Lesson 109 Daniel Serves Faithfully Scripture quotations are

Lesson 109 Daniel Serves Faithfully Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. God speaks through Daniel to earthly kings.

Memory Verse Isaiah 30: 18 Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

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Class Notes 1) King Belshazzar and his guests drank from special golden cups taken from God’s _______. temple

Daniel 5: 5 5 Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote.

Class Notes 2) A human _____ appeared and wrote on the wall of the hand king’s palace.

Daniel 5: 6 6 Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.

Daniel 5: 8 8 Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation.

Daniel 5: 22 22 And you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this.

Daniel 5: 25 25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN.

Daniel 5: 26– 28 26 This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 27 TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; 28 PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.

Class Notes 3) Daniel told the king that the writing on the wall was a ____ from God. message 4) Belshazzar’s kingdom would be ______ and given to thesplit Medesupand the Persians.

Class Notes 5) After Daniel explained God’s message, the king died that very ______. night 6) The next king Daniel served was ______ the Mede. Darius

Class Notes 7) King Darius signed a law that everyone must pray only to the _____. king

Daniel 6: 10 10 When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

Class Notes 8) Daniel continued to pray to God ______ times a day. three

Daniel 6: 16– 17 16 Then the king commanded, and Daniel was brought and cast into the den of lions. The king declared to Daniel, "May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!" 17 And a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

Class Notes 9) Daniel was thrown into a _____lions’ for breaking den the law.

Daniel 6: 19– 20 19 Then, at break of day, the king arose and went in haste to the den of lions. 20 As he came near to the den where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish. The king declared to Daniel, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions? "

Daniel 6: 21– 22 21 Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live forever! 22 My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm. "

Daniel 6: 23 23 Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

Class Notes 10) God protected Daniel by sending an _____ to close the mouths angel of the lions.