في معظم الكنائس, the wine has been replaced by grape juice. The use of grape juice has become so common, الذي - التي (شاب) Christians don’t know any better than to use grape juice instead of wine. But what many Christians don’t know is the hidden meaning of wine. If you knew the symbolic meaning of wine, then you would know, why the wine has been replaced by grape juice in the church. Because today’s communion and the wine replaced by grape juice symbolize the state of the Body of Christ; الكنيسة. What is the what does the wine represent in communion? The wine represents the blood of Jesus, wherewith He has cleansed us from all our sins and iniquities. The New Covenant is in the blood, through which we have access to the Father. By drinking His blood, we not only become partakers of His inheritance, but we also become partakers of His passion and death, وهو ما يعني أنه ينبغي لنا die to our flesh.
Do followers of Jesus Christ die to the flesh?
قد نقول, that the church is carnal and lives in sin and iniquity. The church uses the love and the grace of God, as an excuse to stay carnal and to keep sinning. Most believers are not willing to give up their old ‘self’.
It happens often, that when a believer notices that another believer lives in sin, the believer uses love and the grace of God, to make the sin of that person all right. Believers don’t confront and correct each other anymore.
Even the leaders of the church don’t confront and correct the members of the church anymore, but they allow everything. Most churches are more focused on prosperity and figures than being focused on the spiritual state of the church.
لا يفعلون ذلك remove the sins from their lives and from the church anymore, but they tolerate and accept all sins and iniquities.
بسبب هذا السلوك, the church has become weak and powerless in comparison to the first church in the Book of Acts.
The wine replaced by grape juice in the church
في كنائس كثيرة, the cross and the blood of Jesus is not preached anymore. While the cross and the blood of Jesus is the most important thing, and should never be left out. بدمه, we have been redeemed, and we have been reunited with God our Father. There is power in the blood of Jesus. بدون دم يسوع, there’s nothing. We live in a New Covenant, that is sealed with the blood of Jesus.
The Church has put water into the wine, حرفياً, and figuratively. Well, actually that’s not true. The Church hasn’t put water into the wine, but has replaced the wine with grape juice, which is worse.
في الوقت الحاضر, the church makes its own rules, and makes adjustments in the commandments and the Word of the Lord. Where does it say, that we should take grape juice? Where does God say this or where does Jesus say this?
The fermentation process symbolizes death and life
Death, and life are in the wine; the old and the new creation. Through the fermentation process, the grape juice is turned into wine. This fermentation process makes wine so special, and it’s because of this fermentation, that wine distinguishes itself from grape juice.
The fermentation process symbolizes the death, وقيامة يسوع المسيح (grape juice turned into wine).
During the fermentation process, the yeast cells convert the sugars, into alcohol, and when they have nothing left to feed on, they die in their dirt. Just like Jesus died in our dirt, and took all our sin and iniquity upon Himself, so that we could become خلق جديد.
When we drink of the wine, we participate in the passion and death of Jesus Christ. By becoming a partaker, we identify ourselves with Him; with His death and His resurrection.
وهذا يعني, that just like Jesus, we must die and lay down our flesh, before we can become الخلق الجديد.
The grape juice symbolizes الخلق القديم. But the wine symbolizes the old creation, who has become the new creation (sugars turned into alcohol). We die in our filthiness, which means that we die to our flesh, and we become the new creation; born in the spirit, through the Holy Spirit of God.
Dying to self isn’t preached anymore
In grape juice there is no fermentation process, that takes place. There’s no process of dying, and that’s exactly what happens in most Churches, and in the lives of many Christians. Believers stay الخلق القديم ويعيش تماما مثل العالم.
لا يفعلون ذلك يموت في الجسد, but they keep walking after the flesh and use the love and grace to make it all right. نعم, they use ‘love’ and ‘grace’ to justify themselves, so that they won’t feel guilty (اقرأ أيضا: ‘هل يمكنك العيش في الخطيئة وتخلص?').
But there’s no one, who can change the spiritual law. لا يوجد أحد, who can do anything about the commandments and the will of God, even if they are being changed by people.
Because God will always stay the same, أمس, اليوم, وإلى الأبد أكثر. That’s why He and His words are reliable and you can trust Him.
إرادته, قانونه, ووصاياه, which the Word made known to the people, will always remain the same.
The written law doesn’t have any power. The Lord God gave them out of His Spirit (out of the spiritual world) and translated them into human language.
He ‘translated’ them out of the spiritual world, into the realm of the senses. The law was given for man’s benefit, not to punish people, and put restrictions upon them, but to warn them, and help them, to not become a prisoner of the devil (عدو الله). God only wants the best for you!
The lies of the devil uncovered
Many excuses and reasons are being given as to why the wine has been removed from many churches and congregations, and why it is better to drink grape juice. Here are some reasons:
“We have to consider ex-alcoholics who are sitting in Church, we may not lead them into temptation. By drinking wine, they will be tempted to start drinking again”
A convert, who used to be an alcoholic لقد أصبح خليقة جديدة. The person has been delivered from the addictive روح إدمان الكحول. The person has died in Christ to the lusts and desires of the flesh. The spirit of the person is raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit walks and now the person walks as a new creation, بعد الروح. When this person drinks of the cup, which is filled with wine, it will not make the person addicted again. Because the addictive spirit, who was active in the flesh can no longer manifest himself, because the flesh has died in Christ. The power of alcoholism was broken, at the moment the person was delivered andولدت من جديد. Therefore the power of alcoholism doesn’t have any power over the person anymore (اقرأ أيضا: ‘الخلاص من قوة الكحول').
كخلق جديد, الشخص reigns over the powers and forces of the darkness, instead that these powers and forces reign over the person.
When we replace wine with grape juice, due to this reason, ثم نجعل الإنسان محور الكنيسة والجماعة, بدلاً من يسوع.
ونترك الجسد يملك فوق الروح, ونعدل وصية يسوع, إلى إنسان. وهو أمر سيء للقيام به.
وهذا أيضًا يقول الكثير عن حالة الكنيسة. لأن الناس أصبحوا مركز الاهتمام.
تركز الكنيسة على الناس بدلاً من يسوع. يبدو مثل الكثير عصر جديد, حيث يدور كل شيء حول الناس وأنفسهم.
"نعم, ولكن عندما قمنا بتغيير النبيذ إلى عصير العنب, لقد شهدنا الكثير (شفاء) معجزات أثناء الشركة"
يريد الشيطان أن يزيل الدم من الكنيسة, لذلك فهو يريد أيضًا إزالة الخمر. ويذكره بهزيمته. ويمكن للشيطان أيضًا أن يصنع المعجزات والعجائب, انظر إلى عبدة الشيطان, علماء التنجيم, السحرة, السحرة, الخ.
حتى في الكنائس, حيث أخذ الشيطان مكانه, يصنع آيات وعجائب كثيرة. حتى بين المسيحيين, when believers bear the fruit of the flesh, but perform miracles, you have to be extra cautious.
Jesus warns His followers that there will be many الأنبياء الكذبة, who will do great signs and wonders. It will look like these prophets are sent from Him, but they aren’t. Everything looks so real, that even the followers of Jesus could be deceived(حصيرة 24:24)
“نعم, but in the old days the wine differed from the wine we have nowadays; the wine didn’t contain as much alcohol, as it does now”
Really? Let’s have a look at Genesis 9:21. We read about Noah, becoming drunk on wine. If the wine was indeed different, and if it indeed didn’t contain that much alcohol, how did Noah become drunk?
And not only Noah became drunk on wine. في سفر التكوين 19:33, were read about Lot, and how his daughters got him drunk, with……. خمر.
التقدمة في العهد القديم
عندما ننظر إلى الشريعة اليهودية, نقرأ في سفر الخروج 29:40, سفر اللاويين 23:14, الأرقام 15:5-10, الأرقام 28:7,14 أنهم استخدموا النبيذ وليس عصير العنب في التقدمة.
الكلمة العبرية للنبيذ هي ياه يين (رقم 3196 توافق قوي) والوسائل: خمر (كما المخمرة); عن طريق التسمم الضمني: (المآدب) (خمر) خمر (-سكير)
يمكننا أن نقول ونستنتج أن الخمر له معنى خاص جدًا في الكتاب المقدس. لا يوجد في أي مكان في الكتاب المقدس استبدال النبيذ بعصير العنب.
كيف يمكننا أن نغير وصية الله,
للإنسان?
دعونا نادم من هذا الفعل تمرد ضد الله وأعد النبيذ إلى مكانه: في الكنيسة; جسد المسيح. عندما يكون لدينا شركة مع الرب يسوع, عندئذ تشترك الكنيسة كلها في آلامه وموته, والفداء الذي قدمه لنا يسوع بدمه. عندما نشرب الكأس, نحن شركاء موته, بالموت في لحمك.
طعم النبيذ مر, وهذا هو موت الجسد. انها ليست لطيفة وحلوة, مثل عصير العنب, لكنها مريرة.
دعونا نجعل يسوع رأس الكنيسة, بدلاً من طرد يسوع من الكنيسة. دعونا نبقى مطيعين ليسوع ونحفظ وصاياه. بدلاً من أن يكيف وصاياه وإرادته مع أهواء الناس وشهواتهم.
صارت فضتك زغلا,
خمرك ممزوجًا بالماء:
أمرائك متمردون, واصحاب اللصوص:
الجميع يحب الهدايا, ويتبع بعد المكافآت:
لا يحكمون على الأيتام,
ودعوى الأرملة لا تصل إليهم
(اشعيا 1:22-23)
"كونوا ملح الأرض"
