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.