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Daniel: The On-Ramp

Daniel 5 — The Writing on the Wall

A party, a hand, and an empire gone before morning.

Daniel 5 · about 8 minutes

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Watch a kingdom change hands exactly on schedule.

Start with Daniel 2 — it lays the storyline every other vision retells.

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Check what you saw

Two questions on this scene. Answers show an explanation either way.

What makes Belshazzar's feast more than a party?

What does the hand write on the wall mean?

Talk it through

  • What does the story say about borrowed holiness treated as decoration?
  • How does chapter 5 read differently once you have read chapter 4?

Good prompts for a study group, or for the reflection journal on the Today page.