Parables no 5 New wine old bottles

“THE 41 PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST”
28 general and 13 kingdom of heaven parables
Parable #5 - “NEW WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES”
Matthew 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37-38
The 5^th general parable of 28

BACKGROUND:
In 445BC, with one Bible week equating to seven years (a prophetic year being 360 days), God commanded that seventy weeks each of 7 years, would be determined upon Israel, that is … 70 weeks x 7 years = 490 years (Daniel 9:24-27).

This time frame is broken into four time periods of (a) 7 weeks + (b) 62 weeks + (c) the mystery church age of about 2,000 years + (d) 1 week = 70 weeks and is explained as follows:

#1. Seven weeks of years is 7 x 7 = 49 years … the time it takes to restore and build Jerusalem from 445BC to 396BC.

#2. Sixty two weeks of years is 62 x 7 = 434 years … the time from the building of Jerusalem in 396BC to Christ being cut off at the cross in 32AD.

#4. One week of years is 1 x 7 = 7 years … this is the seven years of tribulation of God’s wrath upon the earth, that takes place after the rapture … called Daniel’s 70^th week.

DANIEL 9:24-27
“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city … from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks … after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off … he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week …”

33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink? 34And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. 36 And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old. 37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. 38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. 39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better. (Luke 5:33-39)

PART 1: Christ had come to be spiritually wed to Israel
Christ had come with his new ‘wine’ of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew chapters 5-70 … but certain groups would violently resist.

All of Israel were invited to Christ’s spiritual wedding feast … to believe the new constitution being the Sermon on the Mount … but Moses’ Pharisees and the followers of John the Baptist would reject their invitation … refusing to attend and believe … preferring to fast (Luke 5:33).

You see, only those that agreed that Christ was to be their Messiah … indeed bridegroom … would come to his spiritual ‘wedding’ and spiritually drink of Christ by receiving and believing his kingdom of heaven doctrine of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7).

This parable of new wine, pure grape juice, bursting old bottles makes sense. As winemakers will explain, you can put new wine into old bottles, but it won’t take long for the juice to ferment. But with the ever growing and effervescent ‘bubbling’ power from fermentation, great pressure builds up inside … with the bottle bursting.

Applying this to Christ, with him being the new wine, his ‘fermentation’ process would increase with ongoing demonstrations of signs, wonder and miracles as an approved man of God (Acts 2:22). By these works, Christ would continuously expand his influence.

Christ, God himself in the flesh (1 Timothy 3:16), had come to burst the old doctrinal bottles of Moses … leaving the Pharisees to unsuccessfully glue the pieces of their shattered doctrine back together … being left to whine in their old wine as it were.

PART 2: Christ being ‘taken away and Israel fasting’ (Luke 5: 35) covers three time periods … and they are:

1. The time until Christ is crucified on the cross … most of Israel including John’s followers and the Pharisees, rejected Christ as their Messiah … although he was physically present (Luke 5:33) showing himself to be a man approved of God (Acts 2:22).

2. The time from the cross to the rapture … with Christ now in heaven (Romans 16:25; 1 Corinthians 9:16-17; 2 Timothy 2:8) … with Israel rejecting Christ as their Saviour under Paul’s gospel … that is after the cross

3. This is the time from the rapture to their eyes being opened in the seven year tribulation (Zechariah 12:10).

Only after these three periods, would all of Israel end their spiritual fast and be spiritually wedded to Christ as their bridegroom.

See Parable #4 “New Cloth on Old Garments” … can be applied here. Furthermore, they’d love to tell people about Jesus, the new wine, but are stuck in their own old wine bottle made of their own devices.