However, there was a mystery to the president's act that went back thousands of years to an ancient king. The king also signed a law in the capital city that went forth to the land. The law was intended to bring religious persecution and calamity for the people of God. The going forth of the law is recorded in the Book of Esther:

"...it was written, and sealed with the king's signet ring. 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..."