You are right, nothing to drink....no water or milk....nothing.
Exodus 12:1-20
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb[
a] for his family, one for each household. If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover. “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
“This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance. For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.
“Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel. Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”
No wine included, in fact nothing to drink. Was this a dry meal?
But as time went on wine developed strong religious symbololgies.
What is the timeline for this? I am not sure.
As it is…
Wine is an integral part of the Passover holiday. "It has come to be a symbol of joy and celebration," notes Rabbi David Segal. "Traditionally, the Passover Seder includes four cups of wine, perhaps a sign of Passover's paramount importance as a celebration of freedom.
The Four Cups represent the four expressions of deliverance promised by God Exodus 6:6–7: "I will bring out," "I will deliver," "I will redeem," and "I will take." The Vilna Gaon relates the Four Cups to four worlds: this world, the Messianic age, the world at the revival of the dead, and the world to come.
Kosher wine (Hebrew: יין כשר, yáyin kashér) is wine that is produced in accordance with halakha, and more specifically kashrut, such that Jews will be permitted to pronounce blessings over and drink it. This is an important issue, since wine is used in several Jewish ceremonies, especially those of Kiddush. Kosher wine.
So it looks like Yeshua did not invent having wine at the Passover meal. For Christianity wine symbolizes the blood of Christ’s sacrifice. For those that wonder about watering down the wine at the Last Supper? Yeshua was Jew and understood the religious significant of wine and He knew that no scripture ever told of a Jew watering down wine. So no, real wine was served at the Last Supper. And He made the best wine at the Marriage at Cana.
As far as watering down wine for a religious ritual.....it would symbolize watering down the importance of the religious event. Watering down the significance of Christ’s sacrifice. A watered down Salvation and heavenly reward….The concept could go on, we could water down our obedience to Christ …..Lukewarm Christians could be the symbology of the water down wine at the Last Supper. Stupid is as stupid thinks.
Christ had used wine and vineyards to illustrate His parables and Christianity saw the grape vines as a symbol for the death and resurrection of Christ. The first large Christian church buildings had vineyards close by and clergy trained in viticulture.
Why do a lot of Protestants think drinking is a sin? It did not start with Martin Luther…..the following splinter groups had something to prove. They wanted to prove they were holier than thou or holier than the Catholic Church or other Protestant groups so the man-made sins began to multiply….and the road to the do-nothing religions was paved….holier because they did not drink, smoke, dance, gamble, play board, card, or dice games etc. Rightness with God defined by what you did not do rather than what you did.
