“and these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.”
Joshua 9:13 KJV
The Gibeonites deceived Joshua and the Israelites, being near neighbours, they pretended to come from a distant land showing their old and mouldy bread and the wineskins which they said were new when they filled them and now become old and dried up and ready to burst! They showed their clothes and sandals saying that they had become worn out because of the long journey. The Gibeonites with old wineskins (religious systems), old clothing (old nature), old worn out shoes (old methods), and mouldy bread, represent counterfeit traditions and deceptions of religion. Their bread was mouldy, not fit for consumption. The boast of their “long journey” parallels the ecclesiastical history of many church traditions today that have confidence in their long history more than the authority of Scripture. We can make no alliance with the old as we move forward to possess our inheritance. A new victory requires that we eat the fresh Bread of Heaven with a renewed mind that hears what God is saying today to His people in Christ Jesus. Victory in Christ!
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