Think you need a crystal ball?

Think you need a crystal ball?

Daniel 2:27b-28a

Daniel answered in the presence of the king, [boldly, and without fear]

Cannot YOUR WISE MEN, [your own able men, aided by your own gods]

SOOTHSAYERS [who cut up creatures, and looked into their entrails and by them made their judgment of events]

ENCHANTERS [persons who decide or determine the fates or destiny of men from the place of the stars at one's birth]

MAGICIANS, [your sacred scribes who act as interpreters of omens]

or ASTROLOGERS [who cut and divide the heavens into parts and by them divide or determine future things as to what shall happen to a person]

[cannot they] show to the king the mysterious secret things which the king has demanded [? ? ? ?]

BUT THERE IS A GOD IN HEAVEN WHO REVEALS mysteries, [ONE GOD and to him alone belong the revelation of secret things]

AND HE HAS MADE KNOWN to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days.
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Pray the Word:

Lord, may we lay aside all high opinions our own wisdom in thinking we know those things that are only divinely revealed by You. AND help us to recognize the insufficiency and inability of any other who says they can reveal to us those things. There is only One who can do that for us . . . . You, the one God who is in heaven! We will look to You alone for our answers.