Heads Up

“In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he was lying on his bed. He wrote down the substance of his dream.” The material in Daniel 7 is parallel to the vision of Nebuchadnezzar in chapter 2. They tell us that God is…

Daniel and the lion’s den is perhaps one of the most well-known and beloved stories in the Bible. King Darius made a decree that no one was to make a petition to any god or man for thirty days except to him. For thirty days Daniel would need to abandon his customary practice of praying…

“We must not think that God is unaffected by sin or that He will ignore it forever simply because His judgments are postponed. The time eventually comes when that great accumulation of wrath is poured out against sinners. This happens to nations at the moments of their greatest arrogance. It happens to individuals. It happens…

There are a number of important lessons in Daniel beyond the lesson of the Bible’s reliability (see last week’s “Heads Up”). Today, please let us give them briefly and then apply them in a slightly wider way.

Belshazzar’s Feast is a circa 1635 painting by Rembrandt. It is held in the The National Gallery, London. Rembrandt is considered to be one of the greatest masters of Dutch painting and even Western painting. Belshazzar gave a party in Daniel 5 and he “invited all his friends.” What a party it was! The king…

In Psalms 8:4-5 (Hebrews 2:6-7) there is a description of man that reads, “What is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor.” These verses fix man in an…