Wine and the Bible - Part 13

INTRO: Let me briefly catch us up to where we are in this series. We have looked at the views regarding wine in the Bible: Some wine is ok, or It is all wrong, or some wine is ok but it is not wise; or don't bother me with the facts. Then we looked at the various words used for wine in the Bible. Next we saw that in Bible times they had methods of preserving grape juice for long periods of time without fermentation. Then we considered that not all texts that indicated people were ‘merry' from drinking wine, meant they were feeling the spirits of fermented wine.