Esther 1-2
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The book of Esther reads like a blend of fairy tale and mystery, following a young Jewish woman thrust into a crucial role in saving her people. In chapters 1–2, Pastor Skip Heitzig highlights God’s providential hand as He positioned every detail—from a royal beauty contest to a foiled assassination attempt.
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| 0:00.0 | Calvary Church is dedicated to doctrine, and we want you to experience the life change that comes from knowing God's word and applying it to your life. |
| 0:09.8 | So we explain the Bible first by verse. Every chapter, every book, this is expound. |
| 0:19.9 | The book of Esther chapter 1, you are going to need a Bible for any of this to make sense to you. |
| 0:28.2 | And we're going to go as far as we can in the time allotted to us. Let's have a word of prayer. Father, we bring you our hearts. We bring you our struggles, |
| 0:39.9 | some of which we have already prayed for during our time of worship, whether we prayed about them |
| 0:48.9 | silently or we brought them to one of our prayer warriors up front. |
| 1:02.4 | But, Father, we pray that you will speak, by your spirit, you will speak to us through the pages of Scripture, through the principles we find written in the book of Esther in the Bible itself. |
| 1:14.5 | We pray, Father, that those who are despondent, discouraged, would be lifted up and encouraged. |
| 1:22.9 | Those of us who need to be challenged or reproved or even rebuke, we open our hearts to all |
| 1:34.9 | of it. |
| 1:36.2 | Trusting, Father, that you love us and want to nurture us and want us to mature, and you |
| 1:44.0 | want to, as the psalmist said, perfect that which concerns us. |
| 1:51.0 | So we give you this time. |
| 1:53.1 | Thank you that you've brought us together. |
| 1:55.6 | Thank you, Lord, that we are able to study the scripture and apply it in Jesus' name. Amen. The book of Esther is an |
| 2:10.6 | ancient book, obviously, Old Testament book, not familiar to lots of Christians. |
| 2:20.3 | You're the exceptions, I think. |
| 2:27.4 | And though it's an ancient book, it's at the same time a contemporary book because it takes place in the Persian Gulf. |
| 2:32.3 | The very piece of geography that has been in the news of late and that is the ancient area of |
| 2:43.0 | persia modern-day iran or iran and there are some similarities between ancient persia in the book of Esther and modern-day Iran. |
| 3:00.6 | In this book, we find an edict given to annihilate all of the Jews. In modern day Iran, the previous Ayatollah, and the previous |
| 3:21.3 | Ayatollah, and the previous Ayatollah and the previous Ayatollah, |
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