Speaker reflects on Belshazzar's pride and its consequences (Part 3)

His glory from him. Interesting. His heart was lifted up, so God brought him down. His mind was hardened. Does that kind of hint at the softening of his mind in a literal way because of the hardening of pride that was taking place? Well, whatever the case, this unfortunately is looking like a like father, like son kind of a situation. Or like predecessor, like Successor. And verse 22, Thou, His Son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this, you knew the stories. You don't have to have some old grandma queen remind you of me. You knew about Nebuchadnezzar yourself. You should have known better. You should have learned from that earlier example and experience. Don't think you're immune to it. Don't think, don't assume it can't happen to you. But you have lifted up thyself against the Lord of Heaven, and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee. You're desecrating sacred space. Don't go there. Thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines have drunk wine in them. And thou has praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, stone, man, he's going down the statue even further than Nebuchadnezzar even ever saw. Those things 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? You have been ignoring the Lord's hand all along. And so he chose to make that hand absolutely obvious. It reached through the veil and wrote on your wall. Thy walls are continually before me. Oh yeah, and I can even use them as my message board. Are you paying attention? What was that message? Verse 25 through 28. This is the writing that was written. Now, I have no idea how to speak Babylonian, so forgive my probably mispronunciation, but mini, mini Tekel Ufarsin. And this is the interpretation of the thing. God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it. He says that twice, just in case you missed the first time.