Ruling nations
At the time of Ahasuerus, Ahasuerus ruling from India to Sudan 127 nations. In those days President Ahasuerus ruled from his throne in Susa the capital. The third year of his rule he gave a party for all the elite, officials, military of Persia and Media.All the rulers and elite of the nations were there. A display of the wealth of the vast empire magnificance and triumph of his brillance went on for 180 days. Coming to the end of that the President gave to all the visitors, to the capital Susa, from the least to the most important a party lasting seven days in the closed garden (Decorations were-Ed) Blue and white linen tied by purple and white linen to rings of silver from marble pillars with gold and silver couches on a mosaic floor precious stone marble and mother of pearl. In gold goblets all different wine was freely avaliable. So the wine was freely avaliable the Presidents style. With the President's wine stewards culturally aware of the different requirements of different men. The President's wife Vasti gave a party on the woman's side of Ahasuerus's Imperial Palace. On the seventh day in high spirits from drinking the President commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Carcus seven sex change slaves for the President to bring Vashti the President's wife with he Imperial crown to show the people and the elite her beauty. Vahti refused to come with these attendants. The President went into a rage, very angry, burning anger. He consulted wise men who understand change, expert in law and justice. His seven advisors were Carchena, Shethar, Adamtha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, Mermican; elite from Persia and Media having access at the highest levels. What according to legal precedent what should happen to Presidential wife Vashti ? She hasn't obeyed the command of the :President Ahasuerus which the sex change boys took her. Memucan replied in the Presidential elite forum; 'This isn't against the President what Vashti has done but against all the elite and all the people in the nations of the empire of President Ahasuerus. When word gets out of what the President's wife did all the women will have a degr aded view of their husbands and say when Vashti waas commanded byh President Ahasuerus she didn't come. Today the elite women have heard of what the President's wife has done and will Iran and Media respond to the President's elite in the same way. There will be no end to the upset and rebellion (You mean like when the British Empire appointed a teenage girl to rule them in 1837-Ed) Now the President should issue a Presidential decree saying 'Written into the law of Iran and Media unable to be repealed Vashti can never again enter President Ahasuerus presence and the President gives her title and position to a better person. When the President's Law is published throughout the Empire all the women will respect their husbands from the greatest to the least.' The President was pleased with the advice and so were the elite thus the President did as Memcan suggested. Messages were sent to the nations in their own languages saying (More work for us translators-Ed) in the strange tongues that every man should rule over his house. Some time later when the anger of President Ahasuerus had died down he re in susmembered Vashti and the law passed about her. The servants serving the President proposed that a search should be made for young women, virgins, beautiful ones for the President. Let the President appoint commissioners in all the nations in his empire and bring all the girls, beautiful virgins to Susa the capital and under the care of Hegai in the special place for women for beauty treatment. The girl who is pleasing to the eye of the President can be Presidentail wife instead of Vashti. The President thought this was a great idea. There was a Jewish man in Susa the capital Mordecai descendant of Jair descendant of Shimei descendant of Kish of the tribe of Benjamin. Exiled from Jerusalem a captive captured with Jeconiah King of Judah caught by Nebuchadnezzar President o\f Babylon. He was raising Hadassah also Esther daughter of his uncle because she didn't have a father or mother (Ah I knew it-an alien-Ed) Mordecai had taken her as a daughter. When the Presidents's Law had been heard many girls were brought to the capital Susa under Hegai's care. Esther as well went to the Presidential palace under Hegai in charge of women. She was pleasing in his eyes and won his favor giving her immediate beauty treatment and food for her as well as seven girls assigned to her from the Presidential palace moving her to the best place in the hiouse of women. Esther did not tell or her ethnic background or her family because Mordecai ordered her not to say it. Every day Mordecai walked near the enclosure of the house of women to find out what was happening to her. Before a girl went into the presence of President she had complete the course of 12 months. Six months beauty treatment oil with myrrh and six months perfumes etc. When she went into the president anything she wantyed was given her to take from the house of women to the Presidential palace. She went in the evening returning in the morning going to another place looked after by Shaashgaz the Presidentail sex change in charge of concubines and did not return again to the President unless he was pleased and the President called her by name. When it was Esthers turn, daughter of Abihail uncle of Mordecai who had adopted her as daughter, to go to the President she asked for nothing to take except what Hegai the President's sex change boy in charge of women suggeste. The Presidentd (Rabbi tradition is that she took a rose and she laughed and played with him-Ed) Esther was winning favor with everyone who saw her. Esther was taken to President Ahasuerus at his Presidentail house init the 10th month of the month of Tebith in the seventh year of his rule. The President was taken by Esther more than any of thew other woman. She won his favor, he liked her more than all the other virgins so he put the crown on her head and made her Presidential wife replacing Vashti. The President gave a great party for all the elite and officials. He made a holiday throughout the nations and gasve gifts like a real President. When the virgins were gathered a second time Mordecai was sitting at tne Presidential gate. (Ah I know it well- Watergate its called) Esther had not revealed her family or ethnic background just as Mordecai had ordered her. Esther was following just as she had when she was growing up. At that time at the Presidential gate the President was angry with Bigthan and Teresh two officers guarding the doorway and they planned to kill President Ahasuerus. Mordecai uncovered the plot told Esther the Presidential wife who reported to the President in the name of Mordecai. Investigated the report was substantiated and the two were hanged and the event was recorded in the Presidential dairy of events.
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