An incomplete set of notes and Scriptures:

A book in the Bible that does not mention GOD.  God's name does not appear in this book... so... what's up with that... it is the Bible after all...

The book of Esther...
Esther chapter 1
Esther chapter 2

Persecution Will Come
Mat 10:16  "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Mat 10:17  But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues.
Mat 10:18  You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.
Mat 10:19  But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak;
Mat 10:20  for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
Mat 10:21  "Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
Mat 10:22  And you will be hated by all for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Esther 3

Act 8:1  Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
GOD works with circumstances... HE could have fixed the issue in many different ways... but HE allowed this for HIS purposed.  NO ONE can destroy ALL of God's people.

Mat 16:15  He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Mat 16:16  Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Mat 16:17  Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
Mat 16:18  And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

Est 3:8  Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from all other people's, and they do not keep the king's laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain.
Est 3:9  If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king's treasuries."
Est 3:10  So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
Est 3:11  And the king said to Haman, "The money and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you."
Est 3:12  Then the king's scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded—to the king's satraps, to the governors who were over each province, to the officials of all people, to every province according to its script, and to every people in their language. In the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king's signet ring.
Est 3:13  And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
Est 3:14  A copy of the document was to be issued as law in every province, being published for all people, that they should be ready for that day.
Est 3:15  The couriers went out, hastened by the king's command; and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan the citadel. So the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

Esther Agrees to Help the Jews
Est 4:1  When Mordecai learned all that had happened, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. He cried out with a loud and bitter cry.
Est 4:2  He went as far as the front of the king's gate, for no one might enter the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Est 4:3  And in every province where the king's command and decree arrived, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

(Est 4:16)  "Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!"

(Pro 16:17)  The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
(Pro 16:18)  Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
(Pro 11:2)  When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom.

Pro 11:7  When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish, And the hope of the unjust perishes.

Rev 17:15  Then he said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.
Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
Rev 17:17  For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.
Rev 17:18  And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth."

Rev 18:2  And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!
Rev 18:3  For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury."
Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.
Rev 18:5  For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
Rev 18:6  Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.
Rev 18:7  In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.'
Rev 18:8  Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
Rev 18:9  "The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning,

Heb 11:35  Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
Heb 11:36  Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.
Heb 11:37  They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—
Heb 11:38  of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.
Heb 11:39  And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise,
Heb 11:40  God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

Act 23:1  Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, "Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day."
Act 23:2  And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
Act 23:3  Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! For you sit to judge me according to the law, and do you command me to be struck contrary to the law?"
Act 23:4  And those who stood by said, "Do you revile God's high priest?"
Act 23:5  Then Paul said, "I did not know, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written, 'YOU SHALL NOT SPEAK EVIL OF A RULER OF YOUR PEOPLE.'"
Act 23:6  But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"
Act 23:7  And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the assembly was divided.
Act 23:8  For Sadducees say that there is no resurrection—and no angel or spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
Act 23:9  Then there arose a loud outcry. And the scribes of the Pharisees' party arose and protested, saying, "We find no evil in this man; but if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God."
Act 23:10  Now when there arose a great dissension, the commander, fearing lest Paul might be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.
Act 23:11  But the following night the Lord stood by him and said, "Be of good cheer, Paul; for as you have testified for Me in Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness at Rome."

A Plot to Kill Paul
Act 23:12  And when it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Act 23:13  Now there were more than forty who had formed this conspiracy.
Act 23:14  They came to the chief priests and elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great oath that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.
Act 23:15  Now you, therefore, together with the council, suggest to the commander that he be brought down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to make further inquiries concerning him; but we are ready to kill him before he comes near."
Act 23:16  So when Paul's sister's son heard of their ambush, he went and entered the barracks and told Paul.
Act 23:17  Then Paul called one of the centurions to him and said, "Take this young man to the commander, for he has something to tell him."
Act 23:18  So he took him and brought him to the commander and said, "Paul the prisoner called me to him and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to say to you."
Act 23:19  Then the commander took him by the hand, went aside, and asked privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?"
Act 23:20  And he said, "The Jews have agreed to ask that you bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire more fully about him.
Act 23:21  But do not yield to them, for more than forty of them lie in wait for him, men who have bound themselves by an oath that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him; and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from you."
Act 23:22  So the commander let the young man depart, and commanded him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me."

And so, to ROME he went..  ......

2Co 5:4  For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
2Co 5:5  Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
2Co 5:6  So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.
2Co 5:7  For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Rom 8:29  For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Rom 8:30  Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
(Rom 8:31)  What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
(Rom 8:32)  He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
(Rom 8:33)  Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
(Rom 8:34)  Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
(Rom 8:35)  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
(Rom 8:36)  As it is written: "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL DAY LONG; WE ARE ACCOUNTED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER."

(Rom 8:37)  Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
(Rom 8:38)  For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
(Rom 8:39)  nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God has a plan and HE will carry it out, no matter what the circumstances, events and opposing forces!!!!!

HE IS ALWAYS Sovereign and His will MUST and WILL be done!