Q: Is the new wine in Mark 2:22 the dispensation of grace?
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins Mark 2:22).
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins Mark 2:22).
Wine is a type of the Holy Spirit, for both are associated
with joy (Zech 10:7; 1 Thes 1:6), and new wine is a type of the
coming of the Spirit at Pentecost. You’ll remember that when
the apostles were "filled with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 2:4), men
thought that they were “filled with new wine" (Acts 2:13).
With the parable of the wineskins, the Lord was saying that
the new wine of the Holy Spirit could not be put into the "old wineskins" of Israel's religious leaders; it must rather be put in
the "fresh wineskins" of His "little flock" (Luke 12:32).
New wine is first mentioned in the Bible when Israel was
gathered back into her land after her captivity (Neh 10:39;
13:5,12), a type of Israel's future gathering back into her land
for the kingdom, and so it is associated with the kingdom that
was taken from Israel's apostate leaders and given to the little
flock (Matt 21:43). New wine was withheld from Israel when
she rebelled against God (Isa 24:7; Hos. 9:2; Joel 1:5,10; Hag 1:11) and was given when she was obedient (Prov 3:5-10), and
so it will be given in the kingdom (Joel 3:18; Zech. 9:17; Matt 26:29) when God's Spirit will "cause" them to walk in His ways
(Ezek 36:27).