Haman was a political adviser to the King of Persia. He very much enjoyed his status and power - and all the pomp and wealth it afforded him. Yet, he had a vendetta against a Jew, named Mordecai, who would not bow to him. Ultimately resentment toward Mordecai, and the Jews, escalated in Haman's heart and mind until he built a hanging gallows for the Jew. Haman's intention was to persuade the King, through deceit, to eliminate not only Mordecai, yet to eliminate all the Jews. Neither Haman, nor the King, yet realized that the King's beautiful Queen Esther was Jewish.
As the story goes along, Haman's plan turns on him - the King was exposed to the truth of Haman's conivings and intentions, which would include the demise of even the Queen, Esther. Esther was complicit in this exposure of Haman to the King. She was desperate to save her people from this impending monstrosity of doom being inflicted by the proud and hateful Haman. Haman's deeds, and true nature, became apparent to the King.
In desperation, a terrified Haman realized that he was found out, and was in dire trouble as a result of a now angry King. Haman, in a moment alone with the Queen Esther, fell upon her to beg for his life. The King walked in to find Haman upon his wife. His anger turned to fury. A eunuch, in attendance to the event, pointed out to the King the gallows Haman had built for the Jew, Mordecai. The King told his attendees, "Hang him on that!" So, Haman was hanged on the gallows he built for another.
Live by the sword. Die by the sword. Reap what you sow. Build a prison for others, and find yourself in that same prison. We are victims of the judgments we inflict on another. Invoke a curse, live under the same curse. THIS is why Christ Jesus came... God come to earth, in His Son, Jesus, to take upon himself the curse mankind brought upon himself, and in this way fulfill the terms of the curse so we may be made right in relationship to our Father God.
Christ Jesus resurrected from his death, unto life. He paid the cost of the curse upon humanity. In Him, judgment is no longer a curse, and there is no more comdemnation. So must His follower, too, take up their cross, die (to the old man), so we may rise - transformed (reborn) - with Him. There is no more curse, except that which one brings upon their self in rejection of this gift of salvation. We end up on the hanging gallows we create for another. We are bound to the same law, and consequence, we create for the other. Even then, there is Mercy for the ignorant when we acknowledge our fallen state (sin nature), repent (turn from our fallen way in favor of the way Jesus set before us), daily take up our Cross, and follow Him.
(picture: Jewish Artist, Arthur Szyk)
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