But when wrinkles begin to form and bald patches begin to grow, where does that obsession with youth leave us? Feeling irrelevant and abandoned. I myself have plucked and moisturized, dyed and spackled in the pursuit of beauty. The preoccupation with agelessness is apparent in the surgeries and cosmetic adjustments that attempt to simulate youth as we grow older. Modern American culture is heavily focused on the newest, latest and greatest. But recently God began to change my thinking on this simple parable in Matthew. These are assumptions that I, along with many others, have made in the past. Are old wineskins veterans in ministry? People who have been doing the same thing for such a long time it becomes almost repetitive? Are they people who never quite made it to the next level? Are old wineskins people who are resistant to change and the new thing God is doing? Are they the previous generation of believer who ushered in the previous move of God? They certainly can be.Īnd the new wineskins – are they the next generation? The people who God is going to bring to the forefront of the church? Are they new converts? Possibly. So who are the old wineskins? After all, they are the ones who are unfit to hold new wine, wasting the very thing they are meant to preserve. In Jesus’s parable, the wineskins or vessels, both old and new, are symbolic of us – God’s people. In the Bible, wine often symbolizes sustenance, life, covenant and blessing. In Biblical times, water was a scarcity in many regions, and wine was a part of day-to day life. They were not suitable for storing wine as it fermented because the lack of elasticity would cause the skins to split open during fermentation and spill the wine inside. As flasks aged, they grew more brittle and “dry”.
BIBLICAL WINESKIN SKIN
Flasks that were made of newer skin retained their elasticity and would stretch easily to hold the fermented wine. As the carbon dioxide was released during fermentation, the flasks would expand and stretch. They produced alcohol and carbon dioxide during the fermentation process.
BIBLICAL WINESKIN FULL
The juice or wine was full of wild yeasts and natural sugars that fermented over time. Wine or grape juice was stored in these flasks. Have you ever felt like the old wineskins?ĭuring the time that Jesus taught, bottles or flasks were made of animal skin, usually goat, sheep or ox.
No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. If they do, the skins will burst the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins.
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