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The Threshing Floor
…The Bride Collection …Glenda
Wilson © 2005
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Cor 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world
to confound the things which are mighty;
How unlikely that –Ruth the Moabite
would be positioned in the lineage of the Messiah.
It seemed unlikely to me that He would
position the threshing floor next to the Upper Room. Later He began
to open the revelation and bring a parallel to two settings some
would consider diametrically opposed. This He does …that we may
know that His hand has done this and the Holy one of Israel created
this rendering.
Isa
41:19-20 … That men may see and know and consider and understand
together that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy one
of Israel has created it. AMP
As usual, the Lord comes another way
than what we would expect. In the natural, the threshing floor
represents a place of work or labor; the Upper Room a place of
waiting (ceasing from labor). I know many people like myself where
the laboring part is easier than the waiting part. Ruth did not
know how all the things that Naomi spoke would happen. Her
unwavering obedience and sacrifice to leave her people and follow
Naomi’s God positioned her to reap that which she did not sow …in
the natural and the spiritual.
John
4:38 38 I sent you to reap a crop for which you have not toiled.
Other men have labored and you have stepped in to reap the results
of their work. AMP
Most of us feel like the wheat on the
threshing floor when we try to be still. Our works mentality fights
against the process with everything that is within us. In Matt
3:12, John said of Jesus, “He will thoroughly clear out, clean,
gather and store His wheat in the barn. Sounds like He is doing the
work. That means that the wheat must yield in the process. The
chaff in these passages can be compared to the circumcision of the
heart …the burning away of impure motives. While we are indeed the
wheat that is in process on the threshing floor, we also become the
new sharp threshing instrument in His hands.
We are His harvest, yet
in Isa 41:15 &16, He says, I will make you to be a new, sharp,
threshing instrument …the wind (of His Spirit) shall carry them
away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them. Zech 4:6
Was Isaiah speaking of a time in the
future when the rushing mighty wind of Holy Spirit would blow
through the Upper room and endue them with power. If we back up to
Isa 40:31, once again we see that word “WAIT”. 'Not by might nor by
power, but by My Spirit,' NKJV
In the upper room …upon the Threshing Floor, we release His will and
purposes in the earth while He releases the secrets of His heart.
As in the days of the Apostles, we are endued with power. Every
incident of victory, every averting of destruction or devastation
–EVERY TIME the Hand of the Lord was shown forth mightily it was a
result of waiting on the Lord for instructions and intervention
–then following with strict obedience.
As with many other pieces in the
collection, I yielded, not knowing the significant events that
occurred at the “Threshing Floor”. I find it intriguing that the
Lord would choose a Threshing Floor for His house.
With many strategic occurrences
involving threshing floors we must assume that there is a pattern or
some hidden symbolisms at “The Threshing Floor”.
…Uzza
was struck dead for touching the Ark of the Covenant.
…David had a visitation, bought a threshing floor and built an altar
…Solomon built the House of the Lord (2 Chron 3:1 & 1 Chron 22:1).
…Ruth met her kindred Redeemer.
…Jesus used it as an example of the process He would use to sort His
wheat (Matt 3:12)
Does this not infer that the place of
His presence is an altar of sacrifice? The Threshing Floor ...where
we become bread for the nations, where we are turned into a
threshing instrument to thresh out the enemy until they are made to
be His footstools.
Within this piece is an impartation of
grace for you to remain at the altar of sacrifice …on the threshing
floor …to yield and wait for the Lord to do His work in and through
you.
See yourself as Ruth after yielding
herself at the threshing floor in submission and obedience …coming
out from that place of divine appointment …ready to meet her destiny
in History –His Story.
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Chron 13:10-13 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza,
and He smote him because he touched the ark; and there he died
before God. [Num 4:15.] And David was offended because the Lord had
broken forth upon Uzza; that place to this day is called Perez-uzza
[the breaking forth upon Uzza]. And David was afraid of God that
day, and he said, How can I bring the ark of God home to me? So
David did not bring the ark home to the City of David, but carried
it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite [a Levitical porter
born in Gath-rimmon]. [Josh 21:20,24; 1 Chron 15:24.] AMP
2 Sam 24:17-18 When David saw the angel who was smiting the people,
he spoke to the Lord and said, Behold, I have sinned and I have done
wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I
pray You, be [only] against me and against my father's house. Then
Gad came to David and said, Go up, rear an altar to the Lord on the
threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. AMP
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Chron 3:1 THEN SOLOMON began to build the house of the Lord at
Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared to David his
father, in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing
floor of Ornan the Jebusite. [1 Chron 21:20-22.] AMP
Ruth
3:13-14 Remain tonight, and in the morning if he will perform for
you the part of a kinsman, good; let him do it. But if he will not
do the part of a kinsman for you, then, as the Lord lives, I will do
the part of a kinsman for you. Lie down until the morning. And she
lay at his feet until the morning, but arose before one could
recognize another; for he said, Let it not be known that the woman
came to the threshing floor. AMP |
