Esther — Book Overview
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
There are no prophets, no miracles, no direct divine speech. If you were a certain kind of fastidious evangelical, you might be tempted to dismiss it as a secular book that somehow wandered into the Bible. And yet, to do so would be to miss the entire point. It is a story of palace intrigue, of ethnic hatred, of courage in the face of certain death, and of glorious, last-minute deliverance. But it is most peculiar for what it does not contain. There are no prophets, no miracles, no direct divine speech. And yet, there is no book in the Bible, apart from the cross itself, where the raw providence of God is on such magnificent display. God is nowhere named, but He is everywhere present. This is a book written for exiles, for a people who feel that God is distant, that His face is hidden.
This overview explores the whole book. Read the explanations sampled in this summary: