Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

whole. you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today,

Pastor Truck continues with Bell Shazar's great feast as we pick up in Daniel Chapter 5 verse 1.

And now with today's message, here's Pastor Chuck.

Shall we turn now in our Bible to Daniel Chapter 5?

Belchazer the King made a great feast

to a thousand of his lords and drank wine before the thousand.

There are men who call themselves Bible Scholars and they belong to a school known as higher criticism.

And one of their reasons for this declaration was that in secular history they had not discovered the name Belchaser.

But one of the ancient historians, near a bonus I think it was, who, Neobanotis, who gave a genealogy of Nebuchinezer and there was no mention of any Belchazzar in the genealogy that he gave.

And naturally the historian could not be wrong, it's got to be the Bible.

And so they put out their disclaimers on the book of Daniel and discredit the book and they gave a later author and and just

were we're willing to use any little excuse to disbelieve the book of Daniel. However, Sir Rawlinson, one of the great

archaeologists, was doing a lot of excavating in the area of Babylon, the palace of Shusham when they discovered it.

...