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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 09:19 PM
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Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
Edited on Tue Sep-13-05 09:21 PM by Beam Me Up


The above is from:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,1563596,00.html

Sept 6. May have been posted before but, if so, I think it is worthy of repeating.

THE HAND WRITING IS ON THE WALL
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 09:31 PM
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1. 'weighed...and found wanting' Daniel 5:27.....use
(from the New International Version translation)

NOTE: this happened during the Babylonian captivity

...But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways. 24 Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

25 "This is the inscription that was written:
Mene , Mene , Tekel , Parsin
26 "This is what these words mean:
Mene : God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

27 Tekel : You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 09:32 PM
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2. So it was written. So let it be done.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 01:23 AM
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5. .
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Nikki Stone 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 09:34 PM
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3. Oh wow! My pet goat!
LOL!!!!!
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 09:38 PM
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4. And "Bushazzar" couldn't be more accurate. ;-)
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 02:22 AM
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6. I'll bet neither bush or any of his self proclaimed bible boys
would even know what this meant. I haven't been a Christian in almost 20 years and I remembered this from Daniel.
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