Is The Old Wine Better?
By Herb Evans
"No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new:
for he saith, The old is better". (Luke 5:39)
One kind of wine, in the Bible (alcoholic), is a position that is
gaining, among professing Christians, after suffering a set back
of a few decades. Still, Jesus believed in two kinds of wine,
"old wine" and "new wine".
Oddly, the same folks contend that the above passage proves that
alcoholic or "old wine" is better than non-fermented or
"new wine". Yet, on this account, "alcoholic wine
onlys" are wrong again.
The teaching, here, is not that the "old wine" is
better than the "new wine" but that some misguided
folks regard it better and only "say" it is better and
do not want the "new wine" after they have been
addicted to the "old wine".
In this particular case, Jesus symbolically describes the
Pharisees and their apostate traditions , practices, and
interpretation (which were sanctioned by their own scholars and
lawyers). The old wine, to which they were addicted, would not
allow them to desire the new wine of the gospel and Jesus'
non-traditional teaching, values, and revelations ( which were
really rooted and grounded, in the "original"
scriptures).
An amazing parallel exists today, in that certain scholars have
drank the old corrupt Alexandrian wine, addicting themselves to
it and saying that it is better than the unleavened, "new
wine", of the God "preserved", if you please, word
of God.
In a vain attempt to conceal the truth, of this matter, they, in
league with Lucifer, the merry wine maker, stamp "NEW, NEW,
NEW," on their corrupt, bibles. Such bibles are really not
"new", at all, but are the same "OLD",
corrupt, leavened, Alexandrian ferment and not the "pure
blood of the grape (Deut.32:14)".
Eat, drink, and be merry... poor misguided Alexandrians!