Part 2
The Kinsman-Redeemer and the Call into Covenant
“Spread the corner of your garment over your servant, for you are a close relative.” Ruth 3:9
The threshing floor is one the most beautiful prophetic pictures of Christ and His Bride. It is far more than a place where grain was harvested; it is a place of preparation, covenant, redemption, and intimate communion.
The threshing floor becomes a sacred meeting place where Heaven touches earth, where worship rises as a pleasing aroma before God, and where the Bride is prepared for her Bridegroom.
The account of Ruth and Boaz is a prophetic portrait of Jesus Christ, our Kinsman-Redeemer, and His Church. Every detail points beyond itself to the greater work of redemption accomplished through Christ.
Like Ruth, the Bride is being prepared for divine purpose. Before she ever arrived at the threshing floor, she underwent a process of cleansing and preparation.
Naomi instructed her:
“Wash yourself therefore, anoint yourself, put on your best garment…” Ruth 3:3
This preparation beautifully foreshadows the believer’s life in Christ. Through the washing of regeneration and the cleansing power of His Word, we are made new. We are clothed with Christ, adorned in His righteousness, and anointed by the Holy Spirit to walk in the authority and likeness of the Anointed One.
“For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” Galatians 3:27
The Bride does not come to the threshing floor clothed in her own achievements but in preparation and expectancy. The reward by grace extended that she may be clothed in and by Christ Himself.
Christ, Our Kinsman-Redeemer
John the Baptist first introduces Jesus as the One who comes to the threshing floor.
“His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” Matthew 3:11–12
The Redeemer comes to purify. He separates that which belongs to Him from everything that hinders His people from bearing lasting fruit.
At the threshing floor, Christ reveals Himself as both Redeemer and Bridegroom.
Just as Boaz became Ruth’s redeemer, Jesus became ours through His finished work upon the Cross. He purchased His Bride not with silver or gold, but with His own precious blood, drawing us into covenant relationship with Himself.
The threshing floor therefore becomes a picture of redemption before it becomes a picture of harvest.
The altar and the threshing floor are inseparable throughout Scripture.
David built an altar upon the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite (1 Chronicles 21:18–28), where judgment ceased and mercy triumphed. That place would later become the very site upon which Solomon built the Temple—a dwelling place for the presence of God.
This reveals a profound spiritual truth.
True worship is always birthed upon an altar. It is not simply singing songs or expressing emotion; it is the surrender of one’s entire life before the King.
“Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service of worship.”
Romans 12:1
Upon the altar of surrender, our own will is laid down so that His perfect will may be established within us.
The threshing floor therefore becomes a place where self is exchanged for Christ.
The Midnight Encounter
Ruth arrived at the threshing floor during the fullness of the barley harvest.
After Boaz had eaten and drunk, she quietly uncovered his feet and lay down in humility and trust. At midnight, Boaz awoke.
This midnight encounter carries profound prophetic significance.
Midnight often marks the transition between one season and another. It is the hour before breakthrough, the moment preceding the dawning of a new day.
The Bride meets her Bridegroom in the secret place.
There, hidden from the applause of the world, the promise of covenant was being established.
The covering of Boaz over Ruth prophetically foreshadows Christ spreading His garment of Righteousness over His Church. Under His covering, identity is restored, and covenant love is established.
The Bride discovers that she no longer stands as an orphan or stranger but belongs to the household of the Redeemer.
The Eternal Seed. The Lord of The Harvest.
Before Ruth departed, Boaz measured out six portions of barley and placed them upon her. This gift was far more than provision for physical need. It was a prophetic pledge.
A promise that redemption had begun and that fullness thereof was yet to come.
The six measure prophetically was a seed deposit. As Ruth would come to inherit the whole field! Six the number for Man. This was the shadow deposit for the greater end times harvest.
Seed always points toward life, inheritance, multiplication, and future harvest.
Jesus Himself is the Eternal Seed.
From Him flows every spiritual blessing, every grace, every gift necessary for His Bride to flourish.
As His life is formed within us, fruitfulness naturally follows.
Song of Solomon beautifully describes the Bride as “a heap of wheat set about with lilies” Song of Solomon 7:2
The imagery is striking.
The heap of wheat speaks of abundance, maturity, and harvest.
The lilies speak of purity, beauty, and divine Life together they portray a Bride who is fully sustained by the life of her Beloved.
She lacks nothing because every need is supplied through Him.
The Call into Greater Intimacy
The Lord is calling His Church beyond outward appearance and into deeper communion with Himself.
He is inviting His Bride to return to the threshing floor—not merely as a place of refinement, but as a place of abiding love.
Here worship becomes more than an activity.
It becomes communion.
Prayer becomes conversation.
Obedience becomes delight.
Here the Bride learns to recognise the voice of her Beloved.
The deepest revelations of Christ are not discovered in hurried moments but in surrendered hearts that wait quietly before HIM. It is in this place that His presence transforms us from glory to glory.
A Bride Prepared
We are living in a season in which the Holy Spirit is preparing a spotless Bride for the return of the King.
As Ruth humbled herself before Boaz, so the Church is being called to humility, holiness, and wholehearted devotion.
The threshing floor is preparing a people who know their Redeemer, delight in His Presence, and walk in the beauty of covenant relationship.
Every act of surrender, every sacrifice of praise, every hidden moment of worship, and every yielding of the heart is forming within us the likeness of Christ.
The Bride is not merely awaiting a future wedding feast; she is being prepared now through intimacy with her Bridegroom.
As the winnowing wind of the Holy Spirit continues His refining work, the Church will emerge clothed in Christ, radiant with His glory, bearing the fruit of His Spirit, and standing ready for the great harvest.
Hear voice of the Spirit……
Come to the threshing floor. Come to the place of surrender. Come to the altar of worship. Come beneath the covering of your Kinsman-Redeemer. There, in the secret place of His presence, the Bride is prepared, strengthened, and made fruitful, until she reflects the beauty and fullness of Jesus Christ Himself.
The Last Days worship will become High Worship. Its a calling into The Most Holy Place, entering in by the Redemption Blood. Our Redeemer tore the Veil, that His Bride may enter into The Holy of Holies, His Chamber of Worship.
His Divine Vision – The Fullness of His Church layed Herself down as a living sacrifice.
At Midnight – A new beginning was to birth, She recognised “The Calling of The Lord”.
Denise Sylvia Bruning
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