We must realize the end of the wicked!

How do you think Haman felt when he had to take the royal robes and horse,

dress Mordecai, and lead him through the city streets proclaiming,

“This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor,”

as commanded by King Xerxes?

(Esther 6:11)

Haman, ashamed and unable to show his face,

hurried home with his head covered and told his wife Zeresh

and all his friends everything that had happened to him (vv. 12-13).

Then his wife and his wise friends said to him,

“Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started,

is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him—

you will surely come to ruin!” (v. 13).

Surely, they were the same people who had previously advised Haman

to have a pole set up, reaching to a height of about 23 meters,

and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai impaled on it.

Then go with the king to the banquet and enjoy yourself (5:14).

Yet now they were saying that “since Mordecai,

before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish origin,

you cannot stand against him—you will surely come to ruin!” (6:13).

“Before they had finished speaking,” the king’s eunuchs arrived

and “hurried Haman away to the banquet Esther had prepared” (v. 14).

When I meditated on this passage,

I thought of Psalms 73:17-20: “Till I entered the sanctuary of God;

then I understood their final destiny.

Surely you place them on slippery ground; you cast them down to ruin.

How suddenly are they destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!

They are like a dream when one awakes;

when you arise, Lord, you will despise them as fantasies.”

Amen!