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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Since tithing was a agricultural venture is was in perfect keeping with that understanding for God to use a phrase (open up the windows of heaven) that was used exclusively to refer to rain in the OT.
It is twisting the word of God to attempt to make this mean that God is saying that he will bless someone financially.
Also... if that were true that opening up the windows of heaven referred to financial blessings... and one were to understand the true intent of the writing... then the message of Malachi 3 would be this.
If preachers will take 10% of the tithe and will stop taking it all... which is against God's command of the tithe... then God will blessing everyone financially... or at least the pastor. Because God was talking about the priests misusing the tithe and not handling it per his commands. The priests were robbing God... even robbing the entire nation by taking more than 10% of the tithe that came in (among other things) and God was not happy about it.
Blessing comes from giving. We agree there. |
What is the offering of malachi? Tithes and Offerings was what the people were robbing God over.
Paul advised that the ministry should live of the gospel which churches communicated to his need. At what point would a pastor then not take all the tithe? 50 K a year, 75 K a year, 20 K a year.. where is the line drawn?.
Your saying a blessing that you cannot contain is referring to rain. If the land could not contain it, would that not mean it would be a flood?
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