Bible Prophecy Numbers:
The Writing on the Wall
Jesus the Messiah
Revealed Numerically in the BIBLE
MENE–MENE–TEKEL–UPARSIN
This is the interpretation of the thing:
MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.Dan. 5:25-26
Introduction
O
n the night mighty Babylon fell to the Persians, this writing appeared on the palace wall: "MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN" (Dan. 5:25), written with the finger of God. The king of Babylon was having a huge drunken party––they felt safe and secure inside the city with its massive walls. Then came the sudden appearance of the handwriting on the wall, which put an end to the party and replaced revelry with terror; and adding to their bewilderment, no one could as much as read the writing, let alone interpret what it meant!Then the terrified king called for Daniel the prophet. By the light of a candlestick, Daniel both decoded and interpreted the writing. It foretold the immediate end of Babylon and her king. So it came to pass: On that same night the king of Babylon was slain by her Persian conquers; a new era was born.
The writing on the palace wall is comparable to the greatest Writing of all––the Bible. For like the writing on the wall, some things in the Bible are mysterious and impossible to understand apart from God’s help. Only by the light of the candlestick (that is, by the Spirit of God) can a man understand its mysteries.
Most mysteries in the Bible have already been unveiled by the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ (Mk. 4:11; Rom. 16:25; 1Cor. 2:7; Eph. 1:9; 3:3-9; Col. 1:26-2:2; Rev. 1:20). Any further illumination of the Scriptures therefore must conform to and be built upon this finished apostolic foundation (Eph. 2:20), otherwise it is heresy.
There is one mystery expressly said to be "sealed until the time of the end" (Dan. 12:4, 9-12).
"Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end…None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.
From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1335 days" (Dan. 12:9-11).
In this book, the decoding of these and other puzzling bible numbers are detailed.{1} However, its full interpretation and actual fulfillment awaits a future day.
This final fulfillment awaits a future day because there are three stages to the detailing of this great mystery (i.e., of Dan. 12:9 etc.): These three stages are again occurring in the same order in which they did when Daniel interpreted the writing on the wall at the fall of Babylon.
First, there is the decoding of the writing itself; (i.e., understanding the function of the Bible numbers).
Secondly, there is the interpretation of that which is decoded, (i.e., the Scriptural interpretation of these numbers).
Thirdly, there is the fulfillment, (i.e., the culminated fulfillment of all things).{2}
This book unravels the first-stage of this mystery––the decoding of the numbers––with the date of the fall of Babylon, and hence, "the writing on the wall," maintaining a dominate theme throughout.
Furthermore, the second stage seems to have already begun upon completion of this first stage. The understating of the numbers is giving fresh new insight into all of the scriptures, especially the writings of the Prophets. Like lined-up dominoes, the obscure sayings of the prophets’ are leaping-forth in an endless parade of revelation.
