A Time Such As This

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?


The story of Esther is one of the most dramatic books in all of scripture.  The story of  Jewish girl taken by force to be part of the Kings harem to choose a new bride from who is chosen to be queen.  Dire circumstances fell and increased government persecution of Gods people came to a boiling point when a descendent of a former enemy of the Jews gains power and influence and tries to have all the Jews put to death.  Esther must then use her position, defy the formal protocols of the land, possible facing death as a result to stand up and make it be known to the king exactly what was up.


The above verse came at the time when she was being asked to stand up for Gods people and proclaim the truth, even if it meant her demise.  We today are facing hard times.  While we are not yet at the point of being annihilated, we are at the point of having our ability to live and express our faith openly taken away.  The full force of government is being used to try and make us go against our God with the threat of loss of property, livelihood, family.  We are regularly ridiculed and lied about, demonized by those who wish to silence us.


Looming in the backdrop of all this is an old enemy of Christendom; Islam.  For 1400 years those who follow Mohamed have been venturing on a quest for world domination and the extermination of Christians and Jews.  Unbelievers here side with them and give them favored status, while attacking and removing all symbols and remembrances of Christendom from our national memory. 


In modern memory we can still look back and see what happened in Germany to the Jews and see very eerie similarities to what is starting to take place in the US.  The German government too gave favored status to Muslims while attacking and removing anything Jewish from German memory.  They, like has begun here, were being made as the scapegoats.  All that was wrong could be placed squarely on Gods people and if only they were not there, we could evolve into the great human utopian era. 


Now is the time for believers to stand up and proclaim the truth of God to the nation and to the world.  It is time we stand up and live our beliefs faithfully and recommit ourselves to do that which God wills us to do.  It is time to stand up and call out the evildoers and expose what they are doing.  For if we remain silent at this time, God will raise up those voices elsewhere and we will not be spared.  Who knows whether we have been placed here for a time such as this?