GOD DELIVERED a message of doom to the regent of Babylon, Belshazzar. And He did it in a way everyone in Babylon would understand.

We continue our analysis of Daniel 5 and the writing on the wall, an episode so famous that it’s become a catchphrase for something so obvious that it can’t be missed. Last week, we explained how God’s divine intervention of Belshazzar’s drunken feast was not only directed at the rulers of Babylon, but at the moon-god Sîn, who was the patron deity of Babylon’s last king, Nabonidus.

This week, we explore another aspect of the supernatural handwriting on the wall of Belshazzar’s palace. One of the two most important deities in Babylon in the 6th century BC was Nabû, the patron deity of scribes. Most people in Babylonia were illiterate, so when one needed to draw up a contract, make out a will, or even write a letter, a scribe was hired. Scribes were a special class, essential to the government, temples, merchants, and financiers.

In short, Nabû was the god of lawyers, bankers, and priests—more or less the people who still run the world today.

So, when a hand materialized and began to write on the wall, Belshazzar and his nobles may have thought it was one of their chief gods appearing before their eyes. In truth, it was Yahweh, the Creator, using Nabû’s best-known characteristic to tell Belshazzar that his gods—Nabû, Marduk, Ishtar, and Sîn—had failed him.

And is it possible that the fall of Babylon in 539 BC is a template for the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset?