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Aug. 25, 2021 - Jim Bakker Show
06:18
An Esther Church - Archbishop Dominiquae Bierman
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A Church Near Birkenau 00:02:17
I will give you a little background of how I got the word Esther Church because I didn't just get the word out of the blue.
I've taken a lot of people to Auschwitz.
Some of them even sons and daughters of Nazis.
Brilliant.
Yes.
Wow.
That are Christians, that are believers today.
And many of them have gotten healed with me at the edge of the crematoriums in Auschwitz.
Yes.
Yes.
In that gate of hell, we've brought in heaven.
Thank you.
It's very moving what you just asked me because in one of those trips, I found myself in a church that was real close to Birkenau.
Now, for those that know that you've been, I know you've been in Auschwitz and you know, but Birkenau is the death camp by Par Excellence.
You were showing there a gate, which is the gate of death.
And that is Birkenau, the gate of death.
And then you have at the entrance, that's the Auschwitz part, the museum park.
And there's another one that's the gate of death, Birkenau.
And near that, there was a church.
And the church kept on having its services in the midst of the smoke of the Jews coming out of the chimneys.
And I was next to that church and I said, Father, how could they have gone on with the services?
And then I said, what could we have done to prevent this from happening or from ever happening again?
And you know, you would have expected maybe the Lord to tell me, well, your people were in sin.
They rejected me.
You know, they deserve to die.
But that's not what he told me.
He said there was no Esther church at that time.
And then I went to find out, what do you mean by an Esther church?
Because then if it would have been an Esther church, then the Holocaust wouldn't have happened.
And so I set myself to research it seriously so that it wouldn't happen again.
And the Esther church technically is all about the identity.
Esther's Hidden Identity 00:04:15
You see, this is a Jewish orphan that arrived from the exile to Babylon and then that became Persia because the empire now became Persia.
And she was adopted by her cousin, Mordecai.
And now that woman was a beautiful woman and she was elected out of many other women to become the queen of Persia, to become the wife of the king of Persia.
And she was called Hadassah, like my private assistant here, Hadassah, which is Esther.
And so what happened is that she went into becoming the wife of the king, but her cousin told her, do not tell them who you are.
Do not tell them you're a Jew.
Kind of hide your identity.
And she hid it very well until one day, a wicked, wicked man by the name of Haman, that he was Haman the Hagagite.
That means he came from an Amalekite family, kingly royal family, because Agag was the king of Amalek.
Now, for those that know it, in Exodus 17 and in Deuteronomy 25, it talks about Amalek.
Amalek is the one that fights Israel in the desert and comes against the women, the weak, and all of these, you know, the weak people and the strugglers in the rear.
And so this Haman the Agagite rose up to prominence in Persia to become the counselor of the king.
And he planned to annihilate all the Jews because Amalek forever will want to exterminate the Jews.
It's these people that come from Esau.
He's the grandson of Esau, by the way, okay?
From a concubine of Eliphaz, which is the son of Esau, and Timna, the concubine of Eliphaz, and they birthed Amalek.
And Amalek forever has been a hater of Israel.
And so comes the Amalekite, Hagag, Haman, and they've been trying to murder the Jews forever out of jealousy because, you know, Adoniyave chose, you know, Jacob rather than Esau.
He said, Jacob I loved and Esau I hated.
It's his choosing.
And so this Amalekite spirit works throughout and it worked in that time.
So he told me this.
Esther, you know, was there in the palace, but she was comfortable.
And she had kind of forgotten her identity as a Jew.
And what happened was that Mordecai asked her to intervene, said, intervene with the king.
Let's stop this plan to annihilate all the Jews that he signed with the signet ring.
And Esther said, no, I can't do this.
You know, I'm too afraid because the king didn't call me.
And if I go there, then he will not extend my scepter.
I can die.
And this is what Esther said.
What Mordecai said to Esther in Esther 4.14.
He says, if you do not show up at this time for the deliverance of the Jews, deliverance will come another way.
God will deliver us another way.
But you and your father's house will perish.
And what if you came into the kingdom for such a time as this?
Well, Esther remembered she was a Jew and she went to fast and probably pray.
Doesn't say in the Bible that she prayed, but she probably did.
And then she intervened with the king and the rest is history.
I'm alive today because of Queen Esther.
The thing is that Queen Esther, she didn't have a father.
Queen Esther was an orphan.
Her father was killed during the siege of the Babylonians in Jerusalem.
Her mother was killed probably at the same time.
We do not know exactly what happened to her family.
She was an orphan, no father's house.
But Mordecai said, you and your father's house will perish.
But she didn't have a father's house.
So what father's house did he mean?
Well, the Holy Spirit revealed to me that at that point what Mordecai was saying is because you have become one with the king of Persia and therefore his father's house is now your father's house and you know his father is your father-in-law then technically you and your father's house of the kingdom of Persia will perish.
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