From Bread to Wine – Theopolis Institute
In the Bible, bread (and beer, usually translated “strong drink,” liquid bread made from grain) is priestly and wine is kingly and prophetic
In the Bible, bread (and beer, usually translated “strong drink,” liquid bread made from grain) is priestly and wine is kingly and prophetic. Bread comes first and wine later. Bread is alpha food while wine is omega food. You eat bread in the morning and drink wine at night. Bread is suitable for children while wine is for adults. The grain harvest precedes the grape harvest; Pentecost comes before the Feast of Booths. The Tribute Offering uses bread in the wilderness, and has wine added once the promised land is reached. Bread is made quickly, but wine takes much longer to ferment and mature.((These associations have been explored at length in Jeffrey J. Meyers, “Concerning Wine and Beer,” Rite Reasons 48-49.))
The entire Old Creation, the childhood of humanity (Galatians 4), is the time of bread, while the New Covenant, our maturity in Christ, is the time of bread and wine. Between the two comes the breaking of the bread, the death of Jesus Christ. Jesus comes as priest, not as king. He refuses to act as king and divide peoples’ inheritances. Instead, He professes to be doing nothing more than obeying His Father. In this regard, it is as priest that He dies, and then ascends to be enthroned.
