Imagery from Isaiah 63 and Treading the Winepress Alone (week of Oct. 3, fourth to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
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🗓️ 2 October 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In this class video Kerry discusses (and shows lots of images about) the imagery Isaiah paints of the Messiah treading the winepress alone.
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| 0:00.0 | So today, I want to just share some, one of the most important chapters will cover one of the most important chapters will cover one of the chapter 63. |
| 0:24.6 | And so I want to just share a couple of images that will help us understand chapter 63 and set up a discussion that I'd like to have in class about that chapter. |
| 0:31.6 | So 63 is one that we refer to a lot. |
| 0:35.6 | It's from this one that we get the phrase, |
| 0:39.0 | treading the wine press alone. |
| 0:42.2 | Here you can see an ancient wine press. |
| 0:44.4 | This is a simple one where they just had one place to put the grapes and they would tread on them |
| 0:49.9 | and it would go down into this basin, right? |
| 0:54.0 | Here is one from the 1800s, 9-Karum, and you can see here it is. There was another one here, but they were using an ancient one still then. An-Karum is a suburb of Jerusalem, beautiful little area, but anyway, where they tread it and then it comes out into this area |
| 1:14.0 | and then down into this area. |
| 1:18.1 | They obviously clean it up a little bit, but so there would seem right now just using this part. |
| 1:24.3 | Here's the one that they have at the Jerusalem Center today built off of some that they've |
| 1:31.0 | seen found from the time period of the Savior. And you can see there's serious. You tread here. |
| 1:37.5 | It drains into here. You tread more here. And it drains into these ones. And that's where you |
| 1:41.6 | collect the wine. Now, I always wanted to kind of know what this was like and experience this process a little bit. |
| 1:52.0 | So we one time were able to harvest a bunch of grapes that someone wasn't going to harvest themselves |
| 1:58.0 | and we washed our feet and everything, but then we put it in the swimming |
| 2:03.2 | pool and we started treading this. |
| 2:07.3 | And you can see, you actually have to hold on to everyone. |
| 2:10.2 | It gets quite slick. |
| 2:11.2 | I'm sure it's less slick when it's not plastic. |
| 2:13.5 | Still, it gets quite slick. |
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