Wed.’s Devo - Judgement

Read: Daniel 5:1-31; 2 Peter 2:1-22; Psalm 119113-128; Proverbs 28:19-20
Belshazzar was Nebuchadnezzar’s son who did not learn from his father’s mistakes. He worshipped false gods and drank wine from the goblets from the temple that only the priests were suppose to drink from. While he was partying with his friends, God wrote four words on the wall of his palace. They could only see the hand as it wrote. The king shook in fear and called form his astrologers and soothsayers to interpret the words. When they couldn’t do it, one of them remembered Daniel and all the times he had interpreted King Nebuchadnezzar’s dreams. Belshazzar called for Daniel and offered him purple, gold and status if he could interpret it. Daniel told him he could keep his rewards then he told him the interpretation of the words. His days had been judged and brought to an end. His kingdom was to be divided and given to the Medes and Persians. That night it happened just as God said.
The days of the head of gold were over and now the silver arms were ruling just as Nebuchadnezzar had dreamed. (Daniel 2)
Second Peter explains that the angels that rebelled with Satan before time were sent to hell to be held in dungeons awaiting judgment. The people of Noah’s days rebelled and were not spared either, but destroyed in the flood and only seven people on the earth survived. Also, the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were not spared but burned to ashes. Lot and his daughters were the only ones to survive. All of these were pictures of the end judgment but they are also pictures of deliverance for the godly.
The ungodly are not afraid of blaspheming God or his words. They are liars and full of lusts. The righteous escape the corruption of the world by knowing Jesus. Those who know Jesus and return to the world, are the worse at the end than at the beginning.
Lord, you are our hope and our refuge. We put our trust in you.