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build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan (Araunah) the Jebusite” (I Chronicles 21:18/ 2 Samuel 24: 18)
IN the Old Testament we find an interesting relationship between worship and the “threshing floor”. As we begin to explore this relationship we find some interesting things, which God has to say to us through this analogy.
The first mention of a threshing floor is found in Genesis 50:1011, “the threshing floor of Atad”, where Joseph and his brothers mourned the death of their father, Israel.
It seemed appropriate for them to mourn at what we might consider an “unusual” place.
Why mourn for Israel at a “threshing floor”?
I believe the reason becomes more apparent as we see its significance in Old Testament typology.
The next reference we have to the threshing floor is in regards to the “heave offering” in Numbers 15:20.
It speaks of the “offering of the threshing floor”. We see a similar reference in Numbers 18:27.
It was at the “threshing floor of Nacon”, that Uzzah was struck dead for taking hold of the Ark of the Covenant (2 Samuel 6:67).
Where was the Temple built? It was built at the threshing floor David had purchased from Ornan the Jebusite (1 Chronicles 22:1).
Let us consider what the threshing floor represents in the Scriptures.
Its meaning goes beyond merely “the place where grain was threshed.”
It is symbolic of the relationship between the bride and the bridegroom.
It is not insignificant that Ruth came to Boaz at the “threshing floor” (Ruth 3:614). Boaz represents Christ (our kinsman redeemer) and Ruth, the bride of Christ.
At the center of the threshing floor, one finds two large flat stones, one resting on the top of the other.
They were “fitted and joined” together.
The top stone was known as the “female” and the bottom stone the “male”.
The “grinding of grain” was a depiction of the act of marriage (Job 31:10).
The act of marriage is a physical depiction of the “spiritual communion” God desires between Himself and man.
When God’s covenant people stray from Him and worship other gods, God calls it “adultery” or “playing the harlot” (Ezekiel 23:37 Hosea 4:12).
Notice what God says to Israel in Hosea 9:1, “You have loved harlot’s earnings on every threshing floor.”
It should be quite clear to you by now, that the “threshing floor” speaks to us about a place of worship.
But what meaning has this for us under the new covenant? Is there a message in the “threshing floor” for us?
I believe that worship for us is to be a time of “threshing”, when God separates the “wheat’ from the “chaff” in our lives.
When we enter into worship, we are stepping on to God’s “threshing floor” where He deals with those things which need to be “winnowed” out of our lives.
Worship is the bride and the bride groom coming together to “consummate” their marital relationship, out of which “life” is produced.
I pray that we begin to see worship from the perspective of the “threshing floor”. http://www.preteristarchive.com
Everyone needs a threshing floor experience
This week I raised another topical issue – the threshing floor.
I am grateful to spiritual mentors who guide me, recommend materials to read, the Bible in particular recommend praise and worship music and DVDs to watch.
It was through one such encounter that I decided to find out more about the threshing floor, a subject I had sought more understanding of for a very long time. I am not alone as the responses to the above article revealed the same. I picked a few:
1. Praise God today. This site has brought to me what I’ve searched for years. Threshing floor is one of the subjects I wanted indepth knowledge on. I’ve read books but this is clear.
2. God has been pruning, cleansing and drawing me into a closer relationship with him. He wants this word from heaven to be shared.
I fully agree, I have been studying the offerings that are listed in Joel 1 and 2, and amazingly enough, through the study of the grain offering, I come to the threshing floor part of the study.
Jesus had made the statement that unless we become as a grain of wheat and go in the ground and die we will never grow fruit of the harvest (Donna Phrasing). Where does wheat get harvested? At the threshing floor!
3. Thank you so much for your insightfulness concerning the threshing floor.
I have done a minimal amount of research and haven’t been able to come up with much information. In so few words you explain with depth and clarity the meaning of the threshing floor.
4. We are in the time of worship and God simply wants our worship (true worship). This is where the cleaning up of self comes, in true worship. I was at the “threshing floor’ this is why I felt that something different happened to me.
5. Amen! I love this teaching. It has so much insight.
May we all stay at the feet of the Lord like Ruth did with Boaz waiting to see what he would do? She got redeemed.
Staying in an attitude of worship and communing with the Lord! May he clean us and separate anything from us that’s of the chaff and may we be the pure wheat he gathers in his barn!
This study is a beautiful picture of Christ and his bride.
Our true character is revealed at the threshing floor!
6. Worship is consummation, confirmation, declaration, consecration, preservation, honeymoon, etc. I could go on and on.
Thank You, GOD Truly used to help me and someone to teach this revelation.
7. Now I understand the true meaning of the threshing floor and yes I agree to these comments it bears witness with my spirit.
Thank the Holy Spirit for the threshing floor so we can be more committed to Christ in every way meaning strict obedience!
These are the last days, brothers and sisters. Love a true disciple in the Lord.
8. I think that we as believers of Jesus Christ should come to a place of worship at the threshing floor.
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