Refusal to Come Up With a New Plan
of Attack, Failure to See Intelligence in the Enemy, His Fall
He
goes to his wife and friends who tell him that considering everything that has
transpired there is no possible way that he can win this battle over Mordecai.
He should give it up for a time and try again later. Before the matter can be
discussed further the king’s chamberlains hurry Haman to the banquet. It is
there Xerxes repeats his statement to Esther. “What is it you would petition
from me? I will give you anything, even up to half the kingdom!”
“Then Esther the queen answered and said, If
I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my
life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: For we are sold,
I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had
been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy
could not countervail the king's damage. Then the king Ahasuerus answered and
said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in
his heart to do so? And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked
Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen” (Est. 7:3-6).
There
are two things which should be noticed. Haman never took the time to come up
with a backup plan just in case his original one did not work. He also failed
to see the true intelligence of his so called enemy. He apparently did not know
that his queen was a Jewess. Instead, he grovels knowing that his life is in
danger. He begs that Esther would spare his life. He begged so hard that he
threw himself at the foot of Esther’s couch. Xerxes, having calmed a bit from
what had earlier occurred walks in to see Haman at the foot of her couch and
asks, “Do you wish to damage the honor of my wife?” He has Haman’s head covered
which is a sure sign of death.
“And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said
before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had
made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of
Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon. So they hanged Haman on the
gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified”
(Est. 7:9-10).
Victory
Disease claims another victim.
In Haman, we see pride going up
before destruction. We see a haughty spirit take its ultimate fall. Pride will
take a person so far until that person meets an unceremonious ending. Pride
will keep one from helping other, will keep one from listening to good advice,
will even keep one from obeying God…ultimately keeping that one out of Heaven.
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