ROYALTY SUFFOCATED BY THE RELIGIOUS VEIL

Esther 4,14:

For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

These are the words of the man whom Jewish tradition considers to be the Master of Israel at that time, words addressed to his cousin according to the scriptures, or to his wife according to a certain tradition. But whether she was his cousin or his wife, by becoming the wife of King Ahasuerus, this woman became the queen of the Persian Empire.

In other words, what Mordecai came to say to her was: Esther, you have reached Kingship; it's time to renew your intelligence by updating your inner software, because it's about Kingship, not Priesthood!

Today, many come to pray in the Church to receive divine blessing, a better lifestyle etc... 

But the Church is the Priest's domain; and the Priest equips you spiritually, i.e. with divine knowledge, abilities and enlightenment, with the aim of making you priests of the divine Word... but no more! 

The rest is outside the Temple, my friends... 

The rest depends on Kingship!

2 Kings 4,13:

And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Look, you have been concerned for us with all this care. What can I do for you? Do you want me to speak on your behalf to the KING or to the commander of the army?’ ” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”

Esther, do you know the laws of royalty? 

They are different from the laws of the Priesthood! Today, in our churches, very few know this difference. 

Having spent too much time under the religious veil, we've come to demonize Kngship, just because it's different from the Priesthood.

Yet... any spirituality that doesn't allow you to put the soles of your feet on the earth is not useful to men!

As a priest, Esther fasted and asked the people to fast with her.

As queen, she made herself beautiful, wore her royal clothes and invited the king and Haman to her feast for two days in a row. Two diametrically opposed methods!

If she were in our churches, Esther wouldn't be queen! 

If she were in our churches, Ruth wouldn't be marrying Boaz!

Do we know the laws of kingship? Many suffer from this ignorance because they are locked into the laws of the Catholic priesthood, based on the 3 vows of celibacy, chastity and poverty. And yet, all the biblical greatness’s of the earth give us a rendezvous with the Kingship! 

But do you know how to get there? 

Men and women gain access to royalty through:

• their expertise,

• their skill in their work,

• their intelligence

• and their beauty.

But are you ready for this?

If you were Esther's pastor, would you bless her marriage? If you were Ruth's pastor, would you bless her marriage? 

If you were Tamar's pastor, what would you do with her? 

And here I've only used women as examples...Si vous étiez le Pasteur d'Esther, béniriez-vous son mariage?

By wanting to turn everyone into "Catholic" priests, we have turned our backs, to our own misfortune and poverty, on the Kingship and its principles, which are expressions of the earth's abundance and fertility, and which, moreover, have been known to our fathers for millennia.

Do we know the laws of our Kingship? 

Do you know the laws of your Kingship? 

Has the Priest in you (if there is one) equipped the King in you?

Esther 4,14:

For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Let's take a closer look at how Esther became Queen.

1) Esther became Queen after a selection process lasting more than a year, reminiscent in some respects of the Miss selections held in our own time.

Esther was selected thanks to a number of factors, not the least of which are the following:

Esther 2,7b:

The maiden was fair of stature and beautiful of countenance. Esther 2,10:

Esther made neither her people nor her birth known, for Mordecai had forbidden her to speak of them. Esther 2,17:

The king loved Esther more than any other woman, and she obtained grace and favor before him more than any other maiden. He put the royal crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

Let's remember how Sarai became queen of Egypt in Genesis 12,14-15:

When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. Pharaoh's lords also saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken to Pharaoh.

If Esther had been in our churches, she would never have become queen to save her people!

• She would have been categorized among the Church's "sirens" who come to bring down the "most holy man of God".

• She would have been forbidden to overdo it with her beauty, and would have had to hide because of the leprosy of her beauty.

• It would have been out of the question for her to enter a Royal House that involves the polygamous principle with this "abominable and impure" selection.

• And even if she had entered, she would have been expelled very quickly for evangelism and fanaticism.

• And last but not least, "being a girl of her time", Esther would have been quick to rebel against "prevailing machismo", against the "patriarchal spirit" and proclaim her faith in "feminism" and its virtues.

2) The element that makes the difference: Patience in the face of FATE

Esther 2,15a:

Now when the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail... to go in to the king…

In ancient biblical times, the means of putting an end to disputes was by lot; it was used to divide up the Promised Land, and its use was even extended to managing the rotation of priests in the Temple.

For example, Luke 1,8-9:

So it was, that while he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division, according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot fell to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. Proverbs 18,18:

Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart. Proverbs 16,33:

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.

Here, we're a long way from the method that today's Christians have set as their ONLY model, namely: Acts 13,2:

As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

Dear brothers and sisters, we must understand that the world does not function like the Church!

We need to understand the principle of selection established where we apply, in order to live up to the royal expectations or those of the leaders in place. 

Because, as the Apostle Paul says, a thing is only unclean to him who believes it to be unclean.

Imagine yourself in Esther's shoes today, what would you do? Someone will say, Yes, but there's Daniel and his 3 friends who refused to defile themselves with the food from the king's table... 

YES! But on the one hand, the King didn't know about this, and on the other hand, they may not have eaten the physical food from the King's table, but they did eat the spiritual food from the King's table. And the King himself came to question them in order to choose collaborators for himself. In short, just like Esther, they had to please the King!

Daniel 1,4:

young men in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who had ability to serve in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the language and literature of the Chaldeans.

So we know what they were questioned about by the king.

Daniel 1,18-20:

Now at the end of the days, when the king had said that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. Then the king interviewed them, and among them all none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; therefore they served before the king. And in all matters of wisdom and understanding about which the king examined them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers who were in all his kingdom.

In short, entry to the king's household, to the great ones

conditions; there is selection, for there are many called and few chosen, just like in the Kingdom of Heaven. 

The King's House demands excellence, my friends, excellence! 

Everyone you see among the greats has gone through this process. Even Nehemiah, the King's cupbearer, was chosen from among many! 

So get ready, train, equip yourself, educate yourself and take care of your outward appearance too! Yes, you read me right! Take care of your outward appearance!

Sisters, there's beauty of the spirit; there's no need to dwell on its necessity; but there's also beauty of the body, and this too is a blessing, contrary to what the religious spirit suggests in churches. Take care of both, for they will lead you among the great! 

Be great and avoid baseness, for the king's house is a house of beauty and wealth, protected by terror and strength, but it rejects baseness and shame. Don't forget, my friends, that in terms of royalty, you're not in the Church! You're in the world, where everyone uses their abilities and qualities to tip the scales of justice in their favor!

Whatever your leader's religion, whether you have the same one or not, your justice will cry out when your time comes, for The King's House is The House of Justice.

So use your time to develop your knowledge, your expertise, and the day will come when your uniqueness will qualify you with the King, for there are the places of the righteous.

Job 36,7:

He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; but they are on the throne with kings, for He has seated them forever, and they are exalted. Psalms 105,20-22:

The king sent and released him, the ruler of the people let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions, to bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.

Good meditation to all, and may these last verses be the portion of those who have understood me!