Buried in the Old Testament is the amazing account of Purim and how the Jews were saved from total annihilation by the clever and astute political maneuvering of Queen Esther in the court of Xerxes, the Persian Emperor. Buried that is, because Bible students, scholars, preachers, rarely tackle it. There are plenty of sermons, studies, commentaries, on Esther alright. But the festival of Purim is rarely touched on, apart from commentaries.

Esther 9:20 reads: 20 And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, 21 obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year, 22 as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

Celebrate Purim.