2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 49
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Esther 2:14 KJV
In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women,
to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s chamberlain, which kept the concubines:
Did Artaxerxes know at that point what a Hebrew was? What they looked like even?
Of course he did. Did they look like Persians? Not according to scripture as they would
be dark-skinned. Artaxerxes, however, would be from Japheth or white skinned as his
grandfather was Darus the Mede (Dn. 11:1) from Media or the lineage of Madai who
likely stole that land from Shem (Jb. 10:35-36). It certainly is odd that the two encroachers
from Jubilees Canaan and Madai continue to enter the narrative or at least the lands
in which they stole (Jb. 10:28-36). David was ruddy meaning “red” or medium brown
(Strong’s #H122: 1 Sam. 16:12, 17:42, Lam. 4:7) and Solomon’s countenance or skin tone was
medium brown as cedars (S.Sol. 5:15, 5:10). Some of the Southern Kingdom were even
considered black as Yahudah married a Canaanite from Ham (1 Chr. 2:3), likely black, as
well as having a child with Thamar of Aram (1 Chr. 2:4), likely medium brown. Hebrews
generally are not white in scripture and that is another false paradigm thrust upon us
in willing ignorance.
Was he fully aware of who they were as a people? Not only was he aware, he decreed
their return and demanded Syria and Phoenicia pay tribute to their Temple in Yerusalem
even. Mordecai and Esther should no longer even be in Persia for that matter. The fact
they are there if even true, demonstrates they are not worshipping Yahuah. In fact,
Ezra gathered the people, “ALL them that were of the captivity” into Yerusalem. One
could attempt to say this was just those who had returned perhaps but this appears to
tell us that all returned at that point in that final migration. Anyone who did not was not
serving Yahuah and Esther’s story takes place after this.
1st Esdras 9:3-5
And there was a proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all them that
were of the captivity, that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem: And
that whosoever met not there within two or three days according as the elders that bare rule
appointed, their cattle should be seized to the use of the temple, and himself cast out from them
that were of the captivity. And in three days were all they of the tribe of Judah
and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem the twentieth day of the ninth month.
Ezra tells them that anyone not coming to Yerusalem within 2-3 days, meaning they
were already there or near, would be cast out and their cattle seized for use in the
Temple. Within three days, ALL they of Yahudah and Benyamin were in Yerusalem.
Again, one can attempt that this only means those who returned yet it certainly seems
to reference this was the final migration and at this point, during Artaxerxes’ time and
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