Daniel 5
Daniel 5:25-28:
“And this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; TEKEK: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. |
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The rest of the story is told in chapter five of Daniel’s commentary on that fateful night in Babylon— Belshazzar’s last. The most powerful nation on the earth came to an end on the night when Cyrus and his legions stormed the city. This was an abrupt end to the nation that boasted its power to the rest of the world. This was the super power of the world in Daniel’s day without rival, so they thought. The handwriting on the wall indicated that Babylon’s day of destruction had come; however, it should have been no surprise to anyone--if, if, if they had a knowledge of God’s prophetic Word. Long before this—seventy years before--the promise of and a waste. And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall be, when seventy years are fulfilled I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, and the land of the Chaldeans, says Jehovah, for their iniquity, and I will make it an everlasting ruin” (Jer. 25:11, 12). |