Esther 3:1-15 (AMP)
1 AFTER THESE things, King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
2 And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and did reverence to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or do him reverence.
3 Then the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, Why do you transgress the king’s command?
4 Now when they spoke to him day after day and he paid no attention to them, they told Haman to see whether Mordecai’s conduct would stand, for he had told them that he was a Jew.
5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or do him reverence, he was very angry.
6 But he scorned laying hands only on Mordecai. So since they had told him Mordecai’s nationality, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.
7 In the first month, the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, Haman caused Pur, that is, lots, to be cast before him day after day [to find a lucky day for his venture], month after month, until the twelfth, the month of Adar.
8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from every other people, neither do they keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to tolerate them.
9 If it pleases the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that it may be brought into the king’s treasuries.
10 And the king took his signet ring from his hand [with which to seal his letters by the king’s authority] and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
11 And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.
12 Then the king’s secretaries were called in on the thirteenth day of the first month, and all that Haman had commanded was written to the king’s chief rulers and to the governors who were over all the provinces and to the princes of each people, to every province in its own script and to each people in their own language; it was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and it was sealed with the king’s [signet] ring.
13 And letters were sent by special messengers to all the king’s provinces—to destroy, to slay, and to do away with all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to seize their belongings as spoil.
14 A copy of the writing was to be published and given out as a decree in every province to all the peoples to be ready for that day.
15 The special messengers went out in haste by order of the king, and the decree was given out in Shushan, the capital. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed [at the strange and alarming decree].

Imagine how you’d feel to receive a couriered letter telling you that you and all your people (nationality, ethnicity, and race) have been sentenced to death, not for any crime but just that your existence is an offence to certain people.
Well, it’s happening in our world right now, isn’t it? Take heart though, for according to Proverbs 24:19-20, their sentencing will come too.
Haman had everything a man in his position could ever desire but like a toddler, he wanted what he couldn’t have, Mordecai’s respect and honour. What is one man’s homage compared to the whole kingdom bowing and scrapping after you? Arrogance plus pride equals wickedness in high places!
Politicians the world over went into office promising to use their powers and positions for the good of humanity and their communities, unfortunately, some got in and realised that there is gain in doing the wrongs that appeal to people with deep pocket who would sponsor their cause and campaign but not according to Proverbs 25:26.
Haman is not the only rotten robin in the world to want to wipe out those he saw as a threat.
So many went into the office to execute their wicked plans against humanity, using their influence and office to carry out wickedness in high places like Haman, genocide was the only way to quench Haman’s hatred of the Jews, just as it was for other wicked men, such as Idi Amin, whose brutality both to his nation, Uganda, and the world at large. Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi tortured and killed anyone, including children who dishonoured him.
Haman after falsely pointing out to the king in verse 8, that the Jews do not acknowledge the king’s sovereignty, as he said “it is not in your majesty’s interest” that means there was no benefit to the king for letting the Jews to live was Haman’s reason for wanting to exterminate the Jews but the irony is that Mordecai had already demonstrated the highest loyalty to the king.
Haman’s ten thousand talent of silver was a bribe, such an enormous amount surely will induce any king of wickedness and not be questioned.
Haman was truly desperate to get rid of the Jews to pay such a huge sum for the king’s permission to get the act passed.
His inducement worked, for we see him receive the king’s signet ring in verse 10, a wicked man with a vendetta now has the highest authority in his hands to do carry out his plan with the royal edict.
So, a letter comes, not just to you but every who looks, speaks, and acts like you, with the royal seal and edict, telling you of your impending destruction. The confusion would be epic.
Man of Steel, Joseph Stalin’s “Reign of Terror” saw millions of deaths, imprisonment, and relocation, according to him, “death is the solution to all problems”. No man — no problem,” and “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. Appalling!
Saddam was a living nightmare for the western world. He destroyed the lives of millions to achieve his evil deeds. Because the people of Bagdad did not honour him, like Haman, he destroyed the whole town, including women and children, the height of wickedness in high places.
God always steps in, as he did for the Jews, as said in Psalm 141:10, the wicked fall in their pits.
Wickedness does not pay!
Shalom