What is the Writing on your Wall?

What is the writing on your Wall?
Daniel 5:1-31

God wants us to have faith during the silence
God wants us to grow in Faith by Remembering
God wants us to demonstrate faith in prosperity

Intro
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Good Morning.

We have been going through the Book of Daniel and so far, we have met Daniel, his 3 friends and Nebuchadnezzar.

Now during these first 4 chapters Nebuchadnezzar was the king of Babylon.
He ruled Babylon for over 40 years (605-562).
After him, one of his sons ruled for a short time (Amel-Marduk) (563-561) and after him, a brother in Law (Neriglisser) ruled for about 3 years (560-556) and then Nabonidus (556-539) came to power. Nabonidus was away a lot and his son, Belshazzar, ruled as co regent with his father from 553 until 539.

Now as we turn to chapter 5
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We are going to meet Belshazzar. Realize that it has been about 25 years or so between chapter 4 and 5. Let’s read chapter 5 and seek to learn what it is that the Lord will teach us today.

Daniel 5:1-31
King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them. 2 While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. 3 So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. 4 As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.
5 Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. 6 His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his knees knocked together and his legs gave way.
7 The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers and diviners to be brought and said to these wise men of Babylon, "Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom."
8 Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant. 9 So King Belshazzar became even more terrified and his face grew more pale. His nobles were baffled.
10 The queen, hearing the voices of the king and his nobles, came into the banquet hall. "O king, live forever!" she said. "Don't be alarmed! Don't look so pale! 11 There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the time of your father he was found to have insight and intelligence and wisdom like that of the gods. King Nebuchadnezzar your father — your father the king, I say — appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners. 12 This man Daniel, whom the king called Belteshazzar, was found to have a keen mind and knowledge and understanding, and also the ability to interpret dreams, explain riddles and solve difficult problems. Call for Daniel, and he will tell you what the writing means."
13 So Daniel was brought before the king, and the king said to him, "Are you Daniel, one of the exiles my father the king brought from Judah? 14 I have heard that the spirit of the gods is in