Supernatural fingers sent by God write the fate of King Baltazar on the palace wall: mâne, técel, parsin

In current times we have seen with immense sadness some churches being desecrated in various ways that we prefer not to report. This includes Brazil (one of the largest Christian countries in the world) but mainly in developed countries. To make matters worse, comedy programs, series, films and songs mocking God are multiplying... 

In this post, then, we will address a passage from the book of Daniel of the old testament (Daniel 5, 1-28) in which we will see God's response to King Balthazar who chose to take Him out of his ways, exchanging Him for pagan gods and desecrating relics from their temples. Balthazar was not some uninformed or foolish person about the existence of the only God, worshiped since the beginning of time by the Hebrews/Jews... as he was the son of the king Nebuchadnezzar II and knew of the ordeal that his father went through for seven years of living like an animal so that he could finally praise the only God (CLICK HERE TO READ MORE). Even so, he did not glorify the true God and even blasphemed Him and desecrated His temple. The consequences can be read below. God is not to be trifled with nor mocked.

The apostasy and desecration of King Balthazar

It was the time of the reign of Balthazar, son of Nebuchadnezzar (the most powerful king in ancient history). He decided to throw a party for his nobility, which numbered a thousand people. The drinking spree was rampant... When already overcome by drunkenness, he asked to bring to the party the golden vessels that his father, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem. The objective was to offer drinks to nobles, their women and himself in these sacred vessels. They took them by the hands and drank... Then they worshiped their pagan gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron.

God's response to King Balthazar

After his attitudes of profanation and apostasy, his destiny was immediately sealed by God:

At that same moment, fingers of a human hand appeared and were writing , in front of the chandelier, on the surface of the palace wall, and the king saw the fingers of the hand that was writing. 6 The king's face changed, his ideas became confused and he felt the bones in his hips wobble (the muscles in his kidneys relaxed, in other translations) and his knees trembled.

Seized with immense fear, all urinated and embarrassed in front of all the nobility, he fiercely ordered the magicians and wise men to be brought to him to decipher those words. They arrived, read and understood nothing. But his queen remembered the prophet Daniel, considered by Nebuchadnezzar to be the most brilliant mind, wisest and immersed in the spirit of God among men. Baltazar summoned him immediately and when Daniel arrived in his presence, he read the writings on the wall of the palace and gave him the meaning of those words of supernatural origin:

23 Thou hast risen up against the Lord of heaven; the vessels of his house were brought before you, and you drank wine from them, you and the great men of the kingdom, their wives and concubines; at the same time, you celebrated the gods of silver and gold, of bronze and iron, of wood and stone, gods who neither see nor hear, and understand nothing, - and the God, who holds your life and your destiny in His hands, did not you knew how to glorify. 24 Therefore, the fingers of the hand that wrote this writing were sent by Him. 25 This is how the writing that was drawn up is read: mâne, técel, pársin. 26 And this is the explanation of the words: mâne : God counted the days of your reign and concluded it; 27 tecel : you were weighed in the scales, and found to be less heavy; 28 parsin : your kingdom was divided and handed over to the Medes and Persians”.

And there was no time left for King Balthazar. That same night he was murdered, and his kingdom became that of the Medes and the Persians.

_{References: Bíblia Ave Maria; App Liturgia Diária}