Reaching the Threshold : Number 8 — August (Hebrew month — Av, אָב) portrays the significance of the word “Threshold” — A Sacred Boundary.

This is mentioned eight (8) times in eight (8) verses throughout in the bible and carries a significance to it.

Isaiah 5:4, Isaiah 5:5, Ezra 9:3, Ezekiel 10:4, Ezekiel 10:18, Ezekiel 46:2, Ezekiel 47:1, Zephaniah 1:9-12.

A Threshold is a decisive place of entry, a doorway/ gateway ,entrance to a structure.

The Hebrew word miphtan (מִפְתָּן, miphtân, mif-tawn’) is translated as “threshold“. It refers to the entrance or gateway, a wooden or stone made plank being a boundary between a holy and unholy ground.

The Bible throughout emphasizes the threshold of The Sacred Place — The Temple.

This is rightly the year of the gates and the gatekeepers at the threshold receive an emphatic call in this hour to raise their trumpets at the threshold in triumph over the enemy.

The Threshold at The River of God is where the water is measured by a man with the Measuring line :

“The man brought me back to the entrance to the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east).
The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.
He then brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and the water was trickling from the south side.
As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and then led me through water that was ankle-deep.” Ezekiel 47:1-3.

May we stand at the threshold of The Courts of God, where the river flows so we may be the trees planted by the rivers of water, yielding its fruit every season.

There is a divine attribute to choosing to stand/ watch/ guard at the threshold of the temple .It’s a place of holiness.

Everywhere the word “threshold” is mentioned in the bible, it shows The Holy Place, the place of testing, choosing between the divine and the profane and drawing closer to The Holy Ground.

Threshold and Gates : Caution to Cross the Threshold! The Lamp is Lit ! The search is on!

“On that day I will punish all who avoid stepping on the threshold, who fill the temple of their gods with violence and deceit.
“On that day,” declares The LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, wailing from the New Quarter, and a loud crash from the hills. Wail, you who live in the market district; all your merchants will be wiped out, all who trade with silver will be destroyed.
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who are complacent, who are like wine left on its dregs, who think, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.”” Zephaniah 1:9-12.

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” James 4:8.

~ by Keziah Solomon

Keziah Solomon, God’s Servant, founder of a Prophetic Vision “The Measuring Line Ministries“, daughter of parents who are Missionaries in India for the last 40 years, Keziah engages in the Five-fold Ministry as a Prophetic Scribe, Worshiper and Preacher who pastors their Evangelical Church “The River of God “ along with her husband Solomon, and her daughter Jane, who is also a Worshiper. (See The Measuring Line on Facebook)

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