2026: A Year of Revealing, Exposure, Breaking Out and New Hope

𝑨𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 ‘𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒆’ 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 ‘𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏’ 𝒐𝒇 𝑼𝑲 ‘𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔’ 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒘𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒏 2026 - 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆!

The parable Jesus told his first followers is relevant today and going into 2026. Indeed, the laws of physics that He initiated verify them, as he stated (recorded in Mark 2:21-22):

Here’s first the meaning and application of his story, followed by the underpinning facts and context.

Jesus was saying that His message and the reality of God’s kingdom are not a reform or improvement of the old religious order; they are an entirely new order. Trying to force the new into the old will destroy both.

The Good News about who Jesus is, what he has accomplished and what God requires of us demands ‘new wineskins’—new ways of thinking, new structures, new communities—that are flexible and alive enough to hold the ‘fermenting’ power of God’s Holy Spirit.

This principle remains sharply relevant whenever established “church” systems resist the fresh move of God for fear of losing control or tradition: the new wine of Awakening and Revival will either find ‘new wineskins’ or it will burst the old ones. The ‘old cloth’ will be ripped further and incapable of fulfilling its purpose.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 & 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Jesus was using two everyday illustrations to explain a fundamental spiritual truth: the new covenant he brings cannot be merely patched onto or contained within the old structures of Judaism, or any rigid religious system, which we then can apply to the period he initiated, with the extending of access to the community of faith in the only True and Living God of Israel to all, whether Jew or ‘Gentile’ (all of the rest of humanity).

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 (𝘃. 𝟮𝟭)

A piece of unshrunk (new) cloth sewn onto an old, already-shrunk garment will shrink when washed, pulling away from the old fabric and making the tear worse.

You cannot simply “patch” the old system with something new and expect it to hold; the new reality is dynamically different and will only damage the old framework further.

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀 (𝘃. 𝟮𝟮)

New wine is still fermenting and gives off gas, expanding as it ages. Old wineskins have already been stretched to their limit and have become brittle. If new wine is poured into them, the pressure will cause them to burst, losing both the wine and the skins. Fresh wine requires new, elastic wineskins that can expand with it.

The powerful, expansive life of God’s kingdom that Jesus is bringing (the “new wine”) cannot be contained within the old forms, rules, and institutions of the previous covenant. It demands completely new structures that are able to accommodate its dynamism.

‘𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵’ 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻

The year 2020 was a watershed for the entire Christian community and everything that has transpired in the five years since has exposed who we are, what we believe, who are true master is and how willing we are to be fully committed, as disciples of Jesus Christ, to follow him, in the words of a wonderful song “no turning back, no turning back“.

Decisions taken to close down the physical gathering together of the Christian community across the UK, however well intentioned, were in opposition to the fundamental principles of Scripture that “whatever is not a faith is sin” (Romans 14:23), “we walk by faith not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7), “ faith is being sure of what we hoped for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1), and “The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the law shall be safe” (Proverbs 29:25).

Numerous events from 2020 onwards brought Christians into a “valley of decision”: who and what should they believe about an alleged pandemic; BLM riots; a ‘rigged’ 2020 US Presidential election; the Jan 6 ‘Capitol riot’; Covid’s origins, a so-called ‘vaccine’ with its severe impact on human health, often fatal; numerous allegations against President Donald J. Trump; the root causes of the tragic Ukraine conflict; ‘climate change’; ‘Palestine’; ‘chemtrails’, dimming the sun and poisoning of the skies; immigration; the rise and influence of Islam; ‘far right’; nationalism…and more.

Old cloth will tear, revealing a bigger hole, exposing what is underneath and previously hidden from sight.

Old wineskins are about to break catastrophically. There will be no recovery of what once was.

This will be final.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙅𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙨 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨:

2026: A Year of Revealing, Exposure, Breaking Out and New Hope