The Writing on the Wall

“In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hands appeared and wrote
opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace,
and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.”
Daniel 5:5 

It has been said that history repeats itself. The saying is true. Even fashions come back in style. People often divorce their spouses, get married again, and experience the same problems they had in their previous marriage. In the above verse, we notice that Belshazzar continued the sins of his grandfather, Nebuchadnezzar.

Belshazzar didn’t learn his lesson! Because of this, the Medo-Persian Empire conquered Babylon. What destroyed the Babylonian empire can also destroy us: pride, worldliness, immorality, materialism, idolatry, greed and selfishness.