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none could read the inscription

Daniel 5:5-9 (JDV)

Daniel 5:5 At that same moment the fingers of a mortal human’s hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the king’s palace wall next to the lampstand. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
Daniel 5:6 his face turned pale, and his thoughts so terrified him that his bowels released and his knees knocked together.
Daniel 5:7 The king shouted to bring in the mediums, Chaldeans, and diviners. He said to these wise men of Babylon, “Any mortal human who reads this inscription and gives me its interpretation will be clothed in purple, have a gold chain around his neck, and have the third highest position in the kingdom.”
Daniel 5:8 Then all the king’s wise men came in, but none could read the inscription or make its interpretation known to him.
Daniel 5:9 Then King Belshazzar became even more terrified, his face turned pale, and his nobles were bewildered.

none could read the inscription

Swindoll writes “Belshazzar must realize deep down that the message spells judgment” (56). But no one can be immediately accessed who is an experet in the things of God — the God through whom the judgment is coming.

Such seems to be the case today in many parts of this planet. The handwriting is on the wall, but the true followers of God have been so marginalized by society that few are present to tell those about to be condemned of their fate.