The Handwriting's on the Wall

At the end of the Babylonian Empire, King Belshazzar had succeeded Nebuchadnezzar and he followed in the same arrogant ways of his predecessor. During a party where Belshazzar and his guest were toasting the gods of gold and silver, a mysterious hand appears and writes on the wall. The message has Belshazzar leaves stunned. Daniel is brought in to interpret this message and it is bad news: Babylon is coming to an end. The pending fall of Babylon is the way empires go. They grow in power and arrogance and then they fall. As modern-day exiles living in a modern-day Babylon we have hope that the kingdom we belong to is an everlasting kingdom. Jesus has defeated Babylon and we learn to live not isolated from this fallen world and not immersed in it. We live imitating Jesus, knowing he has defeated Babylon.