On Sunday, January 31st, The New York Times ran an op-ed written by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (which I believe translates to "self-aggrandizing, self-righteous, Communist, terrorist-sympathizing, freedom-loathing, [I heard he hates ice cream] believes himself to be our moral superior" from the original Korean [The Korean tongue is infinitely more efficient than our own]). The piece included the following quote: "The time has come for Israelis, Palestinians and the international community to read the writing on the wall: the status quo is untenable." He went on to assert that "Keeping another people under indefinite occupation undermines the security and the future of both Israelis and Palestinians." In keeping with recent U.N. tradition, the Secretary-General rewrote history and blamed the victims for the brazen and murderous acts of jealous terrorists. Roughly 2,600 years ago, Another man who thought himself a god exalted himself in defiance against the one God. In chapter five of the book of Daniel, the account of Belshazzar's judgment is recorded. The ruler of Babylon had the dedicated vessels taken from the temple in Jerusalem brought in to his party, where they were used as common wine glasses. His intention was to gloat over what he believed to be Babylon's dominance over the Jews and their God. What he failed to acknowledge was that the Lord had ordained and accomplished the desolation of Jerusalem, as judgment and chastisement. And, now that Babylon had served its purpose, the time had reached fullness to bring about their judgment. Verse five tells that there in the midst of the party, "the fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote...on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace." Horrified, Belshazzar brought in the aged Hebrew prophet Daniel, at the behest of the queen mother, to interpret the writing on the wall. The message from the one God read: "God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; you have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians." And, that very night the Word of the Lord came to pass.
In Zechariah 2:8, the Lord says that "he who touches [Jerusalem], touches the pupil of His eye." In several places (Isaiah 49:14-26, Isaiah 60, Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 10:33, Joel 3:20, and Zechariah 14, to name a few), God promises to preserve a remnant of the Jewish people for all time and to avenge Himself against those who oppress Israel. You're right about one thing, Secretary-General Ban: yes, the writing is indelibly on the wall.