Posted on 04/12/2006 8:29:39 PM PDT by Rodney King
Works for me.
The typical wedding feast lasted days and the guests drank enormous amounts of wine. You can look at the Book of Esther to get a picture of eastern mediterranean celebrations in general (copious use of fermented beers, wines, and liqueurs, as well as ancient distilled spirits). And the story of Cana in the New Testament showed a steady supply of fermented wine as a natural, giving act of the host.
Jeremiah 13:12-14 sounds like a damn good party to me...and God says he will be the bartender to us sinners
Meanwhile Isaiah 25:6 shows paradise a feast of choice pieces, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of well-refined wines on the lees. Again, God's bartending but this time to the faithful.
Come to think of it, God is like a bartender: The Great Unseen Bartender
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