This week Glen looks at Daniel 5 and "The Writing on the Wall".

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17. Belshazzar, heady with the wine, ordered that
the gold and silver chalices his father
Nebuchadnezzar had stolenfrom God’s Temple
of Jerusalem be broughtin so that he and his
nobles, his wives and concubines,could drink
from them. .....Theydrank the wine and
drunkenlypraised their gods made of gold and
silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

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19. At that very moment, the fingers of a
human hand appeared and began writing
on the lamp-illumined, whitewashed wall
of the palace. When the king saw the
disembodied hand writing away, he went
white as a ghost, scared out of his wits.
His legs went limp and his knees knocked.

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21. He yelled out for the enchanters, the
fortunetellers, and the diviners to come.
He told these Babylonian magi, “Anyone
who can read this writing on the wall and
tell me what it means willbe famous and
rich—purple robe, the great gold chain—
and be third-in-command in the kingdom.”

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23. Daniel answered the king, “You can keep
your gifts, or give them to someone else.
But I will read the writing for the king and
tell him what it means.”

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27. You are his son and have known all this, yet
you’re as arrogant as he ever was. Look at
you, setting yourself up in competition
against the Master of heaven!"

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30. “Mene: God has numbered the days of your
rule and they don’t add up.
“Teqel: You have been weighed on the
scales and you don’t weigh much.
“Peres: Your kingdom has been divided up
and handed over to the Medes and
Persians.”

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32. Belshazzar did what he had promised. He
robed Daniel in purple, draped the great
gold chain around his neck, and promoted
him to third-in-charge in the kingdom.
That same night the Babylonian king
Belshazzar was murdered. Darius the Mede
was sixty-two years old when he
succeeded him as king.

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