Answer to the Riddles on my Blog
The answer is "The Jordan River"
Three times I have been divided
doing what God had decided.
Twice a garment was the tool
that led me to obey God’s rule.
I was the threshold of new things
and the limit of many kings.
Once God’s son I did embrace.
Once the ark stood in my place.
Never have I walked the ground,
nor in the heavens was I found.
Three times I have been divided, doing what God had decided.
Once with Joshua's entrance into the Promised Land; once with Elijah and once with Elisha.
Twice a garment was the tool that led me to obey God’s rule.
(Elijah and Elisha)
2 Kings 2:8 Elijah took his mantle and folded it together and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
2 Kings 2:13 He also took up the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and returned and stood by the bank of the Jordan.
2 Kings 2:14 He took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and struck the waters and said, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” And when he also had struck the waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha crossed over.
I was the threshold of new things
and the limit of many kings.
The border crossing into the Promised Land by Joshua and usually the eastern border of Israel for later kings.
Once God’s son I did embrace.
Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River, embraced by the water.
Once the ark stood in my place.
Josh 4:9 Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan at the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing, and they are there to this day.
Never have I walked the ground,
nor in the heavens was I found.
Because the Jordan flows, not walks; it is on the ground, not water in the clouds!
Fun, eh?