Daniel 5 – The hand writing on the wall and Babylon’s fall. 2025

Dan 5:4
They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
They toasted the gods. It would have taken more than one night to drink to all the gods they had in Babylon. They cloaked their sin as an act of worship. There was an opposing army standing outside the walls of the city, but they were having a party anyway.
Dan 5:5
Suddenly the fingers of a man's hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing.
Now Elohim directly intervenes. He does not use a vision or a dream. He has a message of doom for Belshazzar.
Dan 5:6
Then the king's face grew pale, and his thoughts alarmed him; and his hip joints went slack, and his knees began knocking together.
He is very scared. It sounds as if he soiled his britches.
Dan 5:7
The king called aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans and the diviners. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, "Any man who can read this inscription and explain its interpretation to me will be clothed with purple, and have a necklace of gold around his neck, and have authority as third ruler in the kingdom."
Notice the reward is becoming the "third ruler in the kingdom". This is a testament to the accuracy of Scripture. The man who wrote the book had to have been there and understood the circumstances. Nabonidus is the real king and Belshazzar is second in command.