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(Daniel 5:27 AKJV) — TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

(Daniel 5:27 - BSB) — TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

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TEKEL

Belshazzar, the king of Babylon the great or greatest city in the world then, who also employed and pays over a thousand lords, noblemen or princes with all their aides, special advisers, assistants etc: Belshazzar was weighed by God and he was found wanting/lacking. But if men had weighed Belshazzar the king then, they would have rated him the “Topmost of the Billionaires in the world, with millions of assets around the world, and the king of the world's Superpower.” In nutshell, men would say he was powerful, famous, rich or lacks nothing, but God said he was poor, wretched, miserable and lacking.

Some churches in the last days were weighed by the Lord Jesus Christ and those churches were found wanting, when they were rich/wealthy.

‭[Revelation 3:17-18 TLV‬] — For you say, ‘I am rich, I have made myself wealthy, and I need nothing.’ But you do not know that you are miserable and pitiable and poor and blind and naked. I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white clothes so that you may dress yourself and so the shame of your unclothedness will not be revealed, and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

Why do men use material things, money wise properties and powers of money to weigh themselves to or to pride in. Those comparing themselves with the things of themselves are not wise.

[1 Samuel 2:3 AKJV] — Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogance come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed.

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And by Him “ACTIONS ARE WEIGHED.”

Let me discuss this Bible Verse above by turning all its “Objects” into “Subjects.” Four of its Objects I that will be Subjects in Subheadings:

♧1♧ You — Other Persons/Things that's weighed aside Belshazzar.

♧2♧ Weighed & Weighing

♧3♧ Balances/Scales — Their types and their Abominations to God.

♧4♧ Found Wanting — Deficient or less than zero in negative.

YOU — OTHERS THAT MAY BE WEIGHED

Everyone on earth and everything may be weighed including actions are weighed, miseries/sufferings are weighed, Integrity is weighed, all nations, all foundations of the heaven and earth are weighed. So, accordingly, below are their bible references:

● Actions are weighed

[1 Samuel 2:3 AKJV] — Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogance come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed.

● Miseries/Sufferings/Calamities are weighed

[Job 6:2-4 AFV] — "Oh, that my grief were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, my spirit is drinking up their poison. The terrors of God do set themselves against me.

● Integrity is weighed

[Job 31:6 BSB] — Let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

● All Nations, all Foundations of physical creation are weighed

[Isaiah 40:12-18 AFV] — 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with a span? And who has comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, and who was His counselor that he might instruct Him? 14 With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him and taught Him in the path of judgment, and taught Him knowledge, and made known the way of understanding to Him? 15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the scales; behold, He takes up the isles as a very little thing. 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts of it sufficient for a burnt offering. 17 All nations before Him are as nothing; and they are counted by Him as less than nothing, and vanity. 18 To whom then will you compare God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him?

WEIGHED AND WEIGHING

In some wrestling contests or tournaments, when a wrestler is emerging about to fight, a ring announcer will first introduce the wrestler to the spectators around: in the introduction of the wrestler, three or four things about him is basic: Whether he is a Challenger/Opponent or the main Deal in that match, Where he hails from, what he is Weighing (not what he weighed) in pounds or tons by mass, and then his ring or fighting Name and Title (especially championship title if he has any).

Well, I have not recalled where a female wrestler's “Weighing in Pounds” is ever mentioned while introducing her. Perhaps they don't mention what the female wrestlers are weighing or the females do not like to reveal what their weight is to public. Or a better assumption is to assume there's a threshold one's weighing in pounds has to reach before the announcer will consider mentioning the male or female wrestler’s weighing.

Howeve, I am illustrating the use of “Weighing” by the ring announcers, instead of “Weighed.” If he says that man is weighing 380 pounds while announcing him, its logically to assume the man is standing on the weighing scale or balance. He is not saying what the Man weighed (in the past) but what the Man is weighing (present continues).

Learn this: Don’t just be “Weighed” and don't be “Weight or Heavy Weight;” rather be always “Weighing” increasingly. Your natural being may be weighing lesser today than it was weighed yesterday, but ensure that your spiritual and eternal being is weighing greater today than it weighed yesterday.

[2 Corinthians 4:16-18] — 16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer being is wasting away, yet our inner being is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an ever-increasing degree of eternal glory that is far beyond comparison. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

BALANCES/SCALES

A pair of scales/balances, such as you may have seen a statue of justice is holding with one stretched arm in blindfold, while holding two edged sword with the other stretched arm is the same that the Black Horse Rider was holding, while the Red Horse was holding two edged Sword.

[Revelation 6:4-5 BSB] — 4 Then another horse went forth. It was bright red, and its rider was granted permission to take away peace from the earth and to make men slay one another. And he was given a great sword. 5 And when the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” Then I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales.

Whether they come in pairs as pairs of scales/balances, or they do not come as pairs, whoever is holding and rightly using any honest or just scale in doing justice with cheating or corruption, he or she is doing the works of God by using honest/just scales.

This is because God Himself ordained all the Tools, Equipment, all the Standards and all the Units of measurements, in all the creation. Do not make the mistake of believing it was Science or Scientist and Standards Organizations that determined or made the laws for how anything is measured, weighed, rated or quantified in accuracy, justice and fairness: God Himself did. Whether they are for measuring Dimensions (length, width, breadth) or for measuring Liquids, Gases, or Solids, measuring multiples, measuring and determining sin, crime, wrong, values

Therefore, anytime you cheat in weighing or measuring anything, compromise the standard, or do double standards (divers scales) for different people whether rich or poor, whether your tribe or not, you are committing Abomination against God. Cheating in any scale, unit of measurement or standard of measurement is an abomination just as idolatry.

[Proverbs 16:11 FBV] — Accurate scales and balances are important to the Lord. He has determined all the weights in the bag.

[Proverbs 11:1-4 FBV] — 1 The Lord hates dishonest scales, but accurate weights please him. 2 With pride comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. 3 Honesty guides the good, but deceit destroys liars. 4 Wealth won't help you on judgment day, but goodness saves you from death.

[Proverbs 20:23-25 GW] — 23 A double standard of weights is disgusting to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good. 24 The LORD is the one who directs a person’s steps. How then can anyone understand his own way? 25 It is a trap for a person to say impulsively, “This is a holy offering!” and later to have second thoughts about those vows.

[Micah 6:11-13 FBV] — 11 How can I accept those who use unfair scales and dishonest weights? 12 Your rich people make money by using violence; they tell lies and practice deceit. 13 So I will strike you to make you ill; I will ruin you because of your sins.

FOUND WANTING OR DEFICIENT ON THE SCALES

Belshazzar was found wanting — less than zero and negative. But remember it was not only Belshazzar that was weighed in the balances and found wanting in this way. Infact, all nations and all peoples have fallen short of the glory of God on scales.

[Psalms 62:9-10 AFV] — 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; when weighed in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. 10 Trust not in oppression, and do not take pride in stolen goods; if riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

These are reasons people are falling short in the scales, becoming more wanting and more lesser than vanity: Pride, Cheating, Lying, Robbery and Lusts of the World. Pride mainly pulls men further down than the rest. For example, if two men did the same things nothing more or less from another; but one of the two has pride while doing or after doing it, but other has humility. In the scales of God's, if both of them supposed to weigh 5% based on the same works they did, the one who has humility will be exalted from 5% to 10%, while the other who had pride will drastically fall in that scale from 5% where he should have been to “-10%” or more by his actions in pride.

So, the Scales/Balances of God penalizes pride, self-exaltation or boasting. For whoever exalts himself shall be abased, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted in the Weighing Scales of the Most High God. Therefore,

[1 Samuel 2:3 AKJV] — Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogance come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed.

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