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Every Pastor Who Collects Tithes Is A Thief - Femi Aribisala by Revolva(m): 12:13am On May 06, 2013
As far as many pastors are concerned, the most important scripture of all is not to be found in the word of Jesus. Neither is it even in the New Testament.

photoThat scripture says: “‘Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and try me now in this,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.’” (Malachi 3:10).

This scripture is drummed repeatedly into Christians on Sundays. However, the only time Jesus mentioned tithing in scripture, he pointed out that it was not a weighty matter of the law. (Matthew 23:23). Hebrews says people only receive tithes “according to the law.” (Hebrews 7:5). It then insists tithing (and everything else under the law) has been annulled: “The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless.” (Hebrews 7:18-19). Nevertheless, mercenary pastors continue to insist on the payment of tithes.

Latter-day Pharisees

Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for keeping part instead of the whole law. (Matthew 23:23). That is what tithe-collecting pastors do today. If we insist our congregants must pay tithes, we must also insist that they keep the rest of the law. James says: “Whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.” (James 2:10). Therefore, if we insist on tithing, we should also refrain from eating pork. We should stone adulterers, execute homosexuals, kill Sabbath violators and restore blood-sacrifices.

Tithe-collecting pastors counter this by maintaining the payment of tithes pre-dated the law. Here Abraham is cited as the cardinal example of someone who paid tithes before the promulgation of the Law of Moses, as did Jacob, his grandson. However, such arguments are disingenuous.

Before the law, tithing was at best an example but not a commandment. Moreover, pastors fail to mention that Abraham only tithed once in his lifetime. When he did, he did not even tithe his own money: he tithed the spoils of war. He gave ten percent of the plunder he took when he rescued Lot to Melchisedec, king of Salem. But then he did not even keep the rest but returned it (all ninety percent) to the king of Sodom.

For his part, Jacob also tithed only once. He did this in a “let’s make a deal” arrangement he offered to God: “Jacob made a vow, saying, ‘If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on, so that I come back to my father’s house in peace, then the LORD shall be my God. And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will surely give a tenth to you.’” (Genesis 28:20-22). This kind of deal about accepting God only under certain self-serving conditions should certainly not be a term of reference for any serious believer.

Lies upon lies

The first lie pastors tell Christians is what some have referred to as “the eleventh commandment:” “Thou shalt pay thy tithes to thy local church.” But the bible says no such thing. The storehouse of Malachi was not a church. It was a place where food was kept.

Pastors hide from church-members the fact that money was not acceptable as tithe. The tithe was a tenth of the seed and fruit of the land and of the animals which ate of the land. (Leviticus 27:30-32). That is why God says: “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be FOOD in my house.” (Malachi 3:10). He does not say “that there may be MONEY in my house.” The food was used to feed the Levites, the poor, widows, orphans and strangers.

Pastors also conveniently fail to teach the biblical tithe. The principles of tithing were not laid down by Malachi. They were laid down by Moses. The study of Moses’ guidelines quickly reveals that the biblical tithe has no application whatsoever to Christians and is mischievously violated by tithe-collecting pastors today.

According to the Law of Moses, the tithe was divided into three allocations. The first year, it was given to the Levite. The second year, it was given to widows, orphans and the poor. The third year, it was eaten in the company of the faithful before the Lord as thanksgiving for his faithfulness. (Deuteronomy 14:22-28). In the seventh year, there was no planting and no reaping and therefore no tithing.

So the next time your pastor asks you to pay tithe, ask him about the seventh-year reprieve. Also ask him if you can give your tithe to the orphanage, or bring it as food items to be eaten in church. Believe me; he will not agree with you because it is your money he is after.

Inapplicability of tithes

Tithing was only applicable to Jews and to the land of Israel. When large populations of Jews lived in Babylon, Ammon, Moab, Egypt, and Syria, these lands became tithe-able lands. However, tithes were not acceptable from strictly Gentile lands. So you need to ask your pastor how come he is collecting tithes in Nigeria.

Servants or slaves who worked on the land did not tithe because the land did not belong to them. Since only agricultural and animal resources were included, a fisherman gave no tithe of his fisheries. Neither did a miner or a carpenter pay tithes, nor anyone from the various professional occupations. So if you are not a farmer or a keeper of livestock, tell your 419 pastor tithing is biblically inapplicable to you.

Moreover, the only people authorised to receive tithes were the Levites. (Hebrews 7:5). So if your Pastor is a “tithe-collector,” ask him if he happens to be a Jew. Remind him that, even though a Jew, Jesus could not receive the tithe because he was not from the tribe of Levi but from that of Judah.

The trick, of course, is for pastors today to claim we are “Levites.” If your pastor is one such dissembler, ask him if he lives as a Levite. Remind him that Levites had no land and did not have private property. Ask him also how he knows he is from the tribe of Levi, which happens to be one of the lost tribes of Israel. Point out to him that even Jewish rabbis don’t claim to be Levites today because all Jewish genealogical records were lost with the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, ensuring that it is no longer possible to ascertain the true identity of Levites.

Therefore, if Jews no longer tithe because the Levites are a lost tribe, how can Christian pastors collect tithes when we are not even Jewish, how much more Levites? If Jewish rabbis, whose terms of reference remain the Old Testament no longer collect tithes, then pastors who insist Christians are under a New Testament have no business doing so.

The conclusion then is inescapable. Every pastor who collects tithes is nothing but “a thief and a robber.” (John 10:1).

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Re: Every Pastor Who Collects Tithes Is A Thief - Femi Aribisala by avalontony(m): 1:27am On May 06, 2013
i no fit shout!!!!!!!!
Re: Every Pastor Who Collects Tithes Is A Thief - Femi Aribisala by peteregwu(m): 9:11am On May 06, 2013
I can see that you also that posted this, you are also a thief, a robber and an unbeliever.

Tithe is very important in the church. Failure for a christian to pay tithe from his salary or profit in business is very detrimental to his soul. Non payment of tithe can also lead one to hell fire. Except such a christian does not have job or business. Pls dont discorage christians from paying tithe. You will pay seriously for this. Tithe and offering is very important in the church. Its support the welafare of the church. The sprsad of the gospel and the work and progress of the church.

You dont even know the challenges that churches face everyday. You jist open your vocal cavity to vomit all your unbelieving ideaologies here. You quote the bible in all unbelief and unrighteousness. If you are a pastor, you will understand. Until you will become a pastor, then u will have the understanding of what tithing is all about. If tithing is not essential in the church the God wouldnt have commanded it in thd bible.
And let me put it to you, any christian that has a job or business who neglect tithing will never make heaven. Do you know? Because such person is a thief and a robber. He has stolen from God. The job or business u have, who gav it to you? Is it not God?. You want to hinder the work of God by witholding what belongs to God. Whereas you pay tax to the government, but for God who created you, you want to play games with Him. Wickedness!
Re: Every Pastor Who Collects Tithes Is A Thief - Femi Aribisala by Revolva(m): 9:49pm On May 06, 2013
peteregwu: I can see that you also that posted this, you are also a thief, a robber and an unbeliever.

Tithe is very important in the church. Failure for a christian to pay tithe from his salary or profit in business is very detrimental to his soul. Non payment of tithe can also lead one to hell fire. Except such a christian does not have job or business. Pls dont discorage christians from paying tithe. You will pay seriously for this. Tithe and offering is very important in the church. Its support the welafare of the church. The sprsad of the gospel and the work and progress of the church.

You dont even know the challenges that churches face everyday. You jist open your vocal cavity to vomit all your unbelieving ideaologies here. You quote the bible in all unbelief and unrighteousness. If you are a pastor, you will understand. Until you will become a pastor, then u will have the understanding of what tithing is all about. If tithing is not essential in the church the God wouldnt have commanded it in thd bible.
And let me put it to you, any christian that has a job or business who neglect tithing will never make heaven. Do you know? Because such person is a thief and a robber. He has stolen from God. The job or business u have, who gav it to you? Is it not God?. You want to hinder the work of God by witholding what belongs to God. Whereas you pay tax to the government, but for God who created you, you want to play games with Him. Wickedness!

any christian that has a job or business who neglect tithing will never make heaven

Have you been there?? Mr heaven wanna be....its on earth ur heaven is and ur hell is fool...cant you use your brain to think and see for your self...Any religious person that has no sense of philosophy is a real brainwashed fanatic
Re: Every Pastor Who Collects Tithes Is A Thief - Femi Aribisala by peteregwu(m): 10:45pm On May 06, 2013
Revolva:


Have you been there?? Mr heaven wanna be....its on earth ur heaven is and ur hell is fool...cant you use your brain to think and see for your self...Any religious person that has no sense of philosophy is a real brainwashed fanatic



my friend, u dont need to go to heaven to have the experience of heaven. then why do we have the bible, and the Holy Spirit...given to as many that believes. if u are born again, u will hav the Spirit of God, by which u will believe th word of In toto. have u not read? "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." Matthew 6:10 KJV. You cant mix philosophy with the bible. Philosophy or worldliness is enemity with God(bible). "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the
enemy of God." James 4:4 KJV.

We are left with choices, is either we believe in God(heaven) or satan(hell fire). We must choose one. Their is no neutrality. So long it is written in the bible we should pay tithe, we must do it. Thats a commandment. Imagine God calling somebody a thief for not paying tithe. Dont u know its a serious case. Then if God is calling somebody a theif, how then can such person make heaven. "And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. [2] And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. [3] And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: [4] For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had." Luke 21:1-4 KJV.

We must believe in the word of God totally and do them.... anything short of this classifies you as an unbeliever.
. "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." Revelation 1:3 KJV.

But one thing is certain, giving of tithes is not a guarantee for heaven. It is only through the righteousness of christ by His blood we xan make heaven. What the pastors or the general overseers need to do is declare to members they should not give offerings or tithes from illicit businesses, drug dealings, occultism. Let them know that the judgment of God will come upon them if they try give money from gotten from ill business or jobs.
Re: Every Pastor Who Collects Tithes Is A Thief - Femi Aribisala by Revolva(m): 6:35am On May 07, 2013
grin grin

Even if something is false ..they wil always back it up with scriptures...look even Jesus was not a christains sef...i beg ake person hear word..anything man made is prone to errors..ok eve the Bible also we use in this generation has been adultrated...its just a tool for the white man colonization
Re: Every Pastor Who Collects Tithes Is A Thief - Femi Aribisala by semid4lyfe(m): 10:19am On May 07, 2013

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