Amy Coney Barrett: an Esther come to the Kingdom?

Oct 7, 2020 by Jill

by Stephen Noll, Stephen’s Witness:

[…] There is an element of farce in the story of Esther, to be celebrated with hilarity at the annual feast of Purim, one month before Passover; however, the deliverance of the Jews cannot be celebrated without recalling the threat that led to it.

So we come to the present and Amy Coney Barrett. Despite the best efforts of her doctors and her expressed wish to survive past Election Day, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies on September 18. On September 26, much to the consternation of his opponents and even some of his own party, President Donald Trump nominates Judge Barrett as Ginsburg’s successor on the Supreme Court, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announces a process that may lead to her confirmation by the end of October.

War now breaks out in Congress and the media. It is war because the decisive issue in the culture since 1973 has been the Court’s Roe v. Wade decision mandating abortion on demand. Like all Republican appointees for the past thirty years, Judge Barrett will be accused of planning to overturn Roe, and she will sidestep the issue in her confirmation hearings, claiming that her decisions will be made based on particular, not hypothetical, cases and on the text of the Constitution, with due respect for precedent. In doing so, she will be prudent like Esther in approaching the powers that be in this country…

…Will Amy Coney Barrett be an Esther come to judgment? We do not know that she will go forward to the high court, and even if she does, we do not know what impact she may have. Providence is best recognized in hindsight, but I do think Scripture gives us “types” of how God delivers His people in the vicissitudes of history. The Jews fasted for three days for the queen. Perhaps we should do likewise for this woman come to the kingdom in our day.

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See also: Deliver us from the godless zealots who scorn Judge Amy for being religious, by Donald Forbes, The Conservative Woman:

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