Writing On The Wall - Uncomfortable - Daniel 5

QUESTIONS TO REFLECT ON DURING THE WEEK -

  1. Describe a time when you realized “the writing was on the wall?”

  2. Read Daniel 5:1-9.  What action by the king causes the writing on the wall?  How do we participate in similar actions? What should be the result for us?

  3. Read Daniel 5:17-23.  Thinking back to Daniel 4, what is the difference between King Nebucudezznar and Belshazzar?  

  4. Read Daniel 5:24-31.  What is the interpretation of the writing on the wall?  What should be the result of our sin?

  5. Read Isaiah 49:8-18. As we struggle with the writing on the wall, what message does God give us through his prophet Isaiah? 

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