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On the seventh day Ahasuerus called for the seven eunuchs to bring Vashti the queen to the banquet. Her subsequent refusal causes him to consult with his seven advisers, his counselors or wise men concerning his actions toward Vashti. A triple seven suddenly appeared. Such a usage of the number seven cannot be overlooked.
The number seven is a number of divine completeness.
It is never more used than in the book of Revelation, the book of a multiple of sevens. The book of the end of the age. Est. 1:10, 14.
Following the advice of the wise men Ahasuerus gave Vashti a bill of divorcement. Their words are exceedingly important to grasp. ìLet the king give her royal estate to another that is better than she.î Est. 1:19 This sets the theme for the rest of the book and itís message. Whatever her reasoning might have been, the fact remains that she disobeyed royal law and was punished accordingly. A situation that is all too often disregarded is the fact that the Lord gave Israel a bill of divorcement. It was not an action that the Lord desired to take, but because of the rebellion and wickedness of their ways, the Lord said that they had done it to themselves. Isa. 50:1 The Lord is always very straightforward in all of His dealings with mankind. In this case He made it very plain that they had committed adultery, even worse had played the harlot and sought out many lovers. Jer. 3:1.
The Lord is not a man that He should lie. He has strongly stated that those who had been His people and He counted them to be His wife, were no longer in that exalted position. Israel was not His wife nor was He her Husband. His call to her was to repent and cease from her whoredom and adulteries. He warned her of sever punishments that would come as a result of her sinful way of life. Yet the Lord Jesus came to Israel. John 1:11 So, once again He turned away from them to others. Jn. 1:12.