The Final Bash in the King’s Palace

It was a party like no other. Wine was flowing freely and the thousand or so royal guests seemed completely oblivious to the fact that within hours the party’s host (the Babylonian king Belshazzar) will be dead and the Persian army will have captured the city and the palace in which his guests were partying. King Belshazzar and the great Babylonian empire will be no more. Yet, the events of this fateful evening should not come as a surprise to Belshazzar.

YHWH warned Belshazzar’s more famous predecessor (Nebuchadnezzar) of this very night in a dream recorded in Daniel 2. Nebuchadnezzar saw a gigantic metallic statue with a head of gold (representing Nebuchadnezzar and his empire). But that empire would at some point give way to the Persian empire (represented by the silver arms and chest of the statue). It was the Hebrew prophet Daniel, who, when interpreting the dream, told Nebuchadnezzar of these events yet to transpire. On this very night, YHWH issued a warning of impending judgment in the form of a mysterious handwritten message which suddenly appeared on the wall of the palace for all to see. Daniel is summoned to the king’s palace yet again. This time, Daniel is to interpret a mysterious handwritten message which terrified Belshazzar as well as his guests. The message brings ominous news to Belshazzar. It is YHWH’s declaration of judgment, fulfilling the scene in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream.

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