Who Can Interpret Prophecy?

 Who Can Interpret Prophecy

The Goridan knot was said to b3e the greatest enigma in the days of Alexander the Great. Wise was the person-and great his conquest-who could unravel that complicated knot. Alexander solved the enigma, so the legend goes, by one slash of his sword.

DOWN through the ages, wise men have sought not only until difficult knots but also unravel riddles, interpret prophecies, and even predict the future. 

More often than not, however, those tasks were beyond them. The wise men of Babylon, for example, were unable to interpret the handwriting that mysteriously appeared on the wall of King Belshazzar's palace during a boiterous feast.  Only Daniel-the aging prophet of Jehovah God, who had a reputation  for "the untying of knots" proverd to be the one who could interpret the prophetic message.  (Daniel 5:12) That prophecy, foretelling the doom of the Babylonian Empire, was fulfilled that very night! - DANIEL 5:1, 4-8, 25-30.

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