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First the man takes a drink
Then the drink takes a drink
Then the drink takes the man

- Japanese Proverb

The word 'alcohol' is said to come from the Arabic, Al-khul which means 'body-eating spirit', from which also we derive the English word 'ghoul', a malevolent spirit, ghost or a person interested in morbid or disgusting things, or a grave-robber. The ancient Arabs believed ghouls were demons who ate corpses.

In alchemy, alcohol is used to extract the soul-essence of an entity. Hence its use in extracting essences for essential oils and the sterilisation of medical instruments. By consuming alcohol into the body, it in effect extracts the very essence of the soul, allowing the body to be more susceptible to neighbouring entities most of which are of low psychic frequencies. This is the reason why we call certain alcoholic beverages 'spirits'. That is also why when people black out they don't remember what happened. Essentially, whilst unconscious, caused by a neurophysiological, chemical disruption in the brain's hippocampus, a region integral to memory formation, their body, whilst in a totally passive state, was possessed by another entity.

Alcohol interferes with the receptors in the hippocampus that transmit glutamate, a compound that carries signals between neurons. During this interference, alcohol prevents some receptors from working, while activating others. This process causes the neurons to create steroids that then prevent neurons from communicating with each other properly, thus disrupting long-term potentiation (LTP), a process believed necessary for learning and memory. From both a physical and a spiritual point-of-view, alcohol is seen to have a negative impact on human well-being. Alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs in use by carnal man. Alcohol leads to demonic bondage and kills.

Alcohol is biologically toxic with a large proportion of heavy drinkers developping hepatitis and cirrhosis, serious alcoholic liver diseases. The impact of alcohol abuse on health, social relations and family life is well known. It undermines will by loosening those inhibitions which keep the flesh in check and drastically impairs spiritual discernment. But what does the Bible teach about alcohol?

Christendom has been divided over the alcohol question for a very long time now. One school maintains that alcohol may be consumed in moderation but the other says that alcohol brings nothing but evil and that it is best totally abstained from. The reason for the two positions is the difference between the Old and New Covenants. Alcohol consumption was permitted in moderation under the Old Covenant provided it was not mixed with drugs, a practice of the neighbouring pagan nations as well as the former inhabitants of the Promised Land. We are commanded to be "filled with the Ruach (Spirit)" instead of being inebriated with alcohol (Eph.5:18).

However, in anctipation of the New and Better Covenant (Heb.7:22) of Yah'shua the Messiah (Jesus Christ) where every man is expected to be spiritually alert, and in which every believer is called to be a Cohen (Priest) after the Royal Order of Melchizedek (1 Pet.2:9) on duty 24/7 in their body of flesh, Levitical Cohenim (Priests) under the Old Covenant were required to totally abstain from alcohol whilst on duty in the Temple made of stone.

Old Covenant priests were banned from drinking alcohol while on duty in the
temple - New Covenant priests are on duty 24/7 in the temple of the flesh

For these and other reasons Messianic Evangelicals do not believe alcohol consumption is permitted of true believers in the New Covenant of Yah'shua the Messiah (Jesus Christ). The only exception recorded in the Messianic Scriptures is for legitimate health reasons - a stomach complaint at a time when fresh water was hard to come by.


75 Biblical Reasons Why You
Should Not Drink Alcohol

  • 1. Genesis 9:20-26 - Noah became drunk; the result was immorality and family trouble.
  • 2. Genesis 19:30-38 - Lot was so drunk he did not know what he was doing; this led to immorality
  • 3. Leviticus 10:9-11 - Yahweh commanded priests not to drink so that they could tell the difference between the holy and the unholy.
  • 4. Numbers 6:3 - The Nazarites were told not to drink alcoholic beverages.
  • 5. Deuteronomy 21:20 - A drunken son was stubborn and rebellious.
  • 6. Deuteronomy 29:5-6 - Yahweh gave Israel no intoxicating drink in the wilderness.
  • 7. Deuteronomy 32:33 - Intoxicating wine is like the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
  • 8. Judges 13:4,7,14 - Samson was to be a Nazarite for life. His mother was told not to drink wine or strong drink.
  • 9. 1 Samuel 1:14-15 - Accused, Hannah said she drank no wine.
  • 10. 1 Samuel 25:32-38 - Nabal died after a drunken spree.
  • 11. 2 Samuel 11:13 - By getting Uriah drunk, David hoped to cover his sin.
  • 12. 2 Samuel 13:28-29 - Amnon was drunk when he was killed.
  • 13. 1 Kings 16:8-10 - The king was drinking himself into drunkenness when he was assassinated
  • 14. 1 Kings 20:12-21 - Ben-Hadad and 32 other kings were drinking when they were attacked and defeated by the Israelites.
  • 15. Esther 1:5-12 - The king gave each one all the drink he wanted. The king was intoxicated when he commanded Queen Vashti to come.
  • 16. Psalm 75:8 - The Yahweh’s anger is pictured as mixed wine poured out and drunk by the wicked.
  • 17. Proverbs 4:17 - Alcoholic drink is called the wine of violence.
  • 18. Proverbs 20:1 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.
  • 19. Proverbs 23:19-20 - A wise person will not be among the drinkers of alcoholic beverages.
  • 20. Proverbs 23:21 - Drunkenness causes poverty.
  • 21. Proverbs 23:29-30 - Drinking causes woe, sorrow, fighting, babbling, wounds without cause and red eyes.
  • 22. Proverbs 23:31 - Yahweh instructs us not to look at intoxicating drinks.
  • 23. Proverbs 23:32 - Alcoholic drinks bite like a serpent, sting like an adder.
  • 24. Proverbs 23:33 - Alcohol causes the drinker to have strange and adulterous thoughts, produces willfulness, and prevents reformation.
  • 25. Proverbs 23:34 - Alcohol makes the drinker unstable
  • 26. Proverbs 23:35 - Alcohol makes the drinker insensitive to pain so he does not perceive it as a warning. Alcohol is habit forming.
  • 27. Proverb 31:4-5 - Kings, Princes, and others who rule and judge must not drink alcohol. Alcohol perverts good judgment.
  • 28. Proverbs 31:6-7 - Strong drink could be given to those about to perish or those in pain. Better anesthetics are available today.
  • 29. Ecclesiastes 2:3 - The king tried everything, including intoxicating drink, to see if it satisfied. It did not. (Ecclesiastes 12:
  • 30. Ecclesiastes 10:17 - A land is blessed when its leaders do not drink.
  • 31. Isaiah 5:11-12 - Woe to those who get up early to drink and stay up late at night to get drunk.
  • 32. Isaiah 5:22 - Woe to "champion" drinkers and "experts" at mixing drinks.
  • 33. Isaiah 19:14 - Drunken men stagger in their vomit.
  • 34. Isaiah 22:12-13 - The Israelites choose to drink; their future looks hopeless to them.
  • 35. Isaiah 24:9 - Drinkers cannot escape the consequences when Yahweh judges.
  • 36. Isaiah 28:1 - Yahweh pronounces woe on the drunkards of Ephraim.
  • 37. Isaiah 28:3 - Proud drunkards shall be trodden down.

  • 38. Isaiah 28:7 - Priests and prophets stagger and reel from beer and wine, err in vision, and stumble in judgment.
  • 39. Isaiah 28:8 - Drinkers’ tables are covered with vomit and filth.
  • 40. Isaiah 56:9-12 - Drinkers seek their own gain and expect tomorrow to be just like today.
  • 41. Jeremiah 35:2-14 - The Rechabites drank no intoxicating wine and were blessed.
  • 42. Ezekiel 44:21 - Again Yahweh instructed the priests not to drink wine.
  • 43. Daniel 1:5-17 - Daniel refused the king’s intoxicating wine and was blessed for it along with his abstaining friends.
  • 44. Daniel 5:1 - Belshazzar, ruler of Babylon; led his people in drinking.
  • 45. Daniel 5:2-3 - The king, along with his nobles, wives, and concubines, drank from the goblets which had been taken from Yahweh’s temple.
  • 46. Daniel 5:4 - Drinking wine was combined with praising false gods.
  • 47. Daniel 5:23 - Yahweh sent word to the drunkard Belshazzar that punishment would be swift for the evil he had committed.
  • 48. Hosea 4:11 - Intoxicating wine takes away intelligence.
  • 49. Hosea 7:5 - Yahweh reproves princes for drinking.
  • 50. Joel 1:5 - Drunkards awake to see Yahweh’s judgment.
  • 51. Joel 3:3 - The enemy is judged for selling girls for wine.
  • 52. Amos 2:8 - Unrighteous acts of Israel included the drinking of wine which had been taken for the payment of fines.
  • 53. Amos 2:12 - Israel is condemned for forcing Nazarites to drink wine.
  • 54. Micah 2:11 - Israelites are eager to follow false teachers who prophesy plenty of intoxicating drinks.
  • 55. Nahum 1:10 - The drunkards of Nineveh will be destroyed by Yahweh.
  • 56. Habakkuk 2:5 - A man is betrayed by wine.
  • 57. Habakkuk 2:15 - Woe to him that gives his neighbour drink.
  • 58. Habakkuk 2:16 - Drinking leads to shame.
  • 59. Matthew 24:48-51 - A drinking servant is unprepared for his master’s return.
  • 60. Luke 1:15 - John the Baptist drank neither grape juice nor wine.
  • 61. Luke 12:45 - Christ warned against drunkenness.
  • 62. Luke 21:34 - Drunkenness will cause a person not to be ready for the Master’s return.
  • 63. Romans 13:13 - Do not walk in drunkenness or immorality.
  • 64. Romans 14:21 - Do not do anything that will hurt your testimony as a believer.
  • 65. 1 Corinthians 5:11 - If a Christian brother is a drinker, do not associate with him.
  • 66. 1 Corinthians 6:10 - Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of Elohim (God).
  • 67. Galatians 5:21 - Acts of the sinful nature, such as drunkenness, will prohibit a person from inheriting the kingdom of Elohim (God).
  • 68. Ephesians 5:18 - In contrast to being drunk with wine, the believer is to be filled with the Ruach (Spirit).
  • 69. 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7 - Christians/Messianics are to be alert and self-controlled, belonging to the day. Drunkards belong to the night and darkness.
  • 70. 1 Timothy 3:2-3 - Bishops (Elders/Zaqqenim, Pastors, etc.) are to be temperate, sober, and not near any wine.
  • 71. 1 Timothy 3:8 - Deacons (Shammashim) are to be worthy of respect and not drinkers.
  • 72. 1 Timothy 3:11 - Deacons’ wives are to be temperate and sober.
  • 73. Titus 1:7-8 - An Overseer (Bishop, Pastor) is to be disciplined.
  • 74. Titus 2:2-3 - The older men and older women of the congregation (church) are to be temperate and not addicted to wine.
  • 75. 1 Peter 4:3-4 - The past life of drunkenness and carousing has no place in the Christian’s/Messianic’s life.

    ...and if you say Yah'shua (Jesus) turned water to wine, are you sure it was an alcoholic beverage?

Find out more about this important subject in the articles in this register.

Alcohol: Friend or Demon?
1. The Bible, the Christian and Alcohol (Art)
2. Concerning The Propriety of Drinking Alcoholic Wine (Art)
3. Is Alcohol Consumption a Sin? (FAQ)
4. The Alcohol Question (FAQ)
5. Should We Drink Wine Instead of Water? (FAQ)
6. A Question About Wine (FAQ)
7. Confusion on Wine (FAQ)
8. New Year's Day and Cognitive Dissonance (Art)
9. Lars Levi Laestadius: The Great Scandinavian Sami Revival (Art)
10. Alcohol, Discipleship & Character (Art)

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