Thread by @MiriamShehu

Queen Esther, the Jewish girl from ancient Persia was everything that We (Christians) wanted in Pastor Yemi Osinbajo.

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In the third year of his reign, Ahasuerus, king of the Medes and Persians, searched for a new queen from among the beautiful virgins in his kingdom.

Esther was to replace Queen Vashti. Vashti had humiliated her husband in front of many people including all his officials. She had refused to allow him to display her beauty before everyone at his special feast

Esther, a young orphan, was among the women the king ordered be brought to the palace for special pampering and preparation for the king’s scrutiny as possible royal replacements.

Esther’s cousin, Mordecai, had reared her. Mordecai was a Jewish servant “in the king’s gate” which implied that he held a position in the king’s court.

Following her cousin’s advice, Esther did not reveal her ethnic identity. After the king chose her as queen, she maintained her contact with her cousin.

Sometime later Ahasuerus appointed Haman, a man prominent in the kingdom, to a special office over his princes. Ahasuerus commanded that each servant should bow down to Haman, paying him homage. Mordecai refused.

Haman was enraged by Mordecai’s actions. But he wasn’t satisfied just to seek revenge on one man; he devised a scheme to destroy all the Jews in the kingdom.

He approached the king and informed him that the Jews did not keep the king’s laws. He convinced Ahasuerus to issue a decree saying 10,000 talents of silver would go to anyone who would destroy the Jews.

In ancient Persia, when the king made a decree and sealed it with his signet ring, it was not to be revoked or amended. Ahasuerus’s decree went out, resulting in great mourning and fasting among the Jews throughout the land.

Clothed in sackcloth and ashes of mourning, Mordecai sat in the square near the king’s gate. When Esther learned of Mordecai’s circumstance, she told her maids to take garments to clothe him and to take away his sackcloth. But Mordecai would not accept them.

Esther then sent Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs who attended her, to find out what was wrong with Mordecai.

Mordecai told him all that had happened and gave him a copy of the written decree to show to Esther. He also told him to tell her to go to the king and plead for her people.

Esther had not seen the king for 30 days. The king enforced a law that anyone who came into the inner court to approach him whom he had not specifically called was to die. However, the king could make an exception by holding out his golden scepter, thereby sparing the person.

So Esther sent the eunuch back to Mordecai with the message that she could not enter the court to see the king.

Mordecai answered that, if she did nothing, she risked death along with all her countrymen in the kingdom. He also asked a piercing question: What if God had elevated Esther to her position as queen for the specific purpose of helping save her people at this critical time?

What a decision for such a young woman! Death seemed certain regardless of what she decided. Vashti had been only banished from her position as queen. Esther might actually be killed!

She had to answer Mordecai. What would she do? She must have prayed and agonized over her decision. Tension and anxiety must have consumed her. She was sickened with fear for herself and her people.

She must have asked herself a hundred times would God really let her die if she refused to help the Jews? She was so young.

Surely God did not want her to die. On the other hand, could she stand silently by and watch heartless Haman annihilate her people? Why couldn’t her dilemma just go away like a bad dream?

In the midst of her turmoil, Esther realized she could not allow fear to paralyze her into inaction; that in itself would be a decision. Instead, she left the outcome with God. It was clear she had only one real choice.

She sent word to Mordecai requesting that he ask their fellow Jews to fast for her for three days and nights. She and her maids would do likewise. Then she promised to go before the king, knowing full well she was risking her life.

To cut the whole long story short, The king issued a new decree: The Jews were free to defend themselves and destroy anyone who would assault them. He promoted Mordecai, and the Jews were saved. To this day, many Jews observe the Feast of Purim in honor of this event.

To our Christian brother, Yemi Osinbajo, he has not demonstrated the courage of Esther. He’s refused to emulate the young queen Esther who saved the Jews from being destroyed.

Many Christians (Most especially the Redeemed Christian Church of God members) thought when one of them gets there, he would make things right and at least put a stop to Persecution of Christians in Northern Nigeria. But LI and behold, it’s worse under Osinbajo.

The Bible tells us that, when the righteous is in Power, the people rejoice. This has not been the case for Christians, mostly the Northern Christians.

Northern Christians have suffered the most wicked and horrendous persecution under the Supposed ‘man of God’ as Vice President than any other admin in the history of Nigeria.

Under the watch of Pastor Yemi Osinbajo, many Christians in North Central part of Nigeria, Southern Kaduna and other parts of the country have been massacred.

Pastor Osinbajo seems helpless while the kinsmen of the president, the Fulani Herdsmen murder and slit the throats of Northern Christians.

It was under Pastor Osinbajo’s watch that a female evangelist that was even a member of RCCG got killed by Muslim extremists in a suburb of Abuja.

Osinbajo I learned from different sources in the Villa, couldn’t attend the burial because he was sore afraid of his Villa masters.

Under Osinbajo, female students from Yobe were kidnapped by Boko Haram. All the muslim girls have been returned. The only Christian amongst them, Leah Sharibu that refused to denounce CHRIST is still in captivity. What has he done to rescue her??

Under Osinbajo, a professor of law, so many court orders have been flouted and our brother who should be an apostle of Social justice stays watching without doing a thing.

It is not out of place for Christians to criticize Osinbajo for being subservient to people who have supervised the massacre of thousands of Christians in Northern Nigeria without any effort to defend the vulnerable Christians.

I wouldn’t even want to talk about how he tells lies brazenly without any recourse to the faith he claims to profess.

Moral Lesson: Sometimes fear is our normal human reaction when we are faced with a seemingly impossible decision. Acknowledging our lack of courage is the first step to overcoming it. But we must not allow fear to paralyze us into taking no action at all.

Pastor Yemi Osinbajo is a disgrace to Christendom.

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