1 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,000 King Belshazzar had a great feast in his castle. 2 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:15,000 He invited thousands of his lords to come and drink wine with him. 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:19,000 While Belshazzar was tasting the wine, he commanded. 4 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:22,000 Bring the golden and silver vessels to us, 5 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:26,200 so me and my princes and wives might drink from them. 6 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,100 These golden vessels had been taken from God’s 7 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:33,000 temple by Belshazzar’s father, Nebuchadnezzar. 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,200 The king and his lords drank wine from these holy vessels 9 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:43,400 while praising the false gods of gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone. 10 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:47,600 In the same hour, fingers of a man’s hand appeared before the 11 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,500 guest of the feast and began to write on the wall. 12 00:00:50,700 --> 00:00:57,500 And when the king saw it, he was troubled and his knees begin to shake. 13 00:00:57,700 --> 00:01:00,300 Astrologers... chaldeans... soothsayers... 14 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:04,200 Who ever reads this writing and shows me the interpretation, 15 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:08,100 shall be clothed in scarlet, and have a chain of gold around their neck, 16 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:12,000 and will be the third ruler in the kingdom. 17 00:01:17,500 --> 00:01:21,500 All the king’s wise men came to try and read the writing on the wall, 18 00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:24,400 but none could make any sence of the writing. 19 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,700 This troubled the king even more. 20 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:30,800 Now the queen heard how troubled the king was, and came into the 21 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,600 banquet house and told him. 22 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:34,700 Let not your thoughts trouble you. 23 00:01:34,900 --> 00:01:38,800 There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods. 24 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:40,500 In the days of your father, 25 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:45,000 light and understanding and wisdom was found in him. 26 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:46,600 So the king brought Daniel in before him and said. 27 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:52,100 Are thou Daniel? Of the children to the captivity of Judad, 28 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:55,500 whom the king my father brought out of Jewry? 29 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:59,000 I have heard that the spirits of the gods are in you. 30 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:03,100 And that the light of understanding and excellent wisdom is found in you. 31 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,600 Now the wise men and astrologers and been brought before me, 32 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,800 but they could not read and interpretate this writing. 33 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,000 But I hear you can make interpretations and dissovle doubts. 34 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,000 If you can read the writing and tell me what it means, 35 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:25,200 then I will clothe you with scarlet and have a chain of gold put around you neck, 36 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,400 and you shall be the third ruler of the kingdom. 37 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,500 Keep your gifts and give them to someone else. 38 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:36,100 I will read the writing on the wall and make known the interpretation. 39 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:44,400 The most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, 40 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:50,400 and honor: And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, 41 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,900 and languages, trembled and feared before him: 42 00:02:55,100 --> 00:03:02,000 whoever he wanted slew, he slew; and whoever he wanted kept alive, he keep alive; 43 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:06,500 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, 44 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:12,000 he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 45 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,000 And he was driven from the sons of men; 46 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:19,200 and his heart was made like the beasts till he knew that the most high God ruled 47 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:24,100 in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. 48 00:03:24,300 --> 00:03:27,700 And you, his son, have not humbled your heart. 49 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:31,400 But have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; 50 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,800 and brought the vessels of the Lord's house, and have drunk wine from them; 51 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:43,000 and praised the gods of silver, gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, 52 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:48,800 but the one true God in whose hand you are, have you not glorified: 53 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,600 This is why he sent the hand to write on the wall. 54 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:58,600 It says, "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin." 55 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:04,200 Mene means God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it. 56 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:10,000 Tekel means You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. 57 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:16,800 Peres means your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. 58 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,700 Then King Belshazzar did as he said he would, 59 00:04:19,900 --> 00:04:23,500 and clothed Daniel with scarlet and put a chain of gold around his neck, 60 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:28,700 and make a proclamation that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. 61 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,800 That night, Darius the Median took over the kingdom, 62 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,000 and slained King Belshazzar, just as Daniel had said. 63 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:43,800 Proverbs 20:11 says, "Even a child is known by his doings, 64 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,800 whether his work be pure, and whether it be right." 65 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,800 King Belshazzar saw his father be taken from his thrown for not obeying God 66 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,500 but he follow in the way of his father. 67 00:04:55,700 --> 00:05:00,100 He continued to praise faults gods and used the holy vessels for the temple 68 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:03,800 to drink wine so God removed him from power. 69 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Subtitles by: DLM Movies - http://dlm-movies.com