ESTHER 3
The king promoted an evil man and approved a wicked project. No doubt many of the Jews were asking, “Why has God permitted such a thing?” The fact that God permits evil in this world does not mean that evil is good or that God is unconcerned or unable to help. When men do not allow Him to rule, He overrules, and He always accomplishes His purposes.
No matter how you examine Haman, he is a wicked man. Promote him and he gets proud. Ignore him and he becomes angry and takes out his anger on a whole race. (Prejudice usually works that way.) Make him rich and he uses his money to destroy and not to build.
Everything about Haman was hateful to the Lord (Prov. 6:16–19), but He did not interfere with Haman’s evil deeds. Haman’s sins would ultimately destroy him and be used by God for the good of Israel.
Prejudice
“Prejudice is the dislike for all that is unlike,” said Israel Zangwill, author and Zionist leader. When Haman said that the Jews were a different people (3:8), he was right, and that difference meant salvation for the world. Mark Twain called anti-Semitism “the swollen envy of pigmy minds.” From Pharaoh to Hitler, every leader who has tried to destroy the Jews has tasted the wrath of God. No race is perfect, including the Jews, but no race should be singled out for oppression as they have been. God’s covenant with Abraham still stands (