p. 144 | Found Wanting by R. F. C.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 27, 1869

Found Wanting.

By R. F. C.

“Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” Belshazzar had “lifted up himself against the God of Heaven.” At the end of the seventy years of the captivity of Jerusalem—at the point of time when God was to punish the king of Babylon, as he had promised by Jeremiah the prophet—the impious king, feeling secure within the impregnable walls of his strong city, in the spirit of triumph over the failure of the prophecy, offers a direct insult to the God of Heaven by drinking wine in the consecrated vessels taken from the temple at Jerusalem, at the same time praising the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, of iron, wood, and stone. But the triumphing of the wicked is short. “In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain,” and the prediction of the prophet was verified to the letter.

When any man, great or small, throws himself into the opposite scale of the balance against the God of the Bible, he is sure to be found wanting.

R. F. C.