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Originally Posted by UnTraditional
We do, when we give tithes. We are giving spiritually the firstfruits unto the Lord. In so doing, we give both spiritually and physically, as was also before the Law. When Jacob vowed to give tithes of all before the Lord in genesis, he made the vow both spiritual and physical. How? By putting God first, and then showing it. In water baptism, we undergo spiritual circumcision through real physical water baptism. The spiritual effect is attached to the physical act.
As in circumcision, so also is the tithe.
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First fruits were not tithes--and they surely were not money. Why wasn't Jacob already tithing?