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Welcome . The Daniel Seminar. BELSHAZZAR’S BANQUET [5:1-31]. Structure of Daniel 5. The king’s feast (5:1-4) The writing on the wall & the queen’s speech (5:5-12) 3. Belteshazzar meets Belshazzar (5:13-17) 4. Daniel’s speech & the meaning of

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  1. Welcome

  2. The Daniel Seminar • BELSHAZZAR’S BANQUET [5:1-31]

  3. Structure of Daniel 5 • The king’s feast (5:1-4) • The writing on the wall & the • queen’s speech (5:5-12) • 3. Belteshazzar meets Belshazzar • (5:13-17) • 4. Daniel’s speech & the meaning of • the writing (5:18-28) • 5. The king’s death (5:29-31)

  4. DANIEL 5:1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand..

  5. DANIEL 5:2 While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem,...

  6. DANIEL 5:2 that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

  7. DANIEL 5:3 Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

  8. Belshazzar’s Feast

  9. EZRA 1:11 5,400 “articles of gold and silver were kept in Babylon”.

  10. PROVERBS 23:31-33 • Do not look upon the • wine when it is red, when • it gives its color in the • cup, when it goes down smoothly. At the last …

  11. PROVERBS 23:31-33 • …it bites like an asp and • stings like an adder. Your • eyes shall look upon strange women and your heart shall speak perverse things.

  12. DANIEL 5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

  13. DANIEL 5:5 In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

  14. DANIEL 5:6 Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.

  15. Belshazzar watched the hand writing on the wall.

  16. Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with His finger. John 8:6

  17. One of the most haunting images in literature.

  18. ISAIAH 21:3-4 Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a woman who travails; I was bowed down from hearing; I was troubled from seeing. My heart wanders, terror overwhelms me; He has turned the twilight of my pleasure into trembling.

  19. EZEKIEL 21:6, 7 And you, son of man, groan with the breaking of your loins; and groan with bitterness before their eyes. And it will be when they say to you, Why do you groan? You shall answer, Because of the news that it is coming; …

  20. EZEKIEL 21:6, 7 … and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be, says the Lord Jehovah.

  21. STRONG & INVINCIBLE

  22. DANIEL 5:7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke, saying to the wise men of Babylon,

  23. DANIEL 5:7 “Whoever reads this writing, and tells me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck; and he shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

  24. DANIEL 5:8 Now all the king’s wise men came, but they could not read the writing, or make known to the king its interpretation.

  25. DANIEL 5:9 Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled, his countenance was changed, and his lords were astonished.

  26. DANIEL 5:10 The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came to the banquet hall. The queen spoke, saying, “O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your countenance change.

  27. DANIEL 5:11 There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the Spirit of the Holy God. And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him;

  28. DANIEL 5:11 and King Nebuchadnezzar your father—your father the king—made him chief of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers.

  29. DANIEL 5:12 Inasmuch as an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting dreams, solving riddles, and explaining enigmaswere found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar, now let Daniel be called, and he will give the interpretation.”

  30. “Call for Daniel, and he will tell what the writing means.”

  31. Belteshazzar Meets Belshazzar

  32. DANIEL vs BELSHAZZAR • Daniel was named Belteshazzar (1:7). The king’s name was Belshazzar (5:1).

  33. DANIEL vs BELSHAZZAR • Daniel learned the language (1:4) and read the writing on the wall (5:18-28). Belshazzar could not read the writing (5:5-7).

  34. DANIEL vs BELSHAZZAR • 3. In the presence of an official, Daniel refused to drink wine (1:8). Belshazzar drank wine in the presence of his officials (5:1).

  35. DANIEL vs BELSHAZZAR • 4. Daniel was quick to understand (1:4) and to make up his mind (1:8). Belshazzar lost his understanding and could not control his mind (5:2).

  36. DANIEL vs BELSHAZZAR • 5. Daniel refused to defile himself (1:8). Belshazzar defiled the holy vessels (5:22-24).

  37. DANIEL vs BELSHAZZAR • 6. Daniel was given a high position (2:48). Belshazzar lost his high position (5:30, 31).

  38. DANIEL vs BELSHAZZAR • 7. Daniel’s countenance changed for the better (1:13, 15). Belshazzar’s countenance changed for the worse (5:6).

  39. DANIEL 5:13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke, and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel who is one of the captives from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?

  40. DANIEL 5:14 I have heard of you, that the Spirit of God is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.

  41. DANIEL 5:15 Now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they could not give the interpretation of the thing.

  42. DANIEL 5:16 And I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations and explain enigmas. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

  43. DANIEL 5:16 And I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations and explain enigmas. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

  44. DANIEL 5:17 Then Daniel answered, and said before the king, “Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another; yet I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

  45. DANIEL 5:18 O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and majesty, glory and honour.

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