Daniel 5: Babylon is Fallen

Created: 05/25/2020

Draft: 05/29/2020

File: Daniel 5 16.9 Copyright © Mark E. LaRose 2020

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Texts taken from the King James Version References in {} from https://egwwritings.org/

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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

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{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.”

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{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.”

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! 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.

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{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.”

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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.”

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{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.”

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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.”

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{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.”

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{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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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{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.”

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{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.”

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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)

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{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.’”

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{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.”

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{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.”

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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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{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.”

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{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.”

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{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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.

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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.”

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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…”

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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.

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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

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{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.”

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{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.”

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{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.”

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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

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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.

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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.”

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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;”

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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)

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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.”

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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”

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! 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 )

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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)

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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.”

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{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.”

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{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!”

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{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.”

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{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.”

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{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.”

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{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.”

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{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.”

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{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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