TEKEL
Tuesday, December 16, 2025Key Verse
“TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” Daniel 5:27
Text — Daniel 5:24-29
Message
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of His lords, and drank wine before the thousand. While he tasted the wine, he took the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem and drank alcoholic wine and praised the gods of gold, silver, brass, iron, wood and stone. He did all these with his princes, wives and concubines. God was so angry with Belshazzar that while he was drunk, he saw the finger of a man’s hand writing on the wall. The writing was “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN”. The meaning and interpretation were revealed by Daniel whom God used to prove to Belshazzar that He is God.
Our focus is on the word “TEKEL” which means “Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting”. Belshazzar was guilty of the offence committed and God was ready to deal with him. Unfortunately, he did not repent despite the warning. That night, he died and went to eternity unprepared. Do not be like Belshazzar, do not defile the temple of God with sin, do not worship any other god apart from the God of heaven. If you are guilty in any of these things, you must repent and God will have mercy on you.
Further Reading
1 Corinthians 3:16,17
Prayer for today
Lord, keep me pure all the time.
About Author - Pastor W.F. Kumuyi
Listed among “500 most powerful people on the planet” by the Foreign Policy magazine in 2013, Pastor (Dr.) William F. Kumuyi is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. DCLM started in 1973 as a 15-member Bible study group right in Kumuyi’s apartment at University of Lagos where he was a lecturer. His revolutionary Bible teaching on personal holiness and commitment to evangelism soon gained so much traction and resulted in a widespread revival.
