0284. God's Handwriting: (C) Upharsin
God’s Handwriting: (C) Upharsin
"Peres (Upharsin); Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians" (Dan_5:28).
After God’s weighing comes God’s sentence. "Thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."
1. It might be well to stop here just long enough to observe that God still "rules in the kingdoms of men, and that He placeth over them whomsoever He will."
We recognize that satan is the god of this age. He is certainly most active in the affairs of men. We know that Christ is not now King over the whole earth. Yet God is forcing the wrath of men to praise Him; and God is still directing the trend of the age, and He is over the nations.
Nations reap as they sow, the same as individuals reap as they sow. If a nation thinks that it can trample every law of righteousness ruthlessly under foot, without reaping the whirlwind, that nation may learn its lesson, too late.
Nation after nation has risen and fallen. The Word of God clearly testifies of many nations which have come under God’s "Peres," and have gone down under the pronouncement of His wrath.
The nations of today are swiftly pressing on toward catastrophic judgments. God will surely punish the nations.
2. What is true of nations is true of individuals. Belshazzar had power and authority, but when God spoke, he lost it all. He stood before God as the veriest wretch must stand. His earthly power amounted to nothing.
Once Christ stood before Pilate and Christ heard His sentence from the lips of man. A time is coming when Pilate will stand before God. What will Pilate’s place and power amount to then? When God says "Peres;" when God takes one’s kingdom and divides it and scatters it, man must acquiesce.
All worldly glory and fame and possession must pass away. Of earthly riches we can take nothing with us. Naked came we into the world and naked we must leave it, unless by grace Divine, we have learned the secret of "laying up treasures in Heaven" where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where the Medes and Persians cannot break through and steal.
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR