First there had to be a flat surface that was smooth and hard and this was known as the threshing floor.
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Also the same phrase is used in luke 3 17 whose fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his floor and will gather the wheat into his garner.
There are dozens of references to a threshing floor in the bible some literal and some symbolic.
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It all comes down to a moment at midnight on a particular threshing floor in the valley below bethlehem.
In biblical days there was no machinery so after the harvest the grain was separated from the straw and husks by beating it manually.
Threshing is essentially dividing separating the wheat from the chaff.
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An overview of the book of ruth ruth 1 4 the structure of the book of ruth is interesting.
It is the place where the wheat is separated from the grain.
The t hreshing floor is mentioned in many places in the bible.
The one who will baptize with the holy spirit and with fire.
The threshing theme is woven throughout the bible and in jewish thought.
Jesus was announced by john the baptist as.
Threshing floors crop up excuse the pun a number of times throughout scripture and there s something in this agricultural process that god is wanting us to think about.
But in biblical symbolism it also stands for a spot of purification and humiliation.
But the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.