The first summer we spent in our new house in an older neighborhood in Sioux Falls was
the year the invisibugs attacked me.
We had been receiving bug bites, yet never saw the offending
insects. Nevertheless, I decided to fog backyard ferns and snowball bushes with
Black Flag. I did not see the bugs or
feel them retaliate, but I received over seventy bites that lasted for
weeks. It had been a nasty battle.
To eliminate any future sorties by the invisibugs, I decided
to remove the suspected invisibug habitat, which proved to be no easy
chore. The snowball bushes had an
extensive and stubborn root system.
Failure to remove the roots meant the return of the foliage and the
invisibugs. My wife and I dug and pried with a steel rod, then dug and pried some
more until we finally cleared the soil of roots.
The same principle was applied by Mordecai and Esther. If they had let Haman’s boys with their same
hateful mindset as their father live, it meant the problem would return. The public execution and display would deter
others from acting upon any such urges.
“And the king commanded
it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's
ten sons.” Esther 9:14.
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