Most of us like a good celebration, whether it's something that happens annually or a one-time

event, throughout the Bible there are various feasts established to celebrate and commemorate. Today

on Truth For Life we'll look at the Feast of Purim. Alistair Begg helps us understand what's so

important to remember and why.

Esther chapter 9 and the 20th there are some more Dekai recorded these things and sent letters to all the

Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far. Oblijing them to keep the 14th day of

the month of Adar and also the 15th day of the same year by year as the days on which the Jews got

relief from their enemies and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness

and from mourning into a holiday. That they should make them days of feasting and gladness,

days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor. So the Jews accepted what they

had started to do and what Mordekai had written to them. For him and the Aga-Gaite, the son of Hamadatha,

the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast poor,

that is cast lots to crush and to destroy them. But when it came before the King he gave orders in

writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head

and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. Therefore they called these days

Puh-Rum after the term Puh. Therefore because of all that was written in this letter and of what

they had faced in this matter and of what had happened to them, the Jews firmly obligated

themselves and they're offspring and all who joined them that without fail they would keep these

two days according to what was written and at the appointed time of every year that these days

should be remembered and kept throughout every generation in every clan, province and city,

and that these days of Puh-Rum should never fall into disuse among the Jews nor should the

commemoration of these days cease among their descendants. Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abigail

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