The Writing is on the Wall
Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from Daniel 5 and is another word about President Assad of Syria. In this story from Daniel 5, we read about King Belshazzar, son of King Nebuchadnezzar, who was having a great banquet one night with his nobles and family. During the evening of drinking and toasting their gods of gold, silver, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand, a strange and fearful thing happened, a hand appeared and wrote on the wall: MENE , MENE , TEKEL , PARSIN Eventually Daniel was summoned to tell the king what the words meant, as none of the king's other wise men could decipher it. So Daniel enlightened the king with its meaning, but first prefaced it by reminding King Belshazzar of what had happened to his father, King Nebuchadnezzar during his reign--the Lord had greatly humbled him because his heart had grown exceedingly proud and calloused. "Those the king wanted to put to death, he put to death; those he wanted to spare, he sp