Threshold Covenant

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"Threshold" In some verses in the bible, the term "cup" is used. The Hebrew word for "cup" is "saf" (Sawf)

H5605 a sense of containing; a vestibule (as a limit); also a dish (for holding blood or wine): - a bason, bowl, cup, door (as in doorpost), gate, post, or a THRESHOLD.

Zechariah 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

It is used in the verse as cup but what if we replace the word "cup" with "door"... Now we have a door of trembling. Now I ask you how can Jerusalem be a "door"? "Trembling" I think everyone understands means trepidation and the next questions is Why? I say it is because it is the focal point of controversy. Jerusalem is the anointed place where Messiah will reign, and where God has placed His Name. It is the threshold of His "House of Prayer".

 

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Another example I saw dealing with this "The Threshold Covenant" is found in the Passover where God made a covenant with all who put the blood of a lamb at the threshold of the door. Jerusalem is the threshold of God where the covenant is made with all nations, and Yeshua's blood was shed at that "threshold" to regather us back to His covenant? "for God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son,...."

For those that do not know what a threshold is, it is the bottom part of your doors that people step over to enter into your homes. You always need to be careful as to who gets their foot in the door. In Eastern culture, trample and stomp on the threshold of a person's home is considered worse than cursing at your neighbor.

Hebrews 10:26-29 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has TRAMPLED (stomped) the Son of God underfoot, counted the BLOOD OF THE COVENANT by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews warns us about what happened to Israel in the desert.

Hebrews 4:2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

They had the same gospel preached to them as we do regarding our Redeemer. They had the same Word of God. The same message. How many have thought that we had a new gospel in the New Testament? They did not have the faith to carry out the Word of God, for if they really had faith, they would have done the Word of God. We who have faith, who have believed, then enter that rest….

Hebrews 4:3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “ So I swore in My wrath, ‘ They shall not enter My rest,’” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

This is God's threshold.

 

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Paul knew about the threshold covenant being a spiritual rule...

Luke 10:4 Carry no money belt, no bag, no shoes; and greet no one on the way. 5"Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.' 6"If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.…

 

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A door threshold was often a place to make a covenant between two people or families. The covenant sacrifice was cut in half. The two halves placed on either side of the doorway where the blood could flowing across the threshold. The threshold step had a little groove made in it all the way across. That is little groove makes what is known as the covenant basin. To step over the blood on the door threshold was to accept the covenant. To step on it showed great contempt for those in the household and the covenant offered. To enter any other way is avoiding the covenant to get the benefits.

John 10:1 He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

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A threshold forms the boundary and with the posts, lintel, and door, it is the line that separates outside from inside. Back then, a home’s threshold was considered sacred and highly symbolic because those who crossed over a threshold were entitled to the hospitality and protection of those in the house while they remained there. That is why Lot was so insistent on getting the angels inside his home.

Gen 19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

A threshold stone is the first stone laid and considered the foundation stone of the house. Back then, there was a practice of having a sacrifice blood which this stone was laid in.

John 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

You have to cross the blood sacrifice to get in Yeshua's door of salvation.

 

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Here is a picture of a threshold with basin. That little trench or crevice is the catcher of the blood of the covenant.

 

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The basin at the door is that crevice in the threshold stone, especially created for blood sacrifices.

Ex 12:22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin (threshold), and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin (threshold). And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning. For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.

What happened that Passover night when the lamb was sacrificed, the blood covenant was made at the threshold door and in the basin the blood from the covenant was caught. Then the person took a bunch of hyssop and dipping it in the blook in the basin, strikes the lintel and two doorposts with the blood.

 

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H5592 caph saf door, threshold, basin, posts, bowls, gates, cup....
The KJV translates Strongs H5592 in the following manner: door (12x), threshold (8x),bason (4x), posts (3x), bowls (2x), gates (2x), cup (1x).
Outline of Biblical Usage H5605, in its original sense of containing; a vestibule (as a limit); also a dish (for holding blood or wine):—basin, bowl, cup, door (post), gate, post, threshold.

 

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You might find this interesting. https://books.google.com/books?id=_...JAhWGbiYKHVu2CMIQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=History of the threshold stone basin&f=false

 

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Exodus 12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, H5592 and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin; H5592 and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

Judges 19:27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold. H5592

Two examples.. both from the same H5592 Hebrew word.

 

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Two fragments of threshold stones were found ex situ in a pile of debris between Square 2 and Rabbi Yossi's tomb (Fig. 5). http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/Report_Detail_Eng.aspx?id=702&print=all

 

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Zeph 1:9 And I shall punish on that day all who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

To cross over a threshold for evil intents is subject to God's wrath.

 

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I found something interesting... We know that Thomas got as far as India. Well, they have a way of dealing with injustice. In India, there is an ancient tradition that if one wishes to obtain justice from another they would sit at the door of the person‟s house who wronged him and not move until he or she starved to death unless that person repents and compensates. If the repentant one died, his or her blood would cry out against the one who wronged him. I reminds me of someone else we have wronged.

Revelation 3: 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

 

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A presentation of the threshold covenant and its relationship with the Passover. http://themessianicmessage.com/Passover Not At Home.pdf

 

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Was thinking visually and thought of the stone.
The stone Hearts..that serve other gods.

Joshua 24
1And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and he called the elders of Israel, and their heads, and their judges, and their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
2And Joshua said to the whole nation, "Thus said the Lord God of Israel, 'Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the river from earliest time, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor; and they served other gods.
3And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
4And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau; and I gave to Esau Mount Seir to inherit it; and Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. :
5And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued the Egyptians, according to that which I did in their midst; and afterward I brought you out.
6And I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.
7And they cried to the Lord, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon him, and it covered him. And your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt. And you sojourned in the wilderness many days.
8And I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who dwelt on the other side of the Jordan, and they waged war with you; and I delivered them into your hand, and you inherited their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
9Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you. :
10And I did not want to hearken to Balaam, and he blessed you; so I delivered you out of his hand.
11And you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the inhabitants of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
12And I sent the hornet before you, and it drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.
13And I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you have settled in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which you did not plant, you eat.
14And now fear the Lord, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth; and remove the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. :
15And if it displeases you to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell, but as for me and my household, we shall serve the Lord."
16And the nation answered and said, "God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods;
17For the Lord our God, it is He Who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and Who performed these great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way that we went and among all the peoples through whom we passed.
18And the Lord drove out all the nations, and the Amorites who dwell in the land, from before us; we too shall serve the Lord for He is our God."
19And Joshua said to the people, "You will not be able to serve the Lord, for He is a holy God: He is a jealous God: He will not forgive your trangressions or your sins.
20When you forsake the Lord and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you evil, and destroy you, after He has done you good."
21And the people said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve the Lord."
22And Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord for yourselves, to serve Him." And they said, "[We are] witnesses." :
23"And now," [said he,] "remove the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord God of Israel."
24And the people said to Joshua, "The Lord our God we shall serve, and to His voice we shall hearken."
25And Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it under the doorpost which is in the sanctuary of the Lord. :

Zechariah 3
8“ ‘Listen, High Priest Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch. 9See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day

 

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I Kings 18:20 should be rendered "How long will ye leap over both thresholds?" (that is, worship both Baal and God). Which brings to mind other thresholds found in scripture... The key to the abyss for example. The opening of our hearts and minds to things both in God's world and those things that are not. There are many thresholds that have been crossed. When we are at the threshold of discovery, we can choose to "know" both the good and evil of this new found knowledge. CERN comes to mind. Playing with particles, like little boys wanting to crash their tinker toy cars, to watch them explode, to me, is not dealing with a full deck.