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• As we have seen already, and as the above passage brings out, Babylon was an adulterous and idolatrous empire, in constant opposition to the things of God. Belshazzar drinks from the very cups that pertained to worship of the true God in Jerusalem, from the very cups that were used for worship in the Temple. It was an act of total blasphemy against the God of heaven. And the God of heaven had had enough. He was going to bring an end to the Babylonian Empire. That very night. We go on to read: