Belshazzar's feast
192The Medo-Persian Empire
14 May 2024
15:42¶ 65
“Belshazzar pushes the point. He takes those vessels out and brings them into his feast and uses them to toast his own gods and…”
16:06¶ 66
“And as he sits there and watches, a hand appears in mid-air, scrabbling in the plaster of the wall words that Belshazzar cannot recognize,…”
17:01¶ 69
“His finger writes in stone, as he did once before. The words, as the King James renders them, were MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. PERES…”
157The Handwriting on the Wall
20 Feb 2023
4:43¶ 19
“He’s showing off how comfortable and relaxed he is. He has to emanate the image of, “I don’t care. We’re safe. Let’s party.” And…”
5:20¶ 20
“Some of these vessels were just things that were used for the show bread and the show wine and things like that, or for…”
7:34¶ 25
“Now we come to the end and there’s been no mention of the temple vessels, but now they’re coming out. This is sort of…”