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• As we read through the book of Esther, Esther is elevated into the position of queen, or second on the throne to the Persian monarch. Mordechai also rises to a significant position of authority and was trusted by the Persian king.
• And so it is, as the scales of time and justice now start to tip towards the Jews at the end of Jeremiah’s prophecy that they would be exiled into Babylon for seventy years, Cyrus the king now decrees that Jews should be allowed to return to Israel, to re-build both Jerusalem and the Temple.