This post by Linoge kept tickling the back of my mind. I just figured out what it reminded me of.
O, the parallels! A man who was given his position and enjoys what those before him have built up getting a message… and not being able to understand it, but knowing that he needed to be afraid. One verse in particular makes me smile.
17Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
Makes me want to dress up in the heigth of Babylonian fashion and make a trip to D. C. “This is the writing that has been written, Mr. President: TOO FAR, TOO FAR, FAILURE, ROLL BACK. “
Linoge
26 Jan 10 at 4:40 PM
That particular confluence between Abrahamic and Islamic writings has always intrigued me, and both the story of Daniel and some of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam are amazingly applicable to our current situation.
In any case, another post I am working on today provides another wonderful tie-in.
Dixie
26 Jan 10 at 5:13 PM
You forgot Zoroastrianism– from some of the sources I’ve seen, they used a lot of the prophecies of Daniel in their interpretations.