Alcoholics Anon – SCJ teaching about Wine: Part 3

Wine of Adultery

We saw that Jesus’ word is the new wine God’s people waited for at the first coming and again at the second

Lk 22:18 “For I tell you I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

We know that there is more than just God’s side in the spiritual realm, there is also Satan, who has been sowing his weeds (untrue words) since the beginning.

Satan’s words show up in Jesus’ prophecy in Matthew 13:14-30, the Parable of the Weeds and the explanation in Matthew 13:37-43. In this parable a man sows good seed and then went away and while everyone was asleep an enemy came and planted weeds (verse 24-28). In the last two verses Jesus explains that weeds will be in the field until the time of the harvest. This story of lies where there should be truth.

 

 

This isn’t the first time God told this story. Using the prophet Isaiah God speaks of his vineyard (his people, Israel) where he had planted the best seed and expected good grapes but it yielded only bad (Is 5:1-7). We know through logic and the word that a good seed will only make good plants (Gn 1:11-12), and that good plants bear good fruit (Mt 7:17-18), so how did God’s good seed bear bad grapes? Because of Matthew chapter 13 we know why there are bad grapes! An enemy planted his weeds, his unwanted plants, his untrue words, in the hearts of the God’s people, and those words replaced God’s good word.

Skipping back a bit, the parable of the weeds and the wheat is a prophecy for the second coming, so we should see a similar message in Revelation (the book which gives the most detail for the second coming). In Revelation 18:3 we see a character giving out maddening wine. Wine made from bad grapes.

 Revelation 18:3 - For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.

This wine represents the same as the bad seed and bad fruit, it is the words of untruth from Satan. These lies have been cleverly disguised as something so appetizing, but all the same we all drank them down… “for all nations”-  That means you, that means me, that means your neighbor down the street. We’ve all been fed lies, but they didn’t look that way at the time.

In Revelation 17 we see that they’re presented in a very appealing way, even though the contents are truly rotten,

“She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.”

Really, the “filth of her adulteries” is not something I would want near me. However, unless you’ve been told what they are, you’d never see it for yourself, all you see is a beautiful golden cup. And once you realize what exactly the lies are that’s when the real challenge begins. The most difficult choice is between staying with what is familiar and disgusting to God but perhaps acceptable to men, and stepping out to what is unfamiliar to men, but given to us by God.

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