MARK 14:25 DRINK NEW IN THE KINGDOM

[Doug]

Mark 14:25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.

Jesus was speaking to the disciples at the passover meal. Jesus told them he would not drink of the fruit of the vine again until the kingdom of God. The kingdom he spoke of is the prophetic Davidic kingdom promised the believing remnant of Israel (Revelation 5:10 Luke 1:32 Luke 12:32).

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Paul also spoke of the kingdom of God. Paul said the kingdom is not drink, yet Jesus emphasized that he would drink in the kingdom.

Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

It would stand to reason then, that when Paul speaks of the kingdom of God, it is the heavenly kingdom he spoke of, not the earthly.

 

[Arsenios]

Paul said the kingdom is not drink, yet Jesus emphasized that he would drink in the kingdom.

It would stand to reason then, that when Paul speaks of the kingdom of God, it is the heavenly kingdom he spoke of, not the earthly.

Rather than dividing up the earthly kingdom from the heavenly, perhaps we should look to the Gospel of Christ where it tells us that the Kingdom of Heaven is AT HAND, which is here and now, upon the earth, but not OF the earth... And Christ partakes of the fruit of the grape on earth even now, this day, through the lips of the members of His Body in the Sacramental Mysteries of the Ekklesia, Which are the Nourishment of the souls of those members, and the medicines of immortality...

Inferential theology is as fickle as the inferencer...


Arsenios