The Future According to the Book of Daniel   259 

[Daniel 5] 

{5:1} Belshazzar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, 

and each one of them drank according to his age. 

{5:2} And so, when they were drunk, he instructed that the vessels of gold 

and silver should be brought, which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had carried 

away from the temple, which was in Jerusalem, so that the king, and his 

nobles, and his wives, and the concubines, might drink from them. 

{5:3} Then the gold and silver vessels were presented, which he had carried 

away from the temple and which had been in Jerusalem, and the king, and 

his nobles, wives, and concubines, drank from them. 

{5:4} They drank wine, and they praised their gods of gold, and silver, brass, 

iron, and wood and stone. 

{5:5} In the same hour, there appeared fingers, as of the hand of a man, 

writing on the surface of the wall, opposite the candlestick, in the king s 

palace. And the king observed the part of the hand that wrote. 

{5:6} Then the king s countenance was changed, and his thoughts disturbed 

him, and he lost his self control, and his knees knocked against one other. 

{5:24} Therefore, he has sent the part of the hand  which has written this, 

which has been inscribed. 

{5:25} But this is the writing that has been decreed: MANE, THECEL, 

PHARES. 

{5:26} And this is the interpretation of the words. MANE: God has 

numbered your kingdom and has finished it. 

{5:27} THECEL: you have been weighed on the scales and found lacking. 

{5:28} PHARES: your kingdom has been divided and has been given to the 

Medes and the Persians. 

This prophecy applies to the countries of Europe in the present time. The 

years of their arrogance and their rejection of God have been numbered and 

the number is nearly complete. They have been weighed on the scales and 

found lacking. God will divide their kingdom and will give it to the Medes 

(Iraq) and the Persians (Iran). Europe will be conquered and occupied by the 

Arab nations led by Iran and Iraq. They will conquer Europe and parts of 

Africa in the 2010 s, after a small war among the Arab nations. 

[Daniel 7] 

{7:1} In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream 

and a vision in his head on his bed. And, writing down the dream, he 

understood it in a concise manner, and so, summarizing it tersely, he said: 

{7:2} I saw in my vision at night, and behold, the four winds of the heavens 

fought upon the great sea.