"YOU HAVE CHOSEN ME, FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS" PURIM STORY OF ESTHER, HAD...

LYRICS: NARRATION 1: ESTHER WAS AN ORPHAN GIRL HER JEWISH NAME WAS HADASSAH HER PEOPLE LIVED IN PERSIA, AND WERE EXILED FROM ISRAEL SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE PALACE. SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL, AND OUT OF ALL THE WOMEN OF THE LAND SHE WAS CHOSEN TO MARRY KING ACHASHVEROSH (AHASUERUS) HE DIDN’T KNOW SHE WAS A JEW BUT THERE WAS AN EVIL MAN HIS NAME WAS HAMAN THE AGAGITE, BOOO! HE WORKED FOR THE KING AND HE WANTED TO KILL ALL THE JEWS BECAUSE MORDECHAI, THE JEW, REFUSED TO BOW DOWN TO THE EVIL HAMAN AND MORDECHAI SAID ONLY TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL I WILL BOW THE EVIL HAMAN MADE A DECREE TO KILL ALL THE JEWS QUEEN ESTHER ASKED HER PEOPLE TO FAST AND PRAY FOR THREE DAYS, AND SHE WOULD GO BOLDY BEFORE THE KING SHE HAD A PLAN TO SAVE HER PEOPLE AND SHE SAID, IF I PERISH, I PERISH I WILL PETITION BEFORE THE KING CHORUS 1: ADONAI WILL SAVE US I WILL BE COURAGEOUS IF I DIE, I DIE, I’LL HAVE FAITH I RISK MY LIFE TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL ALONE I BOW MY KNEES YOU HAVE CHOSEN ME FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS YOU HAVE CHOSEN ME FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS NARRATION 2: THE KING ACHASHVEROSH (AHASUERUS) MADE A DECREE TO HANG THE EVIL HAMAN THE SAME GALLOW HE MADE TO KILL MORDECHAI THE JEW AND FOR THE JEWS THERE WAS LIGHT, GLADNESS, JOY AND HONOR A FEAST AND A HOLIDAY, AND MANY AMONG THE PEOPLES BECAME JEWS FOR THE DREAD OF THE JEWS HAD FALLEN ON THEM AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL MADE A CUSTOM FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR THEIR DESCENDANTS AND FOR ALL THOSE WHO ALLIED THEMSELVES WITH THEM SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT FAIL TO CELEBRATE THESE TWO DAYS ACCORDING TO THEIR APPOINTED TIME ANNUALLY SO THESE DAYS WERE TO BE REMEMBERED AND CELEBRATED THROUGHOUT EVERY GENERATION EVERY FAMILY, EVER PROVINCE AND EVERY CITY AND THESE DAYS OF PURIM WERE NOT TO FAIL FROM AMONG THE JEWS OR THEIR MEMORY FADE FROM THEIR DESCENDANTS CHORUS 2: ADONAI WILL SAVE US I WILL BE COURAGEOUS IF I DIE, I DIE, I’LL HAVE FAITH I RISK MY LIFE TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL ALONE I BOW MY KNEES YOU HAVE CHOSEN ME FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS NARRATION 3: TODAY WE ARE THE GENERATION OF HADASSAH, ESTHER WE STAND IN PRAYER AND COURAGE FOR THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL ANOTHER BIG PLOT TO DESTROY THE NATION OF ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE WITH A NUCLEAR ATTACK COMES AGAIN FROM PERSIA, IRAN. IF HADASSAH WAS HERE TODAY, SHE WOULD SAY FAST AND PRAY FOR THE SOLDIERS OF ISRAEL AND ALL IT’S PEOPLE WE PRAY THAT ADONAI WILL REVEAL TO THEM THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA HA’MASHIACH, WHO WILL RETURN TO FIGHT FOR ISRAEL. IF HAMAN HAD SUCCEEDED IN EXTERMINATING THE JEWS, THE MESSIAH FROM THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, YESHUA WOULD NOT BE BORN IF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL ARE EXTERMINATED YESHUA WILL NOT RETURN, BECAUSE HE WILL ONLY RETURN WHEN HIS PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM WILL SAY BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, “BARUCH HABA BESHEM ADONAI” CHORUS 3: ADONAI WILL SAVE US I WILL BE COURAGEOUS IF I DIE, I DIE, I’LL HAVE FAITH I RISK MY LIFE TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL ALONE I BOW MY KNEES YOU HAVE CHOSEN ME FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS YOU HAVE CHOSEN ME FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS BRIDGE: I WILL BE STRONG I TRUST IN THE LORD I WILL SING THE SONG OF VICTORY YOU HAVE CHOSEN ME FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS GRAND FINALE: TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL ALONE I BOW MY KNEES YOU HAVE CHOSEN ME FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS YOU HAVE CHOSEN ME I’LL ONLY BOW MY KNEES TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS