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Great kings and great nations will come and go.

But God won't. He has ultimate authority.

So does this give us as Christians the right to challenge or despise earthly authority?

Hallister beg answers that question today on Truth for Life.

He's teaching from chapter 1 in the book of Esther.

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King Ahazuerus is presented to us as a big deal.

He is a big deal.

Under any standards of kings and dominions and authorities and powers in the study of history,

this particular king stands out as significant.

And we're told as we read the opening verses of the extent of his influence that he reigned

and he reigned from India to Ethiopia.

India and Ethiopia are represented the extreme boundaries of the then known world.

That was if you like the limit of people's imaginations for exploration.

And as you look at these opening verses and I encourage you to do so, the picture builds

of his greatness and of his significance.

In verse 2, it was the days when King Ahazuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa the Citadel.

He's pictured there as giving a feast, actually giving two feasts, the first lasting for 180 days.

A feast that lasts for six months.

That's some celebration, that's some feast.

Presumably people did not stay there for the entire six months, but the celebration went on for that length of time.

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