2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 48
I N T R O D U C T I O N
Ezra and the Final Wave of Yahudim Return to Yerusalem:
Left Babylon: Abib (1st Month/Mar.-Apr.), 7th Year of Artaxerxes
1 Esdras 8:6-7
In the seventh year of the reign of king Artaxerxes, in the fifth month,
(this was the king’s seventh year) for they went from Babylon in the
first day of the first month, and came to Yerusalem, according to the prosperous
journey which Yahuah gave them. For Ezra had very great skill, so that he omitted nothing of
the Law and Commandments of Yahuah, but taught all Israel the Ordinances and Judgments.
1 Esdras 8:9-10
King Artaxerxes unto Ezra the Priest and reader of the Law of Yahuah, send greeting.
Having determined to deal graciously, I have given order, that such of the nation of the
Yahudim, and of the Priests and Levites being within our Realm, as
are willing and desirous, should go with you unto Yerusalem.
Esther’s Story Beginning: Sleeps With Artaxerxes: Tebeth (10th
Month/Dec.-Jan.), 7th Year of Artaxerxes (9 months later):
Esther 2:16 KJV
So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth
month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
Let us break this down. Ahasuerus is Artaxerxes, grandson of Darius I in this narrative
for both. These are the same era of his reign even the same year, the 7th year. Ezra
and the Lost Tribes leave Babylon/Persia that year in the 1st month (Abib, Mar.-Apr.).
Esther’s story had begun as she was in the king’s harem at that time preparing to meet
him. She would not be brought to the King until the 10th month (Dec.-Jan.) of the
same year (7th year). However, she began such preparation one year prior.
Esther 2:12 KJV
Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been
twelve months...
Let us not forget though that Esther was brought in as a concubine. This is not the
story of a virtuous woman nor one who ever acknowledges Yahuah and his practices
nor keeps such as there is no mention of Sabbath and not a single mention of YHWH
even once in her entire story. Her story even adds a Feast Day of Purim which has no
Biblical foundation nor track. This is not scripture nor accurate to history.
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