In this episode, the scene opens at Queen Esther’s second banquet, where she courageously reveals to King Ahasuerus that she and her Jewish people have been “sold” to be slain and destroyed (echoing Haman’s own decree), pleading for their lives, while also subtly noting the annihilation of the Jews would result in financial loss to the empire. Enraged, the king demands to know the culprit, and Esther reveals that it’s “this wicked Haman.” As the king storms into the garden, Haman falls on Esther’s couch begging for mercy—which the returning king misinterprets as assault. After the gallows Haman built for Mordecai is pointed out to the king, he orders Haman to be impaled on it instead. Haman’s rapid descent illustrates God’s divine providence and foreshadows the Antichrist’s disgraceful end.