19. He Weighs Our Deeds.
When King Balthazar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles, suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN” on the plaster of the wall. No one could read the writing or tell the king what it meant. It means “God has numbered the days of King Balthazar’s reign and brought it to an end.” King Balthazar had set himself up against the Lord of heaven. He had the goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. God judged him. That very night Balthazar, king of the Babylonians, was slain. "The LORD is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.(1 Samuel 2:3)” He weighed all men’s deeds in the good or bad things.
