Friday, September 30, 2005
Last night, we had our bookstudy, where we are studying the book Pay Attentionto Daniel’s Prophecy. We had gone over part of chapter 5 of Daniel, where those four mysterious words were written on the wall during the feast Belshazzar the king was having. Among the lessons learned: “[Jehovah’s] eyes are against the haughty ones, that [he] may bring them low.” Belshazzar, like his grandfather, Nebuchadnezzar, were very proud men, proud of their nation and their idols, and their gods. But Jehovah, the Almighty God, showed them that he could exalt them just as easy as he can bring down and humiliate them [Daniel 5.18-21]. It also showed how the Babylonians’ use of idols did them no good by halting Jehovah’s actions, such as when he made Nebuchadnezzar live like a bull for seven years or when he predicted the fall of Babylon itself. Next lesson: using idols in worship is very, very, bad and useless. They are nothing but mere objects made of “silver and of gold, copper, iron, wood and stone, that are beholding nothing or hearing nothing or knowing nothing”. It is only to Jehovah who we should give exclusive devotion to [Daniel 5.22,23; Exodus 20.2-6].
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Fri Sep 30, 02:34:00 PM CDT
We also learned how Belshazzar, like his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar did, had to learn that Jehovah was the almighty God and that because Daniel had his backing is why he was able to translate the meanings of Nebuchadnezzars dreams and how he would be able to help Belshazzar find out what the writings on the wall really meant. Funny how all of the townspeople that were called on to help, were unable to tell him what the writing really meant. It is because these people practiced all things that were seen as unfavorable in Jehovah's eyes.Fri Sep 30, 03:38:00 PM CDTright on, evie. right on.
