Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
Extract from "Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin: The Writing is on the Wall." To be published in Summer 2022
Recall the statue in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and Daniel’s interpretation. Babylon was the golden head and Persia the silver chest. The night Belshazzar crapped his pants, the Persians took Babylon and executed him. Persia at that point had currency that conformed to the silver standard. This was the conclusion of the war between the Gold standard of Babylon and the Silver standard of Persia. Between the Golden head and the silver chest.
The short story is:
Dan 5:1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand.
Dan 5:2 While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.
Dan 5:3 Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
Dan 5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
Dan 5:5 In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Dan 5:6 Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.
It is interesting to note that ‘his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other’ was the ancient term for crapping your pants. [1]
This was also a fulfillment of God’s letter to Cyrus:
Isaiah 45:1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
Notice the detail, "loose the loins of kings." Belshazzar's "brown britches" was also a fulfillment of prophecy! This allusion to Cyrus also seems to confirm the public nature of Belshazzar's embarrassment.[2]
The Times of the Gentiles straddles around 2,500 years and is both defined and presented prophetically by Nebuchadnezzar’s statue from head to toe in Daniel 2. Conflict and war across Neb’s statue frame and define the Gentile crucibles in which God created HIS prophetic effects. We will examine this a lot, but with that in mind, we will also examine war in both the knowable spaces (length, width, depth, in time present) and the unknowable spaces (where time and space are not relevant limitations).
Let’s put that in context. The focus across this book will be the first six turnings in Israel from its Judges, across Kings, to Babylonian captivity when Armies approached each other at the speed of a horse. Alongside, we will also examine the first six turnings of Western Civilization that began in the Middle Ages with Armies approaching at the speed of a horse through World War II when technology and warfare transitioned to Armies approaching at the speed of a tank. Immediately after World War II and the advent of nuclear weapons, Western Civilization hovered on the edge of conflict at the speed of light. Our last chapter will converge Israel’s 7th Turning (2,500 years after sixth turning in Babylonian captivity) and Western Civilization’s 7th turning after World War II as they perhaps happen together in our day. We will briefly examine the modern effect of wars across the spectrum from cyber-attacks at the speed of light to hypersonic rockets and missiles as technology feeds the exponential curve of lethality.
That curve and combat at the speed of light in the cyber domains are possibly the fulfillment of the prophecy in Daniel:
Daniel 12: 4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
KEY: From head to toe on Neb’s statue, transition from one to the next involved wars, conflicts, and struggles across the… ‘Times of the Gentiles’
Extract from Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin: The Writing is on the Wall. To be published in Summer 2022
[1] Missler, Cosmic Codes-A Continuing Series: The First Cryptanalyst - Chuck Missler (khouse.org)
[2] Ibid