The Heidelberg Catechism - The Foundations Of Our Faith

Daniel 5 5:1  Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand. 2  While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.  3  Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 4  They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone. 5  In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6  Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosen

I did voluntary prison chaplaincy while at Glen Innes. We had a prisoner home for day release to get him ready for release 3 weeks later. After going back he and two mates decided to break out. They walked 50 km to Glen Innes but trod on a tiger snake and had to take him to hospital where they were rearrested. He wrote me a letter from Goulbourn maximum security prison. They had intended to walk to our house to give themselves up, as all three didn't trust themselves in the community (all three were due for release for stupid stuff they did when they went on either alcohol or drug benders; shooting up all the shop windows in Inverell etc). They thought if they gave themselves up to me they would get to be sent back to the minimum security prison (it was so slack that they could take holidays in the bush for a couple of days and no one would notice). They didn't. And they weren't happy.

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1 ​King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you! 2 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me.  3 How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders!  His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation. 4 ​I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and prospering in my palace. 5 I saw a dream that made me afraid. As I lay in bed the fancies and the visions of my head alarmed me. 6 So I made a decree that all the wise men of Babylon should be brought before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream. 7 Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its interpretation. 8 At last Daniel came in before me—he who was named Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods—a