Daniel 5 – 6th March, 2021 - Covenant Hope Church Dubai

OBSERVATION

How does this story connect, compare or contrast with chapter 4?
What themes or ideas are repeated here from the first 4 chapters?
1. What is new?
Why was Belshazzar so fearful?
What does Belshazzar offer Daniel and why does he refuse?
Why does Daniel recount the story of Nebuchadnezzar (v.18–21)?
What's Daniel's point in his address to Belshazzar (v.22–23)?
1. What did Belshazzar know?
2. How should Belshazzar have responded to what he knew about God? What kept him from doing so?
How does Daniel interpret the writing (v.24–28)?
Try to summarize the whole chapter in a sentence or two.
In what ways might this passage connect to the gospel?
- How is Daniel's message similar to the gospel?
- How is it different?

What do we learn about God and how should that change us?
1. What's the danger of knowing about God but not responding humbly to God?
2. How can we avoid this?
What do we learn about man and sin?
1. What different sins is Belshazzar guilty of?
2. How might we be tempted to that kind of sin?