Bible Gateway 8 - Tithe as a Bible Gateway

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Bible Gateway 8 - The Tithe as a Bible Gateway
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I'll probably agitate some people here by addressing this subject - but that's OK. Jesus was the greatest Agitator Who ever lived ... and we're supposed to try to be like Him - right?

And remember that it's my position that lots of things, people, events, and other circumstances can be a gateway to the Bible. The best Bible Gateway will always be God's Word - because it's infallible. That said, lots of other ways are still important Bible Gateways ...

Well - what does the Word of God say about the tithe?

How can a tithe be a Bible Gateway?

The Word of God is the ultimate Judge because it's the Word of God ... and the Word says a title is "a tenth."


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- In The Old Testament -
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In the very first Book in the Bible, in Genesis 14:20, Abraham did it ... "And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave him a tithe of all."

(Abraham was a "Big Guy" to God ... Abraham even has his own covenant named after him.)


In the Book of Leviticus - in 27:30 - "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 to the Lord."

In 27:32 - "And concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock, of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord."


In The Book of Numbers - in 18:26 - "Speak thus to the Levites, and say to them: 'When you take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it to the Lord, a tenth of the tithe."


In The Book of Deuteronomy - in 12:17 - "You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your oil, of the firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of your offerings which you vow, of your freewill offerings, or of the heave offering of your hand."

In 14:22 - "You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year."

In 14:23 - "And you shall eat before the Lord your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always."

In 14:24 - "But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or if the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the Lord your God has blessed you,"

In 14:28 - "At the end of every third year you shall bring out the tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates."

In 26:12-13 - "When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year--the year of tithing--and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled, then you shall say before the Lord your God: 'I have removed the holy tithe from my house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, nor have I forgotten them."


In The Book of 2 Chronicles in 31:5-6 - "As soon as the commandment was circulated, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of grain and wine, oil and honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything. And the children of Israel and Judah, who dwelt in the cities of Judah, brought the tithe of oxen and sheep; also the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to the Lord their God they laid in heaps."


In The Book of Nehemiah 13:12 - "Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil to the storehouse."


And here's a BIGGIE from Malachi 3:7-12 -

7 Yet from the days of your fathers You have gone away from My ordinances And have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you," Says the Lord of hosts. "But you said, 'In what way shall we return?' 8 "Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, 'In what way have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation. 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this," Says the Lord of hosts, "If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. 11 "And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field," Says the Lord of hosts; 12 "And all nations will call you blessed, For you will be a delightful land," Says the Lord of hosts.

(That's a pretty strong statement God used to send His people into the 400-year intertestimental period between the Old Testament and the New Testament - wouldn't you agree? Think the tithe was important in the Old Testament to God?)


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- In The New Testament -
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In The Book of Matthew in 23:23 - "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone."


In The Book of Luke in 11:42 - "But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass by justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone."


Well - there you have it - all the references to the tithe in the New King James Version of the Bible. Lots of people focus on Malachi 3 above because God plainly says. "If you don't tithe, you rob Me."

Think the tithe is a Bible Gateway?

God Bless you –
Chip Tarver
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