Apropos of recent events, I am reminded of a story about a king, a party, and a prophet.

The tale that follows is much more dramatic than the election results for the vacant Senate seat in Massachusetts.

But it contains a similar element, in which small, unexpected events are interpreted as portents of large changes.

Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand...
In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

...Then Daniel was brought in before the king... “And this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN."

"This is the interpretation of each word.

MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it;

TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting;

PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”

...That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

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