The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

times past, wine’s intangible effects were believed to be the product of the drinkers’ ecstatic union with their god. Besides that, its color often typified blood, which was long accepted as the source and sustainer of life in all flesh, as well as a favorite delicacy of the divine ones. See Leviticus 10:9 and 23:13; Ephesians 5:18. Wine also symbolized in the Bible God’s wrath as the product of the grape. Finally, wine represented the truth because of its effects on the heart and will of the drinker. Ancients acknowledged that it made drinkers more susceptible to spiritual activity and more receptive to invisible infiltration. Thus such archaic Near Eastern thoughts are behind the Holy Spirit’s affects in a believer’s life. Hence, to be filled with the Spirit of God, the true change agent, instead of natural wine was Paul’s exhortation to the New Creation church. As a symbiotic ritual, pouring wine on the ground was to impart life to the earth to guarantee its fruits at harvest time. This motif is also the reason for blood being poured on the ground during sacrificial ceremonies, which wine symbolized. In ancient Israel, pouring wine on the ground also provided a deterrent against their drinking it as a common practiced ritual in celebration of Egyptian gods. The Lord sought to have them not resort to such manipulation in order to hear from Him, even though they were to include it in their regular sacraments as a communion drink. Matthew 9:17; Ephesians 5:18. 1619. Wine Drinking—Intoxication for the purposes of fertility and acquisition of ethereal wisdom. See Numbers 28:7 as an example of religious rite. See also Proverbs 31:4 and Ezekiel 44:21 for wisdom’s injunctions against wine drinking. 1620. Winged—A celestial symbol imitative of God’s spiritual agents of heaven. Winged creatures figure prominently in the Bible. 1621. Winged Snake—A) A dragon. B) A sign of the union of the earth’s mystical powers with the revelatory wisdom of the sky, particularly the sky gods. See Isaiah 14:29 and 30:6. C) Also called “flying serpent.” 1622. Wings—A) A symbol of the celestial and the heavenly manifested as inspired intelligence, speed, and liberty. B) Signs of elevation, limitlessness, and heavenly protection. In times past wings were linked with the sun and astral gods. Malachi 4:2. 1623. Winter—A) Prophetically, a season of darkness, cold, and barrenness. B) A time of hiding and of stagnation. C) Winter is a season of slow-down or of