The secret providence of God on behalf of His people appears in this chapter in a most remarkable way. The world calls it chance; the believer discerns the hand of God and worships Him.

If a believer should thankfully recall the thousands of occasions in his life when, through circumstances, apparently accidental, God has preserved him or led him without his knowing it, what would these individual acts of help be compared to what we see here? God extends His protection over a man in order to save an entire people, and He delivers Mordecai so that Israel may be delivered.

Now, as we have already seen in this book, which is so simple in appearance but which is so full of mysteries in reality, Mordecai is a type of Christ; except that Christ alone passed through death itself in order to deliver us, (for, since all were dead, He must die for all.) An Isaac goes no further than the sentence of death. A David is appointed to death every day, under the pressure of his enemy. A Jonah is swallowed alive in the belly of the fish, and comes out alive, after having passed through death in figure; a Mordecai sees the fifty-cubit-high gallows but is never hung from it; and it is only thus, that along with so many other typical personages, that Mordecai can offer us a picture of Christ.

Christ alone was hung from the cross, to bear our sins, to be made a curse for us, to gather together the scattered children of God, and to become the center of attraction for all men. Nevertheless these types illustrate in a marvelous way the thoughts of God and reveal their depths.