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Daniel 5: Babylon is Fallen
Created: 05/25/2020
Draft: 05/29/2020
File: Daniel 5 16.9 Copyright © Mark E. LaRose 2020
5/29/20 1
Texts taken from the King James Version References in {} from https://egwwritings.org/
5/29/20 2
Daniel: 1-Appetite
2-Stone destroys feet of the image
3-Bow down
4-Tree of Babylon
5-Cyrus dries up the Euphrates
6-Stone sealed the lion’s den
7-Jesus as High Priest
8-Counterfeit Sanctuary
9-Close of Probation
10-12-Michael stands to deliver
Jesus: Appetite
Throw down yourself (foot dashed)
Bow down
Kingdom of heaven like a tree
Jesus descended into the deep/dying
Stone sealed Jesus’ tomb
Jesus is our High Priest
Anti-typical Day of Atonement 1844
…soon
…soon
3 5/29/20
{BEcho September 17, 1894, par. 5} “In the history of Nebuchadnezzar and
Belshazzar, God speaks to the people of today. The
condemnation that will fall upon the inhabitants of the earth
in this day will be because of their rejection of light. Our
condemnation in the judgment will not result from the fact that
we have lived in error, but from the fact that we have neglected
Heaven-sent opportunities for discovering truth.”
4 5/29/20
{BEcho September 17, 1894, par. 6} “On every page of God’s word the
injunction to obedience is plainly written, and yet how often His
commands are lightly regarded or wholly set aside! The
command for the observance of the holy Sabbath of the Lord
is placed in the very bosom of the decalogue, and is so plain
that none need err as to its import, and yet it is treated with as
great profanation as were the sacred vessels at the feast of
Belshazzar.”
5 5/29/20
! Belshazzar co-reigned with his father, Nabonidus (556-539BC), beginning in
553BC at the age of 15. (see Dan 7:1; 8:1)
! In 539BC Babylon had been under siege for 2 years, however the city had
provisions for 20 years.
! Nabonidus had surrendered in Sippar (50 miles north of Babylon) 2 days
earlier and fled.
6 5/29/20
{PK 523.1} “It was not long before reverses came. Babylon was
besieged by Cyrus, nephew of Darius the Mede, and
commanding general of the combined armies of the Medes and
Persians. But within the seemingly impregnable fortress, with its
massive walls and its gates of brass, protected by the river
Euphrates, and stocked with provision in abundance, the
voluptuous monarch felt safe and passed his time in mirth and
revelry.”
7 5/29/20
Dan 5:1 “Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a
thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the
thousand.” ! Wine: The emphasis here shows the revelers were getting drunk; providing a
false sense of security. Wine is symbolic of false doctrine.
Rev 14:8 “And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is
fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication.”
Rev 18:3 “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,
and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her
delicacies.”
8 5/29/20
{Lt51a-1897.9} “Admitted to a share in kingly authority and power at
fifteen years of age, Belshazzar gloried in his power, and lifted
up his heart against the God of heaven. He despised the One
who is above all rulers, the General of all the armies of heaven.
“Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords,
and drank wine before the thousand.” [Daniel 5:1.] The profane
orgies of royal mirth were attended by men of genius and
education, by masters of architecture.”
9 5/29/20
Dan 5:2 “Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine,
commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels
which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of
the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king,
and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might
drink therein.” (see Dan 1:2; Jer 52:19) Jer 51:57 “And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her
captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual
sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.”
10 5/29/20
{PK 522.2} “Through the folly and weakness of Belshazzar, the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, proud Babylon was soon to fall. Admitted in his youth to a share in kingly authority, Belshazzar gloried in his power and lifted up his heart against the God of heaven. Many had been his opportunities to know the divine will and to understand his responsibility of rendering obedience thereto. He had known of his grandfather’s banishment, by the decree of God, from the society of men; and he was familiar with Nebuchadnezzar’s conversion and miraculous restoration. But Belshazzar allowed the love of pleasure and self-glorification to efface the lessons that he should never have forgotten. He wasted the opportunities graciously granted him, and neglected to use the means within his reach for becoming more fully acquainted with truth.”
11 5/29/20
{Lt51a-1897.10} “On this occasion there was music and banqueting
and wine drinking. Decorated women with their enchantments
were among the revellers. Exalted by wine, and blinded by
delusion, the king himself took the lead in the riotous
blasphemy. His reason was gone, and his lower impulses and
passions were in the ascendancy. His kingdom was strong and
apparently invincible, and he would show that he thought nothing
too sacred for his hands to handle and profane. To show his
contempt for sacred things, he desecrated the holy vessels
taken from the temple of the Lord at its destruction.”
12 5/29/20
Dan 5:3 “Then they brought the golden vessels that
were taken out of the temple of the house of God
which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his
princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in
them.” 2Ki 24:13 “And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the
LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of
gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as
the LORD had said.”
2Ki 25:15 “And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold,
in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.”
13 5/29/20
Dan 5:4 “They drank wine, and praised the gods of
gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of
stone.” (see Dan 5:23) ! The use of the temple goblets openly mocked God, while praising idols made
of 6 elements; Satan’s counterfeit number.
Rev 9:20 “And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet
repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,
and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which
neither can see, nor hear, nor walk”
Isa 42:8 “I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to
another, neither my praise to graven images.”
14 5/29/20
{3T 162.1} “All are bound by the most sacred obligations to God to
heed the sound philosophy and genuine experience which He is
now giving them in reference to health reform. He designs that
the great subject of health reform shall be agitated and the public
mind deeply stirred to investigate; for it is impossible for men
and women, with all their sinful, health-destroying, brain-
enervating habits, to discern sacred truth, through which they
are to be sanctified, refined, elevated, and made fit for the society
of heavenly angels in the kingdom of glory.”
15 5/29/20
{TM 101.2} “The people ate and drank without a thought of God and
His mercy, without a thought of the necessity of resisting the
devil, who was leading them on to the most shameful deeds. The
same spirit was manifested as at the sacrilegious feast of
Belshazzar. There was glee and dancing, hilarity and singing,
carried to an infatuation that beguiled the senses; then the
indulgence in inordinate, lustful affections—all this mingled in
that disgraceful scene. God had been dishonored; His people had
become a shame in the sight of the heathen. Judgments were
about to fall on that infatuated, besotted multitude. Yet God in His
mercy gave them opportunity to forsake their sins.”
16 5/29/20
Dan 5:5 “In the same hour came forth fingers of a
man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick
upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and
the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.” ! The source of the common saying; “the writing on the wall.”
Isa 21:9 “…Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods
he hath broken unto the ground.” (see Isa 21:1-9; Jer 50:1 – 51:58)
17 5/29/20
{ST December 29, 1887, par. 5} “When Belshazzar had his great
sacrilegious feast, there was present in the splendid halls a
witness which he did not discern. The revelers were drinking
their wine, and partaking of their luxurious feast, and praising the
gods of silver and gold, extolling their own wisdom, magnifying
their deeds, and dishonoring God, but right over against the wall,
facing the king, a bloodless hand was tracing the terrible
characters testifying of his true condition: ‘Thou art weighed in
the balances, and art found wanting.’”
18 5/29/20
{PK 524.1} “Little did Belshazzar think that there was a heavenly
Witness to his idolatrous revelry; that a divine Watcher,
unrecognized, looked upon the scene of profanation, heard the
sacrilegious mirth, beheld the idolatry. But soon the uninvited
Guest made His presence felt. When the revelry was at its height
a bloodless hand came forth and traced upon the walls of the
palace characters that gleamed like fire—words which, though
unknown to the vast throng, were a portent of doom to the now
conscience-stricken king and his guests.”
19 5/29/20
{PK 524.2} “Hushed was the boisterous mirth, while men and
women, seized with nameless terror, watched the hand slowly
tracing the mysterious characters. Before them passed, as in
panoramic view, the deeds of their evil lives; they seemed to
be arraigned before the judgment bar of the eternal God,
whose power they had just defied. Where but a few moments
before had been hilarity and blasphemous witticism, were pallid
faces and cries of fear. When God makes men fear, they cannot
hide the intensity of their terror.”
20 5/29/20
{Ms101-1897.16} “It was not the hand of the priest that rent from top to
bottom the gorgeous veil that divided the Holy from the Most
Holy Place. It was the hand of God. When Christ cried out, “It is
finished” [John 19:30], the Holy Watcher that was an unseen
guest at Belshazzar’s feast pronounced the Jewish nation to be a
nation unchurched. The same hand that traced on the wall the
characters that recorded Belshazzar’s doom and the end of the
Babylonian kingdom, rent the veil of the Temple from top to
bottom, opening a new and living way for all, high and low, rich
and poor, Jew and Gentile. From henceforth people might come
to God without priest or ruler.”
21 5/29/20
{YI May 19, 1898, par. 6} “A Watcher, who was unrecognized, but whose
presence was a power of condemnation, looked on this scene of
profanation. Soon the unseen and uninvited Guest made his
presence felt. At the moment when the sacrilegious revelry was at
its height, a bloodless hand came forth, and wrote words of doom
on the wall of the banqueting hall. Burning words followed the
movements of the hand. “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin,” was
written in letters of flame. Few were the characters traced by that
hand on the wall facing the king, but they showed that the power
of God was there.”
22 5/29/20
{5T 244.5} “Let those who delight to trace words of calumny and
falsehood against the servants of Christ remember that God is a
witness of their deeds. Their slanderous touch is not profaning
soulless vessels but the characters of those whom Christ has
purchased by His blood. The hand which traced the characters
upon the walls of Belshazzar’s palace keeps faithful record of
every act of injustice or oppression committed against God’s
people.”
23 5/29/20
{Ms50-1893.9} “Little did Belshazzar think that an unseen Watcher
beheld his idolatrous revelry. But there is nothing said or done
that is not recorded on the books of heaven. The mystic
characters traced by the bloodless hand testify that God is a
witness to all we do and that He is dishonored by feasting and
reveling. We cannot hide anything from God. We cannot escape
from our accountability to him. Wherever we are and whatever
we do, we are responsible to Him whose we are by creation
and by redemption.”
24 5/29/20
Dan 5:6 “Then the king's countenance was changed,
and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of
his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one
against another.” (see Dan 5:9) Eze 7:17 “All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.”
Nah 2:10 “She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the
knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all
gather blackness.”
25 5/29/20
Dan 5:7 “The king cried aloud to bring in the
astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And
the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon,
Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the
interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet,
and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be
the third ruler in the kingdom.” Dan 2:2 “Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the
astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his
dreams. So they came and stood before the king.”
26 5/29/20
Dan 5:8-9 “8Then came in all the king's wise men: but
they could not read the writing, nor make known to
the king the interpretation thereof. 9Then was king
Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance
was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.” Job 18:11 “Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him
to his feet.”
Jer 6:24 “We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath
taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.”
27 5/29/20
Dan 5:10 “Now the queen, by reason of the words of the
king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and
the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let
not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy
countenance be changed” ! The Queen may likely have been Belshazzar's mother and daughter of
Nebuchadnezzar.
28 5/29/20
Dan 5:11 “There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is
the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy
father light and understanding and wisdom, like the
wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the
king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy
father, made master of the magicians, astrologers,
Chaldeans, and soothsayers” Dan 2:48 “Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great
gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the
governors over all the wise men of Babylon.”
29 5/29/20
Dan 5:12 “Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and
knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of
dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and
dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel,
whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel
be called, and he will shew the interpretation.” Dan 4:8 “But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was
Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of
the holy gods…”
Dan 6:3 “Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes,
because an excellent spirit was in him…”
30 5/29/20
Dan 5:13 “Then was Daniel brought in before the king.
And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou
that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity
of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of
Jewry?” ! Daniel was exiled in 605BC, making him about 84 years old in 539BC.
! Notice the prejudice shown after the well known history of Babylon.
31 5/29/20
Dan 5:14 “I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of
the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding
and excellent wisdom is found in thee.” ! Belshazzar acknowledges his knowledge of God
32 5/29/20
{4T 569.1} “The case of Daniel was presented before me. Although he was a man of like passions with ourselves, the pen of inspiration presents him as a faultless character. His life is given us as a bright example of what man may become, even in this life, if he will make God his strength and wisely improve the opportunities and privileges within his reach. Daniel was an intellectual giant; yet he was continually seeking for greater knowledge, for higher attainments. Other young men had the same advantages; but they did not, like him, bend all their energies to seek wisdom—the knowledge of God as revealed in His word and in His works. Although Daniel was one of the world’s great men, he was not proud nor self-sufficient. He felt the need of refreshing his soul with prayer, and each day found him in earnest supplication before God. He would not be deprived of this privilege even when a den of lions was opened to receive him if he continued to pray.”
33 5/29/20
{4T 569.2} “Daniel loved, feared, and obeyed God. Yet he did not flee
away from the world to avoid its corrupting influence. In the
providence of God he was to be in the world yet not of the
world. With all the temptations and fascinations of court life
surrounding him, he stood in the integrity of his soul, firm as a
rock in his adherence to principle. He made God his strength
and was not forsaken of Him in his time of greatest need.”
34 5/29/20
{4T 570.1} “Daniel was true, noble, and generous. While he was anxious to be at peace with all men, he would not permit any power to turn him aside from the path of duty. He was willing to obey those who had rule over him, as far as he could do so consistently with truth and righteousness; but kings and decrees could not make him swerve from his allegiance to the King of kings. Daniel was but eighteen years old when brought into a heathen court in service to the king of Babylon, and because of his youth his noble resistance of wrong and his steadfast adherence to the right are the more admirable. His noble example should bring strength to the tried and tempted, even at the present day.”
35 5/29/20
Dan 5:14-15 “14I have even heard of thee, that the spirit
of the gods is in thee, and that light and
understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee. 15And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been
brought in before me, that they should read this
writing, and make known unto me the interpretation
thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of
the thing” (see Dan 5:7-8) ! Belshazzar acknowledges his knowledge of God
36 5/29/20
Dan 5:16 “And I have heard of thee, that thou canst
make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if
thou canst read the writing, and make known to me
the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with
scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and
shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.” (see Dan 5:7) ! Belshazzar ruled under his father, Nabonidus.
37 5/29/20
Dan 5:17 “Then Daniel answered and said before the
king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards
to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king,
and make known to him the interpretation.” Dan 2:6 “But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall
receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the
dream, and the interpretation thereof.”
38 5/29/20
Dan 5:20 “But when his heart was lifted up, and his
mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his
kingly throne, and they took his glory from him” (Dan
4:30, 37)
Exo 18:11 “Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the
thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.”
Eze 31:10 “Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up
thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his
heart is lifted up in his height;”
39 5/29/20
Dan 5:21 “And he was driven from the sons of men; and
his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling
was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like
oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven;
till he knew that the most high God ruled in the
kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it
whomsoever he will.” (Dan 4:32)
40 5/29/20
Dan 5:22 “And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not
humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this”
2Ch 36:11-12 “Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to
reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah
the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.”
41 5/29/20
Dan 5:23 “But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:” (see Dan 5:3-4)
Psa 115:5 “They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not”
42 5/29/20
! Prior knowledge of truth, but failure to adopt it
! Pride leading to lack of glorifying God (Exo 10:3; 2Ch 36:12)
! The abomination of claiming idols are superior to the Lord of
heaven (6 elements) (Hab 2:18-19)
! Profaning God’s holy vessels (Exo 40:9; Num 18:3; Isa 52:11)
! Multiple sexual relations (Gen 2:24; 1Ti 3:2 )
43 5/29/20
Dan 5:24-25 “24Then was the part of the hand sent from
him; and this writing was written. 25And this is the
writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL,
UPHARSIN.” A riddle involving units of weight applied to money, used for “balances”
“Mene”: To number - twice mentioned, parallel to Babylon twice fallen (Isa
21:9; Rev 14:8; 18:2), referencing its literal fall in 539BC and its future,
spiritual fall during the 6th plague (Rev 16:12).
“Tekel”: To weigh, to measure, to bring into judgment (Job 31:6; Psa 62:9;
Jer 6:30; Rev 11:1-2).
“Upharsin” [verb form of “peres”]: To divide, to punish. (see Dan 5:28)
44 5/29/20
Dan 5:26-28 “26This is the interpretation of the thing:
MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and
finished it. 27TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the
balances, and art found wanting. 28PERES; Thy
kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and
Persians.”
45 5/29/20
{4T 14.2} “I have been shown what man is without a knowledge of
the will of God. Crimes and iniquity fill up the measure of his
life. But when the Spirit of God reveals to him the full meaning
of the law, what a change takes place in his heart! Like
Belshazzar, he reads intelligently the handwriting of the
Almighty, and conviction takes possession of his soul. The
thunders of God’s word startle him from his lethargy, and he calls
for mercy in the name of Jesus. And to that humble plea God
always listens with a willing ear. He never turns the penitent
away comfortless.”
46 5/29/20
{ST May 25, 1882, Art. A, par. 17} “When you stand before the great white throne, then your work will appear as it is. The books are opened, the record of every life made known. Many in that vast company are unprepared for the revelations made. Upon the ears of some, the words will fall with startling distinctness, “Weighed in the balance, and found wanting.” To many parents the Judge will say in that day, “You had my word, plainly setting forth your duty. Why have you not obeyed its teachings? Knew ye not that it was the voice of God? Did I not bid you search the Scriptures, that you might not go astray? You have not only ruined your own souls, but by your pretensions to godliness you have misled many others. You have no part with me. Depart, depart!”
47 5/29/20
{RH August 29, 1912, par. 9} “Some are constantly leaning to the world.
Their views and feelings harmonize much better with the spirit of
the world than with that of Christ’s self-denying followers. It is
perfectly natural that they should prefer the company of those
whose spirit will best agree with their own. And such have quite
too much influence among God’s people. They take part with
them, and have a name among them; and they are a text for
unbelievers, and for the weak and unconsecrated ones in the
church. In this refining time these professors will either be wholly
converted, and sanctified by obedience to the truth, or they will
be left with the world, to receive their reward with the worldling.”
48 5/29/20
{EW 36.2} “The 144,000 triumphed. Their faces were lighted up with the
glory of God. Then I was shown a company who were howling in
agony. On their garments was written in large characters, “Thou art
weighed in the balance, and found wanting.” I asked who this company
were. The angel said, “These are they who have once kept the Sabbath
and have given it up.” I heard them cry with a loud voice, “We have
believed in Thy coming, and taught it with energy.” And while they
were speaking, their eyes would fall upon their garments and see the
writing, and then they would wail aloud. I saw that they had drunk of
the deep waters, and fouled the residue with their feet—trodden the
Sabbath underfoot—and that was why they were weighed in the
balance and found wanting.”
49 5/29/20
{RH August 17, 1897, par. 5} “Those who have received a false education
do not look heavenward. They cannot see the One who is the true
Light, “which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
They look upon eternal realities as phantoms, calling an atom a
world, and a world an atom. Of many who have received the so-
called higher education, God declares, “Thou art weighed in the
balances, and art found wanting,”—wanting in a knowledge of
practical business, wanting in a knowledge of how to make
the best use of time, wanting in a knowledge of how to labor
for Jesus.”
50 5/29/20
{GC 490.2} “When the work of the investigative judgment closes, the
destiny of all will have been decided for life or death. Probation is
ended a short time before the appearing of the Lord in the clouds
of heaven. Christ in the Revelation, looking forward to that time,
declares: “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which
is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous let him be
righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And,
behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every
man according as his work shall be.” Revelation 22:11, 12.”
51 5/29/20
{1T 406.1} “…our faith and position in the world, as they now
are, must be compared with what they would have been if our
course had been continually onward and upward since we
professed to be followers of Christ. This is the only safe
comparison that can be made. In every other there will be self-
deception. If the moral character and spiritual state of God’s
people do not correspond with the blessings, privileges, and light
which have been conferred upon them, they are weighed in the
balance, and angels make the report, Wanting.”
52 5/29/20
{2T 43.2} “Here many who profess to be Christians will not bear the
measurement of God; when weighed in the balances of the sanctuary,
they will be found wanting. Dear brother, “come out from among them,
and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and
I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My
sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” What a promise is this!
But we are not to lose sight of the fact that it is based upon obedience to
the command. God calls you to separate from the world. You are not
to follow their practices, nor conform to them in your course of
action in any respect. ‘But be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect,
will of God.’”
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{2T 54.1} “Dear friend, an entire transformation must take place in you, or you will be weighed in the balance and found wanting. The church at -----, especially talking women, have a lesson to learn. “If any man [or woman] among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.” Many will be weighed in the balance and found wanting in this matter of so great importance. Where are the Christians who walk by this rule? who will take God’s part against the evilspeaker? who will please God, and set a watch, a continual watch, before the mouth, and keep the door of the lips? Speak evil of no man. Hear evil of no man. If there be no hearers, there will be no speakers of evil. If anyone speaks evil in your presence, check him. Refuse to hear him, though his manner be ever so soft and his accents mild. He may profess attachment, and yet throw out covert hints and stab the character in the dark.”
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{2T 452.2} “The people who are at war with the law of the great Jehovah, who consider it a special virtue to talk, write, and act the most bitter and hateful things to show their contempt of that law, may make exalted profession of love to God, and apparently have much religious zeal, as did the Jewish chief priests and elders; yet, in the day of God, “Found wanting” will be said of them by the Majesty of heaven. “By the law is the knowledge of sin.” The mirror which would discover to them the defects in their characters, they are infuriated against, because it points out their sins. Leading Adventists who have rejected the light are fired with madness against God’s holy law, as the Jewish nation were against the Son of God. They are in a terrible deception, deceiving others and being deceived themselves. They will not come to the light, lest their deeds should be reproved. Such will not be taught.”
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{5T 83.2} “The church cannot measure herself by the world nor by
the opinion of men nor by what she once was. Her faith and her
position in the world as they now are must be compared with
what they would have been if her course had been continually
onward and upward. The church will be weighed in the
balances of the sanctuary. If her moral character and spiritual
state do not correspond with the benefits and blessings God has
conferred upon her, she will be found wanting.”
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{TM 237.1} “Those who are “do-nothings” now will have the
superscription upon them, “Thou art weighed in the balances, and
art found wanting.” They knew their Master’s will, but did it not.
They had the light of truth, they had every advantage, but
chose their own selfish interests, and they will be left with
those whom they did not try to save.”
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{TM 439.2} “God’s claim is placed in one scale, and man’s character in the
other; and by the balances of the heavenly sanctuary every man’s doom
is fixed for eternity. Look at this, you that have lived carelessly and
have regarded sin lightly. For years you have continued without a sense
of your responsibility to God—years of selfish indulgence in a
forbidden course. Consider the perfect, unchanging character of the law
whose claims you have verbally vindicated. The law demands perfect,
unswerving obedience. In the latter scale is also placed the sin, the
folly, the deception, the unclean thoughts, the unholy actions; and the
preponderance or the lightness of the weight determines the weal or
woe of individuals; and the inscription is written upon the scale of
many, ‘Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.’”
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{TM 440.1} “Will those before whom this letter shall come, consider their own individual cases, pass judgment upon no one else, but consider their own character in the light of God’s law?
{TM 440.2} Has your character been transformed? Has darkness been exchanged for light, the love of sin for the love of purity and holiness? Have you been converted, who are engaged in teaching the truth to others? Has there been in you a thorough, radical change? Have you woven Christ into your character? You need not be in uncertainty in this matter. Has the Sun of Righteousness risen and been shining in your soul? If so, you know it; and if you do not know whether you are converted or not, never preach another discourse from the pulpit until you do. Cont.
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{TM 440.2} “How can you lead souls to the fountain of life of which
you have not drunk yourself? Are you a sham, or are you really a
son of God? Are you serving God, or are you serving idols? Are
you transformed by the Spirit of God, or are you yet dead in your
trespasses and sins? To be sons of God means more than many
dream of, because they have not been converted. Men are
weighed in the balance and found wanting when they are
living in the practice of any known sin. It is the privilege of
every son of God to be a true Christian moment by moment; then
he has all heaven enlisted on his side. He has Christ abiding in his
heart by faith.”
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Dan 5:29 “Then commanded Belshazzar, and they
clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold
about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning
him, that he should be the third ruler in the
kingdom.”
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{7T 248.2} “Those who labor in business lines should take every precaution against falling into error through wrong principles or methods. Their record may be like that of Daniel in the courts of Babylon. When all his business transactions were subjected to the closest scrutiny, not one faulty item could be found. The record of his business life, incomplete though it is, contains lessons worthy of study. It reveals the fact that a businessman is not necessarily a scheming, policy man. He may be a man instructed of God at every step. Daniel, while prime minister of the kingdom of Babylon, was a prophet of God, receiving the light of heavenly inspiration. His life is an illustration of what every Christian businessman may be.”
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Dan 5:30-31 “30In that night was Belshazzar the king of
the Chaldeans slain. 31And Darius the Median took
the kingdom, being about threescore and two years
old.” ! Babylon fell to the Medes and Persians on 10/12/539BC.
! Thus began the rule of Medo-Persia (the silver chest and arms of the Dan 2
image), the bear with one raised shoulder & 3 ribs (Babylon, Lydia, and Egypt
conquered) of Dan 7, and the Ram with 2 horns (1 larger) of Dan 8.
! Darius the Mede (Dan 9:1) was succeeded by his nephew, Cyrus (Isa 44:28+)
about 537BC, also marking the 70 years of exile as foretold in Jer 25:11-12. ! https://sites.google.com/site/thepatternofprophecy/jeremiah-s-70-years
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{PK 556.4} “Daniel’s prayer had been offered “in the first year of
Darius” (verse 1), the Median monarch whose general, Cyrus,
had wrested from Babylonia the scepter of universal rule. The
reign of Darius was honored of God. To him was sent the angel
Gabriel, “to confirm and to strengthen him.” Daniel 11:1. Upon
his death, within about two years of the fall of Babylon, Cyrus
succeeded to the throne, and the beginning of his reign marked
the completion of the seventy years since the first company of
Hebrews had been taken by Nebuchadnezzar from their Judean
home to Babylon.”
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{COL 258.4} “You may plan for merely selfish good, you may gather
together treasure, you may build mansions great and high, as did
the builders of ancient Babylon; but you cannot build wall so high
or gate so strong as to shut out the messengers of doom.”
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{Ms101-1897.15} “In Christ the shadow reached its substance, the type
its antitype. Well might Caiaphas rend his clothes in horror for
himself and for the nation, for they were separating themselves
from God, and were fast becoming a people unchurched by
Jehovah. Surely the candlestick was being removed out of its
place.” cont.
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{Ms101-1897.16} “It was not the hand of the priest that rent from top to
bottom the gorgeous veil that divided the Holy from the Most
Holy Place. It was the hand of God. When Christ cried out, “It is
finished” [John 19:30], the Holy Watcher that was an unseen
guest at Belshazzar’s feast pronounced the Jewish nation to
be a nation unchurched. The same hand that traced on the wall
the characters that recorded Belshazzar’s doom and the end of the
Babylonian kingdom, rent the veil of the Temple from top to
bottom, opening a new and living way for all, high and low, rich
and poor, Jew and Gentile. From henceforth people might come
to God without priest or ruler.”
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{RH September 22, 1891, par. 9} “Those who are unfaithful to the work of God, are lacking in principle; their motives are not of a character to lead them to choose the right under all circumstances. The servants of God are to feel at all times that they are under the eye of their employer. He who watched the sacrilegious feast of Belshazzar is present in all our institutions, in the counting-room of the merchant, in the private workshop; and the bloodless hand is as surely recording your neglect, as it recorded the awful judgment of the blasphemous king. Belshazzar’s condemnation was written in words of fire, “Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting;” and if you fail to fulfill your God-given obligations, your condemnation will be the same.”
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! The fall of literal Babylon is important to properly understand the future
fall of spiritual Babylon. (see Rev 16:12; 18:1-24)
Isa 21:9 “…Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods
he hath broken unto the ground.”
Dan 7:11 “I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn
spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given
to the burning flame.”
Rev 14:8 “…Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all
nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
Rev 18:2 “…Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the
habitation of devils...”
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! Isaiah (chapters 41, 46, 47) and Jeremiah (chapters 50, 51) predict and
describe the fall of literal and spiritual Babylon.
! Note the “alliance” of nations (Medo-Persia) as well as apostate Protestants.
Jer 50:9 “For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an
assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves
in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of
a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.”
Rev 17:16 “And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall
hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh,
and burn her with fire.”
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