Every covenant is a tour of duty with unique characteristics. Israel’s mission was to reverse the Garden curses upon the Land in order to reconcile the World.
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Swords and plowshares
Since all of biblical history was a series of harvests—the continual work of plowing, planting, watering, pruning, growth, and fruitfulness—Jesus and the apostles understood that God had been “farming humans” since He fashioned Adam from the ground and lifted him into the Sanctuary as a human “firstfruits.” Thanks to John the Baptist, they knew that after Jesus ascended into the Sanctuary in heaven that there would be a fiery “Pentecostal” threshing of the nation of Israel that would separate the wheat from the chaff.
“His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” (Matthew 3:12)
