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Part of
Daily Living
Judges 19:19 We have both straw and fodder for our donkeys and bread and
wine for ourselves your servants-me, your maidservant, and the young man
with us. We don't need anything." NIV
Ruth 2:14 At mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come over here. Have some bread
and dip it in the wine vinegar." NIV
Joel 2:19 The LORD will reply to them: 'I am sending you grain, new wine
and oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make you an object
of scorn to the nations. NIV
Refreshing: 2
Samuel 16:2 The king (David) asked Ziba, "Why have you brought these?"
Ziba answered, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the
bread and fruit are for the men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those
who become exhausted in the desert." NIV |
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Joy and Quality of Life
1 Chronicles 12:40 Also, their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun
and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules and oxen. There
were plentiful supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisin cakes, wine, oil, cattle
and sheep, for there was joy in Israel. NIV
Psalm 104:14 He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for man to
cultivate-- bringing forth food from the earth: 15 wine that gladdens
the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread that sustains
his heart. NIV
Eccl 9:7 Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful
heart, for it is now that God favors what you do. NIV
Isa 25:6 On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich
food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine--the best of meats and
the finest of wines. NIV
It was even customary to drink a lot of
wine: John 2:10 and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first
and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but
you have saved the best till now." NIV
Healthy: 1 Tim 5:23 Stop drinking only water,
and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.
NIV
Used as
Payment/Compensation
2 Chron 2:10 I (Solomon) will give your servants, the woodsmen who
cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors
of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine and twenty thousand baths
of olive oil." NIV |
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Israel Wine
Country/Land
2 Kings 18:31 "Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria
says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat
from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern, 32 until
I come and take you to a land like your own, a land of grain and new wine,
a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. NIV
Discipline:
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray
by them is not wise. NIV
Proverbs 23:20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves
on meat, NIV
Isaiah 5:22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at
mixing drinks,
NIV
Matt 5:28 But I say: Anyone who even looks at a woman with lust in his eye
has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 So if your eye-even
if it is your best eye! -causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away.
(Not, "cover up the woman"). Better for
part of you to be destroyed than for all of you to be cast into hell.
TLB
Law
of self discipline and of creation
Ps 32:9 Don't be like
a senseless horse or mule that has to have a bit in its mouth to keep it
in line! TLB
Jer 31:36 "I am as likely to reject my people Israel as I am to do away with
these laws of nature! TLB
NIV
For example:
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created
him; male and female he created them.
Matt 19:4 "Haven't you read," he [Jesus] replied, "that at the beginning
the Creator 'made them male and female,' 5 and said, 'For this reason
a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the
two will become one flesh'? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore
what God has joined together, let man not separate."
As against this, man perverted Gods creation and natural laws:
Romans 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven
against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth
by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to
them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of
the world God's invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have
been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men
are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave
thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts
were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like
mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave
them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the
degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of
God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the
Creator-who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women
exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the
men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust
for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received
in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Jer 8:7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed
seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their
migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD. NIV |
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Abuse
Joel 1:5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine;
wail because of the new wine, for it has been snatched from your lips. NIV
Anti-Christ: Hab 2:3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time;
it speaks of the end and will not prove false. ... 4 "See, he is puffed
up; his desires are not upright-but the righteous will live by his faith-
5 indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because
he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers
to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples. NIV
Taught
to Use Wine and strong drink
Deut 12:17 You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and
new wine and oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever
you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts. 18
Instead, you are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the
place the LORD your God will choose--you, your sons and daughters, your
menservants and maidservants, and the Levites from your towns--and you
are to rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you put your hand to.
Deut 14:26 Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep,
wine or other
fermented drink,
or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the
presence of the LORD your God and rejoice. NIV |
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Covenant
Israel, Jerusalem
and Judah, God's vineyard
Ps 80:8 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and
planted it. 9 You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled
the land. NIV
Isaiah 5:3 Now, men of Jerusalem and Judah, you have heard the case! You
be the judges! 4 What more could I have done? Why did my vineyard give me
wild grapes instead of sweet? 5 I will tear down the fences and let my vineyard
go to pasture to be trampled by cattle and sheep. 6 I won't prune it or hoe
it, but let it be overgrown with briars and thorns. I will command the clouds
not to rain on it any more.
The Lord went on and on condemning Israel and how he was going to bring them
to total ruin until the the end of the next chapter, Isaiah 6. Then we again
have the confirmation that he will never destroy them completely.
Isaiah 6:13 Yet a tenth-a remnant-will survive; and though Israel is invaded
again and again and destroyed, yet Israel will be like a tree cut down, whose
stump still lives to grow again." TLB
Isaiah 51:21 Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not
with wine. 22 This is what your Sovereign LORD says, your God, who
defends his people: "See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made
you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink
again. NIV
Covenant
of Salvation: Matt 26:27 Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered
it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. 28 This is my blood of the
covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. NIV |
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New Covenant
(Firstly, With Israel)
Psalms 40:8 I desire
to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.
Isaiah 51:7 "Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have my
law in your hearts: Do not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by their
insults.
Jeremiah 31:29 "In those days people will no longer say, 'The fathers have
eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. 30 Instead,
everyone will die for his own sin; whoever eats sour grapes--his own teeth
will be set on edge. 31 "The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of
Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke
my covenant, though I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. 33 "This
is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares
the LORD. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will a
man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because
they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares
the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins
no more. 36 "Only if these decrees vanish from my sight," declares the LORD,
"will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me."
37 This is what the LORD says: "Only if the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all
the descendants of Israel because of all they have done," declares the LORD.
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Ezekiel 36:25 I will sprinkle clean water on you [nothing to do with baptism],
and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from
all your idols 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you;
I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh
27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and
be careful to keep my laws.
Heb 8:10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after
that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write
them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11
No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know
the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."
13 By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and
what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear. NIV |
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The New Covenant (that will accompany the Spiritual Salvation
of Israel) is preceded by the Restoration of Israel to all of their
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This is seen in both
Ez 36 and Jer 31. In Ez 36 the Lord God of Israel specifically mentions
settling them on the mountains of Israel, and illustrates it in Ez
37 by means of his famous "Dry Bones" parable. He explained it as follows
to Jeremiah:
Jer 31:1 "At that time," says the Lord, "all the families of Israel shall
recognize me as the Lord; they shall act like my people. 2 I will care for
them as I did those who escaped from Egypt, to whom I showed my mercies in
the wilderness, when Israel sought for rest." 3 For long ago the Lord had
said to Israel: "I have loved you, O my people, with an everlasting
love; with loving-kindness I have drawn you to me. 4 I will rebuild
your nation, O virgin of Israel. You will again be happy and dance merrily
with the timbrels. 5 Again you will plant your vineyards upon the mountains
of Samaria (so-called Westbank) and eat from your own gardens there.
6 "The day shall come when watchmen on the hills of Ephraim
(also so-called Westbank) will call out and say, 'Arise, and let
us go up to Zion to the Lord our God.'" 7 For the Lord says, "Sing with
joy for all that I will do for Israel, the greatest of the
nations! Shout out with praise and joy: 'The Lord has saved his
people, the remnant of Israel.' 8 For I will bring them from the north and
from earth's farthest ends, not forgetting their blind and lame, young mothers
with their little ones, those ready to give birth. It will be a great company
who comes... 10 Listen to this message from the Lord, you nations of the
world, and publish it abroad: "The Lord who scattered his people will gather
them back together again and watch over them as a shepherd does his flock.
11 He will save Israel from those who are too strong for them! 12
They shall come home and sing songs of joy upon the hills of Zion. (again
so-called Westbank and the hills in the north - Golan, Lebanon) TLB |
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Vine, Wine associated with
Messiah
Gen 49:10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from
between his feet, until he comes to whom it
belongs** and the obedience of the nations is
his. 11 He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch;
he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. 12 His
eyes will be darker than wine, his teeth whiter than milk. 1 He will tether
his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch; he will wash his garments
in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. 12 His eyes will be darker than
wine, his teeth whiter than milk. NIV
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Judgment
of his people Israel like in a winepress
Lamentations 1:15 The Lord has trampled all my mighty men. A great army has
come at his command to crush the noblest youth. The Lord has trampled his
beloved city as grapes in a winepress. 16 For all these things I weep; tears
flow down my cheeks. My Comforter is far away-he who alone could help me.
My children have no future; we are a conquered land. TLB
Portrays Jehovah as
the treader of the grapes to avenge Israel
Isaiah 63:1 Who is this who comes from Edom, from the city of Bozrah, with
his magnificent garments of crimson? Who is this in royal robes, marching
in the greatness of his strength?
"It is I, the Lord, announcing your salvation; I, the Lord, the one who is
mighty to save!"
2 "Why are your clothes so red, as from treading out the grapes?"
3 "I have trodden the winepress alone. No one was there to help me. In my
wrath I have trodden my enemies like grapes. In my fury I trampled my foes.
It is their blood you see upon my clothes. 4 For the time has come for me
to avenge my people, to redeem them from the hands of their oppressors. 5
I looked but no one came to help them; I was amazed and appalled. So I executed
vengeance alone; unaided, I meted out judgment. 6 I crushed the heathen nations
in my anger and made them stagger and fall to the ground." 7 I will tell
of the loving-kindnesses of God. I will praise him for all he has done; I
will rejoice in his great goodness to Israel, which he has granted in accordance
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Wine of my
wrath
Jeremiah 25:15 This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me:
"Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all
the nations to whom I send you drink it. 16 When they drink it, they will
stagger and go mad because of the sword I will send among them."
NIV
Joel 3:9 Announce this
far and wide: Get ready for war! Conscript your best soldiers; collect all
your armies. 10 Melt your plowshares into swords, and beat your pruning hooks
into spears. Let the weak be strong. 11 Gather together and come, all nations
everywhere. And now, O Lord, bring down your warriors! 12 "Collect the nations;
bring them to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to pronounce
judgment on them all. 13 Now let the sickle do its work; the harvest is ripe
and waiting. Tread the winepress, for it is full to overflowing with the
wickedness of these men." 14 Multitudes, multitudes waiting in the valley
for the verdict of their doom! For the Day of the Lord is near, in the Valley
of Judgment. 15 The sun and moon will be darkened and the stars withdraw
their light. 16 The Lord shouts from his Temple in Jerusalem, and the earth
and sky begin to shake. But to his people Israel, the Lord will be very gentle.
He is their Refuge and Strength. TLB
Zech 12:2 "I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding
peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. 3 On that day,
when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem
an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure
themselves. NIV
Rev 14:18 Just then the
angel who has power to destroy the world with fire, shouted to the angel
with the sickle, "Use your sickle now to cut off the clusters of grapes from
the vines of the earth, for they are fully ripe for judgment." 19 So the
angel swung his sickle on the earth and loaded the grapes into the great
winepress of God's wrath. 20 And the grapes were trodden in the winepress
outside the city, and blood flowed out in a stream 200 miles long and as
high as a horse's bridle.
TLB
Jer 25:15 This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from
my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations
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Sign of
Abundance/Blessing/Renumeration
Gen 27:28 May God give you (Jacob) of heaven's dew and of earth's richness--an
abundance of grain and new wine. ...37 Isaac answered Esau, "I have made
him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have
sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you,
my son?" NIV (Perhaps why Allah, the god of the Arabs robs his
people to drinking wine)
Deut 7:13 He will love you (Israel) and bless you and increase your
numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land--your
grain, new wine and oil--the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks
in the land that he swore to your forefathers to give you. 14 You will be
blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless,
nor any of your livestock without young. NIV
Part of the blessings in the Promised Land
Deut 33:28 So Israel will live in safety alone; Jacob's spring is secure
in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew. NIV
Jer 31:12 They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will
rejoice in the bounty of the LORD--the grain, the new wine and the oil, NIV
Joel 2:24 The threshing floors will be filled with grain; the vats will overflow
with new wine and oil. 25 'I will repay you for the years the locusts have
eaten- NIV
Joel 3:18 'In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will
flow with milk; NIV
Also for the Priests
as their Allowance: Num 18:12 "I give you all the finest olive oil and
all the finest new wine and grain they give the LORD as the firstfruits of
their harvest. NIV |
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Limitation
on Priests/Nazirites
Lev 10:8 Then the LORD said to Aaron, 9 "You and your sons are not to drink
wine or other fermented drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or
you will die. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. NIV
Num 6:1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them:
'If a man or woman wants to make a special vow, a vow of separation to the
LORD as a Nazirite, 3 he must abstain from wine and other fermented drink
and must not drink vinegar made from wine or from other fermented drink.
He must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins. 4 As long as he is
a Nazirite, he must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even
the seeds or skins. Until: Num 6:19 "'After the Nazirite has shaved
off the hair of his dedication, the priest is to place in his hands a boiled
shoulder of the ram, and a cake and a wafer from the basket, both made without
yeast. 20 The priest shall then wave them before the LORD as a wave offering;
they are holy and belong to the priest, together with the breast that was
waved and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink
wine. NIV
Samson: Judges 13:4 Now see to it that you drink no wine or other
fermented drink and that you do not eat anything unclean, 5 because you will
conceive and give birth to a son. No razor may be used on his head, because
the boy is to be a Nazirite, set apart to God from birth, and he will begin
the deliverance of Israel from the hands of the Philistines." NIV
No Wine the 40 Years
in the Desert
Deut 29:5 During the forty years that I led you through the desert, your
clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet. 6 You ate
no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink.
I did this so that you
might know that I am the LORD your God. NIV |
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Tithing
Deuteronomy 12:17 You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain
and new wine and oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever
you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts. 18 Instead,
you are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the
LORD your God will choose--you, your sons and daughters, your menservants
and maidservants, and the Levites from your towns--and you are to rejoice
before the LORD your God in everything you put your hand to. NIV
Drink
Offering
Exodus 29:38 "This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day:
two lambs a year old. 39 Offer one in the morning and the other at twilight.
40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with
a quarter of a hin of oil from pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of
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Offer to
False gods
Deut. 32:37 He will say: "Now where are their gods, the rock they took refuge
in, 38 the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine
of their drink offerings? Let them rise up to help you! Let them give you
shelter! NIV
Isaiah 65:11 "But as for you who forsake the LORD and forget my holy mountain,
who spread a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
NIV
Jer 51:7 Babylon was a gold cup in the LORD's hand; she made the whole
earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore they have now gone mad.
NIV
1 Cor 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too;
you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons.
NIV
Another (demonic) Vine as a source of morality or
mentality
Deut 32:31 For their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.
32 Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are filled with poison, and their clusters with bitterness.
33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. NIV |
Isaiah
16:10 Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;
no one sings or shouts in the vineyards; no one treads out wine at the presses,
for I have put an end to the shouting. NIV
Jeremiah 48:33 Joy and gladness are gone from the orchards and fields
of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads
them with shouts of joy. Although there are shouts, they are not shouts of
joy. NIV |
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