TITHING BEFORE THE LAW?

TITHING BEFORE THE LAW?

"God is not restricted by earthly timelines."

Revelation 1:8 - "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."

HEBREWS CHAPTER SEVEN

Tithing teachers, and those who they deceive into a false model of tithing routinely claim that "tithing was in practice before the law" (before the Law of Moses), and therefore "should continue to be practiced after the law in the New Testament era."

There are multiple reasons why this is false and deceptive. There is no logical reason that "tithing before the law" proves that tithing after the law is a rule or principle to adhere to. The sacrifice of animals was practiced "before the law;" why not after? Why just tithing?

Consider the following...

>> ONE; No scripture cites Abraham as a reason or example of tithing to be followed, not before the Nation of Israel, not to the Nation of Israel, or to the New Testament Church.

>> TWO; The Levites, the very embodiment of the law, paid tithes to Melchizedek;

Hebrews 7:11 - "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?"

Hebrews 7:9 - "And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham."

How could one claim that Abraham's tithe to Melchizedek was "before the law" when the very embodiment of the law, the Levites (Hebrews 7:11), were involved in tithe paying by and through Abraham to Melchizedek? 

Additionally; God's purpose of Abraham's tithe to Melchizedek was to reveal and prove the superiority of the Melchizedek priesthood over the Levite priesthood to the Nation of Israel and the world. This has been accomplished and no further tithing is needed to Melchizedek or to anyone to prove it over and over again. The Levites were a type of the law involved in paying tithes (Hebrews 7:9), NOT BEFORE THE LAW FROM GOD'S ETERNAL FRAME OF REFERENCE, BUT LITERALLY AS THE LAW AT THE TIME OF ABRAHAM, AND REPRESENTING THE LAW. (Study the principle of Federal Headship).

If the Levites had NOT been in the loins of Abraham when he paid tithes to Melchizedek, Abraham's tithe would have been of little or no value to God and proving nothing to the Hebrew people.

The Law, that is to say the Levites being in Abraham, and by therefore tithing to Melchizedek, proved the following...

Hebrews 7:15-17 - "And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec."

Hebrews chapter seven clearly reveals God's purpose in Abraham's tithes to Melchizedek, and it is not a record to be used by tithing teachers to convince the gullible and unlearned Christian to hand over ten percent of their income to a pastor or church.

In short; the Law was in Abraham via the Levites when Abraham tithed to Melchizedek making the Law contemporaneous and together with Abraham's tithe.

Romans 16:18 - "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple."

Philippians 3:19  - "Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)"

>> THREE; No scripture cites Jacob as a reason or example of tithing to be followed, not BEFORE the Nation of Israel, not TO the Nation of Israel, not AFTER JACOB to the New Testament Church. No scripture records Jacob tithing anything to anyone. Jacob spoke a VOW to tithe, God did not command Jacob to tithe or to make such a vow. No record of any vow to tithe exists in the New Testament by any Apostle or any other Believers.

>> FOUR; NO COMMAND to tithe directed to the New Testament Church existed before or after the Law of Moses, or before or after Abraham.

CONCLUSION;

The Levites and Abraham; The tithe of  Abraham to Melchizedek was not an event "before the law" from God's point of view. It was an event clearly INCLUDING the very Type of the Law; the Levites, who were the Law givers and Law administrators (Hebrews 7:11).

Jacob; The Vow of Jacob does not compel any New Testament Believer to tithe anything to anyone.

>> Footnote; is there any other scripture recording Levites paying or offering tithes? Yes... 

Nehemiah 10:38 - "And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house."

Numbers 18:26-28 - "Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress. Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest."

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