Chapter 7

The King and Haman go to Esther's feast.  It is apparently a pretty big deal, as we next look at events on the second day of the little get together.  The King asks again what it is that Esther wants.  She asks for her life, and the life of her people.  So she identifies herself as a Jew.  She tells the King her life is threatened.  And not only her life, but the entire people she belongs to.  This has to be a shock to the King.  And Haman is sitting right there, as shocked as the King if not more so!

The King asks who is responsible for this?  Who dared to do this. And Esther points at Haman.  He has no place to hide.  Haman is terrified before the king and queen.

The King is so furious - the flames fanned by the wine he's been drinking - that he leaves the room.  Haman thinks to beg for his life from Esther, but messes it up, and falls onto her couch just as the king returns.  The king sees it as an assault on his Queen.  What should the king do?  A eunuch volunteers that Haman has built this gallows to hang the now honored Mordecai.  Haman is to be hanged on the gallows that he himself built.  As are all who reject the goodness of God.  Maybe a FB post here...When you turn your attention from doing your job and instead focus on tearing down others, things can turn against you in a heartbeat.