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Robbing and Stealing from the Almighty God
Failure to pay tithes to the awesome and great God, the Creator of the universe, is undoubtedly
the greatest theft of all for it is robbing and stealing that which belongs to Him; tithes and
offerings that were to be used by the Priests and Levities of yesterday to minister to the House of
Israel and by His chosen ministry of today to make possible the preaching of His Gospel
(
Matthew 24:14
) and the Ezekiel Warning message (
Ezekiel 33
) to Israel and to the world.
Failure to pay God’s tithe to His true and faithful Church is an act of robbery and results in a
financial curse as His Prophet makes known:
Malachi 3:8-12 “Will a man ROB God? Yet you have Robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what
way have we ROBBED You?’ In tithes and offerings. You are CURSED with A CURSE,
for you have ROBBED Me, even this whole nation.
Bring all the TITHES into the storehouse, that there
may be FOOD in My house and PROVE 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.
And I will REBUKE the devourer for your sakes, so
that he will NOT destroy the fruit of your ground, nor
shall there the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” says the LORD of hosts; “and all
nations will call you blessed for you will be a delightful land,” says the LORD of hosts.
As it was in the Old Testament, so it is in the New Testament, paying tithes to the ever-living
God acknowledges Him as the Creator and Owner of all creation. The result is the financial curse
is removed and then the beginning of financial and other good blessings that only God can give
(
John 3:27; James 1:17
).
Jesus Christ in His infinite wisdom does not give His blessings all at one time to the tithe payer
as some might think. However he or she will soon find His blessings beginning thereafter instead
of the curse whereby it seems everything continues to go wrong.
To clarify what is to be tithed, as opposed to that which is not required, Jesus Christ makes
known through His chosen ministry, the tithe is to be paid only from money earned by the efforts
of a person, such as from employment, business, or otherwise, but it is not required from gifts,
social security, unemployment benefits, veteran’s disability, retirements, etc.
The Apostle Paul wrote the tithe makes possible the preaching of the Gospel by God’s chosen
ministry who both preach and teach along with serving in other areas:
I Corinthians 9:1-14 “. . . do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of
the things of the temple, and those serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar?