The one who will baptize with the holy spirit and with fire.
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It all comes down to a moment at midnight on a particular threshing floor in the valley below bethlehem.
First there had to be a flat surface that was smooth and hard and this was known as the threshing floor.
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.
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.
It is the place where the wheat is separated from the grain.
The t hreshing floor is mentioned in many places in the bible.
But in biblical symbolism it also stands for a spot of purification and humiliation.
But the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
The threshing theme is woven throughout the bible and in jewish thought.
Jesus was announced by john the baptist as.
Threshing is essentially dividing separating the wheat from the chaff.
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Pastor sipho maduna of the threshing floor bible church in pietermaritzburg on thursday hit back at allegations against him by the provincial health department saying they were a misdirection.
In the king james bible it refers simply to the floor but this is obviously a threshingfloor so there is no problem.
In biblical days there was no machinery so after the harvest the grain was separated from the straw and husks by beating it manually.