John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Yesterday we asked “What is it?” and today we ask, “Why is it?” Why is it important where the chaff is separated from the wheat? Because the wind blowing symbolic of the Holy Spirit at work to separate our old dead dried up crusty worthless husk away from the new creation we are having been born in the spirit.

Without the Holy Spirit there is not separation, no sanctification process, the removal of worthlessness. In terms used by King David when he purchased Temple Mount from Onan, the plague remains. The whole purpose behind the Temple Mount was and is removal of the plague. (2 Samuel 24:21)

Another aspect seen in where and why is that the Temple Mount is where the Ark of the Covenant was located. What was atop the Ark? The mercy seat. What was spilled there? The blood of the lamb. Who is the Lamb of God? Jesus Christ.

Now can you see how God pulled all this together in one simple prophetic question? What is the chaff to the wheat? A worthless binding of the fruit that must be separated for the fruit to have any value to the Lord.

“To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.”

Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1

You can shuffle of this mortal coil by natural death or by being born again.

Show respect to the sacrifice.

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.