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The Handwriting on The Wall Is Chinese
By Dr. Jack Wheeler, The Conservative Voice
November 19, 2005
The famous story in Chapter 5 of the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament tells of a banquet held by the King of Babylon, Belshazzar, during which a magical finger writes mysterious words on the wall: mene, mene, tekel, upharsin.
After a fruitless debate by the kings advisors over the words meaning, the king asks a Jewish captive, Daniel, to translate, who explains the strange words mean counted and counted, weighed and divided:
Meaning that Yaweh, God, has counted and numbered Belshazzars kingdom, weighed its balance, and now will bring it to an end by dividing it up among Babylons enemies, the Persians and Medes.
This prophecy is said to have taken place in 559 BC. 21 years later, in 538, Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, occupied Babylon, ended its independence, and freed the Children of Judah from their captivity. Ever since, the handwriting on the wall has been used as an expression of foreboding doom or of liberation.
Today, the handwriting on the wall is in Chinese. And just like back in 559 BC, there is a huge debate over the correct translation this time between two factions on the Presidents National Security Council.
for full article:
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=10087
By Dr. Jack Wheeler, The Conservative Voice
November 19, 2005
The famous story in Chapter 5 of the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament tells of a banquet held by the King of Babylon, Belshazzar, during which a magical finger writes mysterious words on the wall: mene, mene, tekel, upharsin.
After a fruitless debate by the kings advisors over the words meaning, the king asks a Jewish captive, Daniel, to translate, who explains the strange words mean counted and counted, weighed and divided:
Meaning that Yaweh, God, has counted and numbered Belshazzars kingdom, weighed its balance, and now will bring it to an end by dividing it up among Babylons enemies, the Persians and Medes.
This prophecy is said to have taken place in 559 BC. 21 years later, in 538, Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, occupied Babylon, ended its independence, and freed the Children of Judah from their captivity. Ever since, the handwriting on the wall has been used as an expression of foreboding doom or of liberation.
Today, the handwriting on the wall is in Chinese. And just like back in 559 BC, there is a huge debate over the correct translation this time between two factions on the Presidents National Security Council.
for full article:
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=10087
