QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Remember in my blog on "Nebuchadnezzar" I wondered whether the king after he recovered from his insanity believed in Daniel's God ? ( it seems in medical science, there is such an illness where a person takes after the characteristics of an animal) From Chapter 4, it seemed so as Nebuch. gave his testimony. However, I find it hard to believe it as King Nebuch was so steeped in a culture of idol worship. Remember how he tried to change the mindsets of those Israelite young men? Well, my question was finally answered last night when I attended the bible exposition seminar on the book of Daniel. King Neb finally became a believer and worshipped Jehovah! Anyway God not only restored his sanity, He even reinstated King Neb and made his kingdom even greater. Unfortunately King Neb.'s grandson, King Belshazzar, choose to ignore the God that his grandfather worshipped and led a life of debauchery and idolatory. For that he was dealt with swift judgement ( Chapter 5) after sufficient warning (the writing on the wall). An interesting fact was that the Queen Mother introduced Daniel to the young king - and the Queen Mother was none other than the woman for whom King Neb built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Wow! that part of history is so real for me ( I remember studying this in Standard 6 history). Well, another interesting point was that at the time of young king Belshazzar, Babylon was under seige by the Medes and Persia. However, the Babylonians were very confident that their city would never be taken because they had a fortified 350ft high by 70 ft thick wall (built by King Neb - he was a great engineer cum architect - look up in the internet if you don't believe me) Totally impregnable eh? Interestingly, Babylon was served by a rivier that ran below the wall into the city. So while the king and his men were having their feast, celebrated with orgies, debauchery, idolatory, the enemies had dammed the river and entered the city by way of the dry river. So Babylon was taken without a shot fired, so to say. That was why Daniel told the King the prophesy that the joker's life was numbered. He was killed that very night.

There are many lessons to be learnt from this book. Among them is - you can't triffle with God. Having know about his grandfather's conversion, and having heard and witnessed the greatness of God in his grandfather's life, king Belshazzar choose to ignore the Living God and deliberately worship idols. For that God dealt him a swift judgment, no second chance. Read for yourself. Keep faithful to God, ok?