A Bad Day at the Office

Highlights from Daniel 1-5

3:15 …if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace.

3:29 … I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way.”

Funny that old Nebz gets it but just doesn’t get it.

4:13-16 …I looked, and there before me was a holy one, a messenger, coming down from heaven.  He called in a loud voice: Cut down the tree and trim off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches. But let the stump and its roots, bound with iron and bronze, remain in the ground, in the grass of the field. “‘Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him live with the animals among the plants of the earth. Let his mind be changed from that of a man and let him be given the mind of an animal, till seven times pass by for him.

4:22 …you are that tree…

4:36 …all those that walk in pride he is able to humble

                Like father like son. Didn’t old Belsh learn anything from his pop?

5:3-4 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. As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.

                Then a lasting vision. Must have been the wine – or the cup.

5:5 The king replied to the astrologers, “This is what I have firmly decided: If you do not tell me what my dream was and interpret it, I will have you cut into pieces and your houses turned into piles of rubble.

                Those kings had a real thing for rubble.

5:22 “But you, Belshazzar, his son,  have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this.  Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven.

5:30 That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain…