[610] Esther is canonical

We do think Esther is canonical due to these verses.

22 according to the days on which the Jews had rested from their enemies and the month that was changed for them from grief to rejoicing and from mourning to a good day, to hold them as days of banqueting and rejoicing and sending of portions to one another and of gifts to the poor people. (Esther 9 NWT)

14 For if you are altogether silent at this time, relief and deliverance themselves will stand up for the Jews from another place; but as for you and your father's house, you people will perish. And who is there knowing whether it is for a time like this that you have attained to royal dignity? (Esther 4 NWT) [Great Divine wisdom]

But it is a book that does use the word "God" and is the story of a woman who slept her way to the top. So God is not quite what you would imagine from Leviticus23!

1 Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, that is, the Ahasuerus who was ruling as king from India to Ethiopia [literal appearing once in this account but twice in Esther], [over] 127 jurisdictional districts, (Esther 1 NWT)

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1N4j4e0Id2n-4iPW9adznwOiZGTY&ll=31.4644831453073%2C-0.703125&z=2
Watchtower Branch and Country and Remote Translation Offices
Alaska
Albania
Angola
Antigua
Argentina (Branch Office)
Armenia (Branch Office)
Australia (Australasia Branch)
Austria
Bahamas
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bolivia
Brazil
Britain (IBSA House: Branch Office & Printery)
Bulgaria
Burundi
Cambodia (Country Office)
Cameroon (Branch Office)
Canada
Central African Republic
Chile
Colombia
Congo (Branch Office)
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Czech Republic (Country Office)
Côte d’Ivoire (Branch Office)
Denmark (Scandinavia Branch)
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Estonia (Country Office)
Ethiopia
Faroe Islands
Fiji (Main complex)
Finland
France (Branch Office)
French Guiana
Georgia
Germany (Central Europe Branch Office)
Ghana
Greece
Guadeloupe
Guam (Micronesia Branch Office)
Guyana
Haiti
Hawaii
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary (Branch Office & Bethel Home)
Iceland
India (Branch Office & Printery)
Indonesia (Branch Office)
Ireland
Israel
Italy (Branch Office & Bethel Home)
Jamaica
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Korea (Branch Office, Bethel Home & Printery)
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Liberia
Lithuania (Country Office)
Luxembourg (Country Office)
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia (Country Office, Bethel 1)
Malta (Country Office)
Martinique
Mauritius
Mexico (Central America Branch)
Moldova
Mozambique (Branch Office)
Myanmar
Namibia (Country Office)
Netherlands
New Caledonia
New Zealand (Country Office at Assembly Hall)
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Norway
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay (Branch Office)
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
RTO Aruba RTO (Remote Translation Office)
RTO Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou RTO (Remote Translation Office)
RTO Chuuk RTO (Remote Translation Office)
RTO Curaçao RTO (Remote Translation Office)
RTO Greenland: Nuuk RTO (Remote Translation Office)
RTO Palau RTO (Remote Translation Office)
RTO Rarotonga RTO (Cook Islands) (Remote Translation Office)
RTO South Sudan: Juba RTO (Regional Translation Office)
RTO Tonga: Tonga RTO (Remote Translation Office)
RTO Vanuatu RTO (Remote Translation Office)
Romania
Russia - CLOSED
Rwanda
Réunion (Country Office)
Samoa
Senegal
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Tahiti
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
USA: United States of America
Uganda
Ukraine
Uruguay (Country Office at Centro Educativo)
Venezuela (Branch Office)
Zambia
Zimbabwe
135 countries. Russia is closed and 10 are RTOs. So without RTOs it is 125 Offices.

It must be Branch + Country Offices listed on https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1N4j4e0Id2n-4iPW9adznwOiZGTY&ll=31.4644831453073%2C-0.703125&z=2

There will be or there will have been 2 more because the website acknowledges their listing to be incomplete!!

127 Jurisdictional districts of Esther are 127 Branch and Country offices of JWs see U610.
AND 127 months from the installation of Laodicea to rule over the 1NCs on 2007Elul11 to 2017Elul10, the fall of Laodicea
+ 2019Tishri10 to 2019Adar16 (over the 1NCs in reappointed Laodicea)
+ 2020Sivan12 to 2020Heshvan14 (over the 1NCs and HLCs in reverted Laodicea)
excluding 2012Sivan14 to 2012Elul6, the Abrahamic Laodicean installation gap over the 1NCs
10 years - 1 day + 5 months + 6 days + 5 months + 2 days - 2 months - 22 days = 127 months + 15 days.
300 Denariii of genuine nard on the head runs from 2019Elul10 to 2020Tammuz10 for 1NC reserves.

The 12th year of Esther of Ahasuerus is 2019 from 2007Elul11. The 13th day of the 12th month of the 12th year is 2019Adar13.

AND it takes 50 days, a Pentecost, for church law to become installed from its appointment at first fruits. So it takes 50 days for a church to gain a jurisdictional district (law over its congregation). So 127 jurisdictional districts are 127 Pentecosts, which is 127x50 or 6350 days, the length of the Laodicean congregations from 2005Adar1 to 2023Tishri21. The Watchtower have had 127 Jurisdiction districts worldwide during the contest and the Laodicean congregation lasts for 127 Pentecosts (Ahasuerus is the Laodicean/Watchtower administration whereas Jesus is the King in Esther - see U610.

The Characters in the whole book may work as follows...

Ahasuerus is the GB
The King is Jesus
Haman [Magnificent] is President of Laodicea, or the administration of Laodicea (Balaam)
Zeresh [Gold], his wife, is Laodicea, the ass of Balaam
Vashti [Beautiful], the Queen is the original remnant (not said to be the wife of Ahasuerus or the king) who abdicated
Esther [Star], the Queen, is the 1NC reserves in Laodicea. Actually the 3rd bride.
Esther, is the 1NC reserves
Hadassah [Myrtle, aromatic oil, white flowers, blue berries] is the 1NC reserves in the Watchtower before sanctification
Mordecai [little man, worshipper of Mars] in the Angel of Laodicea
The Jews, Mordecai's people are the saints
Mordecai's father is Gordon the brother of Russell the father of Esther. Mordecai was sanctified under EC4.
Abihail [my father is might], Esther's father is Russell (she was sanctified under his water baptism).
The first house of the women, under the eunuch Hegai [eunuch] is 1NC claimants who wish to serve with the Evil Slave
The second house of the women under the eunuch Shaashgaz [servant of the beautiful], the guardian of the concubines is all those who have had their application to serve processed. Those who are succeed, being called by name, are recognized by the GB as being 1NC saints, although most of them are not such. For the Watchtowr Bethel is a fake 1NC brother where doves are sold and sianthood is exchanged like a market.
Shusan the castle, lily the fortress, is the 2NCs in the Ark. For Solomon's love was like a lily.

2 Like a lily among thorny weeds, so is my girl companion among the daughters. (Song of Solomon 2 NWT)
1 Where has your dear one gone, Oh most beautiful one among women? Where has your dear one turned, that we may seek him with you?
2 My own dear one has gone down to his garden, to the garden beds of spice plants, to shepherd among the gardens, and to pick lilies.
3 I am my dear one's, and my dear one is mine. He is shepherding among the lilies.
4 You are beautiful, Oh girl companion of mine, like Pleasant City, comely like Jerusalem, awesome as companies gathered around banners. (Song of Solomon 6 NWT)

27 Mark well how the lilies grow; they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. (Luke 12 NWT)

The Realm of Ahasuerus is the Watchtower.
The 127 Jurisdictional districts are all the districts with a branch/country office?

7 In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the 12th year of King Ahasuerus [], someone cast Pur, that is, the Lot, before Haman from day to day and from month to month, [to] the 12th, that is, the month Adar [] (Esther 3).

The wording is deliberately ambiguous as to whether Haman cast lots all year or he cast lots to determine which day of the year this would be. It is obvious on reflection that he did not cast lots all year. They were good enough at casting lots to make a random choice of a day and a month in one day back then. But in the greater meaning, the bible research took all of the 12th year of independent rule of the Governing Body of the JWs.

8 Is there also to be a raping of the queen, with me in the house? (Esther 7) Literally no there wasn't. Symbolically yes there was.

5 A certain man, a Jew, happened to be in Shushan the castle, and his name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish a Benjaminite,
6 who had been taken into exile from Jerusalem with the deported people who were taken into exile with Jeconiah the king of Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon took into exile.
7 And he came to be the caretaker of Hadassah [myrtle], that is, Esther, the daughter of his father's brother, for she had neither father nor mother; and the young woman was pretty in form and beautiful in appearance, and at the death of her father and her mother Mordecai took her as his daughter [Gordon did not do that. AOL must have done that]. (Esther 2 NWT)

Esther 5-8

1 And it happened on the third day that Esther [meaning star, Hadassah her original name meaning myrtle] put on royal [clothing] and stood in the inner court of the king's house, before the king's inner house. And the king was sitting on his royal throne in the royal house, in front of the gate of the house.
2 And it happened, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she rose in favor [in] his eyes. And the king held out the golden scepter that [was] in his hand to Esther. And Esther drew near and touched the top of the scepter.
3 And the king said to her. What [shall be done] to you, O Queen Esther, and what [is] your wish? It will be given to you also, even to half of the kingdom [the heavenly half or the non Eden2 half? The 3rd Holy Spirit is the sacred King and the 2NCs are the secular king of the Kingdom of God].
4 And Esther answered, If it [seems] good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet which I have prepared for him [the early 1st Watchtower Passover of the Bethels on 2019Elul14 - held at Laodicea].
5 And the king said, Cause Haman to hurry to do the word of Esther. And the king and Haman came to the banquet which Esther had prepared.
6 And the king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, What [is] your petition, and it shall be granted to you? And what [is] your wish? And it will be done, to half of the kingdom.
7 And Esther replied and said, [As to] my petition and my request,
8 if I have found favor in the eyes of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet which I shall prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow according to the word of the king [the 1st Watchtower Passover of the Bethels on 2019Tishri14 - held at Laodicea].
9 And Haman went out that day joyful and good of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the gate of the king, that he did not stand up or move for him, he was full of fury against Mordecai.
10 But Haman held himself in, and came to his house, and sent [for] and brought in his friends, and his wife Zeresh.
11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and his many sons, and all to which the king had promoted him, and how he lifted him up above the rulers and the servants of the king.
12 And Haman said, Also, Esther the queen did not let [anyone] come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared, except me [the 1st Watchtower Passover of the Bethels on 2019Elul14/Tishri14/Heshvan14. So nobody other than the descended 1NCs, the 3rd Bride and the administration of Laodicea (Balaam) attended 1st Watchtower Passovers]. And also tomorrow I am called to it with the king [through his wife, the descended 3rd Holy Spirit].
13 Yet all this is no gain to me as long as I am seeing Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
14 And his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Make a wooden [gallows] fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak to the king and let them hang Mordecai on it; and go rejoicing in with the king to the banquet [This must be the 5th marriage Pentecost relating to those engagement banquets, from 2019Chislev20 to 2019Shebat9?]. And the thing was good in Haman's eyes. And he caused the wooden [gallows] to be made. (Esther 5 GLT)

1 On that night the king's sleep fled, and he said to bring in the Book of the Records of the Matter of the Days. And they were being read before the king.
2 And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, the guards of the threshold, who sought to send forth a hand against King Ahasuerus.
3 And the king said, What honor and dignity was done to Mordecai for this? And the king's young servants of his ministers said, Nothing has been done for him.
4 And the king said, Who [is] in the court? And Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the wooden [gallows] which he had prepared for him.
5 And the king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman stands in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
6 And Haman came in. And the king said to him, What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor? And Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself? [unfulfilled Hypothetical]
7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
8 let them [3x] bring royal clothing [1x], which the king puts in/at/on himself [b], and the horse upon [l[] which the king rides [1x+1x], and the royal crown which is set in/at/on [b] his head [1x];
9 and let this clothing and horse be given upon the hand of men from the chief leaders of the king [2x+5x = 7x], and let them [3x] dress the man whom the king delights to honor [1x], and cause him to ride upon the horse in the broadway of the city [2x. The city of the autonomous administration of Zoar where this horse resides and which Caleb owns as Hebron], and let them call out to faces of him [polite plural], Like this - like this [hk'K'] shall be done to the man whom the king delights, in honouring him!

3x.(1x+1x+1x+1x)+7x+3x.(1x+2x)+3x.2x.(1x+1x)=12x+7x+9x+12x = 40x. From 2020Sivan12, the start of 4EC entrance into Reverted Laodicea, to 2023Tishri21, the end of Reverted Laodicea. This is the fulfilment of the unfulfilled hypothetical of verse6.

So Haman rides Jesus' horse and Elijah4 rides the 2NC horse, the 1st horse of the apocalypse.

10 And the king said to Haman, Hurry! Take the clothing and the horse, as/like what you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Do not fail to do any of all the things you have spoken.
11 And Haman took the clothing and the horse, and dressed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the broadway of the city, and called out before him, In this way shall be done to the man whom the king delights, in honouring him!
12 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate, but Haman hurried to his house mourning, and [his] head covered.
13 And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai is of the seed of the Jews, before whom you have begun to fall, you shall not prevail against him, but falling shall fall before him.
14 And while they [were] still talking with him, the king's eunuchs arrived, and they hurried to bring Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared. (Esther 6 GLT)

1 And the king and Haman came to the banquet of Queen Esther.
2 And the king said again to Esther on the second day of the banquet of wine, What [is] your petition, Queen Esther [Esther is the 3rd marriage bride of Jesus, the Bethelite 1NC reserves - on 2019Elul14, the regular 1st Watchtower Passover, the 2nd Passover night for the Bethels], and it shall be given to you. And what [is] your request? It shall be done, to the half of the kingdom.
3 And Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.
4 For we are sold, my people and I, for destruction, for murder and for perishing. But if we had been sold for male slaves and slave-girls, I would have kept silent, though the adversary could not make up for the king's loss [a hypothetical. She does keep silent in the greater meaning and her people are sold as slaves].
5 And King Ahasuerus answered and said to Esther the queen, Who [is] he, this one? And where [is] this one, he who is filled [with pride] in his heart to do so?
6 And Esther said, A man, an enemy, and a hating one, Haman! This evil one! And Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
7 And the king, rising from the banquet of wine in his wrath, [went] into the palace garden. And Haman stood to beg for his life from Esther the queen, for he saw that evil was fulfilled against him by the king.
8 And the king returned out of the garden to the house of the banquet of wine [Laodicea. But not to the banquet of wine itself]. And Haman had fallen on the couch on which Esther [lay]. And the king said, Will he also ravish the queen with me in the house? The word went from the king's mouth, and they covered Haman's face.
9 And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said before the king, Also, look! The wooden [gallows] which Haman made for Mordecai, who had spoken good toward the king, [is] standing at Haman's house. And the king said, Hang him on it! [the appointment Pentecost for the 3rd Holy Spirit over Abrahamic Zoar from 2026Elul16 to 2026Heshvan5]
10 And they hanged Haman on the wooden [gallows] which he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath lay down. (Esther 7 GLT)

1 On that day King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the [one] distressing the Jews, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he [was] to her.
2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
3 And Esther spoke yet again before the king and fell down at his feet. And she begged him with tears to put away the evil of Haman the Agagite, and his purpose which he had plotted against the Jews.
4 Then the king held out the golden scepter to Esther, and Esther rose up and stood before the king,
5 and said, If it pleases the king, and if I have fond favor before him, and the thing [is] right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to bring back the documents (a sly plot by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite) which he wrote to destroy the Jews [who] are in all the king's provinces.
6 For how shall I be able to look on the evil that shall find my people? Or how shall I be able to look on the slaughter of my kindred?
7 And King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Haman's house to Esther, and they have hanged him on the wooden [gallows] because he put forth his hand against the Jews.
8 And you write to the Jews according to the good in your eyes, 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, there is no taking back.
9 And the king's scribes were called at that time, in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the twenty third of it. And it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors, and the rulers of the provinces which were from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews; according to their writing and according to their language.
10 And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed with the king's ring. And he sent letters by riders on horses, riders on stallions, mules, even sons of mares.
11 In [them] the king gave to the Jews in every single city [the right] to assemble, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province, the ones compressing them, little ones and women, and [to take] what they owned for a prize,
12 on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
13 The copy of the writing to be made law in every province was openly revealed to all peoples, even to the Jews being ready for this day, to avenge themselves on their enemies.
14 The runners, riders on stallions, mules, went out, being hurried and pressed on by the king's command. And the order was given at Shushan the palace.
15 And Mordecai went out from before the king in apparel of the kingdom, of blue and white, and with a great crown [of] gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple. And the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
16 For the Jews it was light and gladness and joy and honor.
17 And in every province [and] in every city and city, the place wherever the word of the king and his law touched, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews, for the fear of the Jews fell on them. (Esther 8 GLT)

Esther 3

7 In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the 12th year of King Ahasuerus [2019Nisan1 to 2019Adar30 from 2007Elul11 or 2024Nisan1-2024Adar30 from 2012Tishri5 over non adamic Abraham], someone cast Pur, that is, the Lot, before Haman from day to day and from month to month, [to] the 12th, that is, the month Adar.
8 And Haman proceeded to say to King Ahasuerus: There is one certain people [Laodiceans] scattered and separated among the peoples in all the jurisdictional districts of your realm; and their laws are different from all other people's, and the king's own laws they are not performing, and for the king it is not appropriate to let them alone.
9 If to the king it does seem good, let there be a writing that they be destroyed; and 10,000 silver talents I shall pay into the hands of those doing the work by bringing [it] into the king's treasury.
10 At that the king removed his signet ring from his own hand and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the one showing hostility to the Jews.
11 And the king went on to say to Haman: The silver is given to you, also the people, to do with them according to what is good in your own eyes.
12 The king's secretaries were then called in the first month on the 13th day of it, and writing went on according to all that Haman commanded the king's satraps and the governors who were over the different jurisdictional districts, and the princes of the different peoples, of each jurisdictional district, in its own style of writing, and each people in its own tongue; in the name of King Ahasuerus it was written and it was sealed with the king's signet ring.
13 And there was a sending of the letters by means of couriers to all the king's jurisdictional districts, to annihilate, to kill and to destroy all the Jews, young man as well as old man, little ones and women, on one day, on the 13th [day] of the 12th month, that is, the month Adar, and to plunder the spoil of them [2019Adar13 or 2024Adar13].
14 A copy of the writing to be given as law in all the different jurisdictional districts was being published to all the peoples, [for them] to become ready for this day.
15 The couriers themselves went out, being moved to speed because of the king's word, and the law itself was given in Shushan the castle. As for the king and Haman, they sat down to drink; but as for the city of Shushan, it was in confusion. (Esther 3 NWT)

Hammedatha the father of Haman means 'he that troubles the law'. So he may be the man of lawlessness. Roger Knight or whoever sent him to get the baptism.

Esther 9

The Jews outside Shushan congregated on 2019Adar13 before Laodicea fell as a true church. But there was a turning to the contrary and the Jews dominated over those hating them on 2019Adar13. The Jews rested on 2019Adar14 and 2019Adar15 (Purim) then Laodicea fell as a true church on 2019Adar16.
The Jews congregated in Shushan on 2024Adar13/14 and rested on 2024Adar15.
This is two stories in one??

The phrase in the 12th month, that, the month Adar appears in pairs. It appears in accounts in Esther 3:7,13 and in Esther 8:12 and 9:1.
7 from month to month, [to] the 12th, that is, the month Adar. (Esther 3 NWT)
13 on the 13th [day] of the 12th month, that is, the month Adar (Esther 3 NWT)
12 on the 13th [day] of the 12th month, that is, the month of Adar. (Esther 8 NWT)
1 And in the 12th month, that is, the month of Adar (Esther 9 NWT)

No other month which is both named and numbered appears in pairs. Here are all the instance.
7 In the first month, that is, the month Nisan (Esther 3 NWT)
1 in the month of Ziv, that is, the second month (1 Kings 6 NWT)
9 in the 3rd month, that is, the month of Sivan (Esther 8 NWT)
38 in the lunar month of Bul, that is, the 8th month (1 Kings 6 NWT)
1 on the 4th [day] of the 9th month, [that is,] in Chislev. (Zechariah 7 NWT)
16 in the 10th month, that is, the month Tebbeth (Esther 2 NWT)
7 On the 24th day of the 11th month, that is, the month Shebat (Zechariah 1 NWT)

These are the only references to months in the bible both by number and by name. ONLY Adar is referenced in pairs in both accounts in which it appears.

So Esther is definitely declaring a second Adar, VeAdar, AdarII. That occurs in 2024. It did not occur in 2019. So Esther must have a 2024 fulfilment.

Perhaps those outside Shushan stop working for the Watchtower on 2024VeAdar14 (the Isaaic world exodus Passover) and those in Shushan stop working for Satan as Caesar on 2019Adar15, the day before the fall of reappointed Laodicea, whose president was possessed by Satan.

¹⁸⁴1 And in the 12th month, that is, the month of Adar [not a double designation but a further specification], on the 13th day of it [], when the king's word and his law came due to be performed, on the day for which the enemies of the Jews had waited to domineer/rule over them, there was even a turning to the contrary [2019Adar13 in Shushan and 2024Adar13 outside Shushan], in that the Jews themselves domineered/ruler over those hating them.
2 The Jews [3x. Laodiceans] congregated themselves in their cities [3x. Bethels. One in each jurisdictional district] in all the jurisdictional districts of King Ahasuerus [127x of them. 127 Branch and Country Offices of the Watchtower (excluding Remote Translation Offices) AND 127 months of authority as Laodicea] to lay/stretch out a hand [5x precisely and ignore the plural seeking ones] in/at seeking [ones] of their injury, and not a man stood up to faces of them [3x], because the dread of them had fallen upon all the peoples [3x. Dread cannot be physically upon].

2 They were gathered the Jews in their cities in all the jurisdictional districts of King Ahasuerus to lay hand on those seeking their injury, and not a man stood his ground before them, for the dread of them had fallen upon all the peoples. (Esther 9 NWT)
2 was called the + Jew in/at + cities of + them in/at + judgment of + judgments of the + king Ahasuerus Xerxes to/for + to send of away Hand in/at + searching evil of + them and + Man NOT + stood to/for + faces of + them that/because + fell fear of + them upon + all of + the + peoples (Esther 9 WLCi)

3x.1x.127x.5x.3x + 3x.3x = 5715+9 = 5724 from 2003Shebat21 (when Laodicea was installed to feed the 1NC reserves, FDS3 having taken 1901Chislev2/Tebbeth21 to feed the 1NCs) to 2019Tebbeth14, the late 3rd Watchtower Passover. This is when the last 1NC reserve saint is CRC baptised in reappointed Laodicea - see U610.

All the armies of Jehovah come out of the Egypt of the fallen Watchtower after 430 years a month for a day from 2005Sivan14, when the fell and became Egypt. That is 430x12 = 5160 days or 14 years and 4 months to 2019Tishri14, the 1st Watchtower Passover, when the 1NC saints leave the Watchtower and its prisons for Laodicea.

The stretched out hand would run from 2019Adar13 to 2020Ab13 in non adamic Sodom? Then the 1st HLC marriage Passover is 2020Ab14.¹⁸⁴

300 denarii of perfumed oil on the head from 2019Elul10 to 2020Tammuz10, from entry into the 3rd 1NC marriage Passover to entry into the 7th 1NC marriage Passover
300 +300 denarii of perfumed oil on the feet of John12, the 3EC water baptism of 2NCs from 2020Tebbeth11 to 2022Elul11 in reverted Laodicea - see U112#17

3 And all the princes of the jurisdictional districts and the satraps and the governors and the doers of the business that belonged to the king were assisting the Jews, for the dread of Mordecai had fallen upon them.
4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house and his fame was travelling throughout all the jurisdictional districts, because the man Mordecai was steadily growing greater.

28 Also, on the matter of clothing, why are you anxious? Take a lesson from the lilies of the field, how they are growing; they do not toil, nor do they spin;
29 but I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed as one of these. (Matthew 6 NWT)

Solomon in all his interpretational glory, in all his understanding was not sealed into the ARC until the end of the LW 2NC Alienation Times. In fact no LW can be sealed during the LW 2NC Alienation Times. But non LW 2NCs are so sealed and therefore they have out dressed Solomon himself, until 2024Adar21, the end of the malediction. The wife is dressed in the bridal gown. The husband, which here is the LWs as well as Solomon is not. The lilies of the field are the 2NCs of the white field of the Tetramenos of John4.They grow a self sacrificing heart without working or spinning. Whereas Solomon works upon the scriptures and spins a thread from the wool of the words of a bible account. Solomon does the work but the lilies get the white robe of ARC sealing before Solomon and his administration do.

¹⁸⁹5 And the Jews struck in/at all their enemies stroke of the sword [3x.3x=9x], and slaughter [9x] and destruction [9x], and they did like desire of them in [ones] hating them [3x.2x.3x.3x=54x] (Esther 9 GLT).
6 And in Shushan [lily beloved of Solomon in Song of Solomon 2:1-2 and 6:3: 2NCs: Modern day Shaur in Persia] the fortress [the Bethels?] the Jews killed [3x] and there was a destroying of 500 men [2019Adar13]
7 Also, Parshandatha and Dalphon and Aspatha
8 and Poratha and Adalia and Aridatha
9 and Parmashta and Arisai and Aridai and Vaizatha,
10 the 10 sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the one showing hostility to the Jews, they killed [(10x+10x.3x).3x=120x]; but in the plunder they did not lay their hand [3x.5x=15x].
11 On that day the number of those killed in Shushan [510x] the fortress came before the king [1x].
12 And the king proceeded to say to Esther, the queen: In Shushan, the fortress, the Jews have killed, and there has been a destroying of 500 men and the 10 sons of Haman.

Verse 5: 9x+9x+9x+54x = 81x
Verse 6: 3x+500x = 503x
Verse 7-10: 120x+15x = 135x
Verses 11-12: 510x+1x+3x+500x+10x = 1024x
Total: 81x+503x+135x+1024x = 1743x from 2019Adar13 to 2024Tebbeth16, the start of the rapture of the Abrahamic 2NCs.

Parshandatha to Vaizatha, the 10 sons of Haman, stands for 10x precisely by the Immediate Number Repetition Principle. These may be the 300 denarii of perfumed oil upon the 1NC head of Jesus of Mark14 from 2019Elul10 to 2020Tammuz10.

In the rest of the jurisdictional districts of the king what have they done? And what is your petition? Let it also be given to you. And what is your further/repeated request? Let it also be done.
13 And Esther said: If to the king it does seem good, let it be granted tomorrow [2x] additionally to the Jews that are in Shushan to do as/like the law of today; and let the 10 sons of Haman be hanged upon the stake.
14 So the king said for it to be done as thus/rightly [!Ke] [done as like the law of today and 10 sons hanged upon stakes = 22x]. And a law was given out in Shushan [1x], and the 10 sons of Haman were hanged.

Verse12: 126x.(3x+1x+2x+2x+3x) = 126x.11x = 1386x
Verse13 2x.((2x.3x+1x).2x+10x.2x) = 2x.34x = 68x
Verse14: 32x (not additionally)+1x+10x = 43x
Total: 1386x+68x+43x = 1497x. From 2024VeAdar13 to 2029Iyyar10, the end of entry into FRC salvation¹⁸⁹.

15 And the Jews that were in Shushan proceeded to congregate themselves also/additionally in the 14th day of the month Adar, and they got to kill in Shushan 300 men; but in the plunder they did not lay their hand [3x.5x=15x].
16 As for the rest of the Jews that were in the jurisdictional districts of the king, they congregated themselves, and there was a stand for their souls, and there was an avenging of themselves upon their enemies and a killing among those hating them of 75,000 [not said to be men]; but in the plunder they did not lay their hand [3x.5x=15x from 2024VeAdar13-28?], on the 13th day of the month Adar [2024VeAdar13];
17 and there was a rest on the 14th [day] of it, [NOT by ark rapture but by?] and there was a making of it a day of banqueting and of rejoicing.
18 As for the Jews that were in Shushan, they congregated themselves on the 13th [day] of it and on the 14th [day] of it, and there was a rest on the 15th [day], [by ark rapture?] and there was a making of it a day of banqueting and of rejoicing.

Laodicea stops feeding on 2019Adar16, when it falls as a true church.

19 That is why the country Jews, inhabiting the cities of the outlying districts, were making the 14th day of the month Adar [2024VeAdar14] a rejoicing and a banqueting and a good day and a sending of portions to one another.
20 And Mordecai proceeded to write these things and send written documents to all the Jews that were in all the jurisdictional districts of King Ahasuerus, the nearby and the distant ones,
21 to impose upon them the obligation to be regularly holding the 14th day of the month Adar [] and the 15th day of it [] in each and every year,
22 according to the days on which the Jews had rested from their enemies [by entering into God's rest in the ark] and the month that was changed for them from grief to rejoicing and from mourning to a good day, to hold them as days of banqueting and rejoicing and sending of portions to one another and of gifts to the poor people.
23 And the Jews accepted what they had started to do and what Mordecai had written to them.
24 For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the one showing hostility to all the Jews, had himself schemed against the Jews to destroy them, and he had had Pur, that is, the Lot, cast, to disquiet them and destroy them.
25 But when Esther came in before the king he said with the written document: Let his bad scheme that he has schemed against the Jews come back upon his own head; and they hanged him and his sons upon the stake.
26 That is why they called these days Purim, by the name of the Pur. That is why, according to all the words of this letter and what they had seen as to this and what had come upon them,
27 the Jews imposed and accepted upon themselves and upon their offspring and upon all those joining themselves to them, that it should not pass away, the obligation to be regularly holding these 2 days according to what was written concerning them and according to their appointed time in each and every year.
28 And these days were to be remembered and held in each and every generation, each family, each jurisdictional district and each city, and these days of Purim themselves should not pass away from the midst of the Jews and the commemoration itself of them not come to an end among their offspring.
29 And Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew proceeded to write with all forcefulness to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.
30 Then he sent written documents to all the Jews in the one 127 jurisdictional districts, the realm of Ahasuerus, [in] words of peace and truth,
31 to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had imposed upon them, and just as they had imposed upon their own soul and upon their offspring, the matters of the fasts and their cry for aid.
32 And the very saying of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim, and it was written down in a book. (Esther 9 NWT)

Esther Apochryphal additions to Chapter 13

1: The copy of the letters was this: The great king Artexerxes writeth these things to the princes and governours that are under him from India unto Ethiopia in an hundred and seven and twenty provinces.
2: After that I became lord over many nations and had dominion over the whole world, not lifted up with presumption of my authority, but carrying myself always with equity and mildness, I purposed to settle my subjects continually in a quiet life, and making my kingdom peaceable, and open for passage to the utmost coasts, to renew peace, which is desired of all men.
3: Now when I asked my counsellors how this might be brought to pass, Aman, that excelled in wisdom among us, and was approved for his constant good will and steadfast fidelity, and had the honour of the second place in the kingdom,
4: Declared unto us, that in all nations throughout the world there was scattered a certain malicious people, that had laws contrary to ail nations, and continually despised the commandments of kings, so as the uniting of our kingdoms, honourably intended by us cannot go forward.
5: Seeing then we understand that this people alone is continually in opposition unto all men, differing in the strange manner of their laws, and evil affected to our state, working all the mischief they can that our kingdom may not be firmly established:
6: Therefore have we commanded, that all they that are signified in writing unto you by Aman, who is ordained over the affairs, and is next unto us, shall all, with their wives and children, be utterly destroyed by the sword of their enemies, without all mercy and pity, the 14th day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:
7: That they, who of old and now also are malicious, may in one day with violence go into the grave, and so ever hereafter cause our affairs to be well settled, and without trouble.
8: Then Mardocheus thought upon all the works of the Lord, and made his prayer unto him,
9: Saying, O Lord, Lord, the King Almighty: for the whole world is in thy power, and if thou hast appointed to save Israel, there is no man that can gainsay thee:
10: For thou hast made heaven and earth, and all the wondrous things under the heaven.
11: Thou art Lord of all things, and and there is no man that can resist thee, which art the Lord.
12: Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest, Lord, that it was neither in contempt nor pride, nor for any desire of glory, that I did not bow down to proud Aman.
13: For I could have been content with good will for the salvation of Israel to kiss the soles of his feet.
14: But I did this, that I might not prefer the glory of man above the glory of God: neither will I worship any but thee, O God, neither will I do it in pride.
15: And now, O Lord God and King, spare thy people: for their eyes are upon us to bring us to nought; yea, they desire to destroy the inheritance, that hath been thine from the beginning.
16: Despise not the portion, which thou hast delivered out of Egypt for thine own self.
17: Hear my prayer, and be merciful unto thine inheritance: turn our sorrow into joy, that we may live, O Lord, and praise thy name: and destroy not the mouths of them that praise thee, O Lord.
18: All Israel in like manner cried most earnestly unto the Lord, because their death was before their eyes.

The Hebrew Canon was fixed before Jesus' ministry and Jesus, the word of God would surely have been negligent had he failed to point out that books were either missing or added to it??

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Incorrect and out of date

1 Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, that is, the Ahasuerus who was ruling as king from India to Ethiopia, [over] 127 jurisdictional districts,
2 [that] in those days as King Ahasuerus was sitting upon his royal throne, which was in Shushan the castle,
3 in the 3rd year of his reigning he held a banquet for all his princes and his servants, the military force of Persia and Media, the nobles and the princes of the jurisdictional districts before himself,
4 when he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom [The Kingdom of God] and the honor [and] the beauty of his greatness for many days, 180 [days] [2008Nisan17 to 2008Tishri17].
5 And when these days had come to the full, the king held a banquet for 7 days [??] for all the people [1AC and upwards] that were found in Shushan the castle [FDS4], for the great as well as the small, in the courtyard of the garden of the king's palace [Zoar. The area before you enter Eden].
6 There were linen, fine cotton and blue held fast in ropes of fine fabric, and wool dyed reddish purple in silver rings and pillars of marble, couches of gold [dinner and marital couches for the 1NC saints] and silver [dinner and marital couches for the 2NC saints] upon a pavement of porphyry [solid doctrine] and marble [level surface is a perfect literal understanding] and pearl [wisdom] and black marble [perfect hidden understandings] [LW doctrine is that majestic].
7 And there was a passing of wine to drink in gold vessels [vessels drunk out of for the first time]; and the vessels were different from one another [different covenants], and the royal wine was in great quantity [wine for covenants to be kings], according to the means of the king [144,000 2NC kings + 12,000 2NC reserves + 6,000 1NC reserves].
8 As regards the time of drinking according to the law, there was no one compelling [drinking the cups of the kingly covenants could be extended throughout the festival], for that was the way the king had arranged for every great man of his household, to do according to the liking of each and every one [the law of drinking only on Nisan14/Iyyar14 was suspended].
9 Also, Vashti, the queen [the 1NC reserve saints] she gave a banquet for the women [the memorial 2008 - some banquet] at the royal house [The Watchtower, the second house of the 1NC] that belonged to King Ahasuerus [Jesus in heaven].
10 On the day, the 7th [not said to be of the banquet. We take it to be the 1,000 year Sabbath] when the king's heart [Gordon, the earthly vassal, king's heart] was in a merry mood with wine [having drunk some cups of the Lord's evening meal], he said to Mehuman [not meangel], Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas [bomb official?], the 7 court officials [a day for a court official] that were ministering to the person of King Ahasuerus,
11 to bring Vashti, the queen in the royal headdress [wearing her crown since the INC reserves, once water baptized are one flesh with the queen and the king] before the king [Gordon], to show the peoples and the princes her loveliness; for she was beautiful in appearance.
12 But Queen Vashti kept refusing to come at the king's word that was [conveyed] by means of the court officials [she did not come and celebrate the Lord's evening meal properly in 2008, but denied the Christ 3x]. At this the king grew highly indignant and his very rage flared up within him [oh oh].
13 And the king proceeded to say to the wise men having knowledge of the times [the bible decoders] for in this way the king's matter [came] before all those versed in law and legal cases,
14 and those closest to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, [and] Memucan, 7 princes of Persia and {7 princes of} Media, having access to the king, [and] who were sitting first in the kingdom [the Carshena class come in during the festival, they being the result of turning water into wine. The 7 princes again stand for 7 days]:
15 According to law what is to be done with Queen Vashti because she has not performed the saying of King Ahasuerus by means of the court officials? [what to we do with these 1NC reserves when they show up on each of the 7 days you represent.]
16 To this Memucan said before the king and the princes: It is not against the king alone that Vashti, the queen has done wrong, but against all the princes and against all the peoples that are in all the jurisdictional districts of King Ahasuerus [Yes, she has damaged all of the true people of God and many faithful people who have been kept in the dark].
17 For the affair of the queen [the 1NC reserve kings] will go out to all the wives so that they will despise their owners in their own eyes [all the congregations will despise their overseers], when they say, 'King Ahasuerus himself said to bring in Vashti, the queen before him, and she did not come in.' [idea is repeated??]
18 And this day the princesses of Persia and [the princesses of] Media, who have heard the affair of the queen, will talk to all the princes of the king, and there will be plenty of contempt and indignation [the female 1NC reserves will be upset with the male 1NC reserves].
19 If to the king it does seem good, let a royal word go out from his person, and let it be written among the laws of Persia and [the laws of] Media [LWs and JWs][The LWs had some 'media' attention during Cakes!], that it may not pass away, that Vashti may not come in before King Ahasuerus [the priesthood of the 1NC saints is suspended in TCC4]; and her royal dignity let the king give to a companion of hers, a woman better than she is.
20 And the decree of the king that he will make must be heard in all his realm for it is vast, and all the wives themselves will give honor to their owners, the great as well as the small.
21 And the thing was pleasing in the eyes of the king and the princes, and the king proceeded to do according to the word of Memucan [so they can baptise each other until the 7th day of Memucan. Sfter that the principle of Memucan kicks in. In fact we can only strip them of their priesthood after the Jubilee. Law is suspended during the festival and the Jubilee. Reserves cannot baptise and minsterial servants cannot administrate].
22 So he sent written documents to all the king's jurisdictional districts, to each jurisdictional district in its own style of writing and to each people in its own tongue, for every husband to be continually acting as prince in his own house and speaking in the tongue of his own people (Esther 1).

Esther Chapter 2

12 And when the turn of each young woman arrived to go in to King Ahasuerus [I will be silent and poor] after it had happened to her according to the women's regulation for 12 months, for that was the way the days of their massage procedure were gradually fulfilled, 6 months with oil of myrrh and 6 months with balsam oil and with the massages of the women [this looks like 50% of the kingdom goes to the 1NC reserves and the other 50% goes to the 2NC Kings. 2 different oils for two different spirit baptisms]
13 then on these conditions the young woman herself came in to the king [to be tested spiritually]. Everything that she would mention would be given her [forgiveness of all sins], to come with her from the house of the women [JAC] to the king's house [temple].
14 In the evening she herself came in, and in the morning she herself returned to the second house of the women [ICC, the true church] in charge of Shaashgaz [Servant of the beautiful, FDS4] the king's eunuch, the guardian of the concubines. She would not come in anymore to the king unless/except/until the king had taken delight in her and she had been called by name.
15 And when the turn of Esther [star, the 1NC reserves] the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, whom he had taken as his daughter, arrived to come in to the king, she did not request anything except what Hegai the king's eunuch, the guardian of the women, proceeded to mention all the while Esther was continually gaining favour in the eyes of everyone seeing her.
16 Then Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus at his royal house in the 10th month, that is, the month Tebbeth [this is literal and must apply to 2012Tebbeth], in the 7th year of his reign [from 2006Iyyar1, after the Watchtower fell on 2005Iyyar14?].
17 And the king came to love Esther more than all the other women, so that she gained more favour and loving-kindness before him than all the other virgins. And he proceeded to put the royal headdress upon her head [marrying Jesus] and make her queen instead of Vashti [1NC reserves substitutes the dropped out 1NCs].
18 And the king went on to hold a great banquet for all his princes and his servants, the banquet of Esther [the 3 New Passovers] and an amnesty for the jurisdictional districts he granted, and he kept giving presents [gifts of the spirit] according to the means of the king.
19 Now when virgins were collected together a second time [2nd New Passover?], Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate.
20 Esther was not telling about her relatives and her people, just as Mordecai had laid the command upon her; and the saying of Mordecai Esther was performing, just as when she happened to be under care by him.
21 In those days while Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate, Bigthan [in their winepress: Administration of Laodicea] and Teresh [Strict: ES2], 2 court officials of the king, doorkeepers [door blockers more like], became indignant and kept seeking to lay hand on King Ahasuerus.
22 And the thing came to be known to Mordecai, and he immediately told Esther the queen. In turn Esther talked to the king in Mordecai's name.
23 So the matter was sought out and eventually found out, and both of them got to be hanged on a stake [they were both publicly exposed as what they truly were] after which it was written in the book of the affairs of the days before the king (Esther 2).

Esther May not be Canonical - But we now think it must be

These are the words of someone who has faith in Jehovah and is good evidence that Esther is, in fact, canonical.

The book of Esther is in the Hebrew canon. It is in the part of the old testament called the writings. It is the story of King Ahasuerus (Artaxerex Longimanus) of Persia and of Mordecai, Haman, Esther, Vashti and others. There is no reason to include it in the bible canon that we have found by research other than its being there. Here are the reasons why it should not be in the bible canon.

1. No other book in the bible canon either in the old or the new testaments refers to the characters Esther or Mordecai or Haman or Vashti or quotes from any part of the book of Esther.

2. Esther is the only old testament book absent from the texts found in the Qumran caves.

Although all of the OT books but Esther were found at Qumran, many other writings were also found there in the same caves with little or no distinguishing features in them that could be used to argue that they were held in separate esteem from the books that were finally included in the OT biblical canon. This is especially so in the case of the Temple Scroll and the Manual of Discipline (Lee Martin MacDonald, First Baptist Church).

3. Esther is the only book in the entire bible (other than Song of Solomon) not to mention God or Jehovah.

4. No character in the book other than Ahasuerus is verified by any other historical text.

5. The book contains a Banquet of wine that lasted 187 days...

3 in the 3rd year of his reigning he held a banquet for all his princes and his servants, the military force of Persia and Media, the nobles and the princes of the jurisdictional districts before himself,
4 when he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor [and] the beauty of his greatness for many days, 180 days.
5 And when these days had come to the full, the king held a banquet for 7 days for all the people that were found in Shushan the castle, for the great as well as the small, in the courtyard of the garden of the king's palace.
6 There were linen, fine cotton and blue held fast in ropes of fine fabric, and wool dyed reddish purple in silver rings and pillars of marble, couches of gold and silver upon a pavement of porphyry and marble and pearl and black marble.
7 And there was a passing of wine to drink in gold vessels; and the vessels were different from one another, and the royal wine was in great quantity, according to the means of the king.
8 As regards the time of drinking according to the law, there was no one compelling, for that was the way the king had arranged for every great man of his household, to do according to the liking of each and every one (Esther 1).

This is an absurdy long and debauched party, lasting over half a year, wherein the top brass of the kingdom drank as much wine as the king could afford! Yet it passes without comment on its gluttony!

6. King Ahasuerus slept with a different virgin every night...

12 And when the turn of each young woman arrived to go in to King Ahasuerus after it had happened to her according to the women's regulation for 12 months, for that was the way the days of their massage procedure were gradually fulfilled, 6 months with oil of myrrh and 6 months with balsam oil and with the massages of the women;
13 then on these conditions the young woman herself came in to the king. Everything that she would mention would be given her, to come with her from the house of the women to the king's house.
14 In the evening she herself came in, and in the morning she herself returned to the second house of the women in charge of Shaashgaz the king's eunuch, the guardian of the concubines. She would not come in anymore to the king unless the king had taken delight in her and she had been called by name.

Outrageous fornication and sexual corruption of these women. Yet it passes without comment on its immorality!

7. In the end the Jews are saved by the courage of Esther who got her position by fornicating with the king very satisfactorily and by looking extremely beautiful. These although wonderful qualities in any girl are not righteous qualities.

8. The book proposes to add a festival to the Jewish law which Moses evidently overlooked, called the Festival of Purim to be held on Adar14,15 competing with the Passover and the first Sabbath of cakes only one month in advance. This is rather like the way that Jehoboam invented a festival for himself on Heshvan15 precisely one month after the festival of Booths on Tishri15...

32 And Jeroboam went on to make a festival in the 8th month on the 15th day of the month, like the festival that was in Judah, that he might make offerings upon the altar that he had made in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves that he had made; and he put in attendance at Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
33 And he began to make offerings upon the altar that he had made in Bethel on the 15th day in the 8th month, in the month that he had invented by himself; and he proceeded to make a festival for the sons of Israel and to make offerings upon the altar to make sacrificial smoke (1 Kings 12).

Esther describes how Mordecai wrote a decree to carry out this festival that was not commanded by God...

20 And Mordecai proceeded to write these things and send written documents to all the Jews that were in all the jurisdictional districts of King Ahasuerus, the nearby and the distant ones,
21 to impose upon them the obligation to be regularly holding the 14th day of the month Adar and the 15th day of it in each and every year,
22 according to the days on which the Jews had rested from their enemies and the month that was changed for them from grief to rejoicing and from mourning to a good day, to hold them as days of banqueting and rejoicing and sending of portions to one another and of gifts to the poor people.
23 And the Jews accepted what they had started to do and what Mordecai had written to them (Esther 9).

This festival does not glorify God. It glorifies Mordecai and Esther.

9. Esther contains no literal prophecy and does not point towards Jesus who was hanged upon a stake (unlike Mordecai).

10 At that I fell down before his feet to worship him. But he tells me: Be careful! Do not do that! All I am is a fellow slave of you and of your brothers who have the work of witnessing to Jesus. Worship God; for the bearing witness to Jesus is what inspires prophesying (Revelation 19).

10. There are extra parts to Esther which are accepted as Apocryphal.