Writting on the plaster of the wall

Daniel 5:1-16

King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them. While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. 

As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone. Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking.

The queen, hearing the voices of the king and his nobles, came into the banquet hall. “May the king live forever!” she said. “Don’t be alarmed! Don’t look so pale! There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the time of your father he was found to have insight and intelligence and wisdom like that of the gods. 

Now I have heard that you are able to give interpretations and to solve difficult problems. If you can read this writing and tell me what it means, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around your neck, and you will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

Strictly speaking, Nabonidus was the last king of Babylon. But he retired to Arabia early in his reign, leaving his son Belshazzar acting king in Babylon hence the fact that Daniel could be made only the third ruler.

The date is 539, 23 years after Nebuchadnezzar's death. The great feast at the palace is going on with a swing when a mysterious hand begins to write on the wall. 

Why?

King Belshazzar didn't know the Lord and he used the gold and silver goblets that his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, It is blasphemy the Lord, Almighty.

This event, let people know that only the servant of Lord Daniel can interpret these mysterial words.

People always like to do anything as they delight, but there is a God who set the boundary in this world. Like the wave of the ocean can't across the bank. Water always flows to the lower places.

The rule in this world is knowing the Lord is a real blessing to men.

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大軍壓境居然還大擺宴席，可能在大內宣或是安撫人心，掩蓋自己的不安。

伯撒沙不給神面子時風神也不給王面子，公開在眾人面前寫字。伯撒沙很瞧不起但以理的身份，高高在上說話。尼布甲尼撒對但以理說話還有些尊重。

我們對神和世界應該是享受神，使用世界。伯撒沙則是享受世界，想利用上帝！

人死在過目過犯罪惡之中，所以對於罪惡沒有感覺。

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How?

Give praise to the Lord and keep God's command and honor God's Holy Name!