Section 11
all humanity is naturally full of death. Just as the waterpots were filled to the brim with water, so we were filled with death.
The Lord Jesus marvelously changed this death water into wine (John 2:8-9). This miracle shows not only that the Lord Jesus can call things not being as being (Rom. 4:17) but also that He can change death into life.
The Lord's miraculous changing of water into wine signifies that He changes our death into life. The water signifies death, and the wine signifies life. When the Lord changes our water into wine, that wine in our marriage feast will never end. The Lord changes our water into wine by regen erating us with the divine, eternal life (John 3:6). Since we have been regenerated, the divine life with its spiritual enjoyment will last forever. We will have an eternal marriage feast that will never end. This feast is not in our original life but in the new life that we received through regenera tion. Even as the master of the feast discovered that the new wine was better than the former wine (2:9-10), so we too will find that the life we receive through regeneration is much better than our natural life. Our former life, symbolized by the poor wine, was greatly inferior. The Lord did not give us the best first but the best last. The first