R. C. Sproul Sr. made a very questionable claim: “…everybody knows that the Old Testament feast of the Passover, that Jesus celebrated in the upper room, called for the use of real wine – by Devine sanction.” (R. C. Sproul, The Wedding Feast, sermon at St Andrew’s Chapel, Sanford, Florida, 9 Jun. 2002.) I found …
“Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” (Matthew 9:17) “The common explanation of this custom is erroneous and insufficient (vis., that new skin-bags were used in order …
Accidental fermentation of new wine prevented by new clean wineskins (Matthew 9:17) Read More »
1 Cor. 15:34 instructs : get sober – eknēphō! Likewise Joel 1:5 (Sept.) also says people got sober – eknēphō! This is certainly not “moderate drinking!” 1 Cor. 15:32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we …
Hebrew & Aramaic words (Old Testament) Yayin: יַיִן n., juice from grapes, with or without later fermentation. Num. 6:3 distinguishes yayin and fermented yayin. Examples of yayin without fermentation: Isa. 16:10; Jer. 40:10,12; 48:33. Nobody is denying yayin was intoxicating (sometimes anyway). Nobody is denying that “wine is a mocker…” (Prov. 20:1) Indeed, Levitical priests …
Glossary of Bible words defined in Hebrew & Greek: wines, sobriety, getting drunk Read More »
“But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day should overtake you like a thief. For you are all sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness. So then we should not sleep as the others, but we should watch and we should be sober. For those sleeping, sleep …
Neither be “getting drunk” nor be drunk. 1 Thessalonians 5:7 Read More »
Daniel was absent from king Belshazzar’s boozy feast (Daniel 5) until he was summoned to read the writing on the wall. That very night the Chaldean king was killed (Dan. 5:30). The lady of kingdoms did not think it necessary to be sober because she trusted in her own military might, not in the Lord. …
Babylon ‘Lady of Kingdoms’ was not sober and was overthrown in a moment Read More »
NOEL PEARSON: Well, I think that there’s not been a proper confrontation with the drivers of these problems. There’s been an unwillingness, for example, to make the connection between grog and the abuse. And, you know, these problems go back a long way. I come with a great deal of scepticism about many of the …