Hey, my friends, it's Matt, this is a 10 minute Bible hour podcast, and we're working on

our way through the book of Esther right now, where in Esther chapter six, where the

hilarious pivot point of this book, where the bad guy, the enemy of the Jews wants to

kill everybody, Heyman, he's full of pride and he thinks he's like one second away from

being granted king for a day, privileges, and being given a triumph through the city

streets of Susa dressed up like the king.

People even mistaking him for the king with some poor chomp leading him around saying,

this is what happens for the person, the king delights to honor.

He's imagining that every knee is going to bow and every tongue is going to confess that

Heyman is the awesomest, but then it's all just yanked away from him, and instead that

honor is afforded to his blood, enemy, Mordecai, the Jew, and Heyman turns out to have to

be the chump who leads him around saying all of that nice stuff about him.

It's just awesome, but is it the most famous parade in the whole Bible?

I would argue probably not, and further, I would argue that in a way, the idea of a parade

is one of the really big themes, motifs, promises that he's woven through all of scripture,

the old and the New Testament as well.

We'll talk about that a little bit also.

But first, let's talk about some of the other famous parades in the Bible.

I mean, I can't get them all, but here are the ones that jump out to me.

First one is a procession that goes on dry land across the Red Sea in the book of Exodus

when the Hebrews are miraculously led out of captivity by God, and then the Egyptians

try to have a parade after that and chase them through there, but it doesn't work.

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