MINE ORDINANCES
According to Malachi 3:7 the only way you can properly biblically obey and accomplish Malachi 3:10 is by God's tithe ordinances, which are God's laws, the Law of Moses. Malachi 3:7 says this...
"Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?"
In Malachi 3:7 the people ask; "Wherein shall we return?" In other words they're asking; "How do we obey God's word?" God's answer is this, with two questions and two declarations...
Malachi 3:8 - "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings."
>> God asked; "Will a man rob God? God's answer and declaration was; "Yet ye have robbed me."
>> The people asked; "Wherein have we robbed thee?" God's answer and declaration was; "In tithes and offerings."
You CANNOT obey Malachi 3:10 outside of the law of Moses. The point of Malachi 3:7 is that the command to tithe in Malachi 3:10 must be obeyed in accordance with God's tithe ordinances. To tithe in any other manner not pursuant to God's tithe ordnances is sin as the Apostle John states...
1 John 3:4 - "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law."
Again; To tithe NOT in obedience to God's tithe ordinances is sin. In other words to properly tithe per Malachi 3:7 and Malachi 3:10 places you under the Law of Moses, which is why Malachi 4:4 also says this...
"Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments."
Whomever Malachi is addressing, they are under the Law of Moses.
Concerning the Law of Moses, the Bible tells us this...
Galatians 3:10 - "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them."
By tithing based on Malachi 3:10 a Christian brings a curse on themselves clearly explained in Galatians 3:10.
The Bible also tells us this...
James 2:10 - "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." What is James telling us? James tells us that we must obey ALL of God's tithe ordinances or BE GUILTY OF DISOBEDIENCE TO THE WHOLE LAW.
Sadly, modern day tithing teachers are teaching a false tithing system not in accordance with God's tithe ordinances clearly stated in scripture.
THE TITHE ORDINANCES
What are God's tithe ordinances? Some of which are these...
Concerning your tithe;
1. Comes from the Promise Land. Lev. 27:30, 32, Neh. 10:37.
2. Is fruits, vegetables and clean livestock. Lev. 27:30, 32, Num. 18:27, Num. 18:28, Deut 12:17, Deut. 14:22, Deut. 14:23, Deut. 24:21, Deut. 26:12, 2 Chron. 31:5, 2 Chron. 31:6, Neh. 10:37, Neh. 13:5, Mal. 3:10, Matt. 23:23, Luke 11:42.
3. Is handed over to a Levite. Numbers 18:21-24.
4. Is three tithes totaling about 23 1/3%. Tithe one; Leviticus 27:30-33, Tithe two; Deuteronomy 14:22-27, Tithe three; Deuteronomy 14:28-29.
5. You live on the Promise Land while you pay the tithe. Deuteronomy 12:10.
6. You are not a Gentile. Leviticus 27:30-34; Psalms 147:19-20
7. You are a physical descendant of Abraham and Sarah, and of Isaac, Jacob/Israel living under the law of Moses. Psalms 147:19-20.
8. If temporarily converted to money, is not paid in the form of money, and you buy what you want to buy with the money. Deuteronomy 14:22-27.
9. The money is converted to wine, strong drink, food, and what ever you desire to buy with the money that you share with a Levite and his family at the feast where God has placed His name on the Promise Land. Deuteronomy 14:22-27.
10. Your pastor can prove he is authorized to receive a tithe, and that he personally owns the tithe, and that it is his inheritance, and it has been taken from the Levites and given to him. Numbers 18:21-24.
11. You tithe because you are living under the Law of Moses, and not the New Testament. Numbers 18:21, Acts 15:24, Malachi 3:7 and Malachi 4:4.
12. Your pastor is claiming you must pay tithes because Abraham did, Jacob said he would, or your pastor said so, when God has NOT said so. Ezekiel 22:28, Lamentations 3:37.
13. You do not take your tithes to anywhere. Nehemiah 10:38, Numbers 18:21-23.
...THOSE ARE GOD'S TITHE ORDINANCES. Disobey them and you are in sin and in violation of Malachi 3:7, Malachi 3:10 and Malachi 4:4,not to mention you are in violation of points 1 through 13.
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