Through unending ages the inhabitants of sinless
worlds shall behold in that garden of delight a
sample of the perfect work of God‟s creation,
untouched by the curse of sin – a sample of what
the earth would have become had man but
fulfilled the Creator‟s glorious plan.
Proof that the Antediluvian race prior to the
flood had perverted God‟s original creation by
turning the pure fruit of the vine into fermented
spirits is verified by the fact that Antediluvian
lives mirror those of a drunkard – fierce, evil,
disrespectful, scoffers, corrupt, immoral, and
pleasure seekers disobedient unto their own
destruction. God was dealing with a world full
of eight hundred year old giant drunkards
steeped in idol worship. “Every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually.” [Gen 6:5] Jesus summed up the
first stage of humanity in simplicity: “They did
eat, they drank.” [Lk 17:27] We can rest assured
it was not the pure unfermented grape juice this
gluttonous generation drank. Alcohol helped
mar God‟s humanity made in His image to the
place where God finally decreed: “I will destroy
man whom I have created from the face of the
earth; for it repenteth Me that I have made
them.” [Gen 6:7]
WORDS FOR WINE
The Dictionary Reference defines wine in the
English language as being:
1. an alcoholic drink produced from fruits
and flowers fermented with water and
sugar
2. an intoxicating, cheering or invigorating
effect
3. fermented grape juice containing an
alcohol content of 14% or less together
with ethers and esters that give it
bouquet and flavour
4. unfermented juice of various fruits or
plants
The strong English inference is that wine is a
fermented alcoholic beverage most of the time
but leaves the door open, in rare cases, for the
use of unfermented wine. When we read an
English translation of the Bible only one word
appears – wine – for all circumstances.
In the ancient Hebrew Bible the word use of
wine suggests many different meanings:
Aciyc - fresh, squeezed out juice; new, just
trodden out, sweet wine
Chamar - to ferment with scum; to glow with
redness; trouble
Chemar - wine as fermenting; pure, red wine
Cobe - a drink, especially alcoholic beverage;
drinking party; carousal; drunken; tipsy
Enab - to bear fruit; grape, ripe grape
Mamcak - wine mixture, as with water, spices;
drink offering
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HEBREW (Old Testament)
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“As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be
also in the days of the Son of Man.” [Lk 17:26]
The days spoken of by Jesus refer to the state of
man prior to His Second Coming. Nary can a
movie be made or a book written by the secular
mind in which the flask of spirits is not
prominently displayed in the hand of weak sops.
Not a sports game or a good time can seemingly
be had without the blessing of the insidious
spirit industry devoted to destroying men‟s lives.