<TITLE>05. Par 48-57</TITLE>L-48 Now, while they were drinking, tipping their cups in drinking; all of a sudden, when this great movie playboy by the name of Belteshazzar was just about ready to take a drink from his cup, his eyes seemed to bulge out, as he turned and looked towards the castle, for he saw coming from heaven the hand of a Man, and It begin to write up and down on the wall.
I want you to notice; It wrote on the plaster. Now, perhaps the candlesticks were setting out from their tinsel, where they were having their modern rock-and-roll, and the lights was flickering against the wall. God doesn't do things in a corner. It's right out under the lights where God speaks and moves. So His supernatural handwriting was on the plaster of the wall in sight of them all.

L-50 And the king must have saw it first, this modern jokester, good radio comedian, television actor. As he tipped the glass to drink, or the cup, what he had in his hands, his eyes bulged out, and he felt all shook up. I would imagine he did. The Bible said that, "His bones come loose, out of joint." He surely was all shook up, sure enough. When God begins to show His signs, it's time to get shook up. That's right. And as he noticed, his rock-and-roll song made him shook up.
And then as he noticed this handwriting on the wall, I can imagine the little misses with her lips painted about like I-don't-know-what, and her hair all tinseled up, and flinging her around, and with these drunken soldiers, said, "Wonder what's the matter with the boy tonight?" and as she hiccupped.
And some young man grabbed her, and said, "All right, let's dance this next one together." And the music stopped.
Oh, this great sinful nation, sometimes your rock-and-rolls are going to stop! If you won't listen to the voice of a preacher, you'll listen to the hand of God in judgment someday. But the rock-and-roll will stop just the same as the bands did and played "Nearer, My God, To Thee" on the Titanic. Someday you're going to change that tune.

L-54 And the music stopped. And they noticed their jokester, their--their star on the television cast, and he was standing, his knees beating together as he looked and seen this great thing taking place. "Why," he said, "all the walls are closed around. I have my guards standing at the gate, my choice men."
But, you see, God don't have to come in at the gate, the way you think. He comes down from Glory. And His hand was writing on the wall.
And quickly, being in a very modern place, the Bible said he called in all of his soothsayers, astronomers, all the bishops, the doctors, and the popes, and the cardinals, and so forth. And said, "Now, I tell you, gentlemen; I've given you the privilege to preach and to do what you wanted to do. Now interpret for me That on the wall."

L-57 But just as it was then, so is it now; they wasn't used to the supernatural. They knowed nothing about It. They didn't know how to interpret unknown tongues. They knowed nothing about a heavenly language. And they were dumbfounded. They knowed nothing about it. And as they all stood there...
Remember, this is the bringing in of the Gentile kingdom. And as it come in under the supernatural, it'll go out under the supernatural.
But these bishops, and cardinals, and great doctors, could not interpret the supernatural. They knowed nothing about it. They looked through all their books of art, and they could not find nothing that would compare with that. You see, spiritual things are spiritually understood. And then they were all disturbed, and they didn't know what to do.


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