and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"
4. In life's arrangements without consideration of God, the progression is ever downward and toward that which is worse.  Marriages where God is not a partner move unerringly in the direction of futility and sorrow.  Prodigals move invariably in their thoughtless and licentious freedom, not to honor, but to the swine pen.  Many an arrangement of business, employment, or pleasure is begun with high hopes and expectations; but, if God is not in the arrangement, it moves inexorably to lower and lower levels to become finally a state of crime and shame.  Afterward, that which is worse.