“This is the inscription that was written:
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN
“This is what these words mean:
Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.
Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.” -Dan 5:25-28 NIV
What frightening words to be heard: You have been weighed and found wanting. Whatever you have done has not been enough. You have come up short. All you have done, all you have surrounded yourself with will come to nothing.
It was not as if Belshazzar didn't know better. His father, Nebuchadnezzar had to learn the hard way who the God of Heaven really was. All of the dreams that he had, throwing the three men into the fiery furnace, none of that had any impact on Nebuchadnezzar, he had to go mad and roam wild in the fields for years until he recognized God's power. His son should have paid attention, but he was caught up in his own extravagant life style and the lessons of history meant little to him. It's so easy for the powerful to get caught up in their own realm that they fail to notice what is going on around them. Beltshazzar was on top of the world, he was the ruling authority, he had it all under control. That is until a mighty finger came out of nowhere and wrote on his wall, 'weighed and found wanting.'
The eye of God that is attached to the finger of fate is still there. Behind all we do and say, behind all we think we have accomplished or accumulated, the eye of God weighs every generation. It's not a fickle finger that determines our fate, it's the eye of God.
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