Mordecai was certain of God’s intervention. God had always been faithful to his people. Only sixty-five years ago he had fulfilled his promise of taking his people back to Jerusalem (Ezra 1:1–11). Moreover, he had declared himself to be at war with Amalek from generation to generation (Exodus 17:16). And an Amalekite was now threatening his people!
Thus, the future of the Jews was not dependent on Esther, but on God. But if Esther refused to come to the aid of her people, now that they were being threatened by God’s own enemy, she and her family would perish. She would lose her life by trying to save it (Matthew 16:25).
Mordecai ended his warning by reminding Esther of God’s hand in her life. Yes, God’s plans are not always clearly discernable to us. But Esther at least had to consider the possibility that she had come to the kingdom for such a time as this.
14 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”