Why Vines, Wines, and Oil?

Why does God compare Jesus to a vine, and his blood to wine, and the Holy Spirit to oil?  To fully understand, we have to look back to the objects of comparison.

To make wine, or any other alcoholic beverage, you take something living, like wheat grain or ripe fruit and kill it.  The traditional way to remove fruit from trees or vines for this process involves beating trees or vines with sticks, to knock the ripe fruit off.  (Sometimes, you just pluck it if you can reach it.)

After you take away the various coversings like leaves and such, you smash it under foot.  After it is dead for a time, it ferments.   It is through death, only then, changed from fresh fruit to another more potent type of fruit.   Through death, it became something completely new.   (Just like we are if we follow suit.)

Smashing olives in this same way, also gives an olive juice, that is part oil and part flavored water.  (This is how you release oil.)  The oil is so different from the water of the fruit, it naturally separates itself from the other juices of the fruit.

In the same way, God sent His first and best fruit Jesus, as a seed of grain to a dieng world, in the belly of woman for mankind.  His only son Jesus was to be striped, beaten, and killed, making Gods First Fruit, into wine, releasing the oil of the Holy Spirit for our benefit.

In the same way Gods people were instructed to give their first fruits to God as a tithe during the harvest season, they were to give their very best.  To take away sin the sacrifice was made. God sent His very best, because we were not good enough.

That is why the bible uses vines, and oil and wine to describe the process!