"Then the Angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite" (I Chron. 21:18)
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 interesing things, which God has to say to us through this analogy.
God Himself Shall Work
| Patti Smith - I don't think she's a prophet, but I really like her shirt! |
My husband has a singular sense of humor. He has a phenomenal memory, and obscure references and repetition figure pretty heavily into it. Not everybody gets it, but I really do. We laugh and laugh at our house. This is the reason that if you bring up Patti Smith, there is a 99% chance he'll say, "prophet." Because back in college he once found himself in one of those "deep" late-night discussions with a theatre major, in which she declared that artist/songwriter Patti Smith was a "prophet." Obviously, he thought it was funny, since it pops out again and again... and I can't say for sure that Patti Smith ISN'T a prophet, but according to what I have gathered from my studies, she seems to be a bit too cool to be a prophet... in the historical / Biblical sense.
When the cloud tarried. - Numbers 9:19
This was the supreme test of obedience. It was comparatively easy to strike the tents, when the fleecy folds of the cloud were slowly gathered from off the Tabernacle, and it floated majestically before the host.
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