{"id":2847,"date":"2011-01-25T08:18:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T12:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2011-01-25T08:18:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T12:18:37","slug":"daniel-51-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=2847","title":{"rendered":"Daniel 5:1-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/preview.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2744\" title=\"preview\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/preview-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/preview-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/preview.jpeg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Reading: Daniel 5:1-9 (English Standard Version)<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;\"><strong>1<\/strong> King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong>2<\/strong> Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.<strong>3<\/strong> Then they brought in the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.<strong>4<\/strong> They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5<\/strong> Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king&#8217;s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote.<strong>6<\/strong> Then the king&#8217;s color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.<strong>7<\/strong> The king called loudly to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king declared to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.<strong>8<\/strong> Then all the king&#8217;s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation.<strong>9<\/strong> Then King Belshazzar was greatly alarmed, and his color changed, and his lords were perplexed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Meet King Belshazzar&#8230;son of our good friend King Nebuchadnezzar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">He is having a huge celebration and then out of nowhere, this random hand start writing on the wall. \u00a0How would you react? \u00a0Can you even imagine?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">The passage says that the king&#8217;s color changed and his thoughts alarmed him. \u00a0Can you imagine? \u00a0Then&#8230;his limbs gave way and his knees knocked together. \u00a0He was completely freaked out!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">He was in a panic to quickly find out what the writing on the wall said. \u00a0All of his wise men came in&#8230;but, they could not read it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Do you see where this is going? \u00a0Another incredible opportunity for our friend Daniel!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Reading: Daniel 5:1-9 (English Standard Version) 1 King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}