The Various Cups of the Bible

 

 

A. Two Special Cases

Diviner’s Cup

 

Genesis 44:1 And [Joseph] commanded whoever is over his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks of food just as they will be able to carry. And put silver of a man into his sack’s mouth. ²And thou wilt put my goblet—the silver goblet—in the mouth of the sack of the little, and the silver of his break.” And he did according to the speech that Joseph spoke. ³The morning is light. And they sent the men, they and their asses. ⁴They exited the city. They didn’t distance, and Joseph said to whoever is over his house, “Arise! Pursue after the men and overtake them. And say unto them, ‘Why ‘peaced’ ye bad under good? ⁵Is not this in which my lord will drink? And he, divining, will divine via him! Ye bad-did what ye did!” ⁶And he overtook them. And he spoke these same words unto them. ⁷And they said unto him, “Why will my lord speak according to these words? Profanity to thy slaves from doing according to this speech! ⁸Behold, we returned unto thee the silver that we found in the mouth of our sacks from the land of Canaan. And how shall we steal silver or gold from thy lord’s house? ⁹With whom he will be found from thy servants, and he shall die! And we, we also shall be slaves to my lord!” ¹⁰And he said, “And also now he is established according to your speeches! He with whom he shall be found will be a slave to me! And ye, ye shall be innocent.” ¹¹And they hurried. And they descended, a man with his sack to the land. And they opened a man his sack. ¹²And he dug. He began in the big and he finished in the little. And he found the goblet in Benjamin’s sack. ¹³And they tore their clothes. And a man loaded upon his ass. And they returned to the city. ¹⁴And Judah came, and his brethren to Joseph’s house. (And he, he is still there). And they fell to his faces landward. ¹⁵And Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that ye did? Did ye not know that, divining, a man who is as I will divine?” ¹⁶And Judah said, “What will we say unto my lord? What will we speak? And what will we justify ourselves? The Elohim found the iniquity of thy slaves. Behold, we are slaves to my lord, also we and also whom the goblet is found in his hand.” ¹⁷And he said, “Profanity to me from doing this! The man in whose hand the goblet is found—he shall be a slave to me! And ye—ascend ye to peace unto your father!”

 

Joseph commanded that another type of cup be placed in Benjamin’s food sack. He called it the cup by which he would divine (a strictly occult term). Joseph was not into the occult; he feared Yehovah. Yet he prophetically filled a role that Yeshua will fill regarding Israel, for Yeshua’s prophecies will seem to be divination to the Israelis once they start happening before and during the Tribulation.

 

This very cup was used to save the lives of Joseph’s family, but Joseph’s brothers were terror-stricken by this cup’s presence in Benjamin’s sack. The same will occur when Yeshua sets His ‘divining tools’ into Israel’s ‘food sack’ during the Tribulation.

 

 

Drinking the Blood of Men

2 Samuel 23:15 And David lusted. And he said, “Who will water me, waters from the Beit-Lekhem well that are in the gate?” ¹⁶And three of the valiant-[ones] broke through into the camp of Palestinians. And they drew water from the Beit-Lekhem well that is in the gate. And they carried and came unto David. And he was not willing to drink them. And he poured them to Yehovah. ¹⁷And he said, “My profanity to her is to me, Yehovah, from my doing this—the blood of the men walking via their beings.” And he was not willing to drink them. Three valiant-[ones] did these.

 

1 Chronicles 11:17 And David lusted. And he said, “Who will water me, waters from the Beit-Lekhem well that are in the gate?” ¹⁸And three broke through into the camp of Palestinians. And they drew water from the Beit-Lekhem well that is in the gate. And they carried and came unto David. And David was not willing to drink them. And he poured them to Yehovah. ¹⁹And he said, “My profanity to her is to me from my Gods from doing this—will I drink the blood of these men walking via their beings? For they brought them via their beings!” And he was not willing to drink them. Three of the valiant-[ones] did these.
If anyone (or any group) risks his life to do a service for another, that person is offering his blood. If the benefactor willingly or unwillingly receives the benefit, the benefactor has drunk the blood of the one who took the risk.

 

While this is how Yehovah views simple heroism, there is another issue. If the service done is for entertainment and not to sustain life, attempt to restore health, or for some truly heroic purpose, the recipient of the entertainment has also drunk the blood of that person (whether the person died or not), and this is the same as enjoying blood sports in historic Roman arenas for personal entertainment. It is a great act of contempt against Yehovah, since the image of God has been risked for entertainment purposes.

 

Some make it their life’s work to take risks (Hollywood stunt personnel, race car drivers, etc.); they are in a different category. Those who willingly join the riskiest forms of the armed services (like the Navy Seals) are also the greatest risk takers. There is a major distinction between these two types of volunteers, however. A Navy Seal is risking his life for his country. That can include saving innocent lives; any lives they save by their risks fall under the drinking blood option above. Anyone whose life is saved by another, and who thus drinks that hero’s or heroine’s blood, is doing right by drinking. Anyone who derives entertainment from acts of heroism personally done for them (I am therefore not referring to race car drivers who love the thrill and do it for personal enjoyment, not to save lives), and no other benefit, is violently drinking the blood of others, and will receive appropriate condemnation.

 

This cup of the blood of men is another cup. Yeshua volunteered His life to save the lives of many and to everlastingly save many. All who grasp that Salvation, taking advantage of it, are drinking Yeshua’s blood.

 

 

B. Humanly Caused Cups

The Cup of Violence

Proverbs 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

 

The wine of violence is not from Yehovah; that is a manmade cup.

 

 

The Cup of Waters

Psalms 73:10 “Therefore He shall return His people here!” and “The waters of fullness shall be sucked-out for them!”

 

This is not a legitimate cup. Bad guys make these two statements in their sarcasm and bitter vituperations against Yehovah.

 

 

C. Deity-Caused Cups

The Cup of Wrath

Isaiah 51:15 “And I am Yehovah thy Gods, calmer of the sea, and his waves roared! Yehovah of Hosts is His Name! ¹⁶And I put my words into thy mouth! And I blanketed thee in the shadow of my hand to plant heavens and to foundation land and to say to Zion, ‘Thou art my People!’” ¹⁷Awaken thyself [feminine]! Awaken thyself [feminine]! Stand-thou [feminine], Jerusalem who drank the cup of His heat from the hand of Yehovah! Thou drank, thou drained the cheating of a cup of self-reeling! ¹⁸There is no guide to her from all sons she childed! And there is no grasper into her hand from all sons she reared! ¹⁹ “Twice, behold, I called thee! Who will be wandered to thee? The devastation and the shattering and the famine and the sword? Who? I will console thee!” ²⁰Thy sons took-cover. They lay in the head of all streets as a luster of a net, the full-ones of the heat of Yehovah, rebuke of thy Gods! ²¹Therefore hearken-thou [feminine] this [feminine], humble-one [feminine], and drunk-one [feminine], and not from wine. ²²So said thy Lords Yehovah and thy Gods! He will fight His people! “Behold, I took from thine hand the cup of self-reeling, the cheating of a cup of my heat! Thou wilt not gather-again to drink her again! ²³And I will put her into the hand of thy grievers who said to thy being, ‘Prostrate! And we have crossed-over!’ And thou didst put thy body as land and as the outside for crossers-over!”

 

The word kavah in Hebrew has the flavour of spoiling and robbing, but these are best covered by other words. It is more akin to cheating with the following acceptations: to deprive by trickery; defraud; mislead, fool: illusions that cheat the eye; elude, escape: cheat death. Yehovah ‘cheated’ potential victims of the devastating cup of Yehovah’s heat (fury) they were about to drink. They didn’t know He did that, as if he had defrauded them, tricked them, etc. Yet, He saved their lives. It would be like a hero who takes the place of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death without the prisoner knowing what occurred, only to find later that the hero died in that person’s place.

 

The cup of heat is the cup of fury.

 

Psalm 11:5 Yehovah shall test a righteous-[one]. And His being hated a culpable-[one] and a lover of violence! ⁶He will rain traps, fire and brimstone and a spirit/wind of pouring-out-flights [where folks must flee their homes and lands] upon culpable-[ones], a portion of their cup! ⁷For Yehovah is righteous. He loved righteousnesses. They shall envision straightness within Him.

 

One aspect of Yehovah’s fury when that cup of iniquity is full is shown by Yehovah forcing folks out of their homes. If the fury is great enough, He will destroy the entire land (as He did with Sodom, etc.). Otherwise, losing homes and being taken captive will be the result.

 

Psalms 75:8 For a cup is in the hand of Yehovah. And the foaming wine was full, mixed. And He poured from this. But her dregs shall go-forth. All the culpable of the land shall drink!

 

This shows the location of the cup: “in the hand of Yehovah.” Yehovah pours, though in other texts He sometimes gives others that responsibility. He did so with Yeshua, and He did so with Jeremiah.

 

The dregs of the cup (the particulate matter at the bottom) also must go from the cup; it will be entirely emptied. All culpable folks (guilty before Yehovah) will drink from this cup. Most cups will be connected with races. This one is connected with all members of all races.

 

Jeremiah 25:15 For so said Yehovah Gods of Israel unto me, “Take this cup of the wine of the fury from my hand. And water her with him: all the races that I am sending thee unto them. ¹⁶And they shall drink. And they shall stagger. And they shall praise themselves from the faces of the sword that I am sending between them.” ¹⁷And I took the cup from the hand of Yehovah. And I watered all the races that Yehovah sent me unto them: ¹⁸Jerusalem and cities of Judah and her kings, her princes—to give them to her sword to desolation, to her shriek and to her worthlessness as this day, ¹⁹Pharaoh king of Egypt and his servants and his princes and all his people, ²⁰and all the mixture and all kings of the land of Utz, and all kings of the land of Palestinians, and Ashkelon and Azzah (Gaza) and Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod, ²¹Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon, ²²and all kings of Tyre and all kings of Zidon and kings of the island that is in-over the sea, ²³Dedan and Tema and Buz and all cutters of corners, ²⁴and all kings of a [desert] crosser and all kings of abiding [desert] crossers in the desert, ²⁵and all kings of Zimri and all kings of Elam and all kings of Medes, ²⁶and all the near and far kings of the north, a man unto his brother, and all the kingdoms of the land that are upon faces of the soil. And King Sheshach shall drink after them.” ²⁷And thou shalt say unto them, ‘So said Yehovah of hosts, Gods of Israel, “Drink-ye! And be-drunk-ye! And vomit-ye! And fall-ye! And ye shall not arise from the faces of the sword that I am sending between you!” ²⁸And he shall be that they shall refuse to take the cup from thy hand to drink. And thou shalt say unto them, ‘So said Yehovah of hosts, “Drinking, ye shall drink!”

 

This cup is singular, and includes all kingdoms on the faces of the planet starting with Israel and ending with a King Sheshach. This one cup of Yehovah’s fury will be passed from one to the other by the hand of Jeremiah (who already did this, but the kings of the world have no clue, since these kings will not be born and reign for many centuries). Yehovah sends historical prophets to deliver messages to future persons, at times; time is no barrier to Yehovah.

 

Revelation 14:6-10 will cover these events from the angle of Babylon and the cups.

 

Jeremiah 49:12 For so said Yehovah,  “Behold, who it is not their justice to drink the cup—drinking, they shall drink. And thou art he—innocent—thou shalt be innocent? Thou shalt not be innocent! For, drinking, thou shalt drink!”

 

This text is speaking to Edom, including Petra (Botzrah). Yehovah is warning that Edom will most certainly drink from the cup of His wrath.

 

Lamentations 4:21 Rejoice and be glad, Daughter of Edom, my dweller in the land of Utz! A cup shall cross-over also upon thee! Thou shalt-be-drunk. And thou stripped-naked thyself!

 

This cup of Yehovah’s wrath causes drinkers to be drunk. That drunkenness is from shock at the terrible and successful attacks of enemies or at the furious destructions of Yehovah.

 

A land stripping naked indicates a total loss of armour and the exposure of all sensitive body parts that not only can feel very great pain, but can quickly bring the body to death when harmed.

 

Obadiah 1:15 For the Day of Yehovah is approached upon all the races. Just-as thou did, He will do to thee! Thy retribution shall return via thy head! ¹⁶For just-as ye drank upon the mountain of my Holy-[One], all the races shall continually drink! And they shall drink, and they shall swallow. And they shall be as they were not!

 

Yehovah guarantees that the bad-guy races will drink, will swallow, and will obtain the retribution for their deeds. The end result is the erasure of their society. (He also protects His own who are among the races from being killed by His wrath; His wrath is very specific. That doesn’t mean they don’t suffer; they certainly do as they see their possessions, homes, family, friends, neighbours, etc. be destroyed or go into slavery at the hands of a very angry enemy.)

 

Habakkuk 2:16 Thou art filled: lightness [unimportance] from glory! Drink—also thou—and thy foreskin shall circle upon thee! A cup of the right of Yehovah and vomiting of shame is upon thy glory.

 

The cup is associated with vomiting and shame. Once Yehovah pours that cup, the group upon which it is poured will lose its importance (glory), and will be brought to great shame and sickness. Nakedness will also result—the nakedness of a group that is suddenly without any defense from attack—not even the clothing that the group would put on. (This is in contrast to another text commanding a group to put on the whole armour of God.)

 

Revelation 16:1 And I heard a great voice from the Temple saying to the seven angels, “Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the land!”

 

This text doesn’t mention the cup, but instead but instead, vials. These are shallow bowls. They contain the wrath of God. The entire chapter of Revelation 16 covers these.

 

Psalm 79:6 Pour out thy wrath upon the races that have not known thee and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy Name! 

 

 

The Cup of Waste and Desolation

Ezekiel 23:31 “Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.” ³²Thus says the Lord Yehovah, “Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s deep and large cup. Thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision. It contains much. ³³Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of waste and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

 

This cup is deep and large. When a group finally drinks it, the result is waste and desolation, meaning that the previously occupied and busy land is now a destroyed ghost town. The population has suffered slaughter and has been taken captive. All the building, the business and the manufacturing goes into recycling, and into giving future archaeologists something to dig.

 

 

The Cup of Staggering

Psalms 60:3 Thou showed Thy people hardness. Thou made-us-drink wine of staggering!

 

Yehovah will sometimes make a people drunk (and thus easily conquered) if that people becomes vile and lovers of sin. (A people that is idolatrous doesn’t necessarily fall into this category.)

 

 

The Cup of Reeling

Zechariah 12:2 Behold, I am putting Jerusalem a goblet of reeling to all the peoples around. And he will also be upon Yehudah via a siege upon Jerusalem.

 

 

The Cup of Tears

Psalms 80:5 Thou hast fed them bread of a tear. And Thou hast watered them via the tears of a third-one.

 

This cup contains tears. The group that drinks this cup will deeply weep.

 

Psalms 102:9 For I ate ash as bread. And I mingled my drink via weeping ¹¹from the faces of Thy indignation and Thy fury. For Thou carried me, and Thou slung me!

 

While the contents of this cup are not given (though they are mingled—that is, a mixed drink), they were mingled via weeping.

 

 

The Cup of Iniquity of a Particular Race

Genesis 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

 

A text might not mention a cup, while alluding to it. The iniquity of the Amorites was stored in a cup. Yehovah will force them to drink their own iniquity once that cup has become full. Other texts discussed in this document show that all races have cups, and all will drink from their own cups once they are full.

 

 

The Cup of (Being) Babylon

Jeremiah 51:7 Babylon is a gold cup in hand of Yehovah. She is inebriating all the land from her wine. Races drank. Therefore the races shall praise themselves!

 

“All the land” includes all continents and islands. Babylon itself is this gold cup. Yehovah holds this cup, and will give drink to all the races. The races will become drunk. They will then praise themselves in their drunken stupor. (Certain forms of insanity include symptoms in which insane persons declare that they are able to do what they truly cannot do, and that they are what they are not. Thus, they commend themselves for what they did not and cannot do.)

 

 

The Cup of the Wrath of Babylon’s Fornication

Revelation 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, “Babylon is fallen! Is fallen! That great city! For she made all races to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication!” ⁹And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, ¹⁰the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God that is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation! And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb!”

 

This text describes “wine of the wrath of fornication.” The other cups did not specify the offenses. Thus, this is a particular cup for a particular offense.

 

Babylon is a city (one in the past, and will be one in the future). Thus, fornication with a city requires other cities (or locations). It is as if those cities are ‘living together’ unmarried, but acting as if they are. Two cities with very different gods can always do trade. It is when they begin to take on the idolatries of each other that they are committing fornication.

 

Babylon did not know that she caused others to drink of the wine of wrath, since Babylon will have no investment in the Word of Yehovah and in belief of Yehovah. This is from Yehovah’s angle; He is saying that she caused them to drink of that wine of wrath.

 

The text then speaks of individuals: “If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, ¹⁰the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God that is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation!” This wine of the wrath of God will occur in this life, and will continue into the Lake of Fire and Sulfur. This cup differs from the previous cup, since this cup is only for individuals, while the previous cup is for races. Thus, this text does give evidence or proof that individuals also drink from a cup from Yehovah.

 

The lack of mixture is a lack of cutting the strength of the wine; they will get it in its full potency.

 

I have not seen or heard of anyone drinking a liquid that was identified as this wine. That doesn’t mean it isn’t literal, since I also have not heard of anyone literally drinking of the waters of life; yet the Bible guarantees that that is literal water that folks will drink. (I can do some supposing at this point. This is only a guess. Suppose that each person will drink of a literal cup at the judgment after the Millennium, and the cup contains the full measure of the wrath of Yehovah toward that person even as that person waits then to enter the Lake of Fire and Sulfur.)

 

The cup itself is called “the cup of His indignation.” Therefore, sinning fills the cup of Yehovah’s indignation. Indignation means a strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to oneself or others, or by the intent to do such injury. For Yehovah, the definition would then be, Indignation means a strong passion of displeasure and antagonism excited by a real injury and insult to Himself and to justice including the intent to do such injury against Yehovah and justice. The word indignation in Hebrew is stronger than hatred. It is akin to outrage. It is the word katsaf, and represents a fervent drive to cut such a person off from the land of the living. Outraging Yehovah just isn’t smart.

 

Every person potentially has a cup of Yehovah’s indignation. That cup fills every time a person sins. The cup never empties (unless everlasting Salvation occurs), and thus the longer the person lives, the fuller that cup gets. This is one reason why Yehovah cut down longevity.

 

Revelation 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts. And the cities of the races fell. And great Babylon came in remembrance before God to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.

 

This cup is called “the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.” Therefore, it is akin to the Lake of Fire and Sulfur, since this lake is the expression of the fierceness of His wrath.

 

Revelation 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works. Fill to her double in the cup that she filled.

 

Babylon is again considered in this text. You refers to the Israelis. They are told to reward Babylon just as she did to them. She doubled the punishments and torments of the Israelis; her cup filled as she sinned. Her cup’s portion will be doubled. She will thus drink double.

 

 

The Cup of the Waters of Poison

Jeremiah 8:14 Concerning what are we sitting? Assemble! And we have come unto cities of the fortification! And we were silenced there. For Yehovah our Gods silenced us. And He watered us waters of poison! For we sinned to Yehovah.

 

These Israelis are admitting that they sinned, and that Yehovah watered them with waters of poison. This is a very surprising text (to me). The next text explains:

 

Jeremiah 9:15 Therefore so said Yehovah of hosts Gods of Israel, “Behold, I am feeding them—this people—wormwood. And I will water them waters of poison.”

 

Yehovah promises to water them with waters of poison.

 

Jeremiah 23:15 Therefore so said Yehovah of hosts concerning the prophets, “Behold I am feeding them wormwood. And I am watering them waters of poison. For blasphemy exited to all the land from with prophets of Jerusalem!”

 

 

D. Cups That Lead to Benefit Or Avoid Suffering

The Cup of Yeshua

Matthew 20:22 But Yeshua answered and said, “Ye don’t know what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup of which I shall drink and to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” They say unto Him, “We are able!” ²³And He says unto them, “Ye shall indeed drink of my cup and be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized. But to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give. But it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.”

 

That cup is the wine of the wrath of Yehovah on account of Israel’s accrued sins since the last pouring of the last cup.

 

Mark 10:38 But Yeshua said unto them, “Ye don’t know what ye ask. Can ye drink of the cup of which I drink, and be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” ³⁹And they said unto him, “We can.” And Yeshua said unto them, “Ye shall indeed drink of the cup of which I drink and ye shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized.”

 

Matthew 26:39 And He went a little further. And He fell on His face. And He prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou.”

 

Matthew 26:42 He went away again the second time. And He prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup will not pass away from me except I drink it, Thy will be done.”

 

This cup is set for Israel. Israel had accrued iniquity upon iniquity by this time. The cup was full. Yehovah had given it to Yeshua to pour out, so that Israel would reap the full measure of iniquity. That would have meant Israel’s being torn to shreds, taken captive, and the Israelis being tossed out of the land. Yeshua did not desire to pour that cup. He knew that He could avoid pouring it by drinking it: taking Israel’s iniquities upon Himself. That is what He did.

 

Mark 14:36 And He said, “Abba (Father), all things are possible unto Thee. Take this cup away from me. And not what I will, but what Thou wilt.”

 

Luke 22:42 Saying, “Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me. And not my will be done, but thine.”

 

John 18:11 Then Yeshua said unto Peter, “Put up thy sword into the sheath. The cup which my Father hath given me—shall I not drink it?”

 

Yeshua personally suffered the way that all Israel would have suffered, being turned over to the Gentiles to be beaten, humiliated, cursed, bloodied, accused, and set for death.

 

 

The Cup of Vinegar

Matthew 27:34 They gave Him vinegar to drink mingled with poison. And when He had tasted thereof, He would not drink.

 

Had Yeshua taken from that cup, He would have died a suicide.

 

Matthew 27:48 And straightway one of them ran and took a sponge. And he filled it with vinegar. And he put it on a reed. And he gave Him to drink.

 

Yeshua was willing to drink from this cup. It was not poison, but was a type.

 

Psalms 69:21 And they gave poison into my [bread] breaking. And for my thirst they watered me [gave me to drink] vinegar!

 

Vinegar is from the verb, to be cruel. This cup, then, is the cup of cruelty. Humans give this cup to others.

 

 

The Cup of Blessing

Psalms 23:5 Thou shalt order a table to my faces in front of mine afflicters. Thou hast greased my head with oil. My cup is abundance.

 

A few of the cups are very good. It appears that more cups are disasters; more texts give warnings because more groups are headed for destruction.

 

This cup is abundance. It is a blessing because Yehovah has promised it (thus invoking it) and given it.

 

Psalms 36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

 

1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not the communion [joint participation] of the blood of Messiah? The bread that we break, is it not the communion of the Body of Messiah?

 

The cup itself is the Covenant, and that Covenant was sealed in Yeshua’s blood. That Covenant, then, includes the Saints’ joint participation in Yeshua’s blood. That is a blessing, since it not only is unto everlasting life, but it also provides for whatever Saints (as a group) need to live Godly and to demonstrate faith (together as a group) to others so that they can be benefited (if they will desire).

 

1 Corinthians 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils. Ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table and of the table of devils.

 

That cup of blessing is not available to those who are drinking from the cup of devils. Thus, the devils also have a cup.

 

 

The Cup of Yehovah’s Measure

Psalms 16:5 Yehovah is the measure of my portion and my cup. Thou art the Maintainer of my lot!

 

Can Yehovah be a cup? He can be anything He desires to be, but not all things are reasonable for Him to be. Yehovah is a Rock. I don’t see where He is a cup.

 

If this is the case, the division of the first statement would be, “Yehovah is the measure of my portion” and “Yehovah is the measure of my cup.” (The alternative would be a division like this: “Yehovah is the measure of my portion” and “Yehovah is my cup.”) I do not agree with the alternative because another psalm states, “My cup runs over.” If Yehovah were the cup, how could He run over? He fills all things. Therefore I will go with the first: “Yehovah is the measure of my portion” and “Yehovah is the measure of my cup.”

 

If Yehovah is the measure of any cup, and Yehovah is infinite, that cup’s measure cannot be limited, though the cup can overflow with blessings.

 

 

The Cup of Salvations

Psalms 116:13 I will carry the cup of Salvations. And I will call via Name Yehovah.

 

This cup contains more than one salvation. Each one is a rescue from death. Carrying that cup indicates that it is being transported for the sake of others, not just for the sake of the carrier. (Salvation is from the Jews.)

 

 

The Cup of the Waters of Life

John 4:9 The Samaritan woman therefore says to Him, “How dost thou, being a Jew, ask from me, a woman of Samaria, to drink?” For Jews have no intercourse with Samaritans. ¹⁰Yeshua answered and said to her, “If thou had known the gift of God and Who it is who says to thee, ‘Give me to drink,’ thou would have asked Him, and He would have given waters of life to thee! ¹¹The woman says to Him, “Sir, thou hast nothing to draw, and the well is deep. From where, then, hast thou the waters of life? ¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons and his cattle?” ¹³Yeshua answered. And He said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again. ¹⁴But whoever will drink of the water that I will give him shall in no wise thirst forever. But rather, the water that I will give to him shall become a fountain of water in him springing up into everlasting life.”

 

Yeshua addressed this woman concerning the waters of life. While no cup is mentioned in this text, and while an artesian well is mentioned, I have still chosen to categorize this as a cup.

 

1 Corinthians 10:4 And they did all drink the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them. And that Rock was Messiah.

 

Again, no cup is mentioned. The Rock is mentioned, and the waters of life came from that Rock.

 

 

The Cup of Consolation

Jeremiah 16:7 They shall not split to them upon mourning to console him concerning a dead-[one]. And they shall not water them a cup of consolations concerning his father and concerning his mother.

 

This cup of consolations is what one person can ‘pour’ upon another when they are both mourning over a dead person for whom they greatly cared. Yehovah is indicating what will not happen. (They will suffer many deaths, but the deceased loved ones will not be buried, and individuals will not separate from the group to console others in mourning. Instead, dead bodies will be everywhere.

 

 

The Cup of the New Covenant

Matthew 26:27 And He took the cup. And gave thanks. And He gave it to them, saying, “Drink ye all of it. ²⁸For this is my blood of the new Covenant that is shed for many for the remission of sins.”

 

This text gives the appearance that the cup is His blood. Another text will correct this view, showing that the cup is the Covenant that is in His blood.

 

Luke 22:17 And He took the cup. And He gave thanks. And He said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves. ¹⁸For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God shall come.” ¹⁹And He took bread. And He gave thanks. And He broke it and gave unto them, saying, “This is my Body that is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” ²⁰Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new Covenant in my blood that is shed for you.”

 

(Body does not refer to Yeshua’s physical body; it refers to what is later called “the Body of Christ,” having all living Israel as its core, and having additions in Saints from all races.)

 

This text mentions two cups, but the first cup isn’t described. The second is the New Covenant, and that is in His blood. Thus, it refers to the shedding of His blood on the cross. Yet, the cup is not His blood. It is the Covenant. Thus, that cup represents that Covenant.

 

Who drinks that cup, and what does it contain? The cup Yeshua passed contained wine at this Passover meal. Yet, what are the contents of that cup that Yeshua is describing? The cup contains Yeshua’s blood. This will directly link to the other section in this document in which King David refuses to drink the blood of valiant persons who risked their lives to obtain good-tasting water for him. Everyone who takes advantage of Salvation provided by Yeshua’s blood being shed drinks His blood.

 

John 6:49 “Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. ⁵⁰This is the bread that comes down from the heavens so-that a man may eat thereof and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread that came down from the heavens. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.” ⁵²The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” ⁵³Then Yeshua said unto them, “Faith! Faith, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, ye have no life in you. ⁵⁴Whoso eats my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day. ⁵⁵For my flesh is certainly food and my blood is certainly drink. ⁵⁶He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so he who eats me—even he shall live by me. ⁵⁸This is that bread that came down from the heavens—not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead. He who eats of this bread shall live forever.”

 

Thus, anyone taking advantage of Yeshua’s sacrifice is drinking His blood.

 

Mark 14:23 And He took the cup. And when He had given thanks, He gave it to them. And they all drank of it. ²⁴And He said unto them, “This is my blood of the new Covenant that is shed for many.”

 

1 Corinthians 11:25 Also, after the same manner, He took the cup when He had supped, saying, “This cup is the new Covenant in my blood. Do ye this in remembrance of me as oft as ye drink it.” ²⁶For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord’s death until He comes. ²⁷Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the Body and blood of the Lord. ²⁸But a man shall examine himself, and so he shall eat of that bread and drink of that cup.

 

 

The Cup into the Spirit

1 Corinthians 12:13 For we are all immersed into one Body by one Spirit, whether we are Jews or Greeks, whether we are slaves or free. And we all have been made to drink into one Spirit.

 

This corresponds to the waters of life from the following text:

 

John 7:37 In that great last day of the feast, Yeshua stood. And He shouted, saying, “If any man thirst, he shall come unto me and drink. ³⁸He who believes on me, as the Scripture has said, rivers of the waters of life shall flow out of his belly.” ³⁹But He spoke this of the Spirit that they who believe on Him shall receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Yeshua was not yet glorified.

 

Thus, drinking of the Spirit of Yehovah is drinking of the waters of life. While no cup is mentioned, a drink is still used.