WINE
(See also BEVERAGE; DRINKING, of alcoholic beverage; DRUNKENNESS)
manufacture of:
♦ from grapes:
♦ from pomegranates:
use of:
♦ for drink at meals:
♦ for offerings:
♦ for a tithe:
♦ for medicinal purposes:
♦ for goods in exchange for services:
♦ for a banquet:
♦ for making man glad:
• Psalms 104:15 (cf. Ecclesiastes 10:19)
♦ for alleviating pain:
• Matthew 27:34, 48
♦ for drink at a wedding feast:
♦ storage of
various types of:
♦ spiced wine:
♦ new wine:
♦ wine mingled with gall:
♦ old wine:
♦ sweet wine:
prohibition against use of:
♦ for priests when ministering:
♦ for Nazirites:
• Numbers 6:2-3 (cf. Luke 1:15)
♦ for kings:
♦ for Christians who would offend others by use of wine:
abstention from:
♦ by Israelites in the wilderness:
♦ by Samson's mother:
♦ by Daniel:
• Daniel 1:8, 16
♦ by the Rechabites:
results from abuse of:
♦ shame and cursing of descendants:
♦ endangerment of health:
♦ unwise living:
♦ promotion of poverty:
♦ suffering and sorrow:
♦ perversion of justice:
♦ forgetfulness of God:
♦ physical, mental and moral confusion:
♦ improper conduct in the local church:
♦ dissipation and hindrance of the Spirit's filling:
♦ addiction contrary to Christian character:
figurative use of:
♦ representative of divine judgment:
♦ representative of wisdom:
• Proverbs 9:2, 5
♦ representative of God's gracious blessings:
♦ representative of Christ's sacrificial blood:
♦ representative of end-time Babylon's wickedness:
♦ representative of God's judgmental wrath:
• Revelation 16:19 (cf. 19:15)
various other uses:
♦ wine provided by Melchizedek for Abraham:
♦ wine plentiful in Canaan:
♦ wine produced from a wine press:
♦ Jesus accused of being a wine-drinker (i.e., a drunkard):
♦ water miraculously transformed into wine:
• John 2:9
♦ the apostles accused of being drunken with wine:
This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.