Jeremiah 23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord.

What is chaff to wheat? As a prophet I only get to ask the question. This whole chapter of Jeremiah is a dressing down of the prophets who said more than they were told to say. So as a prophet, I do not get to tell you the meaning.

Luckily the office of a prophet no longer exists so as a student of the Word and a teacher of the Word, I can share in my discovery.

Chaff is a lite dry husk that encapsulates the wheat grains. It needs to be separated from the grain to render the wheat pure and ready for use. Where this occurs is important. Because the chaff is lite and dry, it is easily blown away by the wind whereas the wheat grain is heavier and will fall to the floor of the threshing stone. Where is the best place to perform this separation? On a high treeless mount.

2 Samuel 24:2  And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

Araunah, also known as Ornan in 1 Chronicles 21:15, owned the perfect threshing floor, on Mount Moriah. Yes, the same mount where Abraham took Isaac to be sacrificed and God stayed the hand of Abraham in that sacrifice. Sound familiar?

2 Samuel 24:16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

So where the chaff is separated from the wheat is more important than the effort.

Psalm 16:10 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. NKJV

The New King James Version replaces hell with Sheol. Sheol is the Old Testament expression of the grave. There was little understanding of the resurrection and many scholars of the temple were divided over the issue.

Mark 12:18a Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection;

It was common to view all that were dead to abide in one place, since all were dead. One of the original meanings is hollow, perhaps to indicate a burial tomb.

Exodus 27:8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

This hollow is a description of the Ark of the Covenant. No one in those days connected Sheol with the hollow of the Ark because the Ark was in the Holy of Holies and no corrupt thing could enter therein. In Psalm 16:10b it so states His Holy One would not see corruption.

What does one have to do with the other?

John 15:4a Abide in me, and I in you.

If you are in Christ, and He will not suffer corruption, then you will not suffer corruption. This is positional sanctification. I am in Christ therefor sin cannot touch me.

Isaiah 40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

How many souls does it take to fill the heart of God? As many stars as there are in the universe? Perhaps, I don’t know. I just know that I am one.