WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:14.279 Hey, everybody, good morning. We are the Bible Guys. We're 5 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:14.919 glad to be here. 6 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:15.839 Absolutely. 7 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:16.800 And it's Friday. 8 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:18.039 It is Friday. 9 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:19.879 And who doesn't love a good Friday. 10 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:21.879 I love good Fridays. 11 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:24.640 Yeah, well, good Friday was good. 12 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:27.719 Yes, but we're not talking about that all the good Fridays. 13 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:28.920 All the Fridays are good. 14 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:31.320 We're saying. We're saying every Friday. 15 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:33.159 This is a particularly fine Friday. 16 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:34.640 Yes, it's a fine Friday. 17 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:35.039 Here we go. 18 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:35.479 There you go. 19 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:40.520 Hey, listen TGIF on the whole idea of everybody with weekends. 20 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:44.119 Uh, people love weekends, big fan of weekends. 21 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:46.439 And I always make a comment and say, we've lived 22 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:47.759 our lives a little backwards. 23 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:49.000 All of our. 24 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:52.200 Friends that we've made over the years would always say 25 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:54.920 stuff like, hey, let's get together and let's take a 26 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:55.679 trip up north and. 27 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:57.240 Let's leave for the weekend. 28 00:00:57.799 --> 00:00:59.399 And I would always say, well, I can get away 29 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:01.759 during the week you know, I can go on like 30 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:02.880 a Wednesday Thursday. 31 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:05.200 And they're like, what are you talking about? We work. 32 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:08.680 I'm like, well, Okay, I just can't. We work on Weekndays, 33 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:13.040 we work on Sundays. So but nevertheless, that still doesn't 34 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:14.239 mean that we don't love the weekends. 35 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:16.840 That's correct, we do. We love the weekends, love the weekends. 36 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:22.000 So we are moving into a segment that's uh, I'm 37 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:24.319 going to read it because it's it's technically about you. 38 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:26.319 Here's oh, here's what I love segments about me. 39 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:27.120 Here's what it says. 40 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:30.959 Great, let's do it says Tomorrow is Jeff's birthday. Woo, 41 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:35.120 yes it is wo Actually, mation Mark, Well, today is Friday. 42 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:38.439 Let's have Jeff pick the segment today. He can either 43 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.560 tell us what made him happy this week, where you 44 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:42.480 can ask Chris what made him mad this week? 45 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:44.480 Happy early birthday. 46 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:49.079 Jeff, Happy early birthday? How nice? Thank you? Yeah, and 47 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:51.239 thank you for reading that, Chris. And you're gonna be fine. 48 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:53.519 Job, You're going to be super old fifty four. 49 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:55.079 I'll finally catch up to you. 50 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:57.239 Wow, I've been fifty four for weeks now. 51 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:01.799 Yeah, weeks so long, so long, three weeks kind of 52 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:06.480 falling apart. Yeah, so uh okay, so my birthday I 53 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:09.919 get to choose. It's my party. I can laugh if 54 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:12.159 I want to choose, choose if I want to. Yeah, 55 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:14.159 so let's do a happy one instead of what made 56 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:17.400 Chris mad this week? And I don't like talking about myself. 57 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:18.840 You know that I'm such a humble person. 58 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:19.840 Yes, I hate. 59 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:22.120 I hate bringing the focus on me. 60 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:23.400 Nobody is more humble than you. 61 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:26.159 I don't think it hardly ever, not that I've met. 62 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:28.639 Let me say it that way. 63 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:30.080 Not that I've met. 64 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:31.120 I haven't met there. 65 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:33.360 Maybe somebody out there, maybe I don't know. 66 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:34.120 I doubt it. 67 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:35.599 I doubt it. 68 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:37.759 I've been a lot of places, I've meant a lot 69 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:40.080 of people. I haven't met anybody humble as. 70 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:43.479 I've been around the world. Nobody as humble as me. 71 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:46.479 Remember the Brian Reagan thigures like I'm driving on the 72 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:58.680 Automa and it was a multi multinational corporation. Yeah. So uh, anyways, 73 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:00.960 let's not make it about me. Let's make it. I 74 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:03.199 like making it about you, but let's make it be 75 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:06.319 a happy Chris to Okay, So what made Chris happy 76 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:07.240 this week? 77 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:08.879 Well, I don't even think twice. 78 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:12.960 Oh so, my daughter got engaged to be married and 79 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:16.280 it was a surprise to her and and. 80 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:18.919 Our fans love her because she loves dad jokes. 81 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:22.560 Yes, well she's she's been they know her. She's been 82 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:24.759 a guest on this show. She's been featured a couple 83 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:25.120 of times. 84 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:30.639 Yes, yes, So anyway, toy, she's been dating our future 85 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:34.960 son law Christo's christ Los Levy and she's been dating 86 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.919 him since high school for seven years. And so I 87 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:39.639 told the story for the few that know. 88 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:41.639 This to way to finally get moving christs right. 89 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:45.400 Yeah, so he is a rocket engineer. Literally, he's a 90 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:47.960 rocket scientist, rocket scientist. He's a rocket scientist. 91 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:50.719 Cory married a rocket scientist. 92 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:52.039 Yes, and he's great. He's Greek. 93 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:55.599 Does he does he tell good dad jokes? Seems like 94 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:57.960 that's a priority in her life. No, so she have 95 00:03:58.039 --> 00:03:59.039 to call into the show. 96 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:00.520 To get she's different than him. 97 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.000 Okay, so she's a big movie person like me, and 98 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:05.439 he is not a movie person, right, Like you're like, 99 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:07.039 what do you mean, I've never seen Star Wars? 100 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:07.800 You know that kind of guy? 101 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:09.439 Oh my gosh, you're letting you. 102 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:10.520 He's like Trey wow. 103 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:14.120 And so she's been introducing him to the zar Ba 104 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:17.600 culture and he's loved it. And so anyway, he's come 105 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:18.360 afar away just. 106 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:21.240 Like just like mother son in law. Brandon's now sort 107 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:22.800 of crossed over to the Zarba culture. 108 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:26.279 They say that usually daddy's girls married guys that are 109 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:28.399 just like their dads, and both of your daughters are 110 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:30.199 married to somebody exactly the opposite. 111 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:33.480 For me, actually, that's not true Brandon. Other than the 112 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:37.040 movie thing, Brandon is almost exactly. 113 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:38.920 Like Mer Yeah, exactly. 114 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:44.959 Really that surprises me because I really like that really. 115 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:50.079 So anyway, bottom line is, here's what happened. So about 116 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:51.959 seven years ago, one of the very first dates, he's 117 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:55.639 a pilot also, so they went on this big, long date. 118 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:57.399 They didn't want it to end. He's like, hey, can 119 00:04:57.439 --> 00:04:59.319 I fly you around? They get a lot of stars 120 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:01.600 in the sky because he's a pilot, So get in 121 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.920 a plane. They fly up to an airport that's just 122 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:08.399 north of here, and they land and there's like the 123 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:10.120 you know those steps that they wheel up to the airplane. 124 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:12.399 They sit on the steps, she sees a shooting star. 125 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:14.079 He says, what did you wish for? She said, I 126 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:15.839 don't want to tell you what you wish for? And 127 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:19.800 she says, I wish that this would last forever. So 128 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:21.879 he remembered that hang on, hung on to her for 129 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:27.360 seven years and somehow, through a thousand deceitful scenarios, we 130 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:29.279 had to keep the truth from her for this surprise, 131 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:33.040 and finally she thinks she's there by happenstance, they pull 132 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:37.199 into the airport and he had taken those same steps 133 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:40.959 and put flowers on them, balloons, everything, and she's so 134 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:42.519 clueless that. 135 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:43.360 This is going to happen. 136 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.639 She literally looks at him and says, hey, somebody left 137 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:48.319 a bunch of stuff on that step. 138 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:51.560 She has no clue. And then he goes, well, let's 139 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:52.519 go see, and they. 140 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:53.839 Get out of the car, and then he took off 141 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:55.759 his jacket because he was just really nice because it 142 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:58.199 was Easter Sunday, and he takes off his jacket, and 143 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:01.720 then she understood what was happening. And of course, you know, 144 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:05.199 it's Easter Sunday, so our family is over his family's house. 145 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:09.439 When they came back, we had a big Greek celebration. 146 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:11.399 We even learned how to Greek dance Greek. 147 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:12.639 Yeah, you had to take classes. 148 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:15.879 We took little little classes for some friends, so we 149 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:20.360 danced Greek. We celebrated. It was wonderful, great celebration. She 150 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:23.279 was clueless, and I had shared with a bunch of 151 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:24.639 staff that it was going to happen. 152 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:28.160 You announced it, not with a bunch of staff. 153 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:30.439 Well, anybody who was present, which was about thirty people 154 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:33.279 that day, okay, so which we called it an all staff, 155 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:35.120 So it was supposed to be the all staff. But 156 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:36.759 how many people on our staf like fifty? 157 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:39.920 Yeah, well sixty, we have sixty people in the staff. 158 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:41.560 Okay, okay, so it was only like thirty there that day. 159 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:46.759 But yes, I I don't know what I was thinking. Yes, 160 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:50.720 but it was my secret to share, and I viewed 161 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:52.399 it as it would it be cool to share this 162 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:54.879 wonderful family moment, like people. 163 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.120 Would be like oh, And in my mind, I was. 164 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:01.000 Actually thinking, there's no way anybody in this room is 165 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:02.399 going to talk to Tory in the next week and 166 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:02.839 a half. 167 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:06.120 So I just shared it, not realizing that. 168 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:10.519 Toy I thought, oh no, yes, not realizing that Tory 169 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:14.000 was scheduled to come with us to that Financial Freedom 170 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:17.839 seminar like three days later. And then I'm thinking, is 171 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:18.839 she congratulations? 172 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:21.000 Right? And then uh? 173 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:24.040 And then for Easter services right, which would have been 174 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.279 like the day before it happened. But so she was 175 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:29.600 scheduled to be at the church twice, and so we 176 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:33.079 had to finagle uh you know, Brendan, Oh, I. 177 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:35.120 Got a stomach ache. Hurry, let's run out to the car. 178 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:36.680 Hey, are you sure you want to go backstage and 179 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:39.519 see all the workers and say hi and hug Trey's neck. No, 180 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:41.839 my stomach hurts, literally, that's the kind of stuff we 181 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:46.319 had to pull. But wow, but she was clueless. That's awesome, 182 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:48.839 totally surprised. Well, I'm so happy for you guys. So 183 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:49.800 that made you happy? 184 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:53.800 Oh, it made you wonderful, happy, wonderful. 185 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:57.199 Dad proud. Yes, having a young man proposed to your 186 00:07:57.279 --> 00:07:59.560 daughter and we love him. You're happy because that's one 187 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:00.920 more that you're not going to have to feed up 188 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:01.959 in just a short month. 189 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:04.800 That's right, Get out of my house. No, just kidding, 190 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.879 but we love him, we love their family. It was wonderful. 191 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:09.199 We could not be happier. 192 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:13.759 Wow. Good, Yeah, well that's fantastic. Congratulations to the family, Yes, 193 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:17.720 and congratulations to Tory. Yes, we're so happy for you. Yes, 194 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:21.000 I feel like we should have looked up a dead 195 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:22.680 joke about proposals. 196 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:25.680 Really yeah? 197 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:28.439 Yeah all right, well maybe maybe as you prepare to 198 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:30.439 the transition, say the transition. 199 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:35.360 Uh, so you know she was a little oblivious because 200 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:37.559 even though the writing was on the wall, she couldn't 201 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:38.240 see it. 202 00:08:38.639 --> 00:08:43.320 Oh that's pretty darn God. And then tell people why 203 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:45.080 that's well, because. 204 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:47.240 In the Book of Daniel, that's where that phrase, the 205 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:50.159 writing is on the wall came from, right in Daniel 206 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:54.120 chapter five. Yes, was that good? Was that a good transition? 207 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.080 That was terrible? Okay, well, let me read it to 208 00:08:57.159 --> 00:08:59.559 you anyways, I'm gonna read Daniel chapter five. This is 209 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:06.080 amazing story. It says, many years later, King Belshazzar gave 210 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.519 a great feast. Okay, so this is many years after 211 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.720 nebie Kinezer's big engagement with God and all that kind 212 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.679 of stuff. Right, there's King Belshazzar now, and he gave 213 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:19.720 a great feast for one thousand of nobles. Before go ahead, please. 214 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:22.639 Before you get into the scripture, which you're already one 215 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.039 sentence in, let me put this to rest. I said 216 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:28.080 to chat GPT, tell me a good dad joke about 217 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.840 a proposal. Sure, here's a good jad joke. I proposed 218 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:35.080 to my girlfriend at the gym. I guess you could 219 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:36.240 say it didn't work out. 220 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:42.279 Okay, pretty good? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's kretty good well, 221 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:45.320 good news. Christos didn't propose at the gym. It did 222 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:45.679 work out. 223 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:47.240 Yeah, is that a terrible transition? 224 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:50.200 There you go, all right? Back King scripture, so it 225 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:54.440 says many years later, King Belshazzar gave a great feast 226 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:56.759 for one thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine 227 00:09:56.759 --> 00:09:59.799 with them. While Belchazzar was drinking the wine, he gave 228 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:02.759 to bring in the gold and silver cups that his predecessor, 229 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.320 Nebukinezer had taken from the temple in Jerusalem. He wanted 230 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:09.720 to drink from them with his nobles, his wives, and 231 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:12.559 his concubines. And so they brought these gold cups taken 232 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:14.639 from the temple the House of God, Jerusalem, and the 233 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:17.279 king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank 234 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:20.720 from them. While they drank from them, they praised their idols, 235 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:24.200 made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stones. Suddenly 236 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:27.440 they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on 237 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:30.399 the plaster wall of the king's palace, near the lampstand. 238 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:33.000 The king himself saw the hand as it wrote, and 239 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.960 his face turned pale with fright. His knees knocked together 240 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:38.320 in fear, and his legs gave way beneath him. The 241 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:41.600 king shouted for the enchanters and astrologers and fortune tellers 242 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:43.120 to be brought before him, and he said, to these 243 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:45.519 wise men of Babylon, whoever can read this writing and 244 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:47.399 tell me what it means, will be dressed in purple 245 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:49.720 robes of royal honor, and will have a gold chain 246 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:52.399 placed around his neck. He will become the third highest 247 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:55.480 ruler in the kingdom. But when all the king's wise 248 00:10:55.559 --> 00:10:57.440 men had come in, none of them could read the 249 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:00.559 writing or tell him what it meant. So the king 250 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:03.639 grew even more alarmed, and his face turned pale. His 251 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:06.240 nobles too were shaken. But when the queen mother heard 252 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:08.600 what it was happening, she hurried to the banquet hall. 253 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.600 She said to bel Shazar, long live the king. Don't 254 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:13.279 be so pale and frightened. There is a man in 255 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:15.600 your kingdom who has within him the spirit of the 256 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:18.919 holy gods. During Nebuconezer's reign, this man was found to 257 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:21.440 have insight understanding a wisdom like that of the gods, 258 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:24.360 your predecessor of the king, your predecessor, King nebucan Ezzer 259 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:27.240 made him chief over all the magicians and enchanters and 260 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:31.240 astrologers and fortune tellers of Babylon. This man, Daniel, whom 261 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:34.679 the king named Belta Shazar, has exceptional ability and is 262 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:37.679 filled with the divine knowledge and understanding. He can interpret dreams, 263 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:41.480 explain riddles, and solve difficult problems. Call for Daniel and 264 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:44.919 he'll tell you what the writing means. So Daniel was 265 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.039 brought in before the king. The king asked him, are 266 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:49.279 you Daniel, one of the exiles brought from Judah by 267 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:52.399 my predecessor, King Nebucanezzer. I have heard that you have 268 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:54.679 the spirit of the gods within you, and that you 269 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:58.320 are filled with insight, understanding in wisdom. My wise men 270 00:11:58.360 --> 00:11:59.720 and chanters have tried to read the words on the 271 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:02.960 wall and tell me their meaning, but they cannot. I 272 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:06.360 am told that you can give interpretations and solve difficult problems. 273 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:09.000 If you can read these words and tell me their meaning, 274 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.200 you will be clothed in purple robes of royal honor, 275 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:13.240 and you will have a gold chain place around your neck. 276 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:19.039 I guess they dressed like rappers. You would become the 277 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:22.600 third highest ruler in the kingdom. Daniel answered the king. 278 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:25.600 Keep your gifts or give them to someone else. But 279 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.279 I will tell you what the writing means, your majesty, 280 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.879 The Most High God gave sovereignty, majesty, glory, and honor 281 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:34.960 to your predecessor, King Nebukedzer. He made him so great 282 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:37.480 that people of all races and nations and language tremble, 283 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:40.759 trembled before him in fear. He killed those he wanted 284 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:43.279 to kill, and spared those he wanted to spare. He 285 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:46.240 honored those he wanted to honor, and disgrace those he 286 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:48.720 wanted to disgrace. But when his heart and mind were 287 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:50.879 puffed up with arrogance, he was brought down from his 288 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:53.720 royal throne and stripped of his glory. He was driven 289 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:55.879 from human society. He was given the mind of a 290 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:58.600 wild animal, and he lived among the wild donkeys. He 291 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:00.399 ate grassed like a cow when he was trench with 292 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:02.240 the duo Heaven, until he learned that the Most I 293 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:05.399 God rules over the kingdoms of the world and appoints 294 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:08.919 anyone he desires to rule over them. You are his successor, 295 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:12.240 O Belshazar, and you knew all this. Yet you have 296 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:15.480 not humbled yourself, for you have proudly defied the Lord 297 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:17.360 of Heaven and have had these cups from his temple 298 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:20.200 brought before you. You and your nobles, and your wives 299 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:22.879 and concubines have been drinking wine from them, while prising 300 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:26.639 gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, gods 301 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:29.559 that neither see, nor hear, nor know anything at all. 302 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:32.480 But you have not honored the God who gives you 303 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:35.360 the breath of life and controls your destiny. So God 304 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:38.679 has sent his hand to write this message. This is 305 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:42.480 the message that was written. Mene, Mene, tekel, and parson. 306 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:46.679 This is what these words mean. Mane means numbered. God 307 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:48.600 has numbered the days of your reign and has brought 308 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:51.639 it to an end. Tekel means weighed. You have been 309 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:54.679 weighed on the balances and have not measured up. And 310 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:58.080 Parson means divided. Your kingdom has been divided and given 311 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:02.159 to the Means and the Persians. Then, at Belshazzar's command, 312 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:04.480 Daniel was dressed in purple robes, a gold chain was 313 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:06.320 hung around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third 314 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:09.840 highest ruler in the kingdom. That very night, bel Shazar, 315 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:13.240 the Babylonian king, was killed, and Darius the Mead took 316 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:15.320 over the kingdom at the age of sixty. 317 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:20.320 Two, Yeahough, that is unbelievable. 318 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:26.600 Isn't that amazing? Many many Teckley Parson. Wow, So. 319 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.600 I'm trying to think of the name of the movie. 320 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:33.480 Of course, my mind's gonna go right to the movie. 321 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:37.240 Yep, oh, A Night's Tale. I don't even have to 322 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:38.200 look it up. It just came to me. 323 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:42.639 Oh, that phrase you have been weighed and you have 324 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:46.600 been found wanting was the phrase in The Nights Tale? 325 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:47.639 Did you see that movie? 326 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:48.639 It came from this passage. 327 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:49.480 It came from that passage. 328 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:52.360 Yet And wasn't it the guy who played Joker. 329 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:58.399 Yes, yeah, he Ledger yet so so, although that's not 330 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:00.360 the guy who said it, was the antagonist in the 331 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:01.320 story that said it. 332 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:06.240 But anyway, the bottom line is is, yeah. 333 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:08.799 It comes from this passage, and it is an unbelievable 334 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:11.399 thing anybody's talking about. He's talking about the scales, right, 335 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:15.039 the scales of how they would you know, trade, in 336 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:18.399 trade and in commerce, they would have scales that would 337 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:21.879 determine the worth of things, right, and so you've been 338 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:25.399 weighed and found wanting, meaning they put you on the 339 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:28.919 scales and you have been measured, you have been determined, 340 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:32.720 and you know you you're not worth as much as 341 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.440 you think you are, right, right, So you're he's not 342 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:38.279 saying you're worthless, but he's saying you're not worth very much. 343 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:39.759 Yeah, you're not worth what you thought you were. 344 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:43.039 Yeah, and so what an unbelievable picture. By the way, 345 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:45.360 First of all, Second of all is I will bet 346 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:49.240 you that if you took all of our listeners that 347 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:51.480 are listening to this, So what do we have, like 348 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:53.960 a thousand a day on YouTube or something like that. 349 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:57.639 Yeah, well we'll have in a month, we'll have several thousand, 350 00:15:57.679 --> 00:15:59.639 many many thousands of unique listeners. 351 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:02.960 It's thirteen thousand or fifteen something of that. But on 352 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:04.639 this particular day, who listens to this? 353 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.320 Yeah, just on YouTube, it'll be over a thousand, and 354 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:09.279 on the others it'll be thousands. 355 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:12.279 Okay, yeah, so okay, out of the thousands that are 356 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:16.080 listening to this, I will bet you the majority probably 357 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:20.200 don't realize they've heard this saying in their lifetime, hey 358 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:22.399 have you seen the writing on the wall, or he 359 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:25.559 saw the writing on the wall, or hey there was 360 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:26.360 writing on the wall. 361 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.240 Whatever context is used, then it comes from this passage. 362 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:35.279 And so for you know, for centuries, we have repeated 363 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:37.759 this it has become a part of our culture, and 364 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:41.960 it's really now used to say, hey, I saw the 365 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.200 future before it was here, right because I read the 366 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:48.360 writing on the wall, meaning like I was able to interpret, 367 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:52.279 you know, before it came, and here it is right here. 368 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:56.600 So do you remember, was it yesterday when I mentioned Nabinitis? 369 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:57.159 Yeah? 370 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:02.799 Yeah, So Nabinitis was the king at this time. Belshazar 371 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:05.119 was the co regent. He was like the co king. 372 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:12.200 Belshazzar was the son of Nabonitis, and for a long 373 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:15.839 time in modern archaeology, we had a hard time with Belshazzar. 374 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:19.039 So everybody knew about Nabonidas. We had a hard time 375 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:25.839 knowing about Belshazar except from biblical things. But it says here. 376 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:31.240 Archaeologists have recently discovered Belshazzar's name on several documents. He 377 00:17:31.319 --> 00:17:34.720 ruled with his father Nabanitas, staying home to administer the 378 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:37.440 affairs of the kingdom. All his father tried to reopen 379 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:41.279 trade routes taken over by Cyrus and the Persians. Belchazzar 380 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:42.920 was in charge of the city of Babylon when it 381 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:46.079 was captured. Isn't it interesting? So we've recently found his 382 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:49.839 name written and because everybodyknew about Nabaitis. But Nabonitis had 383 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.079 left to go and try to re establish trade routes, 384 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:57.039 left his son in charge of Babylon. And his son 385 00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:58.920 was just drinking and having a party in the palace, 386 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:05.400 you know, profaning God. And God goes, yeah, let me 387 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:06.640 write on the wall and tell you was about to 388 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:07.680 idea happen to you, buddy. 389 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:08.160 Yeah. 390 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:10.839 And then so do you remember when when God had 391 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:15.640 told in the dream, had told nebu Keinezer, you're the 392 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:18.920 gold head in the stream. Yes, and then you're going 393 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:21.160 to be replaced. Your kingdom is going to be replaced 394 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:24.960 with a silver that's the Meads in the Persians right here. 395 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:31.240 So there's this there's this window of time where sixty 396 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:37.599 six years from the last strike against Jerusalem, so that 397 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:40.599 was six oh five BC, and then he dies in 398 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:44.240 six five sixty two BC, so he reigned for forty 399 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.559 three years. Then there's this instability in the leadership of 400 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:50.000 Babylon for a while, and that's why it kind of 401 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:51.759