Esther Oil

Women Professing

Godliness

Barbara Sword Turner

Copyright © 2017 by Barbara Sword Turner.

Library of Congress Control Number:     2017918430

ISBN:                Hardcover                  978-1-5434-7020-8

                          Softcover                    978-1-5434-7019-2

                          eBook                          978-1-5434-7018-5

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.

Scripture quotations marked AMP are from The Amplified Bible, Old Testament copyright © 1965, 1987 by the Zondervan Corporation. The Amplified Bible, New Testament copyright © 1954, 1958, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

Rev. date: 12/14/2017

Xlibris

1-888-795-4274

www.Xlibris.com

771173

CONTENTS

Chapter 1     Esther’s Time of preparation

Chapter 2     Scary Time

Chapter 3     The Power of Anointing Oil

Chapter 4     The Tongue

Chapter 5     Purpose for dressing modest Purpose the Highest Heels?

Chapter 6     Gender Confusion

Chapter 7     Why are you Looking Like That?

Chapter 8     Women Bishops, Qualification for a Bishop

Chapter 9     What is Abnormal?

Chapter 10   The Rejection of Leah

Chapter 11   She Really Cared, The power of Deception and Persuasion

Chapter 12   The Other Wife

Chapter 13   Marriage and Adultery

Chapter 14   Common Practice

Chapter 15   Mental and Emotionl Actions

Summary

Prayer

CHAPTER ONE

Esther’s Time of preparation

M ORDECAI A BENJAMITE living in exile, Yahweh fearing Hebrew man, resided in Susa (Shushan), the name Mordecai, is of uncertain origin but is considered identical to the name Marduka or Morodkai attested as an official in the Persian court.

One hundred years earlier, their ancestors, were among those taken captive. The Hebrews tribes of Judah, the Benjamities taken from the southern kingdom, included the mighty men of velour ten thousand, also those who had gifts had been taken into captivity and carried away to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar, none remained except the poorest.

Esther was Mordecai’s adopted fourteen- year old –cousin, her Hebrew name was Hadassah. He brought her up as his own daughter; because she had neither father nor mother. Her Father’s name had been Abihail.

The Persia king Ahasuerus who was also known as Xerxes, was married to Queen Vashti queen of Persia; the king Xerxes probably took her to wife as soon as he was of marriageable age.

What happen to the king and queen to cause him to search for another queen, men and women did not partake in festivities together, so it was necessary that they should be entertained separately. This is how it all started.

The king of Persia gave in the third year of his reign a banquet to the grandees of the kingdom at Susa; and on the seventh day of the feast, when his heart was merry with wine, required the Queen to appear before his guess and show her beauty, when she refused to come at the king’s commandment she had fallen into disfavor with her husband so she was divorced.

So at the advice of his servant, many young females were brought to the house of the women at Susa, which the king might choose a wife at his pleasure.

In the beginning during time she and other possible virgins were taken into the palace to begin the season of their preparation to determine who would become queen.

The reason Yahweh allowed events to be the way they were is because He had a plan to save His people by making Esther queen.

**Hadassah was righteous, obedient, and self developed, she did not grow up being under female guidance. She had grown up in a unique place, she learned wisdom from her cousin, and she was different and carried herself in a unique way. She did not have foreknowledge of the calling on her life.

The Most High had chosen Hadassah and He used Mordecai to bring destiny to pass. He choose to use significant people in your life as well to carry out His purpose, He wants to use you in a significant way.

He will use certain people in your life if need be if you are chosen by divine design, there is virtually no doubt Hadassah was chosen by Yahweh to save from destruction His chosen people.

In the Bible names are not given by accident, whenever Jewish parents give Jewish names to their children, they are granted a certain measure of divine inspiration, and they would give each child a name that’s appropriate for that child soul.

Hadassah had two names, the name Hadassah, come from the word hadas which means myrtle. The myrtle is rather a plan-looking plant but, when its leaves are bruised and crushed, they give forth a sweet fragrance; because myrtle leaves are sweet they are used as a metaphor to describe righteous people.

Her name given her in Persia Esther was Ishtar or Astarte, both in Hebrew and in Aramaic, the name Esther, means hidden and indeed Esther’s true identify was hidden in plain sight. Nothing was to prevent her, or interfere with her becoming and being the queen of Persia, so when the king issued his law, his officials brought many beautiful Persian girls to the castle, however the plan of Yahweh had already gone fourth.

She had already been chosen before the foundation of the world and was able to secure and achieve salvation for her people.

Usually the kings of Persia only married wives from the seventh most important families in Persia, but YAHWEH had another queen in mind, who was a Jew yet the search was on for suitable young girls. These girls were from large families, where the father word was law. At home The Persian girls were train to run the house and raise children, noble Persian children were raise by their mother until the age of five, from then on they were raised by slaves. There was what held much importance for the entire family.

In the ancient times Persian /Iranian girls, some were named after flowers. Banafsheh =Violet.

Trees (Sarvenaz==Czpress. Cila= Lilac (Sarv Narges = Narcissus. Also were named after Animals (such as, Ahoo=Deer. Ghazal=Gazelle.

It is also noted and of interest, that these Persian girls had sexy names as well, and some of these names are still used today. For example, name of one Sassanid princess was Khoshfarberan Knosh=Beautiful. Forbe=Fat. Run=Leg. Meaning, (a girl who had beautiful fat legs) another one, was Nar =Pomegranate. Pestan =Breast.

Most certainly the Iranian families, believed in good deeds, such as; keeping your word, giving to the poor, working the land and treating others well. What they consider to be bad deeds, were; laziness, proud, and being greedy.

These young girls that was selected, were from different regions of the land of Persia, and tolerated extreme hot temperatures, normally sweating lowers the body temperature, however their bodies evaporative cooling ability was greatly reduced when the high temperature was accompanied by high humidity, a combination, of higher temperature and increased humidity, could cause heat strokes, could lead to death.

And because some were poor, their diets were consistence to where they lived and ate the same food types. The heat caused them to perspire heavily and the humility made it worse.

Certain kinds of food or their diet, produced certain kinds of odors, that penetrated into their skin, regular bathing would not eliminated certain kinds of odors, causing the small from their bodies to be noticeable to those that were near them.

PURIFICATION

Now