Unleashing the Beast

Fifteen

15 T HE H ANDWRITING ON A MERICA ' S W ALL They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another (Daniel 5:4-6). No one in the kingdom knew that the party was about to be over. The city of Babylon was the global military and economic headquarters of the ancient world. Fortified with massive walls and protected by a skilled army, it was considered the titanic of cities; it was impregnable! On the