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(Daniel 5:17 - AKJV) — Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; yet I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

(Daniel 5:17 - BSB) — In response, Daniel said to the king, “You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the inscription for the king and interpret it for him.

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MORE ERRORS OF DANIEL

Recall that I have in few occasions pointed out what I considered as “Errors of Daniel” even though he had excellent spirit, wisdom, understanding, light, etc. These errors do not appear as errors, neither were they even held against Daniel in anyway. Perhaps, in the path and calling of God to Daniel, the Lord had not beheld errors in Daniel just as the Lord had not beheld iniquity in Jacob despite the ways of Jacob nor had the Lord seen perverseness in Israel despite their mistakes according to [Numbers 23:21].

[Romans 4:8] — Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

However, I here now outline three verses from the Book of Daniel that I found “Errors of Daniel” so far in this progress. The verses include:

》1《 Daniel 2:46 — There contains the record of a king of kings falling down and worshiping Daniel, and commanded oblation be offered to Daniel, and Daniel did not prevent him and his people from worshiping Daniel (idols) - That's one “Error of Daniel.’

》2《 Daniel 4:27 — There contains the record of Daniel preaching the use of righteousness to break off sin and the use of mercy to the poor to break off iniquities and he was giving this as advice to the king who saw a vision of his getting driven away from his kingdom and humanity into a beast for of his pride and self exaltation against the Reign of the Most High in the kingdom of men. The error of Daniel was in preaching wrong message or prescribing wrong “antidote” against Pride or Ignorance.

》3《 Daniel 5:17 — There contains the record of Daniel in top bible verse above.

Two errors of Daniel in the words he spoke to Belshazzar the king in the bible verse above:

◇A◇ The error of replying the king with “Keep your gifts to yourself.”

◇B◇ The error of also telling the king, “Give your rewards to someone else.”

Both of these words from Daniel's mouth were not from the Excellent Spirit in Daniel, because they were words of error. But the assurance that he will yet read the Handwriting on the wall and explain its interpretation to the king were agreement with the Handwriting on the wall and the Spirit of God in Daniel.

Somehow, Daniel actually insulted the king by the two sentences he made in declining the king's promised reward. Even if Daniel as a Jewish man was angry with the for using the vessels of the temple house of God that the Jews highly regarded sacred, and the king had desecrated them in his orgies and rioting, Daniel should not have thus belittle the king that way by rejecting his gifts, just because Daniel happened to be his only messiah to the Handwriting on the wall before the king at his desperate moment.

I am not even in the mood to talk about whether Daniel was right/wise to decline or reject the rewards and gifts set before him at the side where he performed the tasks. Men of God rejected gifts and offerings from kings for their own peculiar reasons or private dealings with God, but their rejecting or declining those gifts does not mean every believers must also decline such gifts. Examples, this was not the first king's gifts Daniel declined, but this was the first I found errors in his method of declining. The first time Daniel declined a king's gifts, he had and respectfully gave the spiritual or faith reason he had to decline the king's meats and the king's wine offered to him; and that was because he proposed in his heart to not defile himself with those gifts. When Abraham declined accepting rewards or gifts from the king of Sodom, he did that respectfully and explain his reason that he had sworn an oath to God he must keep. When Uriah declined king David's gift of going home on leave from fighting in the war, so that he might sleep with his wife that David had committed adultery with, Uriah declined the gift of entering the comfort of his home, but insisted on remaining in the gates of the palace until he was sent back to fight and continued his active service. When the man of God from Judah declined the king Jeroboam’s gifts/rewards, he respectfully explained that God commanded him to neither eat nor drink in the mission. Elisha declined Naaman’s offerings after healing service, and Elisha showed his reason for declining by swearing to God before Naaman the rich Syrian Captain.
Even so, different men with different reasons to declining kingly gifts and rewards.

But when declining, rejecting or saying “No” to such offers, do so respectfully. The first incidence of a man killing a man or brother was because gifts were offered but were declined or rejected while the gifts of the man that was killed were accepted or loved.

Disrespect in declining a gifts usually appear as if you that's declining or rejecting the gifts is also giving instruction, order, command or raising your voice at the person who offered to you the gifts while rejecting it. Notice how it sounded as if Daniel in declining the king's gifts and rewards, was also giving orders, instruction or command to the king, even in the tone he used to reject the gifts and rewards. Two orders Daniel (a prisoner or captive of Jewry in Babylon) was commanding the king of Babylon to do in the tone of rejecting the king's gifts:

Daniel was commanding or ordering the king to keep his gifts, or telling the king what to do with his gifts

Daniel was commanding or ordering the king to give his rewards to some one else

Don't let your rejecting a gift sound as your issuing a to do or instruction. But you are welcome to use instruction on a giver when you are accepting the gift. E.g. In accepting his gift, you instruct him bring it here, put it there I am coming, give it to this person to hold for me, etc. These are acceptance instructions, which the giver would cheerful go or do to make his gifts count when accepted.

Don't say any of these word to a giver when declining his/her gifts:

I don't want, use it for yourself, you obviously need your gifts more than I
Not Interested, give it to poor.
Etc.

These are rude and disrespectful ways of declining gifts or offers, because of added instruction, redirection the refuser is putting over the gifts he declined. If you are declining the gifts, then you have no say on wherever direction or event you think should happen to the gifts you are declining or rejecting. You will not find anywhere the Lord Jesus declined a gift and still spoke about what happens to the gift he rejects. The Lord Jesus never turned down an offering and still tell the giver to rather give them to the poor. Judas Iscariot (the thief) was the first man to complain against the kind of offering a Man of God was receiving, suggesting that the Man of God should have declined such offering and told the giver to rather feed the poor. I think I have heard a story about a pastor, who rejected a car gift and told the giver to rather use the money of the car to pay his workers he was owing, and feed the community poor. I don’t know the exact details but it sounded like this, and the public was praising that pastor, wishing other men of God would emulate him instead of flamboyance.

In that case, the pastor made an error in turning the car gift to him away, and still issuing instruction to the man on what to do with the car Gifts in reconciliation. Notice that when the Lord Jesus taught about reconciling with your brother before offering your gift at the altar, He said the man should leave the gifts by the altar first and go reconcile with his brother with a different gift if needed. So, that gift by the altar is not rejected, but not given yet. He could give instruction on how he uses his gifts provided he's not rejecting them. Why reject the car and told him to sell it and distribute to men, as if giving to men or poor is as important as giving to the Lord? Don't be Judas Iscariot in mentality (John 12). If it's for Caesar, gift to Caesar; but if it's for God, don't reject it and instruct it be used to please the poor, but rather accept it to God.

Then if the person who is rejecting the gifts cares for the poor or cares for the people he's telling the giver to go give his gifts instead, as Daniel in the bible verse,— What the Decliner or Rejecter should have done is to accept the gifts and then go himself and give them to the poor or to those people. That pastor should have accepted the car, and then use it to pay those salaries or feed the poor himself. The gifts would be more blessed and multiplied when the pastor receives them first, and then give to those people from his hands, rather than telling the giver to give the gifts directly to those people. Example:

A boy had 5 loaves of bread and two fishes — There are 5000 and more church men and women and children who were hungry. The boy has an option of giving directly to the hungry and feed as many as he could, and his reward would be from heaven. The boy also has an option of giving to the Man of God, Jesus Christ and His Disciples. The Boy chose the option of giving to the Man of God, Jesus Christ and His Disciples, rather than giving to the congregation himself. The Man of God did not tell the boy, “No, I will not accept this, but give the gifts rather to those your neighbors around who are more hungry and more in need of these food than I am.” This was what the Man of God did: He took the bread and fishes, and looked up to God on heaven and gave thanks upon the gifts so that the gifts would not only be gifts to God but also gifts from God. Then from the Hands of the Man of God, those gifts that could not have fed 100 people comfortably miraculously fed over 5000 with surpluses remaining.

When Elisha rejected Naaman’s gifts, he did not give him instructions on who to give them next. But when Elisha wanted a giver to give bread to the hungry, Elisha accepted the bread first and then without eating from it he gave to the hungry himself, so that even though he did not need the gifts himself, he accepted and blessed them and gave them to those who needed them.

[2 Kings 4:42-44 FBV] — A man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of firstfruits—the first grain of the year, along with twenty loaves of barley bread. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha. “How can I serve just twenty loaves to a hundred men?” his servant asked. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the Lord says: ‘They will eat and there will still be some left over.’” So he served the bread to them. They ate, and had some left over, just as the Lord had said.

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The approach is logical