What They Meant to End YOU Will PROMOTE YOU
Sean Pinder
Esther 6:1-13 | What They Meant to End YOU Will PROMOTE YOU
The very thing set up to destroy YOU is about to lift YOU up instead.
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Someone has been working against YOU. Maybe quietly, maybe openly. YOU can feel it — the plan, the plotting, the sense that a trap is being set with YOUR name on it. And YOU have been bracing for the moment it springs, wondering how much it is going to cost YOU. But Esther 6 tells the story of a trap that turned completely around and crushed the one who built it — and it will change how YOU see the plot against YOU.
Someone had decided to end another person for good.
He was so consumed by it that he built the very instrument of that person's destruction with his own hands — a deliberate plan, ready to go, just waiting for the moment he could get approval. By every appearance, the target was as good as gone. There was power on the wrong side, momentum on the wrong side, and no visible way out. The trap was ready. And the person it was aimed at had no idea it was even coming.
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That very night, something happened that no human being arranged. The one with the power to grant the death sentence could not sleep. And in his sleeplessness, he called for something to be read to him — and buried in it was a forgotten good deed, done long ago by the very person marked for destruction, that had never once been rewarded. The timing was impossible. The detail surfaced at the exact moment it was needed, on the exact night the trap was ready to spring.
And then the one who set the trap walked right into the room.
He came in to make his deadly request — and before he could open his mouth, he was asked a question. A question so perfectly worded that, in his pride, he completely misread it. Certain the honor being described was meant for him, he designed the most extravagant public reward he could imagine. And the moment he finished describing it, he was told to go and do every bit of it — for the exact person he came











