Babylon was the first major world power that turned its back on God. King Nebuchadnezzar actually called himself the Sun God and required people to worship a golden statue of him, although he did return to God in time (Daniel 4:31-34). His son was also blasphemous, taking sacred goblets that had been removed from the temple of God in Jerusalem and filling them with wine and drinking from them, mixing the sacred with the profane. That same night, Belshazzar (Nebuchadnezzar's s