<TITLE>02. Par 10-19</TITLE>L-10 So Babylon set just in that great fertile valley there, and it was surrounded and irrigated by the Euphrates River, and the Tigris. And it was a great agricultural center. And Babylon was a great city. And it's approximately about one hundred and twenty miles around the city; thirty miles each side, that would make it a hundred and twenty miles around. They say that the streets in the city of Babylon was some two hundred feet across. The walls were eighty foot thick, and practically two hundred feet high. They could run chariot races around these walls, with the chariots. And the gates were made out of brass, and those gates then would be two hundred feet across. And right in the center of the city set the palace, and the palace was the throne.
And through the center of the city came the great river Euphrates. If you'll notice it, it's the city of the devil, for it's designed after the City of God, as the River of Life before the throne. And in this city they had great swinging gardens, off the walls, around.

L-11 And it was such a great, mighty nation at the time, until it had whipped the known world, and all the world was paying tribute. It had progressed further in science, and it had the latest things that science could produce. It had the latest chariots, the latest designs, the most powerful armors, and best of metals. It was an outstanding to the rest of the world.

L-12 And then inside these walls, where King Belteshazzar was king during the time of this event that we're speaking on tonight. King Belteshazzar, which the Bible says, "Nebuchadnezzar, which was his father," but truly it was his grandfather that he succeeded King Nebuchadnezzar.
And many of you remember that Nebuchadnezzar was the beginning of the Gentile kingdoms, the head of gold. And he had went up into Jerusalem, many, many miles away, and had captured the Jews and brought them down into his kingdom, and made them slaves, and they used their scientists and so forth.

L-14 Just like Russia did when it went into Germany. And there is why they got the atomic bomb, and so forth, they got those German scientists. That's why they're so far advanced today, they captured them and took them back up there. Themselves, they didn't have it, but they went and got those things just like Nebuchadnezzar did the Jews.
And we find out that during this time there was a righteous man by the name of Daniel, a prophet of the Lord, was taken in captivity at the time. He had served as a prince over all of the astrologers, and so forth, and the wise men and the Magi, in the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar.
And now Belteshazzar had taken over. Belteshazzar was a wicked sort of a man. He just didn't care.

L-17 And then all the people of Babylon, with such a security as they felt they had... Once inside those gates, and the gates closed, with two-hundred-foot walls, eighty foot thick, just think of how secure they must have felt in those walls.
But just remember this. No matter how secure that science has made you, God will find you out when you sin. There is only one security, and that's in Christ Jesus.

L-19 Now, as they felt their great importance of being the leading nation of the world, a very typical, modern civilization just like the one that we live in, this fabulous America. And I'm kind of disturbed, myself, but I'm afraid we are taking the same attitude that they took: that we feel because that we have got, what we think, the best scientists, and the best machine guns, and the atomic bombs, and the fastest planes, and we have kind... Being the leading nation of the world, we have somehow felt our safety without God.
It's a very beautiful pattern. And God never changes. His attitude toward sin is the same today as it was then. And there's no hiding place down here. Only in Christ are you secure.


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