How To Destroy A Nation – The Book Of Esther

From Nature’s Eternal Religion, by Ben Klassen

Book I – Chapter 11

Creator - Crush the Jews into the Sand

In the King James Version of the bible I have, there are a total of 39 “books” in the Old Testament. One of the most revealing of all these is the Book of Esther, which, more than any other, lays bare the essence of the Jewish programme, and the workings of the Jewish mind. It is the favourite book of the Jews. Nowhere throughout this book does the name of God even appear. The story starts out with King Ahasuerus of Persia giving a great feast to all his princes, nobles and servants from all the 127 provinces in his kingdom. In order to display the riches of his glorious kingdom, the event was evidently protracted over a period of 180 days. It was a magnificent and opulent affair. It seems that on the seventh day when the King was somewhat imbued with wine, he commanded his seven chamberlains to bring before him the Queen, whose name was Vashti, so that he could show off her beauty to the people and the princes. However, somewhat of a problem developed, for Queen Vashti refused to come at the Kings command. This made the King very wroth. On holding council with his seven topmost Princes, it was decided that Queen Vashti was to be punished and deprived of her position, and be replaced by another. This was also done as an object lesson to all the wives in the kingdom, so they would not be encouraged by her example in disobeying and defying their husbands. A search was to be made throughout the land for the fairest young virgins, to be brought unto Shushan Palace, so that the King could choose the best of them as his Queen.

Now in Shushan Palace there lurked a certain Jew by the name of Mordecai. He brought with him a girl named Esther, who was his cousin. According to the Jewish scriptwriters, she was “fair and beautiful”, and when her mother and father died, he took her for his own daughter. Seeking to get an entrée into the manipulation of the King’s court, Mordecai entered Esther into the sweepstakes. In so doing, he told her to keep her identity as a jewess a secret, and he himself remained ...

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