Thought for the Week

After a period of time when the king seemed content, he made an appointment of a man to be his sort of "second in command." His name is Haman. He is an Agagite. Agagite may mean nothing to us but we refer to history and Scripture. It seems Agagite is a title for the royal family of the Amalekites. When Israel was coming out of captivity in Egypt, the Amalekites attacked and killed many of the weak and weary in the rear of the company. For this treachery and wickedness, and the fact that they despised God, God decreed they should be destroyed (see Deuteronomy 25:17-19). Israel's first king, Sau...