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Originally Posted by 1ofthechosen
All I'm saying is what EB said. Not everybody had money, but everyone received increase. Whatever your increase was as Deuteronomy 14:22 said "Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year."
Or as Leviticus 27:30-32 "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. [31] And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof. [32] And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, [I]the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord."
Because fact is bro, a tenth of everything still to this day should be holy to the Lord! That is a principal He has given that should never change. It's not meant to just be thrown out or how could He say in Malachi 3:8-9 "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. [9] Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation." Just deal with the parts I underlined and bolded, if that was meant to just be the priests. The text says different.
Whatever was theft and robbing God then is still robbing God when the "tenth is to be holy unto the Lord." |
Don't forget . . .
I disagree with EB on one thing. Money was readily available to everyone, even when they were in the desert.
The half shekel offering was taken in the wilderness after the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. More than six hundred thousand men above the age of twenty were required to pay the half shekel. It was money. Your very soul (life) depended on you paying the half shekel offering. Money seems to have been pretty widely available, if more than six hundred thousand men had it, out in the desert.
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