The Threshing Floor

 

Here is a story from Bereshiyt Rabbah 83:5:

    The stubble, the straw, and the chaff were quarreling with one another. This one said: ‘The field was sown for my sake,’ and that one said: ‘The field was sown for my sake.’ The wheat said: ‘Wait until you come to the threshing floor, and we will know for what the field was sown.’ They came to the threshing floor and the landowner went out to winnow it. The chaff was carried away with the wind, he took the stubble and cast it to the ground, he took the straw and burned it, he took the wheat and made it into a grain pile. Anyone who saw it kissed it, just as it says: “Kiss the grain lest He be angry” (Psalms 2:12). So it is with the nations of the world; these say: ‘We are primary and the world was created for our sake’ and those say: ‘The world was created for our sake.’ Israel says to them: ‘Wait until the day arrives when we will know for whose sake the world was created.’ That is what is written: “For, behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, [and all the wicked and all the evildoers will be straw]” (Malachi 3:19). And in their regard it is written: “You will winnow them and the wind will carry them and the storm will scatter them” (Isaiah 41:16). But Israel: “But you will rejoice in the Lord, you will be glorified in the Holy One of Israel” (Isaiah 41:16).

    We know from 2 Samuel 24:18-25 that God showed David the location of the Temple mount, and it was a threshing floor, just as we are told in the Brit Chadashah that Yeshua will do a sifting on His threshing floor when He returns.

    

    What will that threshing and sifting look like for us? 

If we say we are the new chosen people and God has abandoned Israel, we will find out to our great detriment that we were very wrong.

    If, however, we realise that Yeshua came to bring us all into the House of Israel and thus be planted in His Kingdom, we will find ourselves being the treasured portion of the crop.

    With the days being so evil and the sand clock running very low, can we afford to continue to reject Israel, the very nation God Himself has chosen, the very nation He chose to have His Son born into, the nation He calls us to be a part of today?

    No! We cannot! 

   Yeshua said: "I am the door." Enter through Him into the House of Israel and be a part of the remnant. Today, the church has Yeshua but not the Torah, and Judaism has the Torah but not Yeshua. Yeshua is the living Torah, the Word made flesh. Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah, cannot be separated from Israel, His family. 

    Even in the rapture, we will be caught up in the air and go with Him to Jerusalem - not heaven or outer space - where He will reign a thousand years on earth. Only after that will the New Jerusalem come down from heaven to earth.

    Last week's Haftarah portion from Isaiah 60:8, speaking of the Messianic era, says:

    

    "Who are these, flying along like clouds, like doves to their dovecotes?"

     That's us, who believe in and have put our trust in Yeshua the Jewish Messiah, being transported with and by Him to Jerusalem, the city of the Great King!

Shavu'a Tov!