The Abrahamic Advantage

Reading the book of Esther, one immedately notices that the Bible is the most authentic source of human history. The Bible is not just a religious book or novel or one 'holy book' without logic which one bases his/her mantra on but it is of great historical significance.


The first Chapter of the book of Esther shows us that at a time in history, a King named Ahasuerus ruled from India to Ethiopia. Now in order to comprehend the expanse of his reign, go to Chapter 10 vs 1 of the same book of Esther and you will read thus " King Ahasuerus not only laid tribute upon the mainland, but even on the islands of the sea(TLB)" . In order to appreciate this description go here on Google map

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Viewing towards the North on Google map you will notice that it extends towards mainland Russia and Mongolia and towards the South it is bounded by India , Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, etc. The islands as mentioned in the book of Esther Chapter 10 vs 1 can be referred to as Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Phillipines. The mainlands here referred are Russia, India, Mongolia, all the -Stan countries(e.g. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, to mention a few). To the West , his Kingdom's influence extended to Tibet and China and to the East of Iran his reign reached up to Africa, namely Ethiopia, Libya, Eritrea and Sudan.
By now you can imagine how great his power and influence must have been to be able to cover Africa, the Balkans, Europe and Asia.

The Bible says he had a Queen whose name was Vashti. Again, this word Vashti has its root in the Indian culture. Again if you hit Google Search with the keywords "Vashti + India" you will sure be convinced. If you are someone who is culturally vast then the sounding of it would show you that it simply must be based in India. It is an Indian name that means "beautiful". This is not far fetched. Have you wondered why the Indian women always topped the Beauty Pageants. It simple. Indian women are beautiful. There are lots of Vashti's there.
Now coming back to the main gist of this blog "The Abrahamic Advantage". I will highlight just three characters today, namely Queen Vashti, Esther and Hamman.
Read about Queen Vashti's rebellion in Esther chapter one verse twelve(Esther 1 vs 12) and the ascent of Esther, a Queen of Jewish roots. This is the first case of the Abrahamic advantage. Queen Vashti, being an Indian lady rebelled against the King asking her to come display her elegance before his chiefs and princes. This is not also far fetched as the Indian culture seems to give the female undue advantage over men. This is the lesson which Yahweh, the God of the Jews does not permit. The Jewish Torahs and Commandments and the Bible clearly makes the male to be the head of the home and institutions. This should be an answer for all those femminine campaigns that are misguided in this world today. Any movement in that direction will be sure to fail as Queen Vashti lost her royalty. See Esther 1 vs 19 and so the King desired "another better than she", namely Esther of the Abrahamic stock. The Abrahamic stock is better trained and proved herself worthy of royalty and hence, became the Queen. Let all the femminist take note of God's order of things. The man is the head of the woman whther it pleases them or not. All of Persia agrees to this. Hwever, I do not promote oppresion in this my blog. I mean reverent and willing submission by the woman to her husband.

Next, in the line is another personality in the name of Haman. The Bible clearly shows this man to be a notable fellow in the King's affairs(See Esther 3 verse 1). He is of the stock of Agag. If you want to know the roots of this man, enter the word "Agag" into the search box of Google map and you will notice it suggests Cairo, Egypt. In Esther 9 verse 24, it describes him as "the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews...". Does it surprise you that hatred for the Jews did not begin today. Hamman, who was of Arab stock was an enemy of the Jews. It did not say that the Persians , namely King Ahasuerus , nor the Medes were the enemy of the Jews, but Hammed. In today's Arabic, you can trace that to Ahmed, meanning almost the same thing. Truly, the Persians are not the same as the Arabs.From the lingua franca we know, the Iranians speak Farsi (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language)while the Arabs speak Arabic clearly distinguising the two. A discussion of another day. This again should give us the clue of the hatred of the Jews by the Arabs.
This man made a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews of his time but his plot failed as the Jews led by Mordecai and Queen Esther foiled his plot, which backfired on him and his decendants.

Finally, I come to the last figure, namely Esther. She proved herself being better than Vashti in her willingness to submit to her husband. Also , when she sought help from the King she refused to break his rules and laws, trusting in her God to give her favour. She is of Jewish stock, well brought up and an example that every modern woman of our day must copy. The Bible also showed us that Sarah called Abraham her husband "Lord" and she went head to teach her offsprings this statute and value.

Hence, Queen Esther obtained favour and advantage over the preceeding two persons through her understanding of real values. This values came from knowing Yahweh, the God of the Univeverse, The God of Abraham and the God of our Lord Jesus Christ. Women, can we follow her example today?

Cheers!

More References

Just to prove more to you that the Bible captures all geography, see Uz in Genesis 10 verse 23. The children of Aram are Uz, Hul and Gether. This Uz mentioned here in Genesis 10:23 is the Uz-bekistan we see in our modern day world atlas. Uz-bekistan
The name "Aram" can be linked to the language "Aramaic" which began to be spoken in ancient Syria and which also was spoken in Jesus day. Aramaic