The Apostate Corporate Church is the Bar and the Preachers the Bar Tenders

Proverbs 31:4-7 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

There can be a benefit to drinking wine for the unsaved person because he can forget his poverty and misery, of course, only temporarily. The next day he may have a hangover if he drank too much the night before. But, for a short while, he can forget the troubles that lead him to drink. In the spiritual dimension, God likens false gospels to wine and strong drink because it accomplishes the same type of thing for people that are in deep spiritual trouble with God. They are unsaved and therefore God is their enemy. He is set against them and will soon destroy them. So, along comes a pastor or other teacher of the false gospel and says, “Look, you are in trouble with God.” Which every man knows is the case deep down inside of him. If we look up the word “poverty,” we find that it relates to a sinner's destruction;

Proverbs 10:15 ... the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

True poverty has nothing to do with how much or how little money a person has. The truth is that real poverty is being under the wrath of God, which will finally result in death and destruction of one's being. This is the poverty that troubles people – even physically wealthy people – in their innermost selves.

The apostate corporate churches are like bars and their preachers are like “bartenders.” When people come to them, they mix together out of their vain imaginations their spiritual "alcoholic" concoction that is designed to make people forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. They say, “Here is all you have to do to become saved,” and then they lay out the steps of the “works” that they think need to be performed, like “accepting Christ” or becoming water-baptized. The people “drink it in” and their misery or poverty is temporarily put off. Just ask them. They are joyful and very happy, and they will tell you how wonderful the experience of going to church and getting saved was, but they never truly became saved. So, again, it is just a “temporary fix,” like alcohol. When you drink it, it really does not help you by solving your problems or issues or why you are anxious and troubled to the point that you need to drink. It will not take care of any of this, except for a short time. The night's revelry must always come to an end. And then their true condition of misery and poverty shows itself and the thing they feared and sought to escape is upon them.