Dear friend,
I want to show you something this Wednesday that I believe will change the way you read the news for the rest of your life.
It is a pattern. And once you see it you cannot unsee it.
I have been studying Scripture for fifty years. And in fifty years I have noticed something that most people miss because they are too focused on the individual stories to see the thread that runs through all of them.
Every single time the enemies of God's people believed they had won — they had not won. They had overplayed their hand. And in overplaying their hand they had set in motion the exact sequence of events that would bring about their own undoing.
Every single time.
This is not coincidence. This is not wishful thinking. This is one of the most consistent patterns in the entire Bible. And I want to walk you through it this morning because I believe you need to see it right now, in this moment, in this country.
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Now. Let me show you the pattern.
Pharaoh.
The story of Moses is one of the most dramatic in all of Scripture. But I want you to focus on something specific. Pharaoh did not just resist God. He escalated.
Every time Moses came to him with a warning, Pharaoh hardened his heart and pushed further. He increased the Israelites' workload. He humiliated Moses publicly. He called his own magicians to mock the signs God had sent. He was not just refusing to let the people go. He was doubling down. Tripling down.
And then he did the thing that sealed his fate.
When the Israelites finally left Egypt, Pharaoh changed his mind and sent his entire army after them. His best chariots. His finest soldiers. The full military might of the most powerful nation on earth. Chasing a group of former slaves into the desert.
He overplayed his hand.
Exodus chapter 14, verse 28 records what happened to that army. Not one of them survived.
The very aggression Pharaoh used to try to destroy God's people became the instrument of his own destruction. The Red Sea that parted to save Israel swallowed the Egyptian army whole.
He thought he had won. He had overplayed his hand.
Haman.
You will find this story in the book of Esther. Haman was the most powerful man in Persia outside the king himself. He had everything. Wealth. Status. The king's favour. And he used all of it to construct an elaborate plot to destroy every Jewish person in the empire.
He was so confident in his plan that he built a gallows specifically to hang Mordecai — the one man who had refused to bow to him.
He went to the king to get permission to hang Mordecai. He arrived at the palace early in the morning, certain of his victory.
But something had happened the night before that Haman did not know about.
The king could not sleep. He had his servants read to him from the royal records. And the records happened to open to the account of how Mordecai had once saved the king's life and had never been rewarded for it.
That one sleepless night changed everything.
When Haman arrived to ask for Mordecai's execution the king asked him what should be done for a man the king wishes to honour. Haman, assuming the king meant him, described the most lavish public honour he could imagine.
And the king told him to go do exactly that. For Mordecai.
Esther chapter 7 records that Haman was hanged on the very gallows he had built for Mordecai.
He thought he had won. He had overplayed his hand.
Herod.
When the wise men came to Jerusalem looking for the newborn king of the Jews, Herod did not ignore the threat. He called his advisors. He gathered information. He sent the wise men to find the child so he could worship him too — which was a lie. He wanted to destroy him.
When the wise men did not return to report the child's location, Herod ordered the massacre of every male child in Bethlehem under two years old. Every one of them. To make absolutely certain the threat was eliminated.
He overplayed his hand.
Because Jesus was already gone. An angel had warned Joseph in a dream and the family had fled to Egypt days before Herod's soldiers arrived. Matthew chapter 2 records that Herod died shortly after — having murdered dozens of innocent children and accomplished nothing except ensuring his name would be remembered for that act of desperation for the next two thousand years.
He thought he had won. He had overplayed his hand.
Pilate and the chief priests.
This is the most important example of all.
The crucifixion looked like the ultimate victory of the enemies of God. Jesus — arrested, tried, beaten, crucified, dead, buried. The chief priests so confident in their victory that they asked Pilate to seal the tomb and post a guard so the disciples could not steal the body and claim a resurrection.
They sealed the tomb themselves. They posted the guard themselves. They did everything they could think of to make absolutely certain the story was over.
And three days later the stone was rolled away not to let Jesus out but to let the witnesses in.
The very precautions they took to prevent the resurrection became the most powerful proof that it had happened. Roman soldiers — trained, professional, disciplined — fled in terror from an empty tomb. The sealed stone. The posted guard. The enemies of God had overplayed their hand so completely that their attempt to end the story became the most dramatic confirmation of it.
Matthew chapter 28, verse 6. He is not here. He has risen just as He said.
I want you to sit with this pattern for a moment.
Pharaoh escalating until he walked his army into the sea. Haman building a gallows for someone else and being hanged on it himself. Herod massacring children and missing the one child he was after entirely. The chief priests sealing a tomb that could not stay sealed.
Do you see it?
The opposition never knows when to stop. They always go one step too far. They always overreach. They always turn what should have been a manageable conflict into the very thing that exposes and destroys them.
I am not going to tell you exactly how this applies to what you are watching in America right now. You are intelligent people. You can see the pattern for yourself.
What I will tell you is this.
When you look at the coordinated opposition against one man. The courts. The press. The members of his own party. The institutions. The relentless escalation that has not stopped and shows no sign of stopping — I want you to ask yourself one question.
Does this look more like confidence or desperation?
Because in Scripture the enemies of God's chosen always look very powerful right up until the moment they overplay their hand. And then the very thing they used to try to destroy becomes the instrument of their undoing.
I have seen this pattern too many times to be afraid of it.
And I do not think you should be afraid of it either.
God is not surprised by any of this. He was not surprised by Pharaoh. He was not surprised by Haman. He was not surprised by Herod or Pilate or the chief priests. And He is not surprised now.
He is still on His throne. And the pattern has not changed.
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Read it this week. I believe it is exactly what you need right now.
God bless you, friend. He is not finished yet.
With you in prayer, Father Thomas
This week I want you to do three things:
One. Read Esther chapter 7 this week. The whole chapter is only ten verses. Read it slowly and pay attention to how quickly everything reversed for Haman once he had overplayed his hand. Notice that nobody had to fight him. His own plan became his destruction. Let that sit with you.
Two. The next time you read something in the news that frightens you — stop before you react and ask yourself one question. Does this look like confidence or desperation? Train yourself to see escalation for what it is. In Scripture escalation by the enemies of God is almost always the sign that the tide is about to turn.
Three. Share this letter with one person who is frightened right now. You know who they are. The person who has stopped believing the story can turn. Send it to them today. The pattern I described this morning is not just for you. It is for everyone in your life who needs to see it.