Handwriting on the Wall (Dan. 5)

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Baltazar, the King, made a great feast for thousand of his officials and their wives. He ordered his servants to bring the chalices they captured from the churches and used them for drinking wine. They praised their gods of gold, silver, brass, iron and wood.

In the same hour  there appeared fingers of a hand of a man, writing on the wall of the king's place. Baltazar became afraid. He called his wise men and sootsayers but nobody could read the handwriting. He said, "Whoever shall be able to read shall be the third man in the kingdom." None could.

Then the queen came and said, "O king, do not be troubled. There is a man that has the spirit of the holy God in him. He is Daniel. Send for him."

When Daniel was brought before the King,he said, "Are you Daniel from Juda?"

Daniel answered, "Yes, Sir. This is what is written: Mane, Thecol, Phares.
Mane means God has finished your kingdom;
Thecol means You are weighed in the balance and are found wanting;
Phares means Your kingdom will be divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

Then Daniel was clothed in purple and he was proclaimed the third man in the kingdom. That night Baltazar died and Darrius, the Mede, succeeded him.