Today we will celebrate the Festival of Purim which actually begins this evening at sunset. Purim recalls God’s deliverance of the Jewish people of Persia from the hands of the wicked Haman during the reign of King Ahasuerus (486-465 BC). Today we celebrate this great deliverance even as Israel and the Jewish people worldwide face alarming levels of hatred and anti-semitism. We know that God is faithful and will delivery us today, as he did many times before. Today’s message is titled, “The Spirit of Amalek in the Story of Purim.”

Key verses are: “...celebrate the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar every year as the days when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into celebration. These were to be days of feasting, celebration and sending presents of food to one another and giving gifts to the poor.” (Esther 9:21–22, TLV)