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David L Lamon | November 19, 2009
11/18/2009
What God Says about Strong Drink
David L Lamon
The prevailing teaching among Christians today concerning consuming alcohol is that drinking if limited to moderation is okay or wherein is access. What is excess? To determine what the scripture means by this we must take the whole word and if we do that we know it will not contradict itself. Excess must mean not adding intoxicating ingredients to it to make it a mind-altering experience if we are to examine the whole word and harmonize. To begin with, in olden days where wine is mentioned they drank juice from the vine without all the added ingredients and when these other ingredients were added it was condemned by God and his prophets. When Jesus turned the water into wine he didn’t do it so they could go on a drunken-stupor or put another way give over to a “mind-altering” experience. It makes sense to me that God don’t say one thing and do another. The bible says he cannot lie doesn’t it. The only mind-altering experience God supported was turning from one’s sin and being filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Jesus went so far to warn us of this in the last book of the bible. Concerning drugs and alcohol is included, the Bible declares that the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake, which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Revelation 21:8). The term “sorcerer” is the English transliteration from the Greek, Pharmakeia. It means “pharmacy” or “drug store.” The original idea is to use drugs for a “high,” or “lift,” or a “kick”, not for medication! God plainly states that those who use drugs promiscuously are in the “lake of fire.” Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Example of What not to do
The fifth chapter of Daniel provides some insightful things that we can easily apply to our day and time. We as a people in America have forsaken the right way and in our lust for worldly things have allowed the enemy to creep in and set up camp without our knowledge. Although undeclared our “Open Borders Policy” has allowed terrorists and other illegal invaders into our midst with the goal of overthrowing our capitalist system of government and force Sharia Law and the rest of the ungodly Muslim religion on us. While we are hooping it up satisfying the lust of our flesh and not paying attention to the “creep” we have now been overwhelmed with devils in the high places of government. Belshazzar grandson of Nebuchannezer and the people were whooping it up having a good time but little did they know that while they were absorbed in the pleasures of the world the enemy was quitely infiltrating their midst. The very thing that happened in that day is happening to America today both in the spiritual and the natural. Unbridled humans setting themselves up as New Age gods (New Age Movement and Emergent Church doctrine, Gaii worship and no god), which essentially teach man is his own god and there are no absolutes as in right and wrong, good and evil. People are living unholy, prideful lives and worshipping seducing spirits, even when the obvious handwriting of warning appear on the wall, which is the intriguing story and subject of chapter five.
What we read and study about that day mirrors what we see in our day. There was a drunken orgy where the women were in abundance, sexual deviance acceptable and the wine flowed like water-a graphic example of “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” With one small correction: They would not die tomorrow; they would be attacked, defeated, and murdered that very night by stealthy troops already assembled deep beneath the city. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. God is not pleased with this so as he has done before he is allowing it to happen again. Jeremiah 51:14 Surely I will fill you with men as with locust, and they shall lift up a battle cry against you.
Strong Drink
Proverbs 20:1 says,
“Wine is a mocker strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
Proverbs 23:29 reads,
“Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.”
That’s why Proverbs 31 commands:
“Look not on the wine when it is red.”
Juice was called wine. The writer of Proverbs said that when the wine turns red and ferments, don’t look at it!
It’s also the message of Proverbs 23:20,
“Be not among wine bibbers drinkers.”
Habakkuk 2:15 says,
“Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also.”
The judgment of God is upon those who drink, upon those who get drunk, and equally, upon those who serve strong drink to others to get them intoxicated. First Corinthians 6:9-10 and Galatians 5:19-21 state that no drunkard can enter the kingdom of heaven unless he repents of this sin and turns to God.
Well, with that fusillade of verses on what God thinks about wine and strong drink, we note that Belshazzar was not only inebriated as he sat there on his elevated platform, surrounded by his many concubines who encouraged all-night drinking bouts with the guests, but he also added sacrilege to indignity by drinking his kingly brew out of precious vessels of redemption-goblets and temple-ware that represented eternal salvation. To top it off, he and his guests “drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone” (Daniel 5:4).During this orgy, God was watching the scene from the portals of heaven, and He was not pleased.
Contributor's website: http://thevoice.name
What God Says about Strong Drink
David L Lamon | November 19, 2009
11/18/2009
What God Says about Strong Drink
David L Lamon
The prevailing teaching among Christians today concerning consuming alcohol is that drinking if limited to moderation is okay or wherein is access. What is excess? To determine what the scripture means by this we must take the whole word and if we do that we know it will not contradict itself. Excess must mean not adding intoxicating ingredients to it to make it a mind-altering experience if we are to examine the whole word and harmonize. To begin with, in olden days where wine is mentioned they drank juice from the vine without all the added ingredients and when these other ingredients were added it was condemned by God and his prophets. When Jesus turned the water into wine he didn’t do it so they could go on a drunken-stupor or put another way give over to a “mind-altering” experience. It makes sense to me that God don’t say one thing and do another. The bible says he cannot lie doesn’t it. The only mind-altering experience God supported was turning from one’s sin and being filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Jesus went so far to warn us of this in the last book of the bible. Concerning drugs and alcohol is included, the Bible declares that the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake, which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Revelation 21:8). The term “sorcerer” is the English transliteration from the Greek, Pharmakeia. It means “pharmacy” or “drug store.” The original idea is to use drugs for a “high,” or “lift,” or a “kick”, not for medication! God plainly states that those who use drugs promiscuously are in the “lake of fire.” Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Example of What not to do
The fifth chapter of Daniel provides some insightful things that we can easily apply to our day and time. We as a people in America have forsaken the right way and in our lust for worldly things have allowed the enemy to creep in and set up camp without our knowledge. Although undeclared our “Open Borders Policy” has allowed terrorists and other illegal invaders into our midst with the goal of overthrowing our capitalist system of government and force Sharia Law and the rest of the ungodly Muslim religion on us. While we are hooping it up satisfying the lust of our flesh and not paying attention to the “creep” we have now been overwhelmed with devils in the high places of government. Belshazzar grandson of Nebuchannezer and the people were whooping it up having a good time but little did they know that while they were absorbed in the pleasures of the world the enemy was quitely infiltrating their midst. The very thing that happened in that day is happening to America today both in the spiritual and the natural. Unbridled humans setting themselves up as New Age gods (New Age Movement and Emergent Church doctrine, Gaii worship and no god), which essentially teach man is his own god and there are no absolutes as in right and wrong, good and evil. People are living unholy, prideful lives and worshipping seducing spirits, even when the obvious handwriting of warning appear on the wall, which is the intriguing story and subject of chapter five.
What we read and study about that day mirrors what we see in our day. There was a drunken orgy where the women were in abundance, sexual deviance acceptable and the wine flowed like water-a graphic example of “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” With one small correction: They would not die tomorrow; they would be attacked, defeated, and murdered that very night by stealthy troops already assembled deep beneath the city. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. God is not pleased with this so as he has done before he is allowing it to happen again. Jeremiah 51:14 Surely I will fill you with men as with locust, and they shall lift up a battle cry against you.
Strong Drink
Proverbs 20:1 says,
“Wine is a mocker strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
Proverbs 23:29 reads,
“Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.”
That’s why Proverbs 31 commands:
“Look not on the wine when it is red.”
Juice was called wine. The writer of Proverbs said that when the wine turns red and ferments, don’t look at it!
It’s also the message of Proverbs 23:20,
“Be not among wine bibbers drinkers.”
Habakkuk 2:15 says,
“Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also.”
The judgment of God is upon those who drink, upon those who get drunk, and equally, upon those who serve strong drink to others to get them intoxicated. First Corinthians 6:9-10 and Galatians 5:19-21 state that no drunkard can enter the kingdom of heaven unless he repents of this sin and turns to God.
Well, with that fusillade of verses on what God thinks about wine and strong drink, we note that Belshazzar was not only inebriated as he sat there on his elevated platform, surrounded by his many concubines who encouraged all-night drinking bouts with the guests, but he also added sacrilege to indignity by drinking his kingly brew out of precious vessels of redemption-goblets and temple-ware that represented eternal salvation. To top it off, he and his guests “drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone” (Daniel 5:4).During this orgy, God was watching the scene from the portals of heaven, and He was not pleased.
Contributor's website: http://thevoice.name
What God Says about Strong Drink
David L Lamon | November 19, 2009
11/18/2009
What God Says about Strong Drink
David L Lamon
The prevailing teaching among Christians today concerning consuming alcohol is that drinking if limited to moderation is okay or wherein is access. What is excess? To determine what the scripture means by this we must take the whole word and if we do that we know it will not contradict itself. Excess must mean not adding intoxicating ingredients to it to make it a mind-altering experience if we are to examine the whole word and harmonize. To begin with, in olden days where wine is mentioned they drank juice from the vine without all the added ingredients and when these other ingredients were added it was condemned by God and his prophets. When Jesus turned the water into wine he didn’t do it so they could go on a drunken-stupor or put another way give over to a “mind-altering” experience. It makes sense to me that God don’t say one thing and do another. The bible says he cannot lie doesn’t it. The only mind-altering experience God supported was turning from one’s sin and being filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Jesus went so far to warn us of this in the last book of the bible. Concerning drugs and alcohol is included, the Bible declares that the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake, which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Revelation 21:8). The term “sorcerer” is the English transliteration from the Greek, Pharmakeia. It means “pharmacy” or “drug store.” The original idea is to use drugs for a “high,” or “lift,” or a “kick”, not for medication! God plainly states that those who use drugs promiscuously are in the “lake of fire.” Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Example of What not to do
The fifth chapter of Daniel provides some insightful things that we can easily apply to our day and time. We as a people in America have forsaken the right way and in our lust for worldly things have allowed the enemy to creep in and set up camp without our knowledge. Although undeclared our “Open Borders Policy” has allowed terrorists and other illegal invaders into our midst with the goal of overthrowing our capitalist system of government and force Sharia Law and the rest of the ungodly Muslim religion on us. While we are hooping it up satisfying the lust of our flesh and not paying attention to the “creep” we have now been overwhelmed with devils in the high places of government. Belshazzar grandson of Nebuchannezer and the people were whooping it up having a good time but little did they know that while they were absorbed in the pleasures of the world the enemy was quitely infiltrating their midst. The very thing that happened in that day is happening to America today both in the spiritual and the natural. Unbridled humans setting themselves up as New Age gods (New Age Movement and Emergent Church doctrine, Gaii worship and no god), which essentially teach man is his own god and there are no absolutes as in right and wrong, good and evil. People are living unholy, prideful lives and worshipping seducing spirits, even when the obvious handwriting of warning appear on the wall, which is the intriguing story and subject of chapter five.
What we read and study about that day mirrors what we see in our day. There was a drunken orgy where the women were in abundance, sexual deviance acceptable and the wine flowed like water-a graphic example of “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” With one small correction: They would not die tomorrow; they would be attacked, defeated, and murdered that very night by stealthy troops already assembled deep beneath the city. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. God is not pleased with this so as he has done before he is allowing it to happen again. Jeremiah 51:14 Surely I will fill you with men as with locust, and they shall lift up a battle cry against you.
Strong Drink
Proverbs 20:1 says,
“Wine is a mocker strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
Proverbs 23:29 reads,
“Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.”
That’s why Proverbs 31 commands:
“Look not on the wine when it is red.”
Juice was called wine. The writer of Proverbs said that when the wine turns red and ferments, don’t look at it!
It’s also the message of Proverbs 23:20,
“Be not among wine bibbers drinkers.”
Habakkuk 2:15 says,
“Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also.”
The judgment of God is upon those who drink, upon those who get drunk, and equally, upon those who serve strong drink to others to get them intoxicated. First Corinthians 6:9-10 and Galatians 5:19-21 state that no drunkard can enter the kingdom of heaven unless he repents of this sin and turns to God.
Well, with that fusillade of verses on what God thinks about wine and strong drink, we note that Belshazzar was not only inebriated as he sat there on his elevated platform, surrounded by his many concubines who encouraged all-night drinking bouts with the guests, but he also added sacrilege to indignity by drinking his kingly brew out of precious vessels of redemption-goblets and temple-ware that represented eternal salvation. To top it off, he and his guests “drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone” (Daniel 5:4).During this orgy, God was watching the scene from the portals of heaven, and He was not pleased.
Contributor's website: http://thevoice.name
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