All right, good morning and welcome to our first service on Sunday morning. We have two services, the first of which is the Bible prophecy update that we do weekly. And then our second service is actually the sermon, which is a verse by verse study through the Word of God. We're currently in the book of Hebrews. And today we're in chapter 12. We left off last week in verse 17. We're going to pick

it up in verse 18, and Lord willing make it through to verse 24. And we're going to look at

the dangers of legalism, specifically as it relates to the reasons that there's actually a temptation and even a seduction

to go backwards into it.

And this is what the writer of Hebrews is writing about in our text today, and that

will be live stream at 1115 a.m. Hawaii time today. Also, for those of you that are watching

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entirety of today's update. So with that, let's get right to it. I want to talk with you today about how it is and why it is that the handwriting is on the wall, which is actually

a biblical idiom, specifically concerning that which is now seemingly imminent prophetically.

Actually, it's kind of interesting the secular world, as they've been known to do, has

hijacked this from the word of God. I know Arabs shouldn't use the word hijacked, but for lack

of a better one, if you prefer stolen, so many things that the world takes from the Word of God,

and this is one of them, they completely took this idiom and define it as a sign that something catastrophic is imminent.

So when you hear that expression, the handwriting is on the wall, you know what's coming.

The origin of this is from the book of Daniel, and it's the account

that we have recorded for us in Daniel chapter 5 when King Belchazer has this great feast there in Babylon, and he ends up blaspheming God by using the vessels that they had taken from the temple in Jerusalem

when they had taken the Jews captive into Babylon.

So picture the scene with me here in Daniel 5. There they are. This is a huge feast. In fact,

some of the archaeological digs there in ancient Babylon have uncovered these huge, I mean

enormous banquet halls that could facilitate literally thousands of people.

And this was one of those places.

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