Page 7 - 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.

straight: I will break in pieces the gates of

brass and cut in sunder the bars of iron.”

While Belshazzar and his lords drank and

feasted, the army of Cyrus was lowering the

waters in the bed of the Euphrates,

preparatory to entering the city.

As the Chaldeans were unable to read the

writing on the wall, the king’s terror

increased. He knew that this was a rebuke of

his sacrilegious feast, and yet he could not

learn the exact meaning. Then the queen-

mother remembered Daniel, who had “the

Spirit of the holy God,” and who had been

made master of the wise men in the days of

Nebuchadnezzar as the result of interpreting

the king’s dream.