THE THRESHING

  Revelation chapter nine reveals significant things. First, examine the “star” that fell, to wit: “And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit…” (Rev 9:1-2).  Stars in Revelation are angels, who of course, are messengers. This angel was a messenger of death. He is under the control of God to do things for God’s purposes, in this case, God commanded the angel and “locusts” not to destroy those with the Seal of God.

  That “Star” is Lucifer whose title in the English is “Satan.” In Hebrew he is called “Abaddon” and in the Greek, “Apollyon” (verse 11), all which names represent “Adversary” or “Destroyer.” Satan is the destroying angel. Previously, God had sent the Destroying Angel to destroy Jerusalem (1 Chron 22:15), and here He goes again; the destroying angel came to destroy the world at its “navel” in Jerusalem. In the first destruction the Temple was torn down, and in Revelation, the Destroying angel revisits the place of destruction — the Holy of Holies.

  The Foundation Stone is the “celestial axis,” or the “navel of the world.” On that stone was the Holy of Holies, and beneath it an abyss. The Foundation Stone is Mt. Moriah: “Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite” (2 Chron 3:1).  

  That makes sense; Gologotha was the place of redemption for mankind and Moriah was the place of judgment for the faith of Abraham. Because the faith of Abraham was accounted to him as righteousness, the seed of Abraham had the Seal of God upon them. That “Seal” was the Holy Spirit (Gal 3:5-7). Hence, 144,000 Jews will have the Seal of God because they are sealed by God with the same Holy Spirit that God sealed Abraham with. That is the same “Seal” that all the multitude in white robes were sealed. All Christians are sealed in the same manner: “Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption” (Ephes 4:30).

  That passage has tremendous impact on doctrine. Seals can be broken. God seals, but if the message is vain, then the one who is sealed breaks the seal. Throughout the Old Testament, God kept the Covenant of which the Seal of God was placed, but except for a few, most broke the seal.

  The Holy Spirit (aka Holy Ghost) is the Seal. To be a Christian requires two things (1) persuasion that Jesus is God and He can Save, and (2) that “enlightenment” is sealed with the Holy Ghost:

¹⁵ And as I (Peter) began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. ¹⁶ Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. ¹⁷ Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God? (Acts 11:15-17)

  Peter had the Holy Ghost. He questioned whether he could withstand God. He had been sealed, and as such, it was his will against God’s Will. Peter and the others were baptized with the Holy Ghost. That is what sealed them as belonging to God. That is the adoption “papers” sealed where sinners are emancipated from their father, the Devil, and become sons of God. The Holy Ghost makes Gentiles the seed of Abraham with the protection sealed by the Abrahamic Covenant.

  The 144,000 of the tribes of Judah were the biological seed of Abraham, and the Holy Spirit sealed them from the time of the Covenant. Those in white robes, who were “multitides,” wore white because they had been baptized, not by water, but by the Holy Ghost, who cleansed and sealed them.

  What breaks the Seal of God which, by the way, is on the forehead? Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost (Mat 12:31). “Blasphemy” is evil-speaking against the Holy Ghost. Why would that be so crucial? Jesus, when He died, “gave up the Ghost” that had experienced dying. God’s Person died, but also, God’s Spirit was transformed to the Holy Ghost of Jesus. That is truly what the Third Commandment entails — taking the Name of God (Jesus) with vanity.  Blasphemy is that notion of vanity. It is cognitive, and as such the Seal of God, to prevent idle-thoughts, is on the forehead.

  The brain belongs to the creature, but the mind belongs to God and is sealed by God. The mind of Christians belongs to God and the brain, to the Devil because it is flesh. The Angel of Death will be released to destroy those without the Seal of God. The Mark of the Beast (Satan) is “666” but the Mark of God, although it too is on the forehead, is invisible. The human mind considers God and the Beast, and is either persuaded or confused as to which way the soul shall go. Shall it be into the abyss, or into the Holiest of Holies, and into the heavens?

  That is why the key to the bottomless pit was in the hand of the “Star.” The Foundation Stone is Ornan’s threshing floor, and on that stone, those with the Seal of God will be threshed out from those with the mark of the Beast.

  Many will be cast down into the abyss, as will the Angel of Death himself. Satan holds the key, and there must be a keyhole. The Foundation Stone has a large unexplained hole in one corner of the flat rock. That hole, perhaps, is the datum to the cosmos since that is the stone on which the cosmos was referenced. In other words, it is the physical cornerstone and Jesus the spiritual Cornerstone. That hole may also be the Devil’s keyhole to open the gate to the Well of Souls below.

  The abyss beneath the Foundation Stone remains unexplored to this day, but it is the door to eternal death. The Angel of Death holds the key to death in the abyss below, but those sealed, have the spiritual key to heaven whose door is also to eternal Paradise.

  Revelation chapter nine is about the threshing of those with God’s Seal from those with the mark of the Beast. Just as with Ornan, those bad seed along with the chaff will be cast into the abyss for burning. However, those winnowed out by God because they are grounded in the Holy Spirit, shall enter heaven. The Foundation Stone was used by Ornan for threshing grain, but its ultimate purpose is to thresh out those not sealed from those who are! For the Abrahamic Covenant, God used the wilderness between Egypt and the Promise Land to thresh out the bad seed from Abraham. With the Promised Land obtained, Ornan’s threshing floor will be used for its intended purpose.

  Now for confirmation: “Ornan” is from “Araunah.” Ornan, or Araunah, was a Jebusite king who once owned that city. It was the king’s threshing floor. However, Araunah has a more significant meaning — “The Lord.” All the time we thought it was King Ornan’s threshing floor but all the while it belonged to the Lord, and the Lord will use that place for His threshing!

(picture credit; Wikipedia; "Foundation Stone:)