"On September 23, 2020, Adventist Health Lodi Memorial Hospital 
partnered with LangeTwins Family Winery in Lodi, California to distribute 400 gift boxes to all local nurses. Each gift box contained food, products and two bottles of fermented wine. That’s a total of 800 bottles. The LangeTwins Family Winery does not make or sell unfermented wine. All of their products contain between 12% and 19% alcohol.
The brand of wine given away by Adventist Health Lodi Memorial Hospital was the “2018 Chenin Blanc – Prince Vineyard.”
These bottles contain a 12% alcohol content level, which is more than twice as much as regular beer. Beer contains around 5%.
We used to vigorously preach abstinence. We used to preach temperance and oppose intoxicating drinks. We used to rebuke these great evils and call drunkards to repentance. Now, we are helping to distribute this deadly poison.
“This Scripture pictures the work of those who manufacture and who sell intoxicating liquor. Their business means robbery. For the money they receive no useful equivalent is returned. Every dollar they add to their gains has brought a curse to the spender. Every year millions upon millions of gallons of intoxicating liquors are consumed. Millions upon millions of dollars are spent in buying wretchedness, poverty, disease, degradation, lust, crime, and death. For the sake of gain, the liquor dealer deals out to his victims that which corrupts and destroys mind and body. He entails on the drunkard’s family poverty and wretchedness” (Temperance, p. 28).“What a terrible account liquor sellers will have to meet in the great day of God! In the books of heaven a record is kept of every tempting glass held out by man to his fellow-man, to forge the chains of an appetite which makes him mad” (Signs of the Times, July 4, 1900).
The sad reality is that we are now in partnership with the “manufacturers of intoxicating” drinks. We have some worthless leaders who are in bed with the alcohol industry while running our institutions. How is this even possible?" AdventMessenger
And now, O ye priests,
this commandment is for you.
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Malachi 2:1, 2
