MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN

belshazzar

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Read - Daniel 5 As you read it - do you feel that Rembrandt had some breath of YHVH in this painting? Belshazzar decides to get drunk with his concubines, using stolen Jerusalem temple vessels, to drink wine. He sees mortal hand and fingers writing. Some say - preincarnate Jesus's hand. Some say - theophany. MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN = numbered, numbered, weighed, and divided. Daniel tells him - accountable conduct lacking, therefore, kingdom divided to Medes and Persians. Belshazzar dies that night. God does any combination of - participating, spectating, intervening, interfering, or nothing at all - at various times, with us. What do you think God did, here? YHVH - spectated the event. YHVH - intervened in the party. YHVH - interfered in Belshazzar's life. What's it all about? Arrogance - pride - mocking, and ascending upon God. Click on writing on wall, with pointer or finger. See how YHVH communicated to Belshazzar, and history, using measurements of barley.

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