Rules That Cannot Be Broken

Write ye also to the Jews, as it pleaseth you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring; for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse. 
(Esther 8:8)

The book of Esther is an ancient type of Novella. The story of a young orphan girl, in a foreign land, chosen to be queen of the land by powerful King Ahasuerus. It chronicles her rise to the throne, and her necessity to hazard her life for her people. In the end she triumphs over the plot to commit genocide of her people. Her great enemy is slain, and her people are given the ability and right to defend themselves against others who would seek to take their lives.

  

The reason for her dilemma came about through a grudge a man named "Haman" had toward Esther's Uncle Mordecai. Haman, a confederate of the King, used that power to decree that all the Jews in the kingdom were to be killed on a certain day. 

With Esther's intervention King Ahasuerus strives to change it enough that the people affected (Esther and her nation) will be saved. He sends a second set of letters that give the Jews the ability to defend them self. The commentary makes these points: 

• why the king, Mordecai, and Esther are writing and sealing the present letters-
• why the earlier letters can't be reversed (it doesn't appear that Haman's letters were reversed, merely an addendum added)
• now the people could still rise up against their Jewish neighbors, but the Jews now had the right of self defense against said attempts upon their lives
• so, although the second letters did not reverse the first (the Persian law once made could not be broken) these letters rendered them moot and void--

We can view these forays into Biblical history and learn from them. Here are some things we can learn from this:

• we have laws over us written by mere humans, if those are important we need to recognize Jehovah's laws are much more important
• The laws of Jehovah God, unlike man made laws, are not something we can vote into, or out of vogue. 
• Jehovah's laws are not made on a whim. He knows what's best for us, He desires the best for us, and those laws are best for us.
• The Old Law was nailed to the cross; done away. The New Law, brought into existence and paid for by Jesus on the cross, gives us hope. He is our advocate against our enemy Satan. 

Under the Mosaic Law a person was born Jewish then they were taught how to live according to that law. To become a Christian we are taught first then choose to become a Christian. The Mosaic Law was written on tablets of stone; Christian Law is written on tablets of the heart. The Law of God is not like the law of men; 

Matthew 16:19  And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 

The Law of God cannot be broken—Hallelujah, What a Savior!