Daniel 5:1-4
The Handwriting on the Wall
1 aKing Belshazzar bmade a great feast for a thousand of his clords and drank wine in front of the thousand.2 dBelshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that ethe vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father ▼
▼Or predecessor; also verses 11, 13, 18
had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. 3Then they brought in gthe golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 4They drank wine and hpraised the igods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Luke 12:19-20
19And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up jfor many years; relax, keat, drink, be merry.”’ 20But God said to him, l‘Fool! mThis night nyour soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, owhose will they be?’Luke 17:27-29
27 pThey were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28Likewise, just as it was in the days of qLot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 rbut on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—Luke 21:34-35
Watch Yourselves
34“But watch yourselves slest tyour hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and ucares of this life, and vthat day come upon you suddenly wlike a trap. 35For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth.1 Thessalonians 5:3
3While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then xsudden destruction will come upon them yas labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.Revelation of John 11:10-13
10and zthose who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and aaexchange presents, because these two prophets abhad been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. 11But after the three and a half days aca breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 12Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, ad“Come up here!” And aethey went up to heaven afin a cloud, and their enemies watched them. 13And at that hour there was aga great earthquake, and aha tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and aigave glory to ajthe God of heaven.
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