The Place Where the Wheat Is Separated From the Chaff

723 Today's Prime Time Devo comes from 2Sa 24:18 And Gad came that day to David and said to him, "Go up, erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite." God, speaking through Gad instructs David to build an altar on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. This is no ordinary place, it is Mt Moriah, the site of the future temple built by Solomon. We read about it in 2Ch 3:1, “Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.” How apt that the altar would be built on a threshing floor on Mt Moriah. This was the same place where Abraham went to offer up his son Isaac, it was the Amen place where Abraham's faith was accounted as righteousness, and of course it was the future sight of the crucifixion of Jesus, where all things are accounted as righteousness. A threshing floor is where the wheat is separated from the chaff. Abraham's faith was found to be real on the mountain as he trusted God to provide a lamb. And our faith is tested in this same place. Will we trust that Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world or not? We must all come to the threshing floor on Mt Moriah, because it is what we do with Jesus that determines our final fate. On that final Judgment Day those who reject Jesus and the message of the cross will be like chaff, scattered in the wind and tossed into the fire, but those who trust Jesus will be brought safely into the storehouse of heaven! This is what John the Baptist said about Jesus in Mt 3:12 "His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." We must all come to Mt Moriah, what will it be for you? Wheat for the barn or chaff for the fire. Receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior and live!