store of victual, and of oil and wine.” [yayin fermented] [2 Chr 11:11] “I the Lord thy God
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate Me; and
showing mercy unto thousands of them that
love Me and keep My commandments.”
[Ex 20:5]
QUEEN ESTHER
queen before the king with the crown royal,
to shew the people and the princes her
beauty. But the queen Vashti refused to come
at the king‟s commandment therefore was the
king very wroth, and his anger burned in
him.” [Esther 1:1-13]
PRIME MINISTER DANIEL
After understanding the 70 week prophecy
outlining Messiah to come, and Christ‟s
prophesied rejection by the chosen nation,
Daniel went into mourning: “I ate no pleasant
bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my
mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till
three whole weeks were fulfilled.” [Dan 10:3]
This fast indicates that Daniel the beloved,
trained faithfully through childhood to withstand
the king‟s temptations, may have undertaken the
Nazarene vow of separation. There is a strong
probability that exemplary Daniel never drank
fermented spirits, as on rare occasions the
Hebrew word yayin translates “unfermented.”
The Bible portrayal of the death of John the
Baptist is brief (Mat 14:1-12) However,various
commentaries portray the scene as it
undoubtedly was: On the King‟s birthday an
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Fortunately, there would always be temperate
followers of Christ. There is no record of Queen
Esther being used by alcohol, but the Bible
depicts how she used fermented spirits to her
advantage. Brave Queen Esther knew the heart
of her heathen husband could be loosed through
wine to achieve the saving of Israel. “And the
king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine,
“What is thy petition? And it shall be granted
thee: and what is thy request? Even to the half
of the kingdom shall it be performed.”
[Esther 5:6] How did Esther know the will of her
heathen husband king? His past was well
documented for all to see, and Esther owed her
rule as the new Queen in part to her husband‟s
weakness through alcohol-steeped flesh when he
abused his former wife Queen Vashti.
“In the days of Ahasuerus the king made a
feast. They gave them drink in vessels of gold,
and royal wine in abundance and the
drinking was according to the law … for so
the king had appointed to all the officers of
his house, that they should do according to
every man‟s pleasure. On the seventh day,
when the heart of the king was merry with
wine, he commanded to bring Vashti the