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Saturday, November 28, 2015
Daniel 5:30-31
In that night was
Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median took
the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
For further study - Daniel 5:1-31
This fifth chapter of Daniel's prophecy is not only a prophetic passage of great importance but also a chapter that has a very important historic significance as well.
The King of Babylon, at the time of Daniel 5,
is Belshazzar who most likely was the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. King
Nebuchadnezzar had died and Belshazzar came to power over this world
empire near the time of the end of this great Gentile world power.
The King had invited 1,000 of his "lords" to a banquet, which actually turned into the "last hoorah" for King Belshazzar.
Though the Medes and the Persians had been threatening to overthrow the
Babylonians, the King felt secure inside the walls of this supposedly
"impregnable city" with it's double high walls surrounding the city, a
city that never had been defeated.
During the course of the evening the King called for the "Temple
vessels" that his grandfather had brought out of the Jewish Temple in
Jerusalem to Babylon. The King had his servants fill these "special
vessels" with wine and made these "special vessels" available to the
King's guest. This was a very bad mistake, which I will discuss a bit
later.
It was while the drunken party was going on that the Medes came from the
North and the Persians from the South and damned up the water entering
the city under it's Northern wall, and exiting under it's Southern wall.
That gave Babylon's enemies a dry tunnel under the walls to enter the
city. This was the method by which the "impregnable city" was entered by
its major enemies at that time. The Babylonian Empire was brought down
by the Medo-Persian Empire, the second of the Gentile world powers to
rule over Jerusalem and the Jewish people.
This passage, describing the fall of the Babylonian Empire, does not
mention that the city of Babylon was destroyed, only the Empire. The
truth be known, the city of Babylon has never been destroyed, as Bible
prophecy says will happen in the last days.
Ancient Jewish Prophets say that Babylon must be destroyed, totally, and never be rebuilt. Isaiah 13 and 14, Jeremiah 50 and 51, Revelation 18 and Revelation 16:17-21 describe the total destruction of the city of Babylon.
Babylon the city was not destroyed, as described in Daniel 5.
Other passages indicate that same truth as well. Seventy-five years
after the fall of the Babylonian Empire, Ezra lived in Babylon, Ezra 7:6 and 9.
Secular history tells us that Alexander the Great ruled the world from
his headquarters in Babylon, 200 years after the fall of the Babylonian
Empire. Peter, the Apostle, started a church in Babylon, 500 years after
the fall of the Empire, I Peter 5:13. Babylon, one day in the future, will be destroyed, as revealed in Revelation 16.
The other thought that I wanted to give you pertaining to the use of the "implements" from the Temple, Daniel 5:2-5, is that because the Babylonians desecrated the Temple and it's implements, God will bring eternal judgment on Babylon, Jeremiah 50:28 and Jeremiah 51:11.
Biblical Babylon is the modern-day state of Iraq, where the Antichrist
will be headquartered and will rule over a "one world" political,
governmental, economic system in the last days. The rebuilding of
war-torn Iraq is setting the stage for Bible Prophecy to be fulfilled.
Keep looking up, because the Rapture happens before all of these
prophecies are fulfilled. In reality, the Rapture could happen today,
what a day it would be for all of us who know Jesus Christ as Lord and
Saviour.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Help
me, Lord to discern the urgency of the moment in these days that seem
to be the last days and help me to live in light of this knowledge.