Page 17 - 06 THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL - CHAPTER 5

THE STORY OF DANIEL THE PROPHET

Stephen N. Haskell

“But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest and stand in thy
lot at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:13.

the palace. The pen of inspiration describes

the overthrow of the kingdom more vividly

than any human historian. Of those guests at

the banquet of Belshazzar it is said, “I will

make them drunken, that they may rejoice,

and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake.... I

will bring them down like lambs to the

slaughter.” Then as if the eye of the prophet

failed to separate Satan from the kingdom

which he had so long controlled, he exclaims,

“How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise

of the whole earth surprised! How is Babylon

become an astonishment among the nations!”

Fire raged through the streets, and as the

people realized that destruction was upon

them, a cry reached heaven. It was a hand-to-

hand fight with fire and sword until men grew

weary and gave up the struggle.