So what does he do? His wife says, You know what you ought to do? Put up a gallows. Let’s hang the guy.
And the gallows, I believe, are about 75 feet high. We’re going to do this right so the whole town can see that you have to bow down to Heyman or you’re going to dangle up at 75 feet. However, in the story, Heyman ends up being hoisted by his own petard.
I think I got that. Hoisted by his own petard, however the phrase goes.
Basically the guy who plants a door bomb and doesn’t get out in time and it kills him. Haman ends up on the gallows himself. What happens with Satan? He offers Jesus the world.
There’s a shortcut here, Lord. He doesn’t call him Lord Jesus. There’s a shortcut. And all you have to do is bow down to me acknowledge I’m the king of this world and I’ll just hand it back to you because all he ever really wanted was to be worshipped, he wanted to be a little higher than he was.
He ends up dying in this world in the very end and reaps the consequence that he’s trying to heap on Jesus. Haman, when he’s dead, his signet ring goes to Mordecai, a symbol of authority.
Mordecai gets his house, which is remarkable. Satan says, this world’s mine. It all belongs to me. And in the end, Jesus moves in.
No, no, it’s my house. The parallels are really pretty remarkable.
Boonstra, Shawn; Flickinger, Eric, “11 Ruth and Esther” (AudioVerse teaching 43679).
The point
Haman, in his pride, builds a 75-foot gallows to publicly execute Mordecai, but through a turn of events, he is ultimately hanged on his own gallows. This illustrates the saying "hoisted by his own petard" and serves as an analogy for Satan's ultimate downfall, as he tried to claim ownership of the world and tempt Jesus, but will ultimately reap the consequences he intended for Christ.