BLESSING IN THE CLUSTER 

 Cana "wine" 

> (R1) Drank, Drunk, Drunken (R1Drank.96Jan29:23:53.FAQ)

>>>Curious Questioner> I heard one man say that the reason the disciples could not stay awake was because of the wine that they had with the Passover meal.
>>RC> Nonsense. It was well after their normal bedtime. And there is NO mention of "wine" in any of the accounts of the last supper. They had the "fruit of the vine" there, and the grapes were freshly "pressed" into the "cup."
>CQ> Considering it was Pesach, the 'fruit of the vine' in the cups probably was wine.
No, the "fruit" was FRUIT.

("This is an hard saying, who can hear it?" :)

FRUIT is from the greek "gennhmatos", i.e. OFFSPRING. There is only one CUP mentioned, not cups. There is absolutely NO mention of the word "wine." The cup did -not- contain wine LEAVENED by the corruption of fermentation. NO LEAVEN was allowed at the passover and feast of unleavened bread. Jesus is the -true- vine and the apostles are his fruit. (The fruit of a Christian is another Christian. The disciples are as a baptized "cluster" [washed clean of leaven] when assembled together to eat the Lord's supper. :)

The cluster was squeezed like a spunge to shed the pure blood of the grape into the cup: "This is my blood which is shed for you." Only the pure new wine of the cluster can represent his holy blood.

When Jesus was on the cross, a SPUNGE full of vinegar was raised to his mouth upon hyssop, and he "received" it, as it was SQUEEZED -into- his mouth, the sour judgment of our own SINS, which he bare -in- his own body on the tree. (Greater love hath no man than this!)
>CQ> If Jesus disapproved of wine, then He would not have turned the water into it at the wedding at Cana, and that He sure did do.
There were -six- apostles in the cluster that attended the marriage where Jesus NEWLY turned the WATER in the cluster-of-six-waterpots filled to the brim, into "good" ("sweet savour") -new- wine. The six apostles: 1= Jesus (Heb.3:1 :) 2= John Zebedee, 3= Andrew, 4= Simon ("called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone."), 5= Philip, 6= Nathanael "of Cana." (Peter was called -A- stone, and there were -six- waterpots of "stone" at the marriage. LIVELY STONES! :)

GLORY TO GOD FOR THE TRUE BLESSING IN THE CLUSTER!

(Amen. :)

(-11 Please see "wine" vs. conscience next. Thanks. :)


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