The Handwriting on the Wall Made Simple

Belshazzar's feast interrupted by fingers of fire on the plaster (Daniel 5) -- weighed in the balances and found wanting, and the call to get right with God before the night ends.

The Handwriting on the Wall Made Simple is a Bible-first walk through the most dramatic interruption in all of Scripture: the night King Belshazzar toasted false gods from the stolen vessels of God's temple, a hand appeared and wrote four words on the palace wall -- MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN -- and by morning the king was dead and the kingdom was gone. Chapter by chapter: the feast and the anatomy of pride; the fingers of fire; the wise men who could not read heaven's writing; Daniel, the forgotten prophet God remembered; MENE (numbered); TEKEL (weighed); PERES (divided); the night the king died; the lesson Belshazzar refused to learn from his father Nebuchadnezzar; and the call to get right with God now, while it is still today.

Explicitly Trinitarian: God the Father, the sovereign Judge who numbers the days of kings; Jesus Christ -- Son of God and Son of Man, Lord and Savior -- who was weighed in our place and took the dividing we deserved; and the Holy Spirit, who alone convicts, breaks every stronghold, and sets the captive free -- never willpower, never man's method alone. Every prayer is to the Father, through Jesus Christ, by the Holy Spirit.

Read one chapter a day. Come honest. Read slowly. Let God search you before the night ends.

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