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i found this on the web which might help:

 

Leaven is a type of sin and heresy. Grape juice is abundant with leaven, or yeast. "In fermentation the alcoholic content reaches an amount so high that even the yeast cells cannot tolerate it, thus the yeast cells are destroyed by the power they create. The concentration of the alcohol that will destroy yeast cells is roughly 7 to 14%. Wines with a higher alcohol content have been fortified with an extra alcohol over and above what was created by their own yeast population" (Emp. Mine, RWC) (Folk Wines, by Jagendorph). "When fermentation is complete and the dead yeast cells and other agents settle to the bottom, the wine is then ‘racked’. This involves drawing the wine off and leaving the sediment which is called ‘lees’. Through repeated racking, every trace of leavening is removed from the wine and it is unleavened" (Emp. Mine, RWC) (Wine Making At Home, Homer Hardwick, Pp. 8-14). "The grapes are crushed and the grape ‘must’ is allowed to ferment in vats, usually after the addition of sulfur dioxide to suppress wild yeast and organisms other than the true wine yeast. The wine is ‘racked off’ to separate it from the lees or sediments of yeast, acids and other matter" (Encyclopedia Britannica). It is obvious from these expert sources that grapes have their own leaven or "true wine making yeast." In the drink offering, that which portrays the blood of Christ must not be laden with leaven which is a type of sin and heresy. It must be portrayed by something that is free of leaven and as Hardwick shows, this only happens through fermentation and racking. The blood of Christ must be represented by something that is both free of anything that corrupts and is very powerful. Grape juice could never meet the requirement so God commanded in his holy law the use of strong wine. He did not call for grape juice; he did not call for new wine. He called for the best, the choicest, the strongest, the fullest bodied naturally fermented wine. Only that could be used to represent the sanctifying power of the blood of Jesus Christ.

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