The Dispersed Among the Gentiles: Esther

In the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, on which I have already meditated, we saw the captives brought back to Jerusalem, there to await the coming of the Messiah, that it might be known, whether Israel would accept the Messenger and Savior whom God would send to them. In this book of Esther, we are in a very different scene. The Jews are among the Gentiles still.
We will look at it in its succession of ten chapters; and in the action recorded, we shall find the Lord God working wondrously, but secretly. The Jews themselves.
The Gentile, or the Power.
The great Adversary.