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A Quick Introduction to the New Wine System
The gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to
all nations, and then the end will come (Mat. 24:14). The gospel (good news) of the
kingdom is that anyone can choose to completely overcome sin (all sinful habits), which
is to be completely sanctified (1 Thess. 5:23), through a personal relationship with Jesus
Christ. No one who abides in Christ keeps on sinning (1 John 3:6), because in Christ there
is no sin. No one born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he
cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God (1 John 3:9).
Salvation is a journey to holiness, by faith in Jesus Christ, who is the Savior of all
people, especially those who believe (1 Tim. 4:10). Without holiness, no one will see the
Lord (Heb. 12:14). Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is
perfect (Mat. 5:48). Death, however, is not the end of the journey.
The wise (Dan. 12:3,10, Mat. 7:24, 25:2) complete their journey in this
age (1 Thess. 5:23). They are the saints, which means holy ones. They will be resurrected
with immortal bodies (1 Cor. 15:50), and will inherit the kingdom, when Christ returns. The saints
will no longer be under judgment (John 5:24). They will reign as kings and priests over the
nations (Rev. 2:26, 5:10, 20:6), here on earth (Mat. 5:5).
The foolish, (Mat. 7:26, 25:2) still have sinful habits when they
die. They will be resurrected with mortal bodies to continue their journey of salvation to
holiness (Acts 24:15). They will still be under judgment (John 5:28-29), and will not inherit
the kingdom (1 Co. 6:9, Gal 5:21).
The wicked (Dan. 12:10, Mat. 24:48, 25:26) are those who deliberately and knowingly
reject Jesus Christ, as in taking the mark of the beast (Rev. 14:9-11). They forfeit their
salvation (Mat. 12:31, Heb. 6:4-6). They will not be resurrected.
If you want to be invited to the wedding banquet, if you want Jesus to say he knows you when
he returns (Mat. 25:12, 7:23), if you want to be in the Bride of Christ, if want to be a part of
the true Israel that will have authority over the nations when Christ returns (Rev. 2:26), then
you must repent and seek Christ's help to completely overcome all (100%) of the sinful habits in your
life. Because, without holiness no one will see the Lord (Heb. 12:14).
Applying Old Testament Jewish Eschatology to the New Testament Church
All of our New Testament doctrine comes from the words of Jesus, John, James, Peter, and
Paul. All five were Jewish. We must strive to interpret their words in the way ancient
Jews would have understood. We must interpret their words in the context of the ancient
Jewish culture that we see in the Old Testament.
When I say ancient Jewish eschatology, think of the Old Testament, interpreted as the Jews did, which was
literally. Why should we apply Jewish eschatology? We need to because it's Scripture - Old Testament
Scripture. I'm not saying we should use their beliefs other than the ones that are in Scripture itself.
The natural question next would be, doesn’t traditional interpretations do that as well? There are two
traditional approaches to Old Testament prophecy:
1) Preterists would say the Church is Israel. The New Testament Church is simply a continuation of God's
chosen people, under a New Covenant. This is true. However, Preterists force Old Testament prophecies
about Israel to be completely fulfilled in Christ's first coming. To do this requires massive and confusing
allegorical and symbolic techniques. Many Preterists will admit that the Jewish writers themselves would never
have interpreted the prophecies in this way.
2) Dispensationalists interpret Old Testament prophecies much more literally and naturally, like the
Jews would have done. But the Church, they say, is a "parenthesis" between two dispensations of
Israel, completely separating the Old Testament prophecies from the Church. They apply the prophecies to a
separate group of God's people they call Israel.
My approach is to interpret Old Testament prophecies literally and naturally, like the Jews interpreted them, but
I apply them directly to the Church. In other words, the Church is Israel. The prophecies are literally
fulfilled in the Church. And the Church is those who are in Christ. There is no difference between Jew and
Gentile. If you are in Christ, you are in the true Israel.
But doing so makes the entire New Testament be much more Jewish and less Greek. You may point out the New
Testament was written to Greeks. True. But much of it is letters written to churches addressing
problems with those churches. Paul had already started those churches and had taught them. Paul would have
naturally taught them what Paul believed. And unless God showed Paul that something was in error, Paul would
have naturally taught from the Jewish perspective, because Paul was a Jewish Pharisee.
The specific things God taught Paul as being in error was that Gentiles could be a part of Israel, and that the
Messiah had to come twice. Other than that, we must assume the Jewish culture, based on the Old Testament, as
the context for interpreting the New Testament. We cannot reinterpret the Old Testament based our traditional
Greek understanding of the New Testament. Instead, we must force the New Testament to be interpreted in the
context of the Old Testament, and interpret it like a Jew of that time would have done.
When you and I grew up, we were taught that when someone dies, he or she goes
straight to heaven or hell. Eternity is decided at that point, based on what we did or
believed during our lifetimes. This has been ingrained into our belief system so strong
that every New Testament verse is interpreted based on that belief.
When we read about Jesus telling the thief on the cross, “Today you will be with me in Paradise,” we interpret it
under the filter of our pre-existing traditional beliefs. When we read what Paul said about being absent from
the body is being present with the Lord, we interpret it under the filter of our pre-existing traditional beliefs. When we
read the parable of Lazarus, with the rich man talking to Abraham in Hades, we interpret it under the filter
of our pre-existing traditional beliefs. So these interpretations of these verses reinforce our pre-existing beliefs.
But ancient Jews did not believe that when you die you immediately go to heaven or hell. The just and the
unjust both go to Hades to await the resurrection. The just and the unjust will both be resurrected on the Day
of the Lord. After the resurrection is the Messianic age to come. That’s when Israel will rule the
world. This is what ancient Jewish children were taught from their youth. When you read these New
Testament verses under the filter of their belief system of that time, the interpretations can be very different. These
verses do not challenge the ancient Jewish belief system as being incorrect. You only think that they would
challenge that belief system if you are already convinced that heaven or hell comes immediately after death.
This is not to say that people don’t eventually go to heaven or hell. But the final judgment is not until
after the Messianic reign. In other words, the Great White Throne Judgment is not until a thousand years after
the resurrection of both the just and the unjust. At that time, those not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life
are thrown into the lake of fire, which is hell-fire.
After the early Jewish disciples were gone, all the early church fathers had Greek backgrounds. Unlike Jewish
culture, Greek culture has punishment or bliss immediately after death. But with ancient Greek culture, there
was not a resurrection. So the Greeks who read the New Testament would have naturally miss-interpreted it in
exactly the same way we do. Yes, we believe in the resurrection. But our focus at funerals is on heaven or
hell immediately after death. The Jewish focus was on the resurrection. Our incorrect belief heavily
distorts how we see and understand the New Testament.
For example, Jesus said, “I am the way [road], the truth, and the life. No man comes [journeys] to the Father
except by me.” (The Greek word used here for 'way' means 'road' or 'way of life'.) If we have been
taught from childhood that our eternal destiny of heaven or hell is decided when we die, then this verse is naturally
interpreted as saying that if you don’t know about Christ, you will wind up in hell when you die. For someone who
has been taught heaven-or-hell when you die, from childhood, this verse is very hard to interpret any other
way. But for the ancient Jew, this verse simply says that Jesus is the Messiah. In the age to come, it
will be only through the Messiah that anyone will be able to ascend to the Father. Nobody is left out by
this verse under ancient Jewish culture because both the just and the unjust are resurrected prior to the Messianic
age to come. Death is not the end of the journey.
When we apply Old Testament Jewish eschatology to the New Testament Church, it solves four major problems that have
divided the churches over the centuries. (1) It solves Calvinism vs. Arminianism (election vs. free-will). (2) It
solves issues about the dichotomy of free-grace verses vs. holiness verses. Some verses say salvation is a free
gift, while others verses require lots of work to overcome sin. (3) For the Catholics, it gives a free-grace
alternative to purgatory. (4) And, since death is not the end of the journey, it solves this problem of people who
die having never heard about Christ. Many other Scriptural problems are solved as well.
Was the Pearl of Great Price (Matt. 13:45-46) really a free gift?
Salvation is a free gift. No amount of work can be done to earn salvation.
The merchant sold everything he had to buy the Pearl of Great Price. Was he ripped off for buying something
that everybody else gets for free?
What about the man who found a treasure hidden in the field? (Matthew 13:44) He sold everything he had
to buy that field. The treasure is the kingdom of heaven.
Salvation is a free gift (Romans 3:24, 5:15-17, 6:23). But these men sold everything they had to buy the
kingdom. Could it be that inheriting the kingdom is different from salvation?
We, who are saved by the blood of Christ, are then told by Christ to seek the kingdom of God and his
righteous. You can't seek something that you already have. Salvation is a free gift. But inheriting
the kingdom requires lots of work.
This would make sense to the ancient Jew, who focused on the resurrection instead of heaven-or-hell when you
die. They focused on being a part of Israel, who will rule with Christ as priests and kings in the age to come
after the resurrection. But ruling over the nations is only for those who overcome sin (Rev. 2:26-27). You
can be saved, but not inherit the kingdom. Those who don't overcome sin, even though they have faith in
Christ, will just be a part of the nations at the resurrection. They will not reign with Christ.
The Prodigal Son
We can see the difference between salvation and inheriting the kingdom in the parable of the Prodigal
Son (Luke 15:11-32). The word “prodigal” means extravagantly wasteful. The younger son received his
inheritance in full, and wasted it. The older son spent his life working for his father. The younger son
returns, and his father is filled with joy, and celebrates the return of his son. The younger son would have
been happy to simply work as one of the father’s servants. But the father restores the younger son, and celebrates.
One thing is often missed about this parable. The father says, to the older son, “Everything I have is
yours.” The older son still has his inheritance. The younger son has his life back. Therefore, the
younger son is saved. But he has lost his inheritance.
Those who seek the kingdom of the Father and his righteousness in this age will inherit the kingdom in the age to
come. The older son will rule over the nations with Christ. But the Father still loves the younger
son. Those who repent in the age to come will be welcomed back as sons. They will be given life
again. But they will not inherit the kingdom. They will not be the priests and kings who reign with Christ
during the millennium.
Problems Solved by the New Wine System
Calvinists tell us that God has chosen, before we were even born, who will go to heaven and
who will go to hell. God chooses who He will draw to Himself so that we will ask for
Christ’s forgiveness and salvation. This means that God creates souls knowing that they
will have no chance to ever be saved, and will spend eternity in hell. It would have been
better for these souls to have never been created. For many people, this simply does not fit
with the character of a loving, caring, and merciful God.
Arminians tell us that we have the free-will to accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior, and
thus we can individually choose heaven and not hell by choosing to place our faith in Jesus
Christ. This would seem to be a little more in line with the character of a loving
God. But many of us still have problems with this view.
The New Wine System, on the other hand, says God chooses who will inherit the kingdom, but God
does not choose those who will eventually place their faith in Jesus Christ. Those who inherit the kingdom
will rule over the nations. But those in the nations are still on the road of salvation, and will
still have the opportunity for eternal life through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
But both the traditional Calvinist and Armenianian systems tend to have uneasy words for those who
die, having never heard about Christ. Even Christian Universalists say they wind up being punished
in hell, even if it's temporary.
What about those who have lived and died in cultures, generations, and times where it would have
been simply impossible to learn about the saving blood of Jesus Christ? Even if they had the
theoretical ability to accept Christ as Savior, they would not have had the opportunity to learn
about Christ. Would a loving, caring, and merciful God create souls and place them in
environments such as these? How is doing so any different than God simply creating the soul
and making the choice that the soul will spend eternity in hell?
If a person dies without hearing about Christ, one could argue, God will make special
provisions to save the person. Let’s take a look at the various types of special provisions
which have been developed to address this problem.
1) Pluralism and Unitarian Universalism states that all religions lead to salvation.
2) Annihilationalism states that all souls who do not believe in Jesus Christ are
destroyed. There is no hell. Jehovah Witnesses hold this view.
3) Christian Universalists affirm there is some form of punishment after death for those who do not
believe in Christ. But the punishment is not eternal. Eventually, everyone will be saved.
4) Inclusivism or Extended Mercy states that all who have faith in God will be saved by
the blood of Christ, whether or not they understand or believe in Jesus Christ.
5) The view of Postmortem Evangelism is that everyone receives the opportunity to believe
in Jesus after death. Some would say God judges whether or not the person would have accepted
Christ if they had been given the opportunity. Others would say it’s an issue of
election. God elects those who are to be saved after death.
6) Some say God gives every person an opportunity to receive Christ soon before death. This
can be by visions, dreams, or angels. Others would say it’s at the moment of death by middle
knowledge.
There are many problems with these views. Some are assumptions that are made without
much Scriptural evidence. Others require stretching the natural meaning of Scripture. Others
simply disregard Scripture’s requirement for a meaningful personal relationship with our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ.
All of these systems, including traditional Calvinism and Arminianism, seem to make one
assumption that is not taught by Scripture. All these systems assume that when we die, we go
straight to heaven or hell. This makes death be the end of our journey. This teaching is
ingrained into our culture. When we go to funerals, the preacher tells us our loved one is
in a better place (hopefully). But what does Scripture teach? What did the ancient Jews
believe? When Martha was grieving over the death of her brother Lazarus, did she seek comfort
in knowing Lazarus was in heaven? Or did she seek comfort in knowing he would be raised on
the last day (John 11:24)?
In New Testament times, the Jews understood there to be different regions in Hades for
different types of people. But everyone, both the righteous and the unrighteous, still went to
Hades when they died. Everyone awaited the resurrection. For the Greeks, Hades was only the
place for the wicked. The word ‘Hades’ in the Bible began to be translated as hell. This is
not to say that there is no hell. The Greek word Gehenna should be translated as hell. But people
do not go to hell (the lake of fire) as soon as they die. People do not go to hell (the lake of
fire) until after they are judged. And the final Judgment is not until a thousand years after
the resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
The New Wine System interprets Scripture much more like the ancient Jews would have done. The
hope is in the resurrection, and in the Messianic reign of Christ. The blood of Christ was
atonement for everybody’s sins. God “causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on
the righteous and the unrighteous” (NIV Mat. 5:45). Our sins were not forgiven on the specific date
when we first accepted Christ as Savior. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for
us (Romans 5:8). Our sins were forgiven at the cross, before we were even born.
This is true for all people, of all ages, all generations, and all cultures. Everyone, from
Adam on down, is on a journey of salvation. Our journey might or might not include an
encounter with Jesus Christ during this lifetime. But our journey hopefully brings us closer to
the person God wants us to be. Death does not end this journey. Everyone will be
resurrected. When Christ returns to reign as King of Kings, everyone will have the opportunity
to put their faith in Christ and to continue their journey of salvation. When we complete our
journey, through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, we will be given eternal life with
new spiritual bodies.
Those of us who complete this journey with Jesus Christ in this lifetime will be resurrected
with spiritual bodies and will reign with Christ when He returns. This is the Bride of Christ. People
from every nation, tribe, people, and language will be in the wedding banquet, and will be the Bride
of Christ. But this is just the tip of the iceberg as compared with the total number of people, from
all past generations, who will complete their journey of salvation (sanctification) during the
millennial Messianic age to come.
The problem all along has been in the way we have been trained to think. We think of salvation
as being something that is given to people when they accept Christ as Savior. However, the blood
of Christ puts everyone on this path, on this journey, even before we are born. As long as we desire
to continue this journey, we will have the continued opportunity for eternal life.
There is no need for infant baptism. Nor is there a need for an age of accountability for
children. Neither of these is found in Scripture. The sins of children are already forgiven. If the
child dies, he or she will simply continue his or her journey of salvation after the resurrection.
Likewise, we don't have to worry about the mentally ill, who physically grow up but never develop the mental
capacity to understand about Jesus Christ. They will simply be resurrected, free of their mental illness,
and will have the opportunity to learn about Jesus Christ.
Paul said, Jesus is "the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe" (ESV 1 Timothy 4:10b).
All people were born already on their journey of salvation. Jesus said, "When I am lifted up
from the earth, [I] will draw all men to myself" (ESV John 12:32). In other words, the Holy Spirit will reveal
Himself and His Son to everybody. Everyone’s name was written in the Lamb’s Book of Life from the
foundation of the world. However, as Old Testament Scripture shows, some are blotted out, because they reject
Christ’s salvation. Those who deliberately and knowingly reject Christ as Savior will forfeit their
salvation. They will be eternally punished. This is called the unpardonable sin.
One form of the unpardonable sin is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. This is the same as in the days
of Moses, when they worshiped a golden calf after having seen all the miracles of Moses (Exodus 32:32-33). Another
form is described in Hebrews 6:4-6, which is an intentional rejection of Christ after having received the Holy
Spirit. Another form is taking the mark of the beast. And after the millennium, when Satan is released, those
who march against Jerusalem will be committing the unpardonable sin. All of these are examples of the
deliberate and knowledgeable rejection of Jesus Christ as Savior.
Everybody continues on their journey of salvation unless and until he or she commits this unpardonable
sin. It’s not sin in a weak moment. It’s a deliberate and knowledgeable decision. This
sin cannot be forgiven, in this age or in the age to come (Matthew 23:32, Mark 3:28-29, Luke 12:10), because
it would require Christ to be crucified again (Hebrews 6:4-6). The unpardonable sin is a decision
that men can make out of our own free will, just like Adam. And it has the same consequence as Adam’s
sin. But Christ will not be crucified a second time.
God does not show favoritism (Romans 2:11). The New Wine System is the only system that has
no favoritism for anybody of any generation, of any culture or nationality, without the use of after-death-punishment or
purgatory. The New Wine System is the only system that truly reflects the character of a
loving, merciful, and caring God, while at the same time giving men the true free-will ability to reject Him.
The New Wine System is the simple application of Jewish eschatology to the Church. When
the Messiah comes, Israel will rule the world and salvation will be brought to all the nations through
that rule. Likewise, when Christ returns, the Church (which is Israel) will rule the world with
Christ. The Church is the firstfruits (Romans 8:23, James 1:18). The Church is the Bride, who gets
into the wedding banquet. The Church will be the priests and kings who lead the nations to eternal
salvation during the millennium.
We are told to seek first the kingdom of heaven and his righteousness. Those who seek righteousness
will find it. Those, in Christ, who seek the kingdom, will find it. But if you don’t seek the
kingdom, you won’t find the kingdom. If you don’t seek the kingdom, you won’t inherit the kingdom. We have
been taught that to inherit the kingdom is the same as salvation. However, “Neither the sexually
immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the
greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God” (NIV 1 Cor. 6:9-10). Yet
all of these sins have already been forgiven by the blood of Christ.
We confuse inheriting the kingdom with “getting saved” because we incorrectly assume that our journey
of salvation ends with death. Those who complete this journey before they die are the
elect. But the elect are not the only ones who will be saved. Everyone else still has the
free-will opportunity to continue their journey of salvation, even after the resurrection.
The elect are those who commit their lives totally to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We find God’s
purpose for us as individuals, and then we get excited about fulfilling that purpose. Nothing else matters, even
if it would cost us our lives. We help others whom God brings into our paths. In doing so, we overcome
sin and find Christ’s righteousness. If we walk as Jesus walked (1 John 2:6), which is to walk without sin,
we will inherit the kingdom when Christ returns.
Those who confuse “getting saved” with election will tend to water down the gospel, of what it
takes to inherit the kingdom. If you confuse “getting saved” with election, and you are told
this is what it takes to be the elect, you will say very few people will “get saved.” But the
narrow gate that few find is that of election. It’s for inheriting the kingdom. This is the prize
for which Paul ran the race. This alone leads us to inheriting spiritual bodies when Christ
returns. Others, however, will continue their journey of salvation during the millennium, even though they
have been living a life that leads to destruction, unless they reject Christ’s salvation by taking the mark of the beast.
These and many other Scriptural problems are solved by this one simple application of Jewish
eschatology to the Church. The people of Israel are a “chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, a people for his own purposes” (1 Peter 2:9, Exodus 19:5-6). The people of Israel are the
elect. To be chosen does not simply mean you are saved. The people of the nations can be saved and
yet not be chosen to rule the world. New Testament Jewish writers like Peter quoted Old Testament
verses, such as this one from Exodus 19:5-6. They applied Old Testament prophecies about Israel to
the Church. If we do likewise, then the Old Testament prophecies about Israel must be literally
fulfilled in the Church. Therefore, the Church will rule the nations with Christ during the
millennium (Revelation 2:26-27, 5:10, 20:6).
The Gospel, According to the New Wine System
The word ‘gospel’ means good news. What is the good news, according to traditional Catholic beliefs? Many
Christians today, both Catholic and Protestant, would allow for salvation through other religions. But
traditionally speaking, Catholics would say that salvation is available only to those who are baptized in the
Catholic Church. Anyone not baptized in the Catholic Church goes to hell when they die. And except for
converts, baptism is for infants.
After baptism, he or she begins a journey that leads to holiness. This journey involves the overcoming of
sin. Sins that are confessed are forgiven by grace, by the blood of Jesus Christ. Merits are also given for
good deeds that are performed during this journey. Merits are rewarded, and that reward includes eternal life.
Those who reach a certain level of holiness and have a certain number of merits, before they die, are
considered to be saints. The saints go straight to heaven when they die. Others in the Catholic Church must
first spend some time in purgatory, being cleansed through punishment by fire, for whatever shortcomings they
have with regard to holiness and merits. Time in purgatory can be very long, but it’s still
temporary. Eventually, those in purgatory get released and then they go to heaven.
Those still alive, here on the earth, can study and communicate with the saints in heaven. People on
earth can ask the saints to act or pray on their behalf.
Growing up in this system, Martin Luther was terrified of God. He perceived God as unjust and impossible
to please. The Protestants eliminated purgatory and merits. Nobody can become perfect this side of the
grave. Everyone continues to sin almost all the time. Perfection comes only when you reach heaven. At that
time you are immediately made perfect. All believers are considered to be saints. And good deeds do not
earn merits that contribute to one’s salvation.
Under the Protestant Reformation system, the good news is simply a matter of making a decision for Jesus
Christ. The gospel is that anyone who puts their faith in Christ will go to heaven when they die.
Salvation is strictly a decision to believe and follow Jesus Christ. You are imputed with justification by
the blood of Jesus when you make your decision for Christ. Thus, salvation is not a journey. It’s a
decision that occurs at a specific time. The Protestant believes he was saved (past tense) on a specific date
when he first asked Jesus to come into his life.
If you ask the Catholic if he is saved, he might say, “No, but I will be.” Or he might say, “Yes, and
I’ll be saved again tomorrow.” In other words, for the Catholic, salvation is a journey. For the
Protestant, salvation is a past-tense one-time event. Wesleyan Protestants would say you can lose your
salvation and then later get it back again. But the original Reformed view was “once saved always saved.” If
you were elected to be saved before the foundation of the world, then how can you lose your salvation?
The advantage of the Protestant system over the Catholic is that one’s relationship with Jesus Christ and
the Father is much more personal. You don’t feel like you must go through a long journey that will never
end in this lifetime before reaching the Father. You don’t have to seek the Father through saints and
priests. And there is no fear of punishment in purgatory for one’s lack of holiness or merits.
The disadvantage of the Protestant system is that one can lose the sense of the importance for
holiness. Nobody is perfect, so sinful habits that have a hold on you can be excused as not being essential
to overcome for salvation. You are still going to heaven, even if the sinful habit is never
overcome. Evangelism and missions can be seen as the only important function of the church. After all, it
is reasoned, one only needs to get saved in order to go to heaven.
Under the New Wine System, the good news of Jesus Christ combines the best from both the Catholics
and the Protestants. Salvation is a journey and not a past-tense decision. Salvation involves becoming
holy, like Jesus Christ is holy. Complete sanctification, or perfect holiness, can be found this side
of the grave. Only those who reach this perfect holiness are considered to be saints. (Saints means holy
ones.) We are not made perfect when we die.
Good deeds do not contribute to salvation. Everyone has already been forgiven for all our sins, before
we were even born. Nobody should feel guilty, except to know that sinful habits must be overcome. Everyone
is on the journey of salvation toward holiness. Good deeds are a mechanism for overcoming sinful habits
and reaching complete sanctification. But good deeds are not involved in the forgiveness of sin. That’s
already done and was only through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Since our sins are already forgiven, we can have a very personal relationship with Jesus Christ and
Father. We don’t pray to the saints. It’s only through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ that
we can even hope to become like Christ and overcome all our sinful habits.
But if we do not reach holiness before we die, we have no fear of punishment. Death is not the end
of the journey. We will simply continue our journey towards holiness when Christ returns. The good
news is that by faith in Jesus Christ we can overcome all our sinful habits. But for those who don’t
have this faith, even death will not stop the journey of salvation. That’s the true good news about
Christ’s sacrifice. That’s the true gospel, which will be preached to all nations.
Jesus told a parable about pouring new wine into new wine skins. New understanding doesn’t necessarily
fit traditional interpretations. Thus, the title of the book is, “New Wine for the End Times.” The New
Wine System is a new understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ, as given in Scripture, that’s based
on old understandings about the End Times. If you find this book useful, please visit my web site for
additional articles about eschatology.
New Wine for the End Times
The New Wine System is all about interpreting the Bible like ancient Jews would have done who believed they
are Israel. (The Church is Israel.) Israel will rule the nations when the Messiah comes. I have
written two books on this subject. The first book is New Wine for the End Times. It’s an
in-depth 512-page book that covers all the Scriptural arguments for the New Wine System. The second is a
smaller 60-page booklet that is a lite read. It’s titled Inheriting the Kingdom. The smaller
booklet is contained entirely in Part Seven of the bigger book. You can also read Inheriting the
Kingdom here on the website. And, you can read here online the Introduction, the Table of Contents, and
the First Chapter of New Wine for the End Times. The First Chapter is "The New Wine System in a
Nutshell." Also, Inheriting the Kingdom is included entirely as Part Seven of the bigger book. Read
it as see if this makes sense to you as a new way to interpret Scripture. It's an interpretaion of Scripture
that's in the context of the Old Testament Jewish culture and beliefs.
Scripture is to be interpreted as literally as is reasonable, with careful consideration for
context, allowing for symbolism only where symbolism is obvious, with the culture of the ancient Jews of
primary importance. It’s my hope that every student of Scripture will read this book
prayerfully, letting the inerrancy of Scripture be the final word.
If you like, you can drop me a line. Ask questions about the New Wine System. I try to respond to
all the emails that I receive.
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Please click on the link below to shop for the book.
Be sure to check for the cheaper shipping options when ordering.
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If you find this book to be of interest, please send an email with a link to this website to all your
Christian family and friends. You could even include one to your pastor.
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Overcome Sin,
for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!