Alcohol - NCCG.ORG Ning Network Archive 2008-10

The priests who were on duty in the Temple were forbidden from drinking alcohol so that they would be able to focus keenly on their duties during their watch, discerning the Ruach.

Under the B'rit Chadashah (New Covenant), We are all priests of the Royal Priesthood of Messiah on permanent duty in the flesh called our physical body and are on permanent watch, discerning the Ruach. And whilst alcohol consumption was not a sin outside the priesthood on duty (which was everyone except Levitical cohenim back then) under the Mosaic Covenant, we are now Melchizedek priests and priestesses - all of us - and permanently on duty in the Temple of the Ruach, our bodies under a New Covenant. Therefore as cohenim of El Elyon, the Most High, alcohol is not for us.

Many decades ago YHWH drew my attention to the covenant of Rechab and the higher way that he walked, which was a type of the Messianic Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek. Even Jeremiah was rebuked for trying to make him drink alcohol and was effectively told that he had chosen the better way.

See <a href="http://nccg.org/alcohol.html ">http://nccg.org/alcohol.html</a> and <a href="http://groups.msn.com/MLTReceptionGroup/alcoholindex.msnw">http://groups.msn.com/MLTReceptionGroup/alcoholindex.msnw</a>

We are also admonished noyt to place stumbling blocks before the weak. The history of alcohol and its destructive influences doesn't need repeating by me because everyone knows the statistics.

I have nto drunk alcohol all my life and have definitely been blessed. Having, as we do, a ministry amongst drug addicts and alcoholics in Norway (for the last 20 years) I can additionally, because of our experiences there, see no real benefits of it.

Finally, the 'kingly wine' spoken of in Scripture is always New Wine or freshly pressed grapes. Anciently the King had cupbearer who both pressed fresh grapes and tasted the new wine. There are articles in the links I have provided above which go into this interesting subject.

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There is a tendency to mix covenants and priesthoods (Levitical vs. Melchizedek) as well as types of wine (new unfermented and alcoholic wine). For a more detailed study, see my article at:

http://nccg.org/FAQ338-Wine.html
(from http://nccg.org/alcohol.html )

The Rechab covenant prefigures the New and 'better' Melchizedek covenant (per pro Hebrews) and its Melchizedek priests on duty 24/7 in our bodily temples of the Ruach. I guess it all boils down to how set-apart to YHWH you want to be.

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