2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 41
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Let us begin with the Most High title for the Elohim of Yahudea. Esther never
mentions that title once. However, King Darius himself uses this title “Most High” to
refer to Yahuah in 1st Esdras in a similar decree more fitting to this fragment.
1 Esdras 6:31-33
(Darius refers to Yahudea’s God As “Most High.” Esther does not.)
That offerings may be made to the Most High Elohim, for the king (Darius) and for his
children, and that they may pray for their lives. And he commanded, that whosoever should
transgress, yes, or make light of any thing afore spoken or written, out of his own house should
a tree be taken, and he thereon be hanged, and all his goods seized for the king. 33 Yahuah
therefore whose Name is there called upon, utterly destroy every king
and nation, that stretches out his hand to hinder or damage that house of Yahuah in
Yerusalem. I Darius the king have ordained, that according unto these things it be done
with diligence.
The “Most High” as the reference to Yahuah is used regularly, 29 times, throughout
1st and 2nd Esdras and in this case by Darius himself as a well-established precedent
matching the fragment as this is a decree from a king. It is never used even once in the
Book of Esther nor is Yahuah used even once nor is there a single reference to Him
in any of Esther. We do not find Esther giving Yahuah credit for any of her story and
even the fasting portion is also a pagan practice of the Persians that does not specifically
even identify which religion she even represented. Her entire story is one of a supposed
Jewess who slept her way to gaining influence as a concubine not a Queen initially,
which is also greatly misrepresented in the recent movie “One Night With the King”
retelling Esther based on these fragments claiming Esther just read to the King. No, she
slept with him and the reading of the law he requests much later not on the evening
in which he slept with her outside of marriage. This fragment appears to be stretched
away from 1st Esdras where it is far more likely a match to that story than that of Esther.
In fact, those wishing to try to force this fragment as Artaxerxes’ era in the time of
Ezra and Esther both, in Esther no one ever uses Most High but in 1st Esdras, even
Artaxerxes himself uses Most High for Yahuah for that matter. He was fully aware
of this people, their laws, and their God yet we find the writer of Esther clearly was
not. Esther misrepresents all three and demonstrates a complete ignorance of Yahuah,
scripture and both Biblical and Persian history. It is difficult to imagine how anyone
would defend a book clearly not Bible in any sense and very obviously of Pharisee
origin as it was not kept by the Temple Priests in Qumran nor the New Testament
thus it was not in the Bible. Only Pharisees propagated it which appears to originate
with Josephus at the end of the 1st century. Maybe he wrote that fiction. Certainly, no
prophet nor Biblical scribe did.
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