A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An alarm in God's holy mountain containing an…A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An allarm in God's holy mountain containing an…

1. The Jews were then Gods floor (or Gods People) as God himself is called an Husbandman, and they were a great Heap, ¹a mighty floor: But almost all Chaff; very Lees, i. e. loose, vain, empty, carnal, and unbelieving Men and Women. A more profane and ungodly generation was hardly ever in the world; and but a very few godly ones among them, but a very little wheat, viz. few sincere ones, or believing persons in all that floor, who waited for Christs Coming, and did when he came, in truth receive him.

1. The Jews were then Gods floor (or Gods People) as God himself is called an Husbandman, and they were a great Heap, ¹a mighty floor: But almost all Chaff; very Lees, i. e. loose, vain, empty, carnal, and unbelieving Men and Women. A more prophane and ungodly generation was hardly ever in the world; and but a very few godly ones among them, but a very little wheat, viz. few sincere ones, or believing persons in all that floor, who waited for Christs Coming, and did when he came, in truth receive him.

1. 1John 15. 1.

But now the Lord Jesus was come, with his Fan in his hand, to separate the Wheat from the Chaff, and not let them remain any longer together on that floor, in that old Barn, i. e. in the Legal Jewish Church state, according to the external Covenant of peculiarity God made with Abraham, and his natural Seed as such: Which had stood near its full period of time prefixed by the Almighty, but now must be pulled down, Jesus Christ being come, and just a going to build a new spiritual Garner, or Gospel Church, to put all his choice Grain or Wheat into, viz. all believing and true penitent persons; this primarily I am satisfied is intended by floor: For the Jewish Church was not to abide or continue any longer than till the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, it being a Typical Church, when the Antitype was come that must needs vanish away.