THEIR WINE VERSUS OUR WINE ARGUMENT

By HERB EVANS, Ltt.D.

157 PATTIES PLACE

PORTERSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA 16051

E-Mail: herbevans@juno.com

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Chris . . . Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. -- 1 Cor. 10:16-21

Most Protestants, most Calvinistic Baptists, and the Catholics argue for alcoholic wine in the Lord's supper (or breakfast). A clear physical and spiritual difference exists between their cup and our cup, their wine and our wine, the cup of the Lord versus their cup of devils, and their table of the Lord and the table of devils.

Some of their number have gone so far, as to enlist the services of a chemist, to prove that fresh juice contains leaven and is impure and unfit to symbolize the Lord's blood, as opposed to alcoholic wine, of which the leaven is chemically spent.

The truth of the matter is that leaven is not found in the meat or juice of the grape. Leaven spores are airborne and come from the world; they collect on the grape's outer skin. Still, the Lord pronounces the "blood of the Grape" as "pure" (Deut. 32:14). (How would our friends like to handle amoeba and protozoa infested "water" symbolization of the Holy Spirit?)

The Different Kinds Of

Bible Wines

Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven . . . -- Exo. 34:25

No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven . . . in any offering of the LORD made by fire. . . And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt . . . with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. -- Lev. 2:3-14

A. spiced wines - Song 8:2

B. sweet wines - Amos 9:13, Micah 6:15; Isaiah 49:26

C. mixed wines - Pro. 23:30; Isa. 5:22; 24:7; 65:8; Ps. 75:8; Rev. 14:10; Song 5:1

D. new wines - Neh 10:39, Pro 3:10, Joel 1:10; 3:18; Luke 5:37-39

E. strong wines - Num 28:7; Isa. 56:12; Gen 35:14;

F. vinegar of wine and strong drink - Num 6:3

G. maddening Babylonian wine - Jer 51:7

H. sour wine Jer 31:29; Hos 4:18

I. newly pressed wine - Pro. 3:10

J. old wine - Luke 5:37-39

K. drugged wines - Lam 3:15 wormwood; Isa 5:22;

L. leavened and unleavened wines - Ex 12:20; 13:7; 34:25

Besides the above scripturally referenced wines, there are also records of other historical wines:

1. fumigated wines

2. air excluded wines

3. subsided wines

4. pitched container wines

5. filtrated wines

7. boiled and condensed wines

The Wine That

Jesus Used

And he took the cup . . . And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit OF THE VINE, UNTIL that day that I drink it NEW in the kingdom of God. -- Mark 14:23-25

For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. -- Luke 22:18

. . . one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with VINEGAR, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. -- Matt. 27:48

When Jesus therefore had RECEIVED the VINEGAR, he said . . . -- John 19:30

. . . he will also bless the FRUIT of the WOMB, and the FRUIT of thy LAND, thy corn, and thy WINE . . . -- Deut. 7:13

But the FRUIT of the Spirit . . . -- Gal. 5:22

The "fruit of the womb" is that which the womb PRODUCES. The "fruit of the land" is that which the land produces. The "fruit of the Spirit" is that which the Spirit produces. The "fruit of the vine" is that which the VINE PRODUCES. The "fruit of fermentation" is that which fermentation produces. Jesus said that He was the "VINE" but neither the distillery nor the brewery.

The type of wine that Jesus, God incarnate, produced, at the wedding of Cana, was the "fruit of the vine" or the wine found in nature, as God produces it. Not as the merry wine maker produces it. Fresh, new, natural wine was found, in the last supper "cup of blessing." Jesus used the "fruit of the vine" (new wine), at the last supper.

He promised not to drink of that "fruit of the vine" until the kingdom. During the crucifixion, Jesus was offered both vinegar and wine, mixed with narcotics (Pro. 31:6), and Jesus refused it, when it was doped. Still, in John 19:30, Jesus RECEIVED VINEGAR, proving that it was not the "fruit of the vine" but the "fruit of double fermentation."

Alcoholic wine is the "fruit of single fermentation" and not the "fruit of the vine”; single fermented wine ferments again to produce vinegar. When the process is partially finished, you have “sour wine.” So Jesus did not use either alcoholic wine, sour wine, or vinegar, at the last supper. He used the fruit of the vine, the pure blood of the grape – grape juice.

Our Wine

. . . thy presses shall burst out with NEW WINE. -- Prov. 3:10

. . . the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest GATHER in thy corn, and thy WINE, and thine oil. --Deut. 11:14

. . . the treaders shall TREAD out no WINE in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease. -- Isa. 16:10

. . . As the NEW WINE is found in the CLUSTER, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a BLESSING is in it . . . -- Isa. 65:8

I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, DRINK ABUNDANTLY, O beloved. -- Song 5:1

. . . thou didst drink the PURE BLOOD of the GRAPE. -- Deut. 32:14

Our wine, as opposed to our gainsayer’s wine, may be gathered directly from the field. Our wine may be tread directly out of the wine presses. Our wine may be directly found in a CLUSTER of grapes. Our wine may be mixed with milk, without causing us to retch.

Our wine may be drunk ABUNDANTLY without drunkenness and without fear of violating the scriptures against drunkenness and without God being a tempter, as the result of such an instruction. Our wine is NEW and may be preserved; if it is not put, in OLD yeast infested bottles (which would cause it to ferment and burst the bottles -- Matt. 9:17). Our wine is a BLESSING, unlike the CURSE of alcoholic wine.

Their Wine

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is RED; it is FULL of MIXTURE; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. -- Psa. 75:8

. . . they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. -- Amos 2:8

THEIR WINE is the POISON of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. -- Deut. 32:33

Look not thou upon the wine when it is RED, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it MOVETH itself aright. -- Prov. 23:31

The wine of Catholics, some missionary Baptists, Sovereign Grace Baptists, and Protestants, as opposed to our wine, moves, is RED (indicating mixture), and gives its color in the cup. IT is the wine of another god.

Their wine is an impure mixture of a chemically changed juice and an addictive poison (alcohol or yeast DUNG), as opposed to our "pure blood of the grape." Their wine is a poison, toxic, intoxicating. Their wine is the "wine of the condemned" and not the saved.

Their wine is "old" (which won't burst old bottles because it has already fermented -- Matt. 9:17). It is POISON; the word INTOXICATE is TOXIC from TOXIN. Bad wine is a MIXTURE of BITTER alcohol (yeast dung) and other things. The SWEET (sugar) is eaten up by the LEAVEN.

Ask the doctors, police, and the asylums; their wine has never been a blessing, it has always been a curse. 