Only if confession is sincere and not just lip service. Any body can confess with lip service, seen it done many times. When someone needs a bill payed, food, using the Almighty as if He is a vending machine, a get out of jail free card, and so on. God will not be mocked without a penalty being placed on mocker.
[SUP]20 [/SUP]But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
[SUP]21 [/SUP]And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. Daniel 5:20-21
[SUP]24 [/SUP]Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
[SUP]25 [/SUP]And this is the writing that was written, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.
[SUP]26 [/SUP]This is the interpretation of the thing: Mene; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
[SUP]27 [/SUP]Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
[SUP]28 [/SUP]Peres; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. Daniel 5:24-28
i have been hearing the phrase, writing on the wall used a lot lately, it is still being used as a warning phrase today.