Providence

Nature's GOD either prohibits, promotes, or permits all things.

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“Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you rebels… I am GOD, and there is no other; I am GOD, and there is none like ME… ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.’” - Isaiah 46:8-10

When God’s people were facing annihilation by a wicked Persian government official named Haman during the days of Persian King Xerxes (518 - 465 BC), God intervened.

Xerxes could not sleep, so he asked the chronicles of the king (e.g., “a book of remembrance” or the court’s official daily diary) to be brought to him and read by a servant (see Esther 6).

While hearing the court’s diary read, Xerxes discovered for the first time that a Jew named Mordecai had stopped an assassination attempt against Xerxes.

“What have we done to honor Mordecai?” King Xerxes asked. When he discovered nothing had been done to honor Mordecai, Xerxes ordered the man who wished to kill all the Jews to honor Mordecai and his people. Queen Esther …