714, all aching heart with sorrow torn, thy
lord is near and knows, he knows it
all, the peak way worn, the weary cares
and woes, the lord of grief in anguish
borne, thy lord is near, he knows.
714 please.
714, all aching heart with sorrow torn, thy
lord is near and knows,
he knows it
all, the peak way worn, the weary cares
and woes, the lord of grief in anguish
borne, 714, all aching heart
with sorrow torn, thy lord is near and
knows, he knows it all, the
peak way worn, the weary cares and woes,
the lord of grief in anguish borne, he
knows it all, he knows it all, the
lord of grief in anguish borne,
714, all aching heart with sorrow torn, thy
lord is near and knows, he knows it
all, the
peak way worn, the weary cares
and woes, the lord of grief in
anguish borne, Chapter
5 please, Bukos Danios, and without this great
fifth chapter, trying to embrace this whole chapter
this evening, it is historical, but indeed there
are many spiritual lessons, it is the chapter
where we have the great feast, that Belshazzar
gave to a thousand of his lords, and
where the fingers suddenly appeared, writing on the
wall, and I want to look at this
whole chapter quickly this evening, under five very
simple headings, first of all I want to
underline for you, the blasphemy of Belshazzar, because
this was a very blasphemous act that the
king engaged in at this feast, and we
are going to have a look at this
blasphemy of king Belshazzar, and then I want
to look at the admission of the astrologers,
these wise men among the Chaldeans, who had
to admit that they didn't understand the writing
of God, and I shall be pointing out
that the great many so-called wise men,
don't know anything at all about the writing
that God has written.
The natural man just cannot enter into the
deep things of God.
And then we want to go back to
this great point this evening, the memory of
a mother, because there's a queen mother in
this chapter, and there are a few details
that we must underline about her.
First the big part of the chapter is
the daring of Daniel.
This man of God was brought into this
feast that was upset by the writing on
the wall, and standing in the midst of
all these Chaldean lords, he faced the king,
and he had got some wonderful things to
say.
Probably one of the greatest messages that was
ever preached before he began to deal with
the writing on the wall at all.
So we must see the daring of Daniel.
And then we shall discover this evening in
this chapter that the end of this great
empire comes in this chapter.
Nebuchadnezzar was the first great emperor of the
Babylonian empire, and now we find Belshazzar being
slain in this chapter, and Darius the Median,
because Medi-Persia comes into view in this
chapter.
And under these headings we're looking at the
chapter, the blasphemy of Belshazzar, the admission of
the astrologers, the memory of a mother, the
daring of Daniel, the end of the empire.
Now let's try to get the scene set
properly.
Verse 1.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to
a thousand of his lords.
That's quite a statement you know.
I'd like you to try to visualise in
your own way this evening a thousand lords.
I want you to try to get that
number into your mind.
Of course you've also got to put a
thousand ladies beside them, because lords and ladies
were at this great banquet.
I want you to try to get two
thousand foot moving in this great, and it
must have been massive, banqueting hall.
I'm sure there were many servants, probably hundreds
of servants.
So I want you to visualise this great,
spacious, and I believe from history, very wonderfully
ornamented banqueting hall down at the palace at
Babylon.
Two thousand and all the servants.
I'd like you to try to just get
into your mind's eye for the moment all
the multi-coloured Babylonish garments that were worn.
Because a Babylonish garment was a very beautiful
thing.
You remember when God brought Israel into the
land of promise and they came to the
city of Jericho.
You remember it was there that Achan failed
the lord.
Because as they entered into the city, while
they were forbidden to touch anything in the
city when God gave them victory, this man
was tempted by the silver and the wedge
of gold and a Babylonish garment.
It was something that attracted him, and although
he was forbidden to touch it, he did
steal the Babylonish garment.
Some of the great church historians believe this,
and I believe this with them, that some
of the vestments we see in the high
church and in the Roman Catholic church, they
come from Babylon.
They're Babylonish garments.
Of course you all search the whole New
Testament to find that any of the saints
of God wore any vestments whatsoever.
My dear friends, Babylon has kept in so
many churches and there are many Babylonish saints.
And it's something that we should get to
understand a little bit, you know.
I don't want to go off up a
lane on that direction this evening because I
could go from Genesis to Revelation now and
show you quite a variety of things that
belong to Babylon.
And somehow or other they have come down
and have been worked into the ritual of
some churches.
But we'll not pursue that line any further.
All I want you to get into your
mind is this gigantic, spacious, banqueting hall with
two thousand lords and ladies, all clad in
these very beautiful, gorgeous, attractive Babylonish garments, what
a sight it must be.
I'd like you to see the long tables
laden with all the good things that Babylon
could provide.
I'd like you to remember that the lighting
of the hall was just candlesticks placed on
the wall.
Maybe the shadows that they threw across the
place made it even more attractive.
And away in the background somewhere there's long
purring music of the far east and the
stage is set now.
It was a great feat.
And I want you to get this bit
very clearly into your mind.
It says, Bereshazzar became the great feast to
a thousand of his lords and drank wine
before the thousands.
Bereshazzar whilst he tasted the wine.
You know, as the night went on, and
as the party progressed, this man drinking this
wine was moved.
This is what this book is trying to
say to us just now.
Bereshazzar whilst 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.
You know, I think there came a moment
in the feast, it must have been some
way half through, when this half-drunken king,
perhaps he rocked the table with the end
of his fork, brought the whole proceeding.
He's all worked up, he's half drunk, but
he remembers in his drunken state that his
father, and maybe it was his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar,
had taken the gold and vessels out of
the temple of God which was at Jerusalem.
Now why should this man in the midst
of a feast ever think about vessels being
brought out of the temple?
Well you see he's trying to be a
big man, it's pride that's filling his heart
as the drink takes possession.
He probably thinks he's bigger than what he
is.
And he wants to insult the God of
heaven.
He wants to add injury to insult.
He says, bring in the vessels, bring them
in, bring them in.
Didn't you see him in his drunken state?
He's trying to insult God.
He's mocking God, that's what he's mocking God
to say.
Now let me establish this, this is one
of the lessons we need to learn in
this chapter.
This book distinctly says, God will not be
mocked.
And that's a lesson we all must learn.
God will put up with a lot of
things, he's got to put up with a
lot of things from the whole lot of
us.
And he has to put up with a
lot of things from sinners.
But there's one thing that God will not
put up with, and that is he won't
allow you to mock him.
I could take a long time tonight and
go through the book and prove this without
any doubts whatsoever.
Let me do it just once or twice
for you just to transform the lesson that
we should learn.
Let's have a look at Romans chapter one.
Paul's letter to the Romans, and it's chapter
one please, verse twenty.
Now here's a great statement that Paul makes.
He's talking about God, he says, the invisible
things of God, the invisible things of him,
from the creation of the world are clearly
seen.
What he's saying is this, that creation tells
us God is.
And the man that looks honestly at creation,
if you take this gigantic solar system of
ours, if you know it properly, you know
that the sun is the centre of our
solar system, and you know that in our
solar system nine planets move in the different
orbits round the sun.
You know that Mercury is the nearest one,
if this were the sun.
Then Mercury is out here somewhere, just moving
round.
It is thirty million miles from the sun.
Yet it moves at a speed of three
hundred thousand miles per second.
What a speed it's going.
It's moving in its orbit.
It takes an idiot genius to go round
here.
Then a bit further out is our planet,
is Earth.
It's ninety-three million miles from the sun.
It's moving at sixty-six thousand miles per
hour.
You know what thirty miles per hour means.
Sixty-six thousand miles per hour.
And it takes it three hundred and sixty
-five days and a quarter to go round.
And it's never a second out.
When the men send the rockets from Cape
Kennedy, they know exactly where the moon will
be in three days' time.
And they can hit almost on the spot,
because the moon is absolutely precision movement.
It's a gigantic thing this.
Men that look into the solar system.
Men that look into the wonders of the
world.
You know they know there is a God.
There must be a God.
The invisible things of God from the creation
of the world are clearly seen.
Being understood, it says here, by the things
that are made.
Even his eternal power in Godhead.
So that they are without excuse.
Every man is without excuse.
You know the man that says there is
no God and looks at creation, he must
be a fool.
You remember me telling you about the circus
that went down to Cork on one occasion.
Went down the west coast of Ireland there.
And you know some of the dear old
Irish men working down there in Connemara, in
the bogs, left the bogs, came over onto
the roadside and watched the circus going past.
And there came along at the end of
the circus a fellow on a camel.
And there was one old farmer really intrigued
about this, never seen a camel in his
life before.
We got into the middle of the road
and the farmer said to the boy, he
said, what do you call it?
He said, it's a camel.
Camel.
He said, oh come on over and touch
him.
Touched him.
Camel.
Then the fellow went on, stood looking and
watched it go out of sight.
He kept saying it's a camel.
Camel.
Then when it was out of sight he
said, there's no such a thing as a
camel.
In turn the man that looks at the
wonders of creation and says there's no God
is just a fool like the man that
said that.
You see that without excuse.
Watch what Paul says now.
He says because that when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God, neither were
thankful, but became vain in their imaginations and
their foolish heart was darkened.
You see I think it's always good to
remember that this world of man didn't start
in the jungle.
Sometimes the professors always try to tell me
that this is how we started, not at
all.
It started with mankind knowing God.
Adam knew God.
Knew the voice of the Lord God in
the garden at the cool of a bay.
But when they knew God, you know, they
glorified him not as God, neither were thankful,
but became vain in their imaginations and their
foolish heart was darkened, professing themselves to be
wise.
They became fools.
Oh you could preach that text in many
directions.
There are so many boys on our planet
tonight who profess themselves to be wise, but
they're the greatest fools on God's earth.
It says and change the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed
beasts and creeping things.
They need images, they'd rather bow down to
images.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
through the lust of their own hearts to
dishonour their own bodies between themselves.
You know God just wouldn't put up with
it.
They were not allowed to mock God like
that.
When this world of humans knew God and
became vain in their imaginations and began to
make images and bow down to them, God
said no, I'll not put up with it.
And God, do you see that God gave
them up.
You know this is really serious, it says,
he gave them up, who changed the truth
of God into a lie.
And Washington said the creature more than the
creator, who is blessed forever.
For this cause God gave them up unto
violent actions, for even a woman did change
the natural youth into that which is against
nature.
And likewise also the man leaving the natural
youth of the woman, born in their lust
one towards another, that's where sodomy came in.
There are so many things that one could
underline in that.
All I want to say is this, that
God let them go because God will not
be mocked.
God just gave them up.
Remember when God's own priests, two priests of
the tribe of Levi, walked into the temple
with strange fire.
You know what they were doing, they were
mocking God.
And they were shouted Let's go back there.
We're at Daniel 4.
It says, Daniel 5, it says verse 3,
Then they brought the gold and vessels that
were taken out of the temple of the
house of God which was after Jerusalem, and
the king, and his princesses, his wives, and
his concubines drunk in them.
And they drank wine and praised the gods
of gold and of silver, of brass, of
iron, of wood, of stone.
What a night it was.
This king was insulting God.
And all these lords and ladies were really
whipped in the blasphemy.
And here they are standing in the middle
of the night, drunk and shot now.
And they're praising the gods of gold, of
silver, of brass, of iron.
Yes, and then something happens, you see.
If you're watching the notes, you can see
the feast, and the deity, you can see
the fun, so we might say, and the
blasphemy.
And then something happens, you know, in the
same hour came four fingers of a man's
hand.
I think you should get it properly, it's
only fingers, not a man's hand, you know,
it's just fingers.
It's only part of a hand.
It came out, came four fingers of a
man's hand and wrote over against the candlestick
upon the plaster of the wall of the
king's palace.
And the king saw the part of the
hand that wrote.
I would think that if the fingers moved
suddenly on that wall tonight and began writing
on the stage, writing, you would be frightened.
I wouldn't know what would happen to you.
You maybe think you're tough, but if some
strange, mysterious thing like that happened, you maybe
would find you're not as big as what
you think you are.
Well, I can tell you that the king
was frightened, and there's one thing about that.
You can see the feast and the fun
and the fingers, but you must look at
the fear.
See verse 6, the king's countenance was changed,
his face was changed, and his thoughts troubled
him, so that the joints of his loins
were loosed.
I wonder, did you ever see anybody frightened,
that the very joints of their loins were
loosed?
I wonder, do you know what it means
when your knees really knock?
I know we laugh, but I saw it
on one occasion, and it was a terrible
sight.
You know, when I went to work with
a famous surgeon for many years, he and
I got on very well together.
I used to go down to the theatre
with him every morning, and I enjoyed those
days very much.
And one morning, we were both arriving at
the hospital in this great big fashionable American
car of his, and as we went in
through the door, the matron was talking to
a real country man, a young fellow straight
from the heart of the country.
And in those days, you could tell a
country boy right away.
You wouldn't do it now just so easily.
He was wearing big boots, what they called
around Utah and Args at that time, a
muffler, and an old cap.
There he was, right from the heart of
the country.
So I knew a fellow called Jambleson.
Oh, he was a simple country boy, and
looked every inch of it, too.
And the boss said to the matron, anything
wrong with the young man?
No, she says, he's asked for a job
here at the portal.
And I put a spook in for him.
I said, I know his family, sir.
He said, start a matron, and walked on.
And he said to me, as we were
getting on, what that guy was And he
looked the rawest customer you've ever seen.
And as I came out with the boss,
he was going on and on, there were
two painters painting, and one of them said
to me, did you see Barney that was
started this morning?
Barney wasn't his name, but he was having
fun, you see.
I said, you know, I know him.
Did he get started?
He said, yes, he did start.
He was going to have some fun over
him, I can tell you.
And these two boys were red-leading some
pipes round about the hospital, and as Barney,
we'll just call him that for the moment,
hung his cap up, you see.
They red-leaded the inside of the cap
and put it up there.
And then they got one of the sisters
on the ward to send Barney for a
message, and he's doing everything he can to
please, and he gets the cap and pulls
it off.
It's stuck on now, I can tell you
that.
And I saw him down in the lab
where the ladies were trying to take this
red lead out of his hair.
And all the time Barney said nothing.
Just a country guy, that's all.
You want to watch them, I can tell
you.
Because the painters moved round, you see, and
they came to the morgue, they were in
the morgue.
And you know the rule in the morgue
with the painters was, well if there's anybody
laid out on the slab, you know what
they do in the hospital, if you die
they'll wheel you out, put you on the
slab and put a big white sheet over
you.
The painters would come along and just lift
the sheet and see who it was.
Maybe they would know who it was.
So Barney came along at any time and
lay on the slab.
Displaced still as the corpse could be.
And the two pimple boys, tough lads, you
know, they knew it all, in through the
door and the young fella said, oh Jimmy,
this one put his head.
And Jimmy in the pile just comes over
to lift the sheet when the sheet drops.
Well I can tell you, I don't know
whether I should tell you the whole story
or not, and the other fella didn't think
that I can tell you that the joints
of his loins were
not back at work for about three weeks
afterwards.
This young fella shared that in all the
time that he worked as a porter in
the hospital, everybody treated him with the greatest
courtesy.
Yes, there are frightening things in this world,
you know.
But I can tell you these two boys
got the fright that they will never forget
as long as they live.
Well this is exactly what happened to the
king, he got really frightened.
And then I want you to hear the
king crying in verse 7.
The king cried aloud to bring in the
astrologers, the chaldeans, the soothsayers.
And the king spake and said to the
wise men of Babylon, whosoever shall read this
writing and show me an interpretation thereof shall
be clothed with scarlet, just mark that now,
and have a chain of gold upon his
neck and shall be the third ruler in
the kingdom.
You know those of us who have studied
all the details of Babylon there are a
tremendous lot to study.
And these scarlet robes that the cardinals of
the Roman Catholic Church wear, I can tell
you they're Babylonish, that's where they came from.
You see scarlet robes, you'll know where they
come from.
They came from Babylon.
And I'm not altogether sure but I believe
I would be sure enough to say this.
The chain about the mayor's neck came from
Babylon.
The king said, you know I'll clothe you
in scarlet and I'll put a chain around
your neck.
And it's a long time ago.
Oh we get so used to a whole
lot of old nonsense that goes on.
We almost think it's real.
But there's lots of things to learn in
this book if you take your time.
And so the king is bringing in the
wise men.
And it says here, verse 8, Then came
in all the king's wise men but they
could not read the writing.
That's a great statement.
That's the second lesson that we must learn
this evening.
If we learn these two things tonight it
will do us good forever more.
If we learn this, that God will not
be mocked.
Whether it's king or priest, God will not
be mocked.
Whether it's king, wise man or priest, God
will not be mocked.
And if we can learn that God's writing,
even the so-called worldly wise men can't
read it.
They can't read it properly.
Let me take you to 1 Corinthians for
a moment.
You young ones want to learn this.
1 Corinthians, and up the second chapter please.
1 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 13.
He's talking about the things of God.
Which things also we speak, not in the
words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the
Holy Ghost teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God.
And I want you to get the phrase,
the natural man.
Doesn't make a matter who he is.
He may be king, he may be queen's
council, he may be judge, he may be
clever, he may be intellectually one of the
geniuses of this world, but it is just
the natural man.
Let's get this quite clear.
He receiveth not the things of the Spirit
of God.
This clever man won't do with God's writing.
Why when we come to some of the
types and shadows and parallels and pictures in
this book, I see the clever so-called
modernists tearing up the pages.
They don't know what to do with the
types.
They can't read them.
They don't understand it.
They want to tear it up.
My dear friends, the natural man receiveth not
the things of the Spirit of God.
Not a bit of it.
For they are foolishness unto him.
False belief men think that these things are
spiritual.
Neither can he know them.
He cannot know them.
Because they are spiritually discerned.
Why if you get a non-saved man
preaching every Sunday out of this book, or
trying to preach, you'll get no food.
If he's not capable of getting it out
for you.
Oh, the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God.
We can't even know them.
They're spiritually discerned.
That's why God can take up a little
fella from a back street and it doesn't
make a matter who he is.
And if God elects to make him a
great teacher, God can do it.
This is the spiritual world.
This is not an academic world.
This is spiritual.
And the greatest academic qualifications doesn't qualify you
for reading God's words.
It's spiritually discerned.
Sometimes people say to me, the things you
see in that book, I've read it often,
I didn't see them.
Nor I wouldn't see them either, only God
helps me.
Spiritual discernment that's needed.
And this is the second great lesson.
You know they couldn't read the Bible.
They admitted it to me.
And verse 9 says, Then whilst King Belshazzar
greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in
him, and his lords were astonished.
Now we come to this bit of the
queen.
Now the queen, by reason of the words
of the king and his lord, came into
the banquet house.
I want you to notice that she wasn't
at the banquet.
I want you to get that properly.
I'm trying to miss these tiny little bits,
you know, and they're very important.
I want you to know she wasn't at
the feast.
Not until this terrible moment comes and the
astrologers are called in and she hears about
the king's fear and the punishment.
It's only then she comes in.
Now the queen, by reason of the words
of the king and his lord, came into
the banquet house.
And the queen stood and said, O king,
live forever.
If not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let
thy countenance be changed, there is a man
in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit
of the holy gods.
And in the days of thy father, and
you'll notice in the margin the word is
grandfather, and that might well be right.
We won't worry too much about it this
evening.
In the days of thy father, light and
understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the
gods, was found in him.
Whom the king, Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king
I say thy father, made master of the
magician.
Now, just the way she's talking, I believe
that she was the queen mother.
I believe that this was Nebuchadnezzar's wife.
And you know, last week we found out
that God took a dealing with him.
And he was soundly saved and converted to
God.
And he began to magnify God.
And I believe he so lived that his
wife got converted too.
She never went to the feast.
She wasn't in on it at all.
Which is coming in to put them right
now.
She says there's a man in the kingdom.
She knew there was a man of God
in the kingdom.
And she remembered what he had done for
Nebuchadnezzar.
And she's inviting Belshazzar to send for him.
See what she says about him, verse 12,
for as much as an excellent spirit and
knowledge and understanding, interpreting of dreams and showing
of hard sentences and dissolving of doubts were
found in the same Daniel, whom the king
named Belshazzar.
Now let Daniel be called and he will
show the interpretation.
And I think that's wonderful to see that
the queen wasn't at the banquet and that
she remembers there's a man of God in
the kingdom and she's coming in to plead
before all these lords to send for the
man of God.
Verse 13, then was Daniel brought in before
the king.
And the king spake and said unto Daniel,
ask thou that Daniel, which art of the
children of the captivity of Judah, whom the
king, my father, brought out of Jerusalem.
I have even heard of thee that the
spirit of the gods is in thee and
that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is
found in thee.
And now the wise men, the astrologers, have
been brought in before me, that they should
read this writing and make known unto me
the interpretation thereof.
But they could not show the interpretation of
the thing.
And I have heard of thee that thou
canst make interpretations and resolve doubts.
Now if thou canst read the writing and
make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou
shalt be clothed with scarlet, have a chain
of gold about thy neck and shall be
the third ruler in the kingdom.
Now I want you to watch the last
part of the chapter, it's very wonderful.
Listen to how Daniel answers.
Then Daniel answered and said before the king,
let thy gifts be to thyself and give
thy rewards to another.
An old Hebrew word that's translated rewards, it
could have been translated fee.
Give thy fee to somebody else is one
of the great translations.
You know this man of God, he just
couldn't be bought.
And he's come to say something and he
means to say it and he's not going
to play with anybody.
I think a man of God needs to
be a real man, needs to be fierce,
needs to be faithful, needs to be frank.
Just watch exactly what Daniel said.
Verse 18.
All thou king the most high God, and
he's exalting God when he said that, the
most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a
kingdom.
He's just wanting to let them know where
the kingdom came from.
And majesty and honour, glory and honour.
And for the majesty that he gave them,
all people, nations and languages trembled and feared
before him.
Whom he would he chose.
Whom he would he kept alive.
And whom he would he set up and
whom he would he put down.
God made Nebuchadnezzar the monarch of a world
empire.
But when his heart was lifted up and
his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed
from his kingly throne.
And they took his glory from him.
And he was driven from the sons of
men.
And his heart was made like the beasts
and his dwelling was with wild horses.
They said him was grass like oxen and
his body was wet with the dew of
heaven.
Till he knew that the most high God
ruled in the kingdom of man and that
he appointed over it whomsoever he will.
You know he knows all about the past
this man.
All about the past.
Rubbing it in for the young king a
bit.
Letting him know what his father or grandfather
had learned.
And now he begins to speak to the
king and watch this while preaching.
Verse 22.
And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not
humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this.
What he is saying to the king is
just saying, thou hast despised the light that
came to your home.
That's what he's saying.
Telling him point blank what he's done.
Maybe there's some young fellow here you're not
saved yet.
God saved your mother.
God saved your father.
God has done so many things for your
family.
But you've despised the light that came to
your home.
That's a terrible indictment on you.
You would deserve to go to hell.
You've despised the light that came to your
home.
But he went a bit further with the
king.
Verse 23 he says, But hast lifted up
thyself against the Lord of heaven.
And that simply means thou hast defied the
Lord.
Yes he didn't only despise the light.
He defied the Lord.
Lifting himself up against the God of heaven.
You've heard about the man who went out
onto the mountain top and took his coat
off and said, as you're eyes.
And written on him, for the heaven and
fight me.
And he went on for ever so long
barging God.
And there was a moth teethed him along
and bit him and it turned to poison
and in a day or two he was
dead.
A fool of thoughts like that.
You can't defy the living God.
Goliath thought he could defy the living God.
No Goliath can defy the living God.
He said this, He said, And they have
brought the vessels of his house before thee.
And thou and thy lords and thy wives
and thy concubines have drunk wine in them.
And thou hast paid the gods of silver
and gold, of brass, iron, wood, stone, which
see not, nor hear, nor know.
And the God in whose hand thy breath
is, and whose are all thy ways, thou
hast not glorified.
You think he desecrated the vessels?
I know the word desecrated is wrong spelt
on your sheet tonight.
There's a me left out.
D-E-S-E-C.
Desecrated.
And our dear friend who does the typing
here, she missed the me.
Getting older of course.
And she said to me, she brought it
in and left it down and said, Will
you do it over again?
Not at all I said, Leave it, I
wouldn't let me.
We're writing another book just now.
It's on the doctrine of the devil.
It's a tremendous one.
Everything about the devil from beginning to end.
And I've given her all the notes and
all the details.
And she just got it done the other
day and she brought it in and left
it on the table before me.
She says, I'm finished with the devil.
Well I says, I'm glad to hear that.
I can tell her, I said to her,
you're finished with the devil.
Well I'll tell you this, he's not finished
with you.
It is just a mistake and she doesn't
make very many and she does a great
job.
But Daniel's preaching, he says, Thou hast despised
the light.
Thou hast desecrated the vessels.
Thou hast defied the Lord.
Then was the part of the hand sent
from him and this writing was written and
this is the writing that was written.
Nini, nini ti tell you fast.
God wrote this on the wall of the
palace.
Say these words.
Nini, nini ti tell you fast.
And this is the interpretation of the thing.
Nini, God hath numbered thy kingdom.
Finished.
Now that was some talk, wasn't it?
This was the man that was mocking God.
This was the man that had defied God.
Here's the first word on the wall.
God.
God hath numbered thy kingdom.
And the word ti tell simply meant, thou
art weighed in the balances.
Thou art found wanting.
You know, friend, he deserved the judgment that
had come.
God had tried him out.
God had put him in the balance.
God had weighed him now.
He's found wanting.
You know what Daniel's saying to you?
Daniel's saying, Thou hast despised the light.
Thou hast desecrated the vessels.
Thou hast defied the Lord.
Thou hast deserved the judgment.
And the word peris means, thy kingdom is
divided and given to the Medes and Persians.
Thou hast delivered the kingdom.
My dear friend, God is real, you know.
Look how this chapter ends.
Then commanded Belshazzar and Bequil, Daniel the Scarlet,
and put a chain of gold about his
neck and made a proclamation concerning him that
he should be the third ruler in the
kingdom.
I cannot answer why Daniel didn't resist this.
Maybe he knew that Darius the Median was
at the gate.
And he was.
While the king was fooling around at the
banquet, the Medes were coming into the city.
You know that the walls of Babylon were
nearly 100 feet high.
And they tell me that four chariots could
pass on the top of the wall.
And they sat behind these walls and they
believed that nobody could ever get in.
But the river that ran into the city,
the Medes turned the river into another course.
And where the river bed went under the
wall, the Medes walked in when Belshazzar was
at the feast.
And that night, here's what it says, verse
30, in that night was Belshazzar the king
of the Chaldeans slain and Darius the Median
took the kingdom.
Now here's something to get before you close
your Bible.
In one and two and three and four
chapters, we have Nebuchadnezzar.
In chapter five, we have Belshazzar.
In chapter six, we're going to have Darius.
But when you come to chapter seven, you're
going back again to Belshazzar.
In the first year of Belshazzar.
In chapter eight, you're going back again to
the third year of the king Belshazzar.
So you've got to watch this book very
carefully.
And we're coming slowly to the great prophecies
of the book.
Such that we have learned these lessons this
evening.
We're just saying two verses.
I don't want to keep you late.
665.
Termly stand for God in the world's muds
twice.
Though the bleak winds roar and the waves
beat high, tis the rock alone giveth strength
and life when the hosts of sin are
nigh.
First and last verses 685 please.
Termly stand for God in the world's muds
twice.
Though the bleak winds roar and the waves
beat high, tis the rock alone giveth strength
and life when the hosts of sin are
nigh.
Termly stand for God in the world's muds
twice.
Though the bleak winds roar and the waves
beat high, tis the rock alone giveth strength
and life when the hosts of sin are
nigh.
Dear Lord, we thank thee for the wonder
of thy holy words.
Part us in thy fear.
With thy blessing, for thy holy name's sake.
Amen.