for example it also relates to god's tabernacle the mishkan god's actual dwelling in with and among his people the term vav means a hook in the hebrew character kind of physically resembles one if you look on your handout you can see that the letter vav kind of looks like a hook uh the radoc in his safer hashoshima explains that these were pegs in hebrew that protruded from the pillars in the shape of a letter valve they were used to hang carcasses of the sacrifice when they were being skinned the courtyard of the mishkan the tabernacle was surrounded by curtains suspended on literally the the hebrew says vavim plural of hooks from the tops of the pillars similarly the rabbis taught that the vav is used in scripture to join one thing to another even one time period to another linking the past present and future the vav and the yata'eed both operate as connectors and there i have it for you on the screen but it's also on your handout the word vav is used as a conjunction connecting people ideas and times the yataid was used as a hook upon which the mishkan rested for its structure its functioning it was like a hanger or a peg the mishkan is the tabernacle itself and it has a higher sanctity than the courtyard that surrounds it as one enters the mishkan the first room is known as the hakodesh or the holy place it is in this room that the table of showbread and the seven-branched menorah and the altar of incense stood a veil separated hakodesh from the next room which the next room was the kodesh hakurashim the holy of holies and it was in this room where the ark of the covenant was located a veil separating these two rooms was supported by four vertical poles these were not the only vertical proles present within the mishkan the tabernacle as one entered from the courtyard into the tabernacle going into the holy place there would have been another five poles and a veil suspended them and the middle pole was known as the yata eid this pole was unique in that it had pegs within it the vessels of the mishkan were hung on this middle pole including the measuring cups for the oil of the menorah since this pole was the centerpiece of the mishkan the tabernacle the rabbis saw a picture of the messiah in this singular yati in the singular hook and the sages further go on to state that yata'eed of the mishkan was as the anchor of god's court and you can see the importance of this in a passage from isaiah isaiah 22 verses 15 through 19 it says thus says the lord god of hosts go to this steward to shebna who is over the house and say what have you here and whom have you here that you have cut out for yourself a sepulcher here as he who cuts out himself a sepulcher on the height carving a habitation habitation for himself in a rock behold the lord will hurl you away with a mighty throw and will seize you firmly he will violently turn and toss you like a ball into a wide land and there shall you die and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord's house and i will drive you from your station and from your state shall he pull you down so in this passage shebna holds the position of the master of the house the position was the equivalent to the prime minister of a country second only to the king and he was deposed from his position by god and overthrown following another character is introduced eliakim who replaces sheepna the text in isaiah continues and it shall come to pass in that day that i will call my servant eliakim the son of hilkiah and i will clothe him with your robe and strengthen him with your girdle and i will commit your government to his hand and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of jerusalem into the house of jacob and the key of the house of david will i lay upon his shoulder so that he shall open and none shall close and he shall close and then shall open and i will fasten him as a tent peg a yet to eid in a sure place and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house the messiah is definitely seen in this passage and some of these verses are directly applied to jesus in the book of revelation specifically revelation chapter 3 verse 7. notice that god states that he will fasten him as a yatta eid in a secure place for this reason the yata'id is a picture of the messiah and in the tabernacle all the vessels for the service of the holy place were hung on the yatahid and so will the father's glory be hung upon the messiah and so isaiah says in isaiah 22 24 and they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house the offspring in the issue all utensils of small quantity from the utensils of cups even to all the utensils of flagons and then the next verse reverts back to sheepne the one who has been removed from his office where eliakim representing the messiah suggests that shebna represents the false messiah in that day remember in scripture the phrase that day the final day says the lord of hosts shall the tent peg the yatai that is in the sure place be removed and be cut down and fall and fasten burden that was upon it shall be cut off for the lord has spoken this prophecy speaks of the future for it says in that day again a common reference to the day of the lord however the yatta eid here is rep is the prophecy of shivna a picture of the false messiah and so yata'id can be representative of either the false messiah or the messiah the application dictates which ruler of the people this is in the scroll of esther the names of the ten sons are listed singularly in a single column the rabbi's reasons for this is related to their importance it's very likely that the following their father's death these ten sons would have commanded his armies to attack the jews the last sun listed begins with the oversized valve meaning that his name was to be further distinguished to indicate that he was the yata'ed or the leader of the ten and in fact a parallel to shebna of isaiah who is replaced by eliakim even as jesus will replace the false messiah now probably what you're interested in here is the parts about world war ii and the nuremberg trials this is a very fascinating study into esther here uh and this just shows the prophetic nature of scripture but also wasn't just a one-time prophecy remember that the fulfillment of a prophecy does not exhaust the prophecy that time is a fractal that it's cyclical and so we should be looking for these same things to repeat themselves all right so we're studying history we're studying prophecy and prophecy fulfilled but we're also going to then therefore be learning about what is to come and so one of the most unusual prophecies in scripture is this passage about the slaying of haman's ten sons in esther chapter nine verses six through ten uh it describes that it says in shushan or in souza the capital the citadel the jews slew and destroyed 500 men so the 13th of adar has come some people have tried to follow haman's edict and tried to kill jews and take their property and so forth the jews have defended themselves and as a result they have come out victorious and when they came out victorious it says and parshadanta and dalfon and asparta and paratha and adelia and aradatta and parmasta and arase and aradai and zatta the ten sons of haman the son of hamadaka the enemy of the jews slew they but on the plunder they did not lay their hand and so when the thirteenth day of adar came and haman's edict was realized and some individuals though not many but some tried to take advantage of that the jews then took advantage of their edict that mordecai had said defended themselves and in many cases took plunder took over property and so forth but ultimately they slew the ten sons of haman but did not take any plunder now the events in esther 9 verses 6 to 10 again take place in the 13th day of the hebrew month of adar with this initial victory over the ten sons of haman and the forces that they led besides the armies they commanded outside of susa 500 men were slain in the capital including those ten sons once again the ten sons were slain on the thirteenth day of adar esther nine eleven and twelve on that day the number of those who were slain in susa the capital the citadel was brought before the king and the king said to esther the queen the jews have slain and destroyed 500 men in seuss of the capital and the ten sons of haman what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces now what is in your petition and it shall be granted you or what is your request further and it shall be done so in this passage the king acknowledged the deaths of 500 men in susa as well as the death of the ten sons of haman he inquired of the results of the war throughout the rest of the empire and then he asked esther if she had any further request that is on her heart and mind and her answer has raised many questions over the years because this is what she said verses 13 and 14 then said esther if it pleases the king let it be granted the jews who are in shusan or susa to do tomorrow also according to this day's decree and let haman's ten sons who have already perished be hanged upon the gallows and the king commanded it so to be done and the decree was given at susa and they hanged haman's ten sons so first you request that on the fourteenth day of the month of adar the jews and sousa be allowed to continue their war on the anti-semitic forces for one more day she further requested that haman's ten sons be hanged or in this case impaled upon a stake for public view what is strange about this is that they were slain in the previous day's battle why slay them twice for centuries the question baffled scholars and caused much speculation but during world war ii the nazis of germany under hitler followed the same path as haman the nazi dictator hitler banned and forbade the observance of purim he specifically forbade the observance of purim and on november 10th 1938 the day after what is known as kristallnacht i would encourage you to on your own research kristallnacht julius streicher a nazi made a spurious speech against the jews striker who was one of the heads of the nazi parties in nurenberg stated that quote the jews butchered 75 000 persians in one night conveniently leaving out the king's decree for self-defense striker then declared that had the jews succeeded in inciting a war against germany the same fate would befall the german people and then he said quote jews would have instituted a new purim festival in germany and remember purim is the festival that was created in the book of esther to commemorate esther we talked about it in uh classes one and two we'll talk about it in our final class but perm is the festival associated with the book of esther and here you have julius striker speaking of purim when he is trying to rally people to in an anti-semitic way destroy the jewish people the way haman desired to destroy mordecai in the jewish people it's interesting that stryker would latch on to purim it's interesting that hitler would specifically ban purim but this resulted in germany in a number of attacks against the jews and these acts of violence were committed during purim such as in zudanska in poland in 1942 they hung ten jews the following year on purim ten jews from the triblanca ghetto were also shot on purim eve that same year over 100 jewish doctors and their families were shot in chestacovo poland and the following day jewish doctors were taken from radome and shot in southeastern poland hitler too identified with haman himself in a speech given january 30th 1944 saying that if the nazis were defeated the jews would be able to celebrate quote a second purim and so it's interesting that on their own accord the nazis were self-identifying with haman haman's sons and haman's edict to destroy the jewish people and were even saying that they needed to prevent the jews from being able to defend themselves because that's why haman failed because the jews could defend themselves and so this is why they wanted to disarm the jews this is why they wanted to keep the jews from having any kind of police or protection because they specifically reference esther and perham and say when the jews can defend themselves it doesn't go well so we need to make sure they cannot defend themselves or else they'll have a second purim because they will overcome us so very interesting but now let's move deeper and get closer here with the nuremberg trials following the end of the war high-ranking nazis were tried in nuremberg germany for various war crimes they had tried to obliterate the jews from the face of the earth when the war came to an end in 1945 their surviving top nazi officers were tried for war crimes in the infamous nuremberg war trials at the top of the list for war crimes was involvement in the holocaust in which six million jews and several million others were torturously put to their deaths at the conclusion of the trial eleven men were given the death penalty by hanging what is remarkable about this ruling is that the standard method of execution in a military trial is death by a firing squad the date set for their hanging was october 16 1946 just two hours before the scheduled execution hermann gehring one of the convicted 11 committed suicide this left only 10 men to be hung hmm 10 men to be hung one of the ten was julius streicher who on the gallows just prior to his death with burning hatred in his eyes looked down at the witnesses and shouted quote purim fest 1946. i want you to let that sink in especially as we're going to find 1946 in esther that one of the ten ten sons of haman ten nazis one of the ten his last words his last words were purim fest 1946 and then he shouted how hitler and the floor gave way beneath him striker had been a nazi since early on in the movement and had his offices in nuremberg a center for the nazis he was the editor and the publisher of an anti-semitic newspaper der schrumer and in may of 1924 striker wrote and published an article on purim entitled das purim fest the festival of purim think about that he's he's spoken of purim when kristallnacht occurred essentially his very last words on planet earth as he is hung for his crimes against the jewish people is purim fest and then also he has written a scholarly article on purim his article on purim slandered the jews and was intentionally part of the nazi propaganda preceding the holocaust it was clear striker was familiar with the festival but again why would his dying words be purim fest 1946 the answer is actually quite astounding in the list of names of haman's ten sons there are several hebrew letters that are written in an unusual fashion we've talked about the large letter vav but there are also smaller ones so this image that's now on your screen is also on uh your handout page two of your handout and you'll wanna have it handy so uh on this column here are the names of the sun we'll deal with that column over there before we end today don't worry this is the listing of the ten suns and you will notice that at the very bottom there's that larger than usual vav and then i also have highlighted in three different places where there are three hebrew letters that are very very tiny okay so let's try to figure out what's going on with purim fest 1946 and the three and three of the son's names uh one hebrew character in each name is noticeably smaller and i have those uh outlined for you on the handout and here on the screen these undersized letters are found in the names of the first the seventh and the tenth son in the first son the hebrew letter tav is undersized and then the next letter undersized is the letter shen in the seventh son and then in the tenth son there is an undersized hebrew letter zion and again i have them listed out for you on that sheet from an actual scroll of esther the hebrew alphabet as i said isn't just an alphabet but it's also numbers so what happens when we take the numerical value of these three small letters well the top is 400 and again this is on your handout it's on the screen the shin is 300 and the zion is a seven that equals seven hundred and seven now if we then take the large valve to represent the sixth millennium the final millennium before this the the thousand years of rest or what most people call the millennium right if we take that and add 5000 for that sixth millennium you get the hebrew year 57 all right so when you look at that scroll of esther you see three tiny letters in a large letter when you take the three tiny letters and you take the large letter to represent the millennium we're in or the the number of militar which millennium of the world the hebraic mind says there are seven millenniums i think you know there's seven periods a thousand years a thousand years a thousand years and then it ends in the final thousand years the sixth millennium here you get the hebrew year 5707 which according to our calendar is 1946. so right there on the scroll of esther for eyes that can see for those who know hebrew those who know the numerical value of hebrew letters those who know what small letters mean and big letters mean and so forth right there literally in black and white is the year 1946 and purim fest 1946 the jewish holiday of purim which celebrates the escape of the jews from extermination at the hands of haman an ancient persian government official at the end of per the purim story heyman and his ten sons are hanged this is exactly what happened at the nuremberg trials so astoundingly and astonishing the nuremberg hangings took place in 1946 and they actually took place on october 16th which on the hebrew calendar for that year was the 21st day of the month of tishri and that is quite significant okay that's uh tishri is the first month of the hebrew civil calendar but the 21st day is one of the fall festivals and the fall festivals find their fulfillment in messiah in the end times so there are three festivals prescribed by god in leviticus that take place in the month of tishri rosh hashanah yom kippur and what is known as sukkot and they all uh come in that month rosh hashanah is at the first of the month yom kippur is the 10th of the month and sukkot is a multiple day festival that lasts from the 15th to the 21st and so the nuremberg hangings weren't just in 1946 as esther uh so eloquently prophesied and predicted there on the page that and we're going to see even tells us that there will be another 10 that would be hung but that it happens on the final day of sukkot or the feast of booze feast of tabernacles and that last day the 21st day of tishrei is known as hoshanah the great salvation a well-known teaching from the talmud yerushalmi in tractate rosh hashanah it says that a man is judged on rosh hashanah sealed on yom kippur and is executed on hoshanah rabbah and again a link to the trials of nuremberg but if we look at here on your scroll and you look to that column over there you see a series of the same letter and that's a vav and aleph and atab pronounced in hebrew va'et grammatically it's a non-translated word it's a direct object marker vaet points to the article coming up in the next word however it technically does have another meaning it technically means there are ten more there are ten more what has been expounded from is that in addition to the ten sons of haman the text of esther on the hebrew scroll lets us know there will be ten more there will be ten more in the spirit of haman and his sons what of these encoded messages concealed why the ten sons of haman were hung after they previously been slain earlier in the chapter relating the death of haman it was stated that whoever is hung on a tree is cursed though the messiah was hung and thought to be cursed he was lifted up as a sign of his complete innocence his vindication his justification from the father but the ten men in the book of esther and the nuremberg ten guilty for warring against god and his people receive divine justice just as the cursed fallen false messiah will and his ten a very important point to remember is that all of these events in the days of esther and mordecai as well as the execution of the nazis are forerunners of the false messiah and his ten men these are rehearsals previews for the final days ecclesiastes 1 verse 9 that which has been is what shall be and that which has been done is what shall be done and there is nothing new under the sun and so when we read esther we really should read it uh not only as history and then an amazing story which it is history and it is an amazing story but it's also a rehearsal it's a blueprint of what is to come and we've seen it repeated itself at the time of the holocaust and quite vivid detail and it will also repeat itself again with the false messiah the next haman and his ten because as the text says there will be 10 more all right as i said it was a little bit of a different class today but i just wanted to expose you to the text the the the actual text of of a scroll because in the sermon on the mount when when jesus says you know not one jot or tittle will pass away from the law and the prophets in other words not one jot or tittle will pass away from the scriptures what he meant wasn't just that the word of god was eternal but like the jots and the tittles that's all that stuff on the page like the way that haman's sons are listed that's a jot that's a tittle that's a a unique form all right and so i just wanted you to have some kind of exposure uh to studying the scripture at that level uh really uh you you kind of learn to uh read the white space today all right you actually read the white space of the text today and that's a very important level of spiritual maturity and development to begin to be able to read the space in between the words and so when you saw small letters that that meant something we saw a large letter that meant something when you saw that it no longer was a single column across the page but it was this very unique stacking and that normally even when the hebrew bible wants to stack it'll stack them the way you would bricks in a home so it has a firm foundation but that these are stacked in a way that the foundation isn't firm that all of that stuff means something and that that's all right there in the text and i just i felt it important for you to be able to see that to appreciate that and hopefully deepen your love for god's word especially that amazing connection of uh the ten that were hung at nurenberg in 1946 that the ten sons of haman spell out 1946 and that there will be ten more right there on the page ten more in 1946 it literally says that ten more in 1946 and lo and behold on the great day of salvation on a festival of our lord ten more were hung who were in the spirit of haman amazing mind blowing great stuff all right so thank you for tuning in to this class as i said we'll probably have one more class in our course on esther and that'll look a little more at purim itself all right so let us close with the blessing blessed are you lord god who has given to us the gift of the holy scriptures peace out

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