It was God who sent that message to Belshazzar: "Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting." For God judges every one's life. We read in the Revelation, "There shall in no wise enter into His presence, anything that defileth."
But there is another Writing, not like the one on Belshazzar's Wall—and that is in a Book in heaven, which is called "The Lamb's Book of Life."
Do you wonder what is written there?
It is the name of each one who has come to "The Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."
Let each one of us ask God to wash away all our sins, and to write down our name in that Book of Life.
That is the writing which will mean endless happiness and joy.
[XXXV. DANIEL IS A CAPTIVE]
THE people of Israel—the Jews—had so departed from serving and obeying God, that at length, in the reign of Jehoiakim, God allowed the King of Babylon to come up against Jerusalem with a great army and to besiege it, and eventually to take the city. He carried away not only Jehoiakim, the king, but afterwards Zedekiah (whom Nebuchadnezzar had set up in Jerusalem instead of Jehoiakim), and with him, he took all the nobles who were not killed in the siege, and every smith or craftsman who might be useful in Babylon.
He carried away also the whole of the sacred and precious vessels from the Temple of God, and put them into the house of his own idol in Babylon.