We have all heard the recent, shocking news from Israel: last week, an Iranian ballistic missile struck a major hospital, the largest in the south of the country, serving nearly one million people. The impact was devastating. Entire wards were reduced to rubble and engulfed in flames. Even medical staff far from the blast were thrown to the ground by the force of the explosion. However, they say that 71 people were wounded, most of them suffering light injuries, and there was no death; how could that be?
Now listen to this: the Israeli Health Ministry explained that the patients who were in the damaged wards were taken to an underground facility just hours before the strike. This is why no one died, and we thank God for this because He is there and protecting His people. Israel is a nation sustained by miracles as it has been from the very beginning.
What’s even more striking is that this attack took place on a date of profound biblical significance: the 23rd of the month of Sivan, according to the Hebrew calendar, the very day marked in Esther 8:9, when a pivotal decree of deliverance was issued for the Jewish people. (כ״ג סיון)
Then arose a man named Haman, who plotted to annihilate all the Jews across the Persian Empire. But through a remarkable and divine turn of events, the Bible records that on the 23rd of Sivan, King Ahasuerus granted the Jewish people the authority to rise up and defend themselves, to overturn Haman’s decree of death. On that very day, those who sought to harm the Jewish people were met with unexpected resistance and divine protection.
And here lies the striking irony: that while this last Thursday’s miracle was on the same date as the decree was given some 2500 years ago, the threat back then came from the same region that fuels today’s hostility. This is a sober reminder that while enemies may rise in different generations, one truth remains unchanged: God still stands guard over His people.
There is also a further parallel to note: this victory in Esther on the 2nd of Sivan paved the way for the rebuilding of the Second Temple, and the First Coming of Yeshua. Today, Israel’s power and might over Iran may very well be following the same path toward the construction of the Third Temple that many Bible prophecies predicted will happen before the Second Coming of Yeshua.
Furthermore, we read in the news that the fall of Iran brought great relief to the Gulf countries especially Saudi Arabia. All this may facilitate the renewing of the Abraham Accords, which was interrupted by the October 7th uprising by Hamas. Now that Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran are greatly reduced in power, a path to peace may begin to open up, as predicted by the prophets of the Bible.
However, at this time, while Iran’s military capabilities suffered a big blow, the war has not ended just yet. It may take time, but one thing is certain; the Lord is powerfully at work in this tiny nation of fewer than 10 million people, standing against a giant like Iran with over 90 million. This staggering imbalance alone reveals what can only be described as the miracle of a nation.
In today’s Judaism, this date of the 23rd of Sivan is remembered in some traditional circles as a turning point, a day when divine providence began to reverse the decree of destruction; and this year, God reminded them that He is still with them. And to the enemies of Israel, this same book of Esther has a powerful warning which was directly addressed to the person who decided to annihilate them: that is Haman.
When he begun to see that his hatred was futile and his plan to annihilate the Jews were fruitless, his own wife gave him this mighty advice in Esther 6: 13, If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish origin, you will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him. It was then when Haman fell, as his wife and friends said he would.
Today, in modern Persian, Farsi, the word Haman (همان) means “the very same.” It is used to refer back to something previously mentioned or to emphasize identity and sameness. How fitting, then that the name of Haman, an ancient symbol of antisemitism, now echoes in a world that reminds us that such hatred is always the same, and always leads to a downfall.
Esther 6:13 can be seen as a personal call from the God of the Bible to reconsider one’s hatred and turn it into love through the name of Yeshua; for He is coming back soon.
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