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one woman to save them all

Esther 4:14
"For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for SUCH a TIME as THIS?"

Haman, the king’s evil second-in-command, has influenced the King to pass a law calling for the death of all Jewish people! (The King doesn't know his queen is Jewish.) This has Esther, the queen, concerned for her cousin, Mordecai, and worried the King and others will find out her secret! She's Jewish! 

Mordecai tells Esther the hard truth; she is NOT going to escape this genocide because she's the queen. Even if she is able to keep it a secret and is able to survive; sooner or later someone will figure it out. And, then she will be in trouble! And, in the mean time she will have the guilt of not helping her people along with the fear of being found out!

Mordecai believes that Esther was placed in her roll as queen by GOD so she could help GOD'S chosen people. From today's verse; "thou art come to the kingdom for SUCH a TIME as THIS?" The same was Joseph was sold into slavery so he could be in a position of power to save his family from famine. It's a curious thing, GOD is not mentioned once in the book of Esther, but God is everywhere. God's fingerprints are over it all. In this historical event, when many Jewish people were about to be killed, God didn't send a legion of Angles, he sent ONE WOMAN to save them!
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