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demands ten per cent of your GROSS earnings, they commit a gross
sin against Christ because they also demand this tribute from Me.
Read the Old Testament from cover to cover. NOT ONCE will you ever
read that tithes of any kind are demanded from the purses of priests.
If Old Testament priests didnt have to tithe, why should you think I
would demand tithes from my New Covenant priests who live under a
far better covenant (Heb.8:6)?
Preachers demand your money on the basis of their calling themselves
spiritual Levites. Guess what? THE LEVITES WHO SERVED THE
PRIESTHOOD PAID TITHES AND OFFERINGS TO THE PRIESTS, NOT
THE OTHER WAY AROUND (Num.18:26; Neh.10:38-39)!!! In their
eagerness to misapply lucrative Old Testament ceremonial laws to
Christians under grace, preachers neglect to mention the Tithe of the
Tithe paid by the Levites, who, BTW, were SERVANTS to the actual
priesthood, not the other way around. Stop listening to lies and
twisted half-truths from the pulpit. Instead, read the TRUE Word of
God to find out how literal Levites lived, who were distinct from the
actual priesthood.
Ezekiel 44:9-14 (KJV) 9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger (nonIsraelite), uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall
enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of
Israel.*****Today, the sanctuary of the Old Testament has been
made analogous to the brick-and-mortar building where religious
meetings are held, instead of preachers accepting that My people ARE
My house (I Cor.3:16-17). If your preacher threatens you with hellfire
and damnation for not bringing ten per cent of your childrens milk
money into the House of the Lord, you could ask him if he meets the
OT qualifications for performing priestly functions in the House of the
Lord. He must be circumcised in flesh, and possess verifiable proof of
genetic descent from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the priestly line
of Aaron. If he fails to meet these two (2) simple criteria, that
preacher is SINNING by taking up ceremonial offerings or tithes of any
kind. As an uncircumcised Gentile, he doesnt even qualify to enter
into the alleged House of the Lord, since he insists on importing Old
Testament Law into the Church Age of Grace. As a loving parent, you
could remind him that your money (unscriptural form of tithe) is going
into the REAL Temple of God, the body of your believing child.
And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went
astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall
even bear their iniquity. 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary,
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having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house:
they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and
they shall stand before them to minister unto them. 12 Because they
ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel
to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them,
saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. 13 And they
shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto
me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy
place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations
which they have committed. 14 But I will make them keepers of the
charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be
done therein.*****NOWHERE are church leaders called spiritual
Levites in the NT. If they insist on usurping all the IMAGINARY honors
of spiritual Levite, let them also lay claim to the blame and shame of
the OT Levites who had to settle for doing menial jobs in the
Tabernacle because their sins and idolatry disqualified them from
approaching My altar. The alleged honors of OT offices are always
overblown and exalted by pulpit preachers while the sad story of sin,
shame and demotion are NOT preached on and applied to their greedy
lives.
You already have a wonderful teacher in the Spirit of God (John 14:26;
I John 2:27). If ever you sit under (get smothered under) the
ministry of a preacher and feel very, very uneasy inside, go home and
pray about it before you act on whatever the preacher orders you to
do. Get yourself an exhaustive Bible Concordance and look up every
mention of the doctrinal issue the preacher might be misapplying or
twisting to control your life. Compare the verse with the context its in.
What is the Biblical writer trying to get across? What does the original
Hebrew or Greek word really mean? Is the verse or passage a direct
command to ALL generations and ALL people in ALL lands, or is the
message specifically addressed to a certain group of people in a
certain time and place? When your preacher yells Malachi at you for
failure to tithe, does he ever remember to start preaching at the very
beginning of this book to find out who it is addressed to, and who is at
the receiving end of the rebukes of this book (Mal.1:1; 2:1; 3:6)?
Next time your pastor threatens hellfire and damnation for not forking
over a tenth of your paycheck ask him: Do I look like a genetic
Israelite? Do I look like an Old Testament priest? Do I look like a
literal son (MALE) descendant of Jacob? No? Then why lay the tithing
trap on me? End of story: If you are NOT the object of the rebukes of
this book, why do you think the tithing part of Malachi is addressed to
you?
feeding pigs at their money trough. And the more they feed the fat,
greedy swine who exploit them, the hungrier and poorer they get.
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