The Handwriting on the Wall Is a Multi Stage Puzzle

Daniel's solving of the riddle begins by reading the text itself broken into its component words. In breaking it down into these words and recognizing that they refer to a process of weighing or assessing, daniel has unlocked the first stage. The ground story of the solution is the identification of the three nouns. How did daniel get to the next story? By taking the root consonants of the 3 nouns that he had identified, he identifies three verbs corresponding to the3 nouns. He then expounds those verbs in order to explain how god valued your kingdom. Andia: Daniel does seem to exercise some prophetic insight in this passage. We should be able to trace the stages by