Tithing is Unscriptural Under
the New Covenant
[A Scriptural Exposition on the Fraudulent Fleecing of the
Flock]
Since first posting this
tithing paper on Bible-truths.com, we have had over 100,000 visitors seeking
information on this topic. Many have written me personally thanking me for
freeing them from this illegal and abusive practice of the Church. I have also
received emails from some who are sure that tithing is a bonafide
legal obligation for members of the New Testament Christian Church.
Objections to my paper
range from simply quoting the prophet Malachi sent to the priests and nation of
"Tithing was a form of
worship to God, and since we still worship God, we must still tithe."
I will answer this one in
one sentence: Since burnt offerings were a form of worshiping God, and
since we still worship God, must we still offer burnt offerings to God? Ridiculous.
Part II of this paper covers the Malachi prophecy more thoroughly
as it concerns the subject of tithing.
"Will a man ROB
God?" How many untold tens of thousands of men will give account one day
for teaching this verse in Malachi 3:8 totally out of context for their own
sordid gain. I couldn’t count the times I have heard
self-appointed ministers of the gospel berate their congregations and listeners
for "robbing God" in tithes and offerings. This verse in Malachi
certainly means what it says. Someone was defrauding God of tithes and
offerings, but wait until you find out who it is that God blames for
this act.
On any given Sunday morning
there will be numerous men-of-the-cloth who will be
bellowing out over the air waves that people are being "cursed with a
curse" because they have failed to pay God ten percent of their paychecks.
And should such a gullible listener decide to repent and give God ten percent
of his salary, just how does he do that? Just keep listening, these men of the
cloth who often have unquenchable worldly desires of the flesh, will be sure to
give you an address where you can send them (or, ah, rather God) your tithe. Do
they have a right to quote these Scriptures to you in this manner? No they do
not, and furthermore they themselves know better.
SOME SHOCKING TRUTHS ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN TITHING DOCTRINE
ALL SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES TO TITHING
We will now go through all
the Scriptural references in the Bible on tithe, tithes, and tithing:
[1] Gen.
14:20, "And blessed be the most
high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy
hand. And he [Abram] gave him [Melchizedek
king of
We read again of this same
event in the book of Hebrews:
[2] Heb. 7:1-10, "For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of
God Most High, who meets with Abraham returning from the combat with the kings
and blesses him, to whom Abraham parts a TITHE also, from all... Now, behold
how eminent this one is to whom the patriarch Abraham gives a TITHE also of the
best of the booty. And, indeed, those of the sons of Levi who obtain the
priestly office have a direction to take TITHES from the people according to
the law... And here, indeed, dying men are obtaining TITHES... And so, to say,
through Abraham, Levi also, who is obtaining the TITHES, has been TITHED, for
he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek meets with him."
There are a number of
things we can learn concerning tithing from this section of Scriptures. In this
account, the first mention of tithing in the Bible, Abram gives to Melchizedek
(a priest of God who was also the king of the city of
There is nothing stated
here that would cause us to conclude that Abram (later changed to Abraham) ever
tithed on a regular basis on his own person possessions. Although Abraham gave
Melchizedek a tithe of the booty of war, he told the king of
In this same account
recorded in the seventh chapter of Hebrews, we learn that the priests of Levi,
from the family of Aaron (although far inferior to the priestly order of
Melchizedek) also receive tithes from the people according to the law. This
tells us little more about the actual tithes other than they received tithes.
What Christian scholars claim about these verses is that Abraham’s tithing the
spoils of war, predated the Law of Moses, and therefore even if the Law of
Moses is done away with, tithing is still binding on Christians because Abraham
predated the Law of Moses. Is this true?
Christendom teaches that
this Scripture is the first proof from the Word of God that we Christians are
to tithe ten percent of our salaries to the church. But what have we really
learned from these Scriptures:
Abraham went to war on
behalf of
Next we will observe a
Scripture that you will probably never hear a sermon on. No tithe-preaching
clergyman would use the example of how Jacob tithed. Remember, Jacob is the
grandson of Abraham, the father of the faithful, whom God also blessed
tremendously. Not only did God approve of Jacob’s tithing proposal,
but; He made it the foundational principle upon which all future tithing would
be based. Chances are great that most of your ministers won’t even quote this
next verse, let alone preach a sermon on it. Get ready for a real tithing
shocker. Here it is.
[3] Gen. 28:20-22, "And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, IF God
will be with me, and [if God] will keep me in this way that I go, and [if God] will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So
that I come again to my father’s house in peace; THEN shall the Lord be
my God: And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house:
and of all that thou shall GIVE ME I will surely give the TENTH unto
thee."
Wow! This one Scripture
pretty much contradicts 99% of all sermons I have ever heard on the subject of
tithing! This is the very first Scripture in the Bible that gives an account of
someone giving a tenth or tithe of his personal possessions back to God. But,
Oh how different it is from the teachings of most
First Jacob truly
recognizes God as God. He then begins to proposition God. He states that
"IF" God will do this and "IF’ God will do the other things,
"THEN" Jacob says, "shall the Lord be
my God." Jacob concludes his proposition to God, should God meet all of
his requirements, by saying that of all the things that God will first give to
Jacob, Jacob will give God back a tenth. Now don’t laugh. God honored
Jacob’s proposition, and furthermore, God continued to honor this same
principle of tithing all through
And so, once more, we learn
that
God is not partial and God
is not a hypocrite. This example of Jacob proves that God doesn’t expect a
tithe until He blessed the tithe payer first. Everyone should put down this
paper, call his minister, and tell him you want to hear a sermon Sunday morning
on how Jacob paid tithes to God. Now hold your breath.
Let’s ask ourselves a
reasonable question: Just how did Jacob actually give a tithe to God? Did he
personally hand it to God? No, no one has ever even seen God. Did Jacob tithe
to an angel? No, angels do not need and can’t use tithes. Did Jacob send his
tithe to Heaven by Celestial Express? No. Did he take it to the local church?
No, there was no local church. Did he take it to the
1.
"And thither ye shall bring
your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your TITHES, and heave offerings
of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of
your herds and of your flocks: And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God,
and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, YE and YOUR HOUSEHOLDS,
wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee" (Deut. 12:6-7).
2.
"And even though there were no
Levites in Jacob’s day, nonetheless, there were "...the STRANGER, and the
FATHERLESS, and the WIDOW, which are within thy gates, shall come, and SHALL
EAT AND BE SATISFIED; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of
thin hand which thou doest" (Deut. 14:29).
That’s how God acknowledged
a tithe from Jacob: By partaking of a portion himself and his family in
communion and thanksgiving to God, and by sharing his fortune with those who
were unfortunate, poor, strangers, etc.
[4] Leviticus 27:30-33, "And all the TITHE of the LAND, whether of the
SEED of the land, or of the FRUIT, of the tree, is the Lord’s: it is holy unto
the Lord. And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add
thereto the fifth part thereof. And concerning the TITHE of the HERD, or of the
FLOCK, even of whatsoever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy
unto the Lord. He shall not search whether it be good
or bad, neither shall he change it..."
We learn a great deal about
tithing in this section of Scripture:
Here is exposed another lie
of modern clergymen. It was not the first tenth, but rather the tenth
tenth that belonged to God, contrary to every
minister I have ever heard, who insists that the first tenth always
belongs to God. Unscriptural. Untrue.
Read your bible--it’s the tenth one of a herd that belongs to God.
Another interesting point
is this. If a herdsman had but nine cattle, he didn’t tithe his
cattle at all! Also notice that God did not even require the best of
the cattle, just the tenth one to pass under the rod even if it was the runtiest of them all. Remember, we are talking about
tithing and not sacrificing (animals for sacrifice always had to be without
blemish).
Did you notice that this
summary at the very end of the book of Leviticus does not mention the tithing
of money? Interesting. But just maybe we will
find the tithing of money in some other Scripture?
[5] Numbers 18:24-28, "But the TITHES of the children of Israel, which
they offer as an heave offering unto the Lord, I have given to the Levites to
inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they
shall have no inheritance.
And the Lord spoke unto
Moses, saying, Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of
the children of Israel the TITHES which I have given you from them for your
inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the Lord, even
a TENTH part of the TITHE. And this your heave
offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the
threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress. Thus ye also shall offer
an heave offering unto the Lord of all your TITHES, which ye receive of the
children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the Lord’s heave offering to
Aaron the priest."
According to the above
Scriptures, could just anyone claim to be a representative of God and
therefore have
A warning to all charlatans
and would-be tithe extractors and collectors: There is NO
Yet today we have tithe
collecting preachers like James Kennedy and John Hagee,
with whom I am a little familiar, collecting tithe monies by the millions and
millions of dollars annually. Yet by years end I heard them begging for more
multiple millions of dollars to get them out of all the financial debt they had
accumulated during the year. And then, (so help me, if I’m lying, I’m dying),
John Hagee has the unmitigated gall to offer his
followers (excuse me, sell to his followers--three video tapes, $60
US/$87 CAN) entitled The POWER to get WEALTH, by which Mr. Hagee assures us that we can learn to "STAY OUT OF
DEBT"! Can you believe it? Would the word "hypocrite" be too
strong or out of place here?
The whole system changed
under the New Covenant. Notice what happened:
How then, under the New
Covenant, does a believer give a tenth, when he is supposed to give his all
(Rom. 12:1), to a priesthood that does not exist, but now he himself is part of
a priesthood (I Peter 2:9), at a temple that does not exist (Mat. 24:1-2), but
rather he himself is the temple wherein God dwells. No longer do we have
priests with spiritual infirmities interceding for us, but rather we have
Christ Jesus as our perfect intercessor and High Priest seated at the right
hand of the Majesty in the heavens (Heb. 7:28-8:1).
At this time in history,
[6] Deut. 12:6, 7, 11, 12,
17, 18, "And thither ye shall
bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your TITHES, and heave
offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the
firstlings of your herds and of your flock.
And there, ye shall eat
before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand
unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.
Then there shall be a
place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there;
thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, your TITHES, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your
choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord.
And ye shall rejoice
before the Lord your God, YE, and your SONS and your
DAUGHTERS, and your MENSERVANTS, and your MAIDSERVANTS, and the LEVITE that is
within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
You may not eat within
thy gates the TITHE of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the
firstlings of thy herds or of the flocks, nor any of thy vows which thou vow,
nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of your hand: But YOU MUST EAT
THEM before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall
choose..."
Let us learn. Who was to
partake of all these tithes and good things of the herd and of the land and of
the trees? Everyone (yes, the Levite was also included) was to rejoice before
the Lord. Did anyone see "money" in the list of things they
were to bring before the Lord to rejoice? Was it just the ministers (the
Levites) who were the recipients of these tithes and offerings, or was not everyone
to partake of these things? Rejoicing and eating one’s own tithe before the Lord, was a very personal and reverend act of worship and
communion with God. Not unlike prayer. Others may share and profit from our
prayers, but we offer them to God, not to men.
The following verses deal
with a practice initiated by God Himself to accommodate those traveling long
distances to the Festival Sites where they were to eat and rejoice before the
Lord to learn to fear Him. They could sell their tithes of the land for MONEY,
and carry that amount of money rather than the bulky and heavy tithes
themselves, to the Festival Site. There they were to purchase whatever their
hearts desired and to share it with the Levites and the less fortunate. These
verses will be further explained in Part II of this paper
[7] Deut. 14:22-29, "Thou shall truly TITHE all the INCREASE of thy SEED, that the field brings forth year by year."
"And you shall eat
before the lord your God, in the place which He shall choose to place His name
there, the TITHE of thy CORN, of thy WINE, and of your OIL, and the FIRSTLINGS
OF THY HERDS and of thy FLOCKS: that thou may learn to fear the Lord thy God
always.
And if the way be too long
for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far
from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set His name there, when the
Lord thy God hath blessed thee:
Then shall thou turn it
into MONEY, and bind up the MONEY in your hand, and shall go unto the place
which the Lord thy God shall choose:
And thou shall BESTOW
THAT MONEY FOR WHATSOEVER YOUR SOUL LUSTETH AFTER, for oxen, or for
sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for WHATSOEVER YOUR SOUL
DESIRES: and YOU shall eat there before the Lord thy God, and THOU shall
rejoice, THOU, AND THINE HOUSEHOLD.
And the Levite that is
within thy gates, thou shall not forsake him; for he has no part, nor
inheritance with thee.
At the end of three
years thou shall bring forth all the TITHE of thine
INCREASE the same year, and shall lay it up within thy gates:
And the Levite, (because
he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the
STRANGER, and the FATHERLESS, and the WIDOW, which are within thy gates, shall
come, and SHALL EAT AND BE SATISFIED; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in
all the work of your hand which thou doest."
This third year of tithing
is mentioned again:
[8] Deut. 26:12, "When thou hast made an end of TITHING all the
TITHES of your INCREASE the third year, which is the year of TITHING, and has
given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that
they may eat within thy gates, and be filled."
Again we notice that
For those who don’t know,
Mr. Shambach is a character on TBN who told everyone
on international television, via 25 communication satellites and reaching about
50,000 major cities around the world, that God personally told him to
tell everyone that in order for them to get out of debt and be blessed of God,
everyone needed to send Paul Crouch $2000 each, even if they didn’t have the
money! He said God would bless them even if they had to pay the $2000 in
smaller monthly increments. Unbelievable!
TBN's teaching on
tithing are totally unscriptural even if Christians were to tithe. Time
and again God told
Paul never taught the Gentiles to tithe, but he did teach them to give freely
from what they had, not from what they didn’t have:
"I want to
suggest that you finish what you started to do a year ago, for you were not
only the first to propose this idea, but the first to begin doing something
about it. Having started the ball rolling so enthusiastically, you should carry
this project through to completion just as gladly, GIVING WHATEVER YOU CAN OUT
OF WHATEVER YOU HAVE. Let your enthusiastic idea at the start be equaled by
your realistic action now. If you are really EAGER TO GIVE, then it isn't
important HOW MUCH YOU HAVE TO GIVE. God wants you to give WHAT YOU HAVE, NOT
WHAT YOU HAVEN'T" (II Cor.
Oh, let met give you one
more prosperity example while I’m at it. Some time ago I critiqued two sermons
by Dr. Kennedy and Dr. Hagee. As I sent for one of Hagee’s cassette tapes so as to quote him correctly, I got
put on his mailing list. In August of 1999 I got a magazine in which he
announced a proposed celebration. It appears that he needed seven or eight
million dollars in new video equipment and facilities of which he still owed
3.5 million on this debt. Anyway, to commemorate this huge debt and a proposal
to get someone else to pay it off for him, he announced "Millennium
Miracle 2000 by 2000"! "What in the world is that?" you
ask. Well, since you asked, I’ll tell you.
To commemorate this huge
debt and Mr. Hagee’s plan to get other people to pay
it off for him, he came up with a plan to mint a one ounce sterling silver coin
which would then have printed on one side: "Millennium Miracle 2000 by
2000," and on the other side: Your Name!
The plan was for 2000
people to send John Hagee $2000 dollars each for the
next few months so that by the year 2000 Mr. Hagee
would be DEBT FREE! Why it’s a "Millennium Miracle"! (Wait a minute, isn’t 2000 people times $2000 each $4,000,000, not
$3.5 million dollars? Oh well, a $500,000 error in John’s favor should come in
handy for something).
Each contributor of $2000
would then get a coin commemorating his contribution: "What a precious
heirloom that can be passed from one generation to the next honoring
your commitment to the Lord" (Emphasis mine). WHAT A PRECIOUS CROCK...! Do
you think the word "hypocrite" would be appropriate one more time?
How stupid do they think
the American people are? These are full-grown men. Some of them highly educated
people. And yet they shamelessly hawk and huckster their ridiculous religious
doctrines, trinkets, and wares over the air waves, like PEDDLERS, in the name
of God!
Now don’t think I take
credit for coming up with that word "peddler." The apostle Paul told
the Corinthians (and now it’s in our Bibles for the whole world to see) that:
"For we are not as
the MAJORITY, who are PEDDLING THE WORD GOD..." (II Cor.
2:17, Concordant Version).
The word translated here
"peddling" in the Concordant New Testament comes from the word
"kapeleuo" which the spirit of God
inspired to be used in the original Greek text of this verse of Scripture.
Here is the meaning of the
Greek word "kapeleuo" translated
"peddler." "To sell at retail, with the insinuation of improper
profit, either by overcharging or adulterating" (Greek-English Keyword
Concordance, page 220).
And notice please that it
is not just a few who "peddle" the Word of God, but Paul says, "...the
MAJORITY..." are peddling the word of God! Contrast this insincere merchandising
of the word of God with Paul’s motive:
"For we ARE NOT as
the majority, who are peddling the word of God, but as OF SINCERITY, but as OF
GOD, in the sight of God IN CHRIST, are we speaking."
Just a few chapters later
Paul informs us that one day we all will stand before the judgment seat of
Christ and give an account of our lives, (II Cor.
5:10).
This next section in
Chronicles tells us the same things we have already learned concerning what
products were to be tithed.
[9] II Chronicles 31:5, 6,
12, "And as soon as the
commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in ABUNDANCE the firstfruits of CORN, WINE, and OIL, and HONEY, and of all
the INCREASE of the field; and the TITHE of all things brought they in
abundantly.
And concerning the
children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also
brought in the TITHE of OXEN and SHEEP, and the TITHE of holy things which were
consecrated unto the Lord their God, and laid them by heaps.
And brought in the offerings
and the TITHES ..."
This next section of
Scriptures deals with a special tithe and offering given to NEW priests and
Levites set up by Hezekiah after cleaning house in the cities of
[10] Nehemiah 10:37-38, "And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit
of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers
of the house of our God and the TITHES of our ground unto the Levites, that the
same Levites might have the TITHES in all the cities of our tillage.
And the priest the son
of Aaron shall be the Levites, when the Levites take TITHES: and the Levites
shall bring up the TITHE of the TITHES unto the house of our God, to the
chambers into the treasure house."
Again, no mention of money,
only agricultural products of the fields, and only the Levites and priests
could have access to these tithes and offerings in the house of God.
[11] Nehemiah 12:44, "And at that time were some appointed over the
chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the fruitfruits,
and for the TITHES, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the
portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for
the priests and for the Levites that waited."
Nothing
new in this verse that, we have not already discussed.
[12] Nehemiah 13:5, 12 "And he had prepared for him a great chamber,
where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the
vessels, and the TITHES of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was
commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters;
and the offerings of the priests."
"Then
brought all
Same story: ONLY
agricultural products, and ONLY to the Levites and priests.
[13] Amos 4:4, "Come to
[14] Malachi 3:8-10, "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But
ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and
offerings…"
This Malachi Prophecy is
covered in much greater detail in Part II
of this paper, and so I will give just one more Scripture to help us understand
how the priests of Malachi’s prophecy may have been living so as to bring upon
them the condemnation of God’s judgments:
"And the
priest’s custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the
PRIEST’S servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a flesh hook of
three teeth in the hand;
And he struck it into
the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh hook brought up the
priest took for himself. So they did in
Also before they burnt
the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give
flesh to roast for the PRIEST; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but
raw.
And if any man said unto
him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy
soul desires; then he would answer him, Nay, but thou shall give it me now: and
if not, I will take it by force.
Wherefore the sin of the
young men was very great before the Lord: for MEN ABHORRED the offering of the
Lord." (I Sam.
2:
Don’t these verses sound as
if they came right out of the book of Malachi?
[15] Matt. 23:23 and Luke
11:42 are discussed in greater detail in Part II of this paper.
CONCLUSION
Now I’m going to preach at
you for just a few minutes, and then I’ll let you go. Turn to Gal. 6:14-16:
"Now may it
not be mine to be boasting, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision
is anything, but a NEW CREATION. And whoever shall observe the elements by this
rule, peace be on them, and mercy, also on the
What is "...this
rule...?" We are no longer doing things according to the flesh.
Circumcision was the single most important ritual for a man in
"...God, Who
also makes us competent dispensers of a NEW covenant, not of the letter,
but of the spirit, for the letter is killing, yet the spirit is
vivifying [giving life]" (II Cor. 3:6).
The physical is but a tiny
microcosm of the spiritual macrocosm. Cutting a few centimeters of skin from a
boy’s penis does not make him a spiritual man! But all of these rituals and
ceremonies of the Old Covenant pointed to a future SPIRITUAL reality. True circumcision
is not of the flesh, but of the heart, mind, soul, and spirit—it virtually has
nothing to do with a few centimeters of physical skin.
"For not that
which is apparent is the Jew, nor yet that which is apparent in flesh is
circumcision; but that which is hidden IS the Jew, and circumcision is of the
heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose applause is not of men, but of God" (Rom. 2:29).
Jesus Christ is not
interested in the letter, in the physical, in the flesh.
"Now those who
are in the flesh are not able to please God" (
Even baptism is of the
heart. The thief on the cross was not baptized in water, yet Jesus said he
would be with Him when He comes in His kingdom. "...whoever are baptized
into Christ Jesus, are baptized into His DEATH" "His death," not
water.
"We, then,
were entombed together with Him through baptism into death, that, even as
Christ was roused from among the dead through the glory of the Father, thus we
also should be walking in newness of life" (Rom. 6:3-4).
It’s all about the
SPIRIT--not water, foreskins, and money!
God doesn’t need or want
ten percent of anything we have. God wants one hundred percent. Christ died for
ALL OF YOU, and He wants ALL OF YOU, not just a percentage! God doesn’t want
your money; He wants YOU!
You are already bought and
paid for in full by Christ Jesus -- don’t try to add your two cents. We are now
to live on a standard far above what we ever knew before Christ called us to
become new creatures in the spirit. This can only be done through the power of
God’s spirit. Our flesh is profiting NOTHING.
"Yet you are
not in flesh, but IN SPIRIT, if so be that God’s spirit is making its home in
you" (
One living in the spirit is
not all concerned about physical things of the letter and of the flesh. The
apostle Paul wasn’t called to "baptize," "circumcise," or
"collect tithes." The
If people feel they need to
give something to God, something physical, something they can see and feel good
about, then try this:
"I beseech you
therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service
And be not conformed to
this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may
prove that is that good and acceptable and perfect, will of God" (Rom. 12:1-2).
The Apostle Paul said:
"Every man
according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give, not grudgingly, or of
NECESSITY: for GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER." (II Cor.. 9:7).
I would not give another
penny to televangelists who peddle the word of God like some cheap merchandise
for money. And the amount of money they extort from the public is colossal.
What in the world do they do with all that money?
Never have SO MANY…
accomplished SO LITTLE … with SO MUCH!
The real missionaries of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ have not flown first class to cushy hotels in exotic
lands to teach the natives while dressed in their $3000 suits! The real
missionaries were often down in the trenches with few if any luxuries. And
there are still to be found such dedicated dispensers of God’s Word. These are
the ones that are in need of financial support, for sure. These are those who
truly are "worthy of their hire."
HELP THE NEEDY, NOT THE GREEDY
Give to the fatherless, the
orphans, the strangers, the widows, the poor, and the needy, the homeless, and
the beggar on the street, as God gives to you, the wherewithal. Give to
reputable charities if you have extra. Give to your family members and
relatives in need—don’t humiliate them by making them ask you first. Give to a
neighbor in financial distress. Even when tipping someone, let it be a reflection
of the One that you are representing in your Christian walk. Our God is a
generous God—may you become generous also. Develop a "love for
giving." Paul tells us in Acts 20:35b to:
Remember the words of the
Lord Jesus, how He said, IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE
Scriptural Proof that Christian Tithing is a Hoax
and
The Malachi Prophecy
I marvel that more people
are not totally embarrassed by the way the world of Christendom exacts money
from the poor and peddles the Word of God like so much merchandise for sordid
gain. It is an international disgrace. I will not mince words, so get ready for
some startling revelations.
WHAT WE WILL LEARN
What is the real message of
Malachi’s prophecy for believers today?
Did Paul finance his
international ministry through the tithing system?
Is there even one example
of Christians paying tithes in the Bible?
Why did Jesus not pay
tithes or the
Will you or anyone be "cursed
with a curse" for not tithing?
THE SCRIPTURES KNOW NOTHING OF "CHRISTIAN TITHING"
Jesus Christ’s followers
did not pay tithe to Him from farm products or herds; neither did His followers
pay Him ten percent of their salaries from other sources of income.
"Christian tithing" is an oxymoron—it is a contradiction of words.
Nay, it is more: it is, in fact, a Christian hoax! "Christian
tithing" is about as Scriptural as "Christian burnt offerings,"
"Christian stonings," or "Christian
synagogues." The leaders of Christendom have bamboozled millions
(billions) of unsuspecting laity into believing that "Christian
tithing" is a Scriptural command from God Himself, and can easily be found
and supported in the pages of Divine Scripture. Oh really?
Of the 613 laws contained in
the first five books of the Bible written by Moses, why is it that aside from
the ten commandments, "tithing" is virtually
the only other law that the modern Church tries to retain? They retain it in
name only, however, since there is nothing similar between Moses’ law of tithing" and "Christian tithing"
except the aspect of ten percent. Christian tithing is an extra-biblical
concept and doctrine—aside from the ten percent it has nothing in common with
the tithing law of Moses, and was never practiced by the
Not only is Christian
tithing taught to be needful, it is taught as if it
were a divine, binding LAW. But there is no such thing as a "Christian
tithing law" in the New Testament Scriptures. It is a heresy, used by the
Church, independent cults, and charlatans of every description, as a club to
beat and threaten parishioners into surrendering ten percent of their salaries
in obedience to this phantom law. All are forewarned that failure to pay this
10% Church tax will cause them to be "cursed with a CURSE!" There
is indeed "a curse," but it is not God Who pronounces it.
NO TITHING IN THE CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES
We have Scriptural proof
that no such law or custom as Christian tithing was taught or practiced in the
Church by the early apostles. Their epistles are totally devoid of any such
tithing custom or law. Gentile converts were never taught to tithe to anyone.
Although the temple and priesthood in
In the Acts 15 Jerusalem
Conference we find outlined what the apostles all agreed was necessary for the
newly converted Gentiles to practice, and by inspiration of the Holy Spirit of
God, tithing is conspicuously missing. Some believing Pharisees wanted
the apostles to teach the Gentiles to keep the Law of Moses (which certainly
contained the law of tithing, Acts 15:5), but the apostles headed by Peter,
James, and Paul would not hear of it (Acts
Notice this telling bit of
history from the my Encyclopedia Britannica, "Tithes in
Christendom—The earliest authentic example of anything like a law of the
State enforcing payment appears to occur in the capitularies [ecclesiasticals] of Charlemagne at the end of the 8th
or beginning of the 9th century. Tithes were by that enactment to be
applied to the maintenance of the bishop, clergy, the poor,
and the fabric of the church. In the course of time the principle of payment
of tithes was extended FAR BEYOND its original intention. Thus they became
transferable to laymen and saleable like ordinary property, in spite of the
injunctions of the third Lateran Council; and they became payable OUT OF
SOURCES OF INCOME [not just farming and herding, but other trades and
occupations and salaries paid in the form of money] NOT ORIGINALLY
TITHABLE." (1963, volume 22, page 253, ‘TITHES’).
They "extended"
their base of tithe collecting to eventually include all forms of income. All
Christian scholars know that although money was in wide use in ancient
"My people have
been lost sheep [Why?
How did they get that way?] their SHEPHERDS
have caused them to go astray" (Jer.
50:6).
Was
THE MYSTERY OF MALACHI REVEALED
It is the book of Malachi
that today’s clergy uses as their main authority for promulgating the doctrine
of "Christian tithing." Christian tithing means that everyone must
give 10% of their gross income (which is in the form of MONEY, 99%+ of the time),
or they will be "cursed with a curse." It will be well worth
your time to read the real meaning of Malachi’s prophecy.
Mostly one will hear only
three verses of Malachi quoted by those attempting to wrest a doctrine of
Christian tithing from this prophecy.
Here are the
"cursing" verses:
"Will a man rob
God? Yet ye have robbed Me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed Thee? In tithes and
offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed Me, even this
whole nation" (Malachi
3:8-9).
Here is the
"blessing" verse:
"Bring ye all the
tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat [bread] in Mine house, and prove
Me now herewith, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of
heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that thee shall not be room enough to
receive it" (Malachi 3:10).
Their interpretation of
these proof texts are as follows: Rob God of His ten percent of your salary and
be CURSED, or pay God ten percent of your salary and be BLESSED.
Before we go any further,
just who is cursing whom in this Malachi prophecy? Does God, indeed,
say, "You are CURSED with a curse" (Mal. 3:9)? This
definitely sounds as if it is GOD Who is doing the cursing, doesn’t it? But
say, did you notice that the word "are" in your Bible is in italics?
That means that the word was supplied by the translators and was not in the
original manuscripts. Remove it, and the verse says: "You cursed…"
rather than "You are cursed…"
Is it God, or
The Sopherim
(Jewish Scribes) understood this verse to say that it was
"With the curse YOU
are cursing [me],
and me YOU are robbing—the nation in its entirety."
And:
"With a curse
you curse Me, and Me you are defrauding—the nation,
all of it" (Mal.
3:9, Concordant Version of The Old Testament).
We must always keep in mind
that when the Bible says "tithes" it means products from the land—as
grains and cattle. But when the Priests of Christendom say "tithes,"
it always means money. Because the clergy prefers to be paid in money, it
therefore, became necessary to change the Biblical use of the word
"tithes" to now include money. And if "money" can now be
shown to be a tithable commodity, guess what?
Abracadabra, hocus-pocus, open sesame—every believer, of every occupation in
the whole world (not just the farmers as in the Law of Moses), now is required
to pay ten percent of his income to the Church. They increased their base of productivity
a hundred fold.
What then is the 21st
Century application of this Malachi Prophecy? Are we now to tithe money? Let’s
read Malachi
If there is no spiritual
application of these statements and we rather take them literally, there
appears to be a contradiction here. Why should the people bring the tithes to
the "storehouse" (a granary for storing grain) when what God
wanted was "bread in His house," (the
tabernacle/Temple, and not the "storehouse")? The only food in
God’s house—the tabernacle, was a dozen loaves of bread. And that bread was for
the Priests only, not for the tribe of Levi. Since there were only twelve
loaves of bread in the Tabernacle/Temple of God, are we to believe that the
whole nation of
God does not contradict
Himself, there needs to be something other than a need for enough grain from
the whole nation of
Does God ask
If God wanted more money in
His house, why did Jesus do what He did in the House of God?
"And Jesus went
into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the
temple, and overthrew the tables of the MONEY changers… and said unto them, It
is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a
den of thieves" (Matt.
21:12-13).
THE CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATION OF BRINGING IN THE TITHE
The Christian
interpretation of Malachi 3:10 is this: "Bring ye
all the tithe MONEY and extra offerings of money to the church bank, that there
may be money in the Church." Granted, they might not enunciate it that
crudely, but that is what they teach. Ask virtually any pastor of any church,
"How do I, starting today, actually obey this prophecy of Malachi to stop "robbing
God of His tithes and offerings?" and he will tell you to write out a
check in the name of his church, for 10% of your salary (plus an offering), and
that check will then be deposited into the church bank account.
Then ask these same pastors
what kind of blessings you will receive for obeying this procedure, and they
will probably tell you stories where people received huge amounts of material
goods and even huge amounts of more money. This is their interpretation of God "opening
the windows of heaven and pouring out a blessing." And there
are ministers by the tens of thousands at this very moment preparing more
stories and more yarns on how blessed one will become in every imaginable
physical, earthly, and material things for giving them (they would say, giving
God) your money.
Is this really how God
wants us of the 21st Century to apply Malachi’s prophecy to our
lives? I speak as a fool.
This prophecy has
absolutely nothing to do with tithing money to the Church.
Does God suggest somewhere
in this prophecy that there isn’t enough "money in His house?" Is
Jesus Christ coming back to this earth to judge these "priests"
because the "people" failed to bring enough money to the storehouse
so that there would be money in God’s house? Is it a lack of money that
concerns God in this prophecy? No, it is both the people and the priests who
have corrupted themselves according to this prophecy. But like always, God
holds the priests to a much higher standard and therefore they receive the
greater condemnation. There are two groups of judgments in this prophecy:
[1] "Behold I will
send My Messenger… But who may abide the day of His coming? And who shall stand
when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: and
He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and He shall PURIFY the sons
of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord
an offering in righteousness" (Mal. 3:1-3).
[2] "And I will
come near to you to judgment [not just the priests, but many of the people
as well]; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against
the adulterers, and against false swearers, and
against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the
fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not Me,
says the Lord of hosts" (Mal. 3:5).
It is amazing how the
clergy make most people think that the only thing of value in the book of
Malachi are these three verses on "robbing God" and "receiving a
blessing." There are four whole chapters in this book, and maybe it should
behoove us to see what the rest of this book has to say. Here are just a few
more things contained in Malachi:
"You offer polluted
bread upon My altar… if ye offer the blind for
sacrifice, is it not evil? And if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not
evil…" (1:7-8).
"And now, O ye
priests, this commandment is for you… I will curse your blessings… Behold, I
will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your face…" (2:1-3).
"But you have
departed out of the way… ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi… therefore I
have also made you contemptible and base before all the people…" (2:8-9).
"Behold, I will
send my Messenger… But who may abide the day of His coming… He is like a
refiner’s fire [like
the lake of fire] …And
He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and He shall purify the sons
of Levi… that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness" (
"Then they that
feared the Lord spoke often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard
it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them… And they shall
be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in that day when I made up my jewels; and I
will spare them… Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and
the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves Him not [‘Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world?’
I Cor. 6:2)]" (
"And He shall turn
the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to
their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse" (4:6)
MALACHI AND THE BREAD OF LIFE
Malachi contains a prophecy
and information "for OUR admonition upon whom the ends of the world are
come" (I Cor.
Let me explain the problem
with
God says: "I have
LOVED you…"
God said: "If then
I be a Father, where is mine honour? My fear? O priests, that despise My
name."
The priests ask: "Wherein have we despised Thy name? (1:6).
God says: "Ye offer
polluted bread upon Mine alter…"
The priests ask: "Wherein have we polluted Thee?" (1:7).
God says: "And if
ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? ,..the sick and the lame… is it not evil?" (1:8).
God says: "I have
no pleasure in you… NEITHER WILL I ACCEPT AN OFFERING AT YOUR HAND" (
Let’s stop here a minute
and consider what we have read. The Priests despise God’s name, and
their sacrifices are, blind, sick and lame. And so God says He will not
even accept their offering. So really, the people were tithing. But the
quality of their tithes (from which they selected the sacrifices) was of an
unacceptable quality. But was it this poor quality of sacrifices that really
angered God? Not really. The sick and lame sacrifices were but a symptom of a
much larger problem. God used their polluted sacrifices only as a physical,
visual illustration to show them their sins and polluted hearts. For much of
the remainder of this book, God unfolds to them their many sins and weaknesses.
God says: "Ye are
gone away from Mine ordinance, and have not kept them. Return unto Me, and I will return unto you…" (3:7).
The priests ask: "Wherein
shall we return?" (3:7).
God says: "In
tithes and offering" (3:8).
God uses "tithes and
offerings" to illustrate their attitude of mind and heart behind their giving.
Tithes and offerings were all that God asked of the people to give Him.
Everything else they could keep for themselves. But how much did they love God.
How much did they appreciate God and all His goodness to them? What was their
attitude of heart and mind toward God? Their "tithes and
offerings" say it all: "You offer POLLUTED BREAD
UPON MINE ALTAR" (1:7).
All that was included in
their "tithes and offerings"—firstfruits,
tithes of the land, tithes of the herds, and altar offerings of every sort, were
to God: "polluted bread upon Mine altar." They gave offerings
(they WERE TITHING), but they were totally unacceptable. "…NEITHER will
I accept an offering at your hand" (
THE TYPE AND SHADOW IS FAR INFERIOR TO THE REALITY
Malachi was a
"prophet." Moses was also a prophet, "And there arose not a
prophet since in
Under the Prophet Moses,
God fed the nation of
"Our fathers did
eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from
heaven to eat" (John
Under the Prophet Malachi
God said they should bring the tithes into the storehouse so that there would
be
"…meat in My house,
and prove me now herewith, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the
windows of HEAVEN, and pour you out A [keep in mind that this blessing is singular—a
blessing] blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive IT [again,
singular]" (Mal. 3:10).
This may well be one of the
most misunderstood and wrongly preached verses in the Bible.
The word "meat"
in this verse comes from a Hebrew word taraph, and means "to pluck off or pull to pieces; to supply
with food (as in morsels)" (Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary, p. 105,
#2963).
From this pulling to
pieces, plucking off, and morsels, comes the phrase "breaking bread."
There undoubtedly was, more grains in the storehouse (to bake bread), than any
other food commodity. Now then, listen and learn what I have to show you next,
and you will know and understand more about the Old Testament Prophets than do
most theologians. What did Jesus have to say to the Jews about the "bread
from heaven" which they said their fathers ate in the desert?
"Then Jesus said
unto them, Verily, verily, [truly, truly], I say unto you, Moses gave you NOT THAT
BREAD FROM HEAVEN; but My Father gives you the TRUE BREAD from heaven.
For the bread of God is HE which comes down from heaven and gives life unto the
world" (John
What? How can Jesus say
that?
The Jews said that their
fathers ate "bread from heaven."
Moses said that, "He
gave them bread from heaven to eat."
But Jesus said, "Moses
gave you NOT that bread from heaven; but My Father gives you the TRUE
bread from heaven.
Is Jesus contradicting the
very Word of God? No, a thousand times No: He is fulfilling the words of the
prophets just as He said in Matt. 5:17.
The bread in the desert was
only the type of bread from heaven, which in reality, and in fulfillment,
pointed to Jesus Christ, the "TRUE bread from heaven." The
same is true for Malachi. The "polluted bread" of Malachi is
but the type of the unpolluted, pure, "TRUE bread from heaven,’ which
is Jesus Christ. But to receive this "blessing from heaven,"
we must bring all our tithes, all that we have to offer God, into the
storehouse so that there will be "meat [unpolluted bread]
in Mine house."
Now then, does God want
unpolluted animals? No. Does God want unpolluted produce from the land? No.
Does God want unpolluted money? No. Well what king of sacrifice does He want
then? God wants you! All of you! You, yourself, are the sacrifice that God
wants.
"I beseech [invitation, invocation, imploration,
exhortation] you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice holy [not polluted], acceptable [not
like in Malachi where God says, ‘neither will I accept an
offering at your hand’], unto God, which is your reasonable
service" (Rom. 12:1).
As it is our ‘bodies’ that
house our mind, heart, and spirit, we will also cover those attributes which
are necessary in order for our "living sacrifice" to be acceptable
unto the Lord.
Seriously, dear readers, of
what value are physical material offerings to God, if the ones making the
offerings are themselves, "polluted bread?" Does God really
desire physical things? God has already created BILLIONS OF GALAXIES full of
"physical things." Billions of galaxies do not fulfill God’s desire
for the love, obedience, and admiration of children. God wants children. God
wants children—Sons and Daughters in His Own image. But God will not accept
children whose character is likened to "polluted bread."
We will cover the quality
traits of spiritual character that God desires of all His sacrifices.
FIRST THE PHYSICAL AND THEN THE SPIRITUAL
"Howbeit that was
not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that
which is SPIRITUAL" (I Cor.
Now then, was that bread
that the fathers ate in the desert the "TRUE bread from heaven?" No,
it clearly was not, Jesus said it was not! And so, can we not see, can we not
believe, can we not understand, that Jesus Christ IS
"…the TRUE bread from
heaven. For the bread of God IS HE which
comes down FROM HEAVEN and gives life unto the world" (John 6:32b-33).
Hold this thought ……
And now back to Malachi
again:
"Bring ye all the
tithes into the storehouse that there may be meat [bread] in Mine house, and
prove me now herewith, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the
windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room
enough to receive it" (Malachi, 3:10).
This is vital to
understand: God does not berate the people or the priests for the lack of quantity
in their tithes and offerings and sacrifices, but rather a lack of quality.
Here is absolute Scriptural proof of what I say. They brought offerings, but
why would God not accept their offerings? Because they offered
"blind, lame and sick sacrifices." And why did
they do that? Because they themselves were spiritually blind, lame and sick.
There was quantity to their offerings, but not quality.
"And if ye offer
the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if ye offer the lame and sick, is
it not evil? Offer it now unto your governor; will he be pleased with you, or
accept your person? Says the Lord of hosts" (Mal. 1:8).
FINE FLOUR AND PURE FRANKINCENSE VS. POLLUTED BREAD
And how is it that God
views these evil sacrifices:
"Ye [all of you] offer polluted bread
upon mine altar…" (Ver.
7).
There is the whole ball of
wax! And so it is in today’s Church. The problem is not a lack of money, but
offering polluted bread upon the altar of God. God wants "Pure and Fine
Bread":
"And you shall take
fine flour, and bake twelve cakes… And you shall put pure
frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the
bread… And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; [the priests] and they shall eat
it in the holy place…" (Lev. 24:5-9).
Remember: first is the
natural, the physical, and then comes the spiritual.
And so the children of
The spiritual bread (the
spiritual food for the people) being offering in the Church today is not
lacking in quantity, but rather quality. There is "bread," yes, but
it is "polluted bread." The opposite of "polluted"
is "pure." God’s religion is PURE:
"PURE religion and
UNDEFILED before God and the Father is this, To visit
the fatherless and widows IN THEIR AFFLICTION, and to keep himself UNSPOTTED
FROM THE WORLD" (James
This verse does not say:
"Take ten percent of the Social Security checks and welfare checks of the "fatherless
and widows IN THEIR AFFLICTION," and then take that money and spend it
for all the "spotted materialism of this world." Yet that is
exactly what all to many of today’s priests and
ministers are doing. And furthermore, they shamelessly boast about their
material possessions! They "love the world and the things that are in
the world." And, therefore, is it little wonder that, "the
love of the Father is not in them" (I John
God used a physical,
outward, visible, type, of sick, lame, and blind sacrifices, which He then
calls polluted bread to show Israel and their priests what He was really
angry with, namely, their "polluted" hearts, minds, and
spirits! Malachi’s prophecy is about the sin WITHIN, not sacrifices WITHOUT!
THE ENDTIME CHURCH AS PETER SAW IT
Peter describes the church
in the latter days:
"But there were
false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers
among you, who privily [secretly] shall bring in
damnable [destructive, fatal, disastrous, ruinous] heresies, even
denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
And MANY shall follow their pernicious [lascivious, licentious, wanton]
ways; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall
be evil spoken of. And through covetousness [greed, lust] shall they
with feigned words MAKE MERCHANDISE OF YOU" (II Pet. 2:1-3). Other
renderings:
"Motivated by
greed, they will exploit you with their counterfeit arguments" (Berkely
Version).
"…in their lust
they will exploit you with cunning arguments" (Moffatt
Translation).
"In their greed for
MONEY they will trade on your credulity with sheer fabrications"`(The New English Bible).
ALL PHYSICAL TYPES FORESHADOW SPIRITUAL REALITIES
Everything that happened in
the Old Testament was a TYPE of future, spiritual things.
"Now ALL these
things happened unto THEM for examples: and they were written for OUR
admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come" (I Cor.
And Malachi is no
different. The people of
"Ah sinful nation,
a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are
corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of
Much of what the clergy
disseminates from the pulpit as "wholesome spiritual food," God calls
"polluted bread." And just WHY do they offered polluted bread?
Because:
"O generation of
vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For
out of the ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART, the MOUTH SPEAKS" (Matt.
There it is! There is the
message of Malachi! That is why
Today’s "polluted
bread" is served up in such doctrines as exact ten per cent of the
parishioner’s salaries in the form of a church tax called, tithing. And
the threat of eternal torture in fire if one does not follow the dictates of a
specific denomination or religious teaching that is deemed necessary to avoid
this eternal hellhole of terrorism.
The type and shadow of
Jesus Christ, the True Bread of life, was the physical bread that
The sacrifices spoken of in
Malachi were not suitable for God’s house. They offered
"POLLUTED
BREAD" and we
saw some of the many sins that that constituted this polluted bread. Here are
the only sacrifices that are fit for God’s storehouse:
"The sacrifices of
God are A BROKEN SPIRIT: a broken a CONTRITE HEART…" (Psalm 51:17).
And in Psalm 34:18 David
reverses the order:
"The lord is nigh
unto them that are of a BROKEN HEART; and saves such as be of a CONTRITE
SPIRIT."
It is all about attitude: REPENT,
HUMBLE YOURSELF, and OBEY! Then follows the Blessing:
People always want to do
physical things to prove their spirituality. But God doesn’t want your physical
things. God wants a broken heart and a contrite spirit and a willingness to
OBEY:
"Behold, to OBEY is
better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams" (I Sam.
The sacrifices of a broken
heart, a contrite spirit, and a willingness to always obey are always
acceptable to God.
BRINGING GOD YOUR SPIRITUAL TITHES WILL REAP A SPIRITUAL
BLESSING
"Bring ye all the
tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat [bread—pure and fine
bread—not polluted bread of a carnal mind filled with evil deeds and
doctrines], and
prove Me now herewith, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the
windows of HEAVEN [‘For the bread of God is He which come down from
heaven… For I came down from heaven… I am
the bread which came down from heaven… John