About 25 years go by — Nebuchadnezzar is gone — his grandson, Belshazzar, is king.
V.1-4 Belshazzar has reverted to his gods and makes a great banquet to them, using the holy cups stolen out of God’s temple at Jerusalem, by Nebuchadnezzar.
V.5-9 In the middle of the drunken party, suddenly something happens which frightens everyone, including the king.
V.10-12 The queen enters and tells the king that there is a man able to tell the meaning of the words written on the wall.
V.13-16 Daniel is brought in. How soon they had forgotten about him! Great rewards are promised him.
V.17-29 Daniel starts to talk. He has to tell the story of Nebuchadnezzar as if no one had even heard of it! Just like people today, not listening. Daniel tells that the end of the first great world empire, Babylon, has come.
V.30-31 The judgment falls! The king is killed, the Empire gone.