The Great Reversal

Esther 7:10a, NIV

So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai.

Esther 8:11, NIV

The king’s edict granted the Jews in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves; to destroy, kill and annihilate the armed men of any nationality or province who might attack them and their women and children, and to plunder the property of their enemies.

Esther 9:1-2, NIV

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them. The Jews assembled in their cities in all the provinces of King Xerxes to attack those determined to destroy them. No one could stand against them, because the people of all the other nationalities were afraid of them. 

When it can’t be revoked, God can still reverse it.

We might not be able to take something back that’s already been done or said (against us or by us), but God can still reverse its effects. 

God uses for good what the enemy means for evil.

God works all things together for our good and for His purposes.

God redeems what seemingly can’t be redeemed—and He reverses what can’t be revoked.

It happens all over the Bible—and it happens in our lives.

So, hold onto hope. 

God is the great Reverser, the great Restorer, and the great Redeemer.