Intercession

Definition

Standing as advocate before the king for the people’s life; Esther prefigures Christ the High Priest and, secondarily, the Theotokos.

Esther 4:16 — “Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast on my behalf. Don’t eat and don’t drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the…
Hebrews 7:25 — *So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him because he always lives to intercede for them. *
Exodus 32:1–34:35 — * When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Get up, make us gods that will go before us. As for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up…*
Exodus 32:32 — *But now, if you will forgive their sin…, but if not, wipe me out from your book that you have written.” *
John 17 — When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you— just as you have given him authority over all humanity,…