{"id":11599,"date":"2025-04-26T08:42:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T15:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=11599"},"modified":"2025-04-26T08:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T15:42:43","slug":"the-proud-crown-of-the-drunkards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/the-proud-crown-of-the-drunkards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Proud Crown of the Drunkards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Isaiah 28 is famous for the scripture about the Messiah being the cornerstone of the foundation in our faith, as the atonement of our transgressions in violating the laws of God our Creator. But having just had a post<\/a> about alcohol being unhealthy with a brief explanation of how wine was used in Biblical times, God’s language regarding Ephraim, the northern kingdom of Israel about to be conquered, is very relevant. Because in Biblical times a little wine was added to water as some compounds within had a sanitizing effect as well as adding flavor, so the alcohol content was diluted by several parts. And some even boiled the wine down evaporating the alcohol, making a paste that could then be added to their water with no alcohol content and the same sanitizing effect. When the Bible mentions strong drink, it’s speaking about undiluted wine, and the Bible is replete with warnings about those that consume strong drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isaiah 28:1\u20134<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1] Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,\n    and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,\n    which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!\n[2] Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong;\n    like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest,\nlike a storm of mighty, overflowing waters,\n    he casts down to the earth with his hand.\n[3] The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim\n    will be trodden underfoot;\n[4] and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,\n    which is on the head of the rich valley,\nwill be like a first-ripe fig before the summer:\n    when someone sees it, he swallows it\n    as soon as it is in his hand. (ESV)<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
God wasn’t done, because he also declared the religious leaders and false prophets of being drunkards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Isaiah 28:7\u20138<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
[7] These also reel with wine\n    and stagger with strong drink;\nthe priest and the prophet reel with strong drink,\n    they are swallowed by wine,\n    they stagger with strong drink,\nthey reel in vision,\n    they stumble in giving judgment.\n[8] For all tables are full of filthy vomit,\n    with no space left. (ESV)<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
And today the world and its leaders have become even greater drunkards, as the alcohol content available is off the charts and people consume it to great excess, as you can go and purchase as much as you desire. And some alcohol is referred to as spirits, with history supposedly telling us the vapors were like spirits in the distillation process, but going way back drunkenness was used in pagan religions to commune with their gods (demons) as well as participating in debauchery, temple prostitution… So what is excessive alcohol consumption opening you up to today? And how much do people make a mess of their lives while under the influence of alcohol doing things they wouldn’t do sober? And our modern world is sanitary.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Isaiah 28<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judgment on Ephraim and Jerusalem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
[1] Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,\n    and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,\n    which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!\n[2] Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong;\n    like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest,\nlike a storm of mighty, overflowing waters,\n    he casts down to the earth with his hand.\n[3] The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim\n    will be trodden underfoot;\n[4] and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,\n    which is on the head of the rich valley,\nwill be like a first-ripe fig before the summer:\n    when someone sees it, he swallows it\n    as soon as it is in his hand.\n\n\n[5] In that day the LORD of hosts will be a crown of glory,\n    and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,\n[6] and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment,\n    and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.\n\n\n[7] These also reel with wine\n    and stagger with strong drink;\nthe priest and the prophet reel with strong drink,\n    they are swallowed by wine,\n    they stagger with strong drink,\nthey reel in vision,\n    they stumble in giving judgment.\n[8] For all tables are full of filthy vomit,\n    with no space left.\n\n\n[9] \u201cTo whom will he teach knowledge,\n    and to whom will he explain the message?\nThose who are weaned from the milk,\n    those taken from the breast?\n[10] For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,\n    line upon line, line upon line,\n    here a little, there a little.\u201d\n\n\n[11] For by people of strange lips\n    and with a foreign tongue\nthe LORD will speak to this people,\n[12]    to whom he has said,\n\u201cThis is rest;\n    give rest to the weary;\nand this is repose\u201d;\n    yet they would not hear.\n[13] And the word of the LORD will be to them\nprecept upon precept, precept upon precept,\n    line upon line, line upon line,\n    here a little, there a little,\nthat they may go, and fall backward,\n    and be broken, and snared, and taken.\n\n\nA Cornerstone in Zion<\/strong>\n\n[14] Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers,\n    who rule this people in Jerusalem!\n[15] Because you have said, \u201cWe have made a covenant with death,\n    and with Sheol we have an agreement,\nwhen the overwhelming whip passes through\n    it will not come to us,\nfor we have made lies our refuge,\n    and in falsehood we have taken shelter\u201d;\n[16] therefore thus says the Lord GOD,\n\u201cBehold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion,\n    a stone, a tested stone,\na precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation:\n    \u2018Whoever believes will not be in haste.\u2019\n[17] And I will make justice the line,\n    and righteousness the plumb line;\nand hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,\n    and waters will overwhelm the shelter.\u201d\n[18] Then your covenant with death will be annulled,\n    and your agreement with Sheol will not stand;\nwhen the overwhelming scourge passes through,\n    you will be beaten down by it.\n[19] As often as it passes through it will take you;\n    for morning by morning it will pass through,\n    by day and by night;\nand it will be sheer terror to understand the message.\n[20] For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on,\n    and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.\n[21] For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim;\n    as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused;\nto do his deed\u2014strange is his deed!\n    and to work his work\u2014alien is his work!\n[22] Now therefore do not scoff,\n    lest your bonds be made strong;\nfor I have heard a decree of destruction\n    from the Lord GOD of hosts against the whole land.\n\n\n[23] Give ear, and hear my voice;\n    give attention, and hear my speech.\n[24] Does he who plows for sowing plow continually?\n    Does he continually open and harrow his ground?\n[25] When he has leveled its surface,\n    does he not scatter dill, sow cumin,\nand put in wheat in rows\n    and barley in its proper place,\n    and emmer as the border?\n[26] For he is rightly instructed;\n    his God teaches him.\n\n\n[27] Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,\n    nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin,\nbut dill is beaten out with a stick,\n    and cumin with a rod.\n[28] Does one crush grain for bread?\n    No, he does not thresh it forever;\nwhen he drives his cart wheel over it\n    with his horses, he does not crush it.\n[29] This also comes from the LORD of hosts;\n    he is wonderful in counsel\n    and excellent in wisdom. (ESV)<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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