Once again one man, Noah makes a mistake and it
changes the course of earth’s history all over again, just like Adam! Both
of these sins are connected with appetite. Adam and Eve ate fruit and Noah
got drunk from fermented fruit! Nothing died before
Adams sin. So this fermentation of the grapes is
actually a result of sin. The grape juice died and this dead grape juice
caused Noah to lose his senses or become drunk.
Let me take just a moment to explain how this happens. It is actually quite
interesting. Blood carries oxygen and vital nutrients that keep the various
tissues in the body alive. The body has little tiny freeways in which it
carries the blood which are called arteries and veins. Arteries carry the
fresh blood out to the body and veins and carry them back to the lungs and
heart. When the arteries in your neck reach the brain the little freeways
the blood travels on get even smaller. These itty bitty freeways are
actually called capillaries. They are so tiny that the only thing that gets
through the capillaries is oxygen and blood sugar.
When a person drinks fermented or the dead juice of grapes or any other form
of alcohol it causes something to happen inside these little freeways. The
oxygen experiences a traffic jam, and begins to clot or get stuck together.
The more alcohol a person drinks the greater the traffic jam. A major
problem happens when this oxygen tries to get through the capillaries or
little freeways going to the brain. They are so tiny that all the oxygen
that is stuck together can’t get through. The brain is actually going
through something sort of like suffocation. This is what causes a person to
feel “drunk.” The more suffocated the brain gets or the less oxygen the
brain receives the more intoxicated or “drunk” a man feels.
Think about this the next time you are offered a “little wine” with your
meal. How about if I offered you the wine like this, “He buddy, how would
you like to suffocate your brain from a percentage of its oxygen for a few
hours? It feels great and helps you forget your troubles because your brain
can’t function without oxygen. I guess I should tell you it causes your
brain to hurt the next morning if you do it. Anyway don’t worry about all
that! Do you want to try cutting oxygen off to your brain for a few hours?”
Spiritually this is exactly what Satan is trying to do to all the churches.
Revelation 17 describes a woman holding a cup of alcohol which gets the
entire world spiritually drunk! How does she do this? She gets the churches
of the world to believe false things about the Bible and what it teaches.
The “Spirit of Truth,” cannot sanctify or bless Christians through
“doctrines of devils” (John
15:26; 1 Timothy
4:1). Sadly the churches today are full of such doctrines. This book, is
giving you “The Loud Cry” about these doctrines so that you do not get duped
or fooled. That is why it is so important that you read every word.
Revelation 18:2-3
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying,
Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of
devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and
hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath
of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication
with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the
abundance of her delicacies.
Imagine the Holy Spirit being the spiritual oxygen of the Christian
experience. False doctrines cut off this oxygen flow to the reasoning powers
of the Christian brain. As I mentioned, later on in this book we are going
to be exposing what the wine of
Babylon is! You may
actually be sipping from the cup and not even know it, after all “all
nations have drunk of the wine.” Are you living in a nation? I am and
chances are you are too! So there are people in all nations who are now
drinking of this wine. So do not be too surprised if you find out you that
you might be too. It is human nature to think it must be the other guy
right? Well that is what makes it so easy for Satan to deceive the whole
world, and believe me he does it too.
All that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written
in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Revelation 13:8
I
hope you are not like some people who are deceived into thinking that “just
a little wine is ok… after all it is good for the stomach;” by the way fresh
grape juice is good for the stomach too. You may find out your church
teaches just one or two of the doctrines that are part of this woman’s cup.
If you are, you will be tempted to say, “yeah but they have a good youth
program,” or “the church is close to my house,” or “I like the pastor,” or
“my family has been going there for years, I cannot change now!” That is the
same as saying, “I drink just a little wine with supper because it helps
digestion!” If you find out you are drinking even the tiniest amount of wine
from this cup you need to stop! That is the prescription from the master
Physician. We read that in the very next verse in chapter 18.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues. Revelation 18:4
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the
nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. Genesis 9:22
Well Noah was foolish enough to drink wine. His senses
became numb, or should I say dumb, and this started all sorts of trouble in
his family. Millions of families today are suffering from problems caused by
alcohol. The answer is the same now as it was then… stop drinking alcohol.
If your kids are messed up, maybe, just maybe your sins are the root of
their problems. Take personal responsibility. If you want your kids to
change, be the first one to make some of those changes in your home. If your
marriage is rotten perhaps drinking is affecting your thinking, in fact I
know it is! You cannot think with out oxygen going to your brain. Duh!
Also you cannot think correctly spiritually with out your mind being
anointed with the spiritual oxygen of the Holy Spirit going to your mind.
1
Corinthians 2:13-14
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which
man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing
spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.
Ham’s rebellion was passed down to his children.
“Noah, speaking by divine inspiration, foretold the history of the three
great races to spring from these fathers of mankind. Tracing the descendants
of Ham, through the son rather than the father, he declared, "Cursed be
Canaan; a servant
of servants shall he be unto his brethren." The unnatural crime of Ham
declared that filial reverence had long before been cast from his soul, and
it revealed the impiety and vileness of his character. These evil
characteristics were perpetuated in Canaan and his posterity, whose
continued guilt called upon them the judgments of God.” Patriarch’s and
Prophets p. 71.
Ham’s grandson was a man named Nimrod. The Bible simply records that he was
a mighty hunter before the Lord.
Genesis 10:8-11
8 And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be a
mighty one in the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD:
wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was
Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and
built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
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