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"Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim. And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth" (ESTHER 9:29, 30).
The Bible is full with great stories of how God delivered His people from the deadly plots of wicked people. One of such is what we are considering today in the book of Esther. The evil decree of Haman lived after him, even after he was dead and buried.
In today's text, Esther the queen had been given the authority to write counter letters to that evil decree. The day the Jews were to be exterminated was turned to a day of peace and celebration. Purim is a Jewish celebration where they send portions to one another to celebrate their deliverance from ethnic cleansing some hundreds of years ago. And that the feast is still being celebrated in modern Israel, proves to mockers of the Holy Bible that everything written were not cunningly devised fables; they are clear historical facts that could still be empirically verified.
God's work is usually two-dimensional; there's a man's part and a God's part. God's part may be ninety-nine, but He expects man to play the one-percent part for the work to be complete. This is a principle in His work, including salvation, healing and deliverance.
God is always in the business of saving His people, whether during oppression or persecution. There is never going to be a cataclysm, a total destruction of God's people at any time or in any age. That is because God is faithful and He also expects us to faithfully abide in Him. He had been the One faithfully delivering Israel from all her challenges. And He is ever at hand to deliver the redeemed in any generation.