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August 30, 2020 Frank Thompson Daniel Daniel 2 comments

Daniel 5
The handwriting on the wall.

The Unforgettable Party

Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 

Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 

Daniel 5:2a
² Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem…that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein

Daniel 5:4
⁴ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

The Unseen Penman 

Daniel 5:5
⁵ In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Daniel 5:25
²⁵ And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

The Uncontrollable Panic 

Daniel 5:6
Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

Daniel 5:7
⁷ The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. 

Daniel 5:8
⁸ Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.  

Daniel 5:9
⁹ Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astounded.

The Unrivaled Prophet

Daniel 5:13a
Then was Daniel brought in before the king…

Daniel 5:16
and I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.

The Unadulterated Precept 

Daniel 5:25
²⁵ And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 

Daniel 5:26
²⁶ This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE;
God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. 

Daniel 5:27
²⁷ TEKEL;
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. 

Daniel 5:28
²⁸ PERES
Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.