WINE (1)

1. Bible Topic

a) To learn what the Bible has to say on a variety of topics affecting our everyday lives, we may find what we are looking for here.

2. Wine

a) Although not the normal drink of the day, intoxicating wines did exist in Bible times, and in every case they receive unfavorable reference. Deuteronomy 32:23,24,33; Proverbs 4:14-17; Habakkuk 2:5,15; Psalms 58:4; Hos. 7:5; Psalms 60:3; Isaiah 5:22; 28:7,8; Jeremiah 25:15.

b) It is especially important for us to be always strictly temperate and sober in these last days because Satan is working with greatly intensified deceptiveness and wrath to confuse our senses: Babylon [corrupt organized religion] "made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." Revelation 14:8; "The end of all things is at hand; be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." 2 Peter 4:7; "be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." 1 Peter 5:8; "Wherefore, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." 1 Peter 1:13. 

c) What is God's view of alcohol consumption? "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." Proverbs 20:1

d) How can we be sure that the wine Jesus used at the Passover (Lord's Supper) was non-alcoholic? It was a strict law of God that at the time of the Passover all leaven or fermented articles to be removed from the house. Fermentation is a sign of decay and death. The wine used at the Passover was distinctly a symbol of Christ's blood, shed to establish the new covenant. He will drink of the same kind of new wine with His redeemed in the Kingdom of heaven where decomposition and fermentation will never occur. See Exodus 12:15; Matthew 26:17,26-29; Revelation 21:4.