Author: Shalem John

Windy Yeung was passing through Hong Kong’s northern district of Tai Po on November 26 after a work meeting when she received news that a fire had broken out at the Wang Fuk Court apartment towers. Wanting to see how she could help, Yeung headed to the area and found distressed evacuated residents gathered outside. A man in his 30s told her he had been trying for more than six hours to reach his father, a resident of the apartment towers, but hadn’t heard from him. He asked Yeung if there was any hope left for his dad. Yeung, the…

Belshazzar the king invited a thousand of his officers to a great feast where the wine flowed freely. 2, 3, 4 While Belshazzar was drinking he was reminded of the gold and silver cups taken long before from the temple in Jerusalem during Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, and brought to Babylon. Belshazzar ordered that these sacred cups be brought in to the feast; and when they arrived he and his princes, wives, and concubines drank toasts from them to their idols made of gold and silver, brass and iron, wood and stone. 5 Suddenly, as they were drinking from these cups, they…

Dariused arius divided the kingdom into 120 provinces, each under a governor. 2 The governors were accountable to three presi Daniel was one of them) so that the king could the kingdom efficiently. iel soon proved himself more capable than other presidents and governors, for he had great Lolity, and the king began to think of placing him over the entire empire as his administrative officer. 4 This made the other presidents and governors very jealous, and they began searching for some fault in the way Daniel was handling his affairs so that they could complain to the king about…