It also caused me to ask myself a series of questions. What is it that God is asking me to throw down to the ground?

It's 2:22am and I am wide awake listening to the voice of the Lord as He speaks ever so gently. I hear Him say, "Listen for the sound!"

Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by. Is. 26:20