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Have you ever wondered why the churches of this
world tell you the old Covenant along with its ordinances
and regulations is "done away with" (which is true); yet, they
still quote the old Testament requirement for you to give them
tithes (10% of your income) to support "their ministry" and
"their churches"?
One of the main Scripture the peddlers of God’s word
use to support their doctrine of demanding and
extorting "tithes and offerings" from those who are
seeking God's favor is Malachi 3:
Let’s look at the
main Scripture that all these self-appointed gospel peddlers love to
use: (those who peddle the
word of God for profit and gain - see 2 Corinthians 2:17
below), these
tithes and offerings extorters, ministers who follow the doctrine of
Balaam (Jude 1:11); who claim these verses in
Malachi 3 give them the authority to extort "tithes and
offerings" from the people that are seeking to be saved from
this evil and adulterous world; and that is Malachi chapter
3.
But, first let us look at Malachi chapters 1 and 2
to see who the word "man" refers to in verse 8
of Malachi 3 when God asks the question, these gospel
peddlers love to quote when they want more of your money in
their control; and that is "Will a man rob God? They never
tell you who God is speaking to in this Scripture (they just
speak about it in such a way to lead you to believe that God
was speaking to you the member of their human organizations) - they
have deceived you into believing God was speaking to you rather than
to them - more specifically God is speaking to the Levites and the
priesthood of Aaron and not the people giving the tithes and
offerings to them.
These Levites and priests
behavior had caused the people to be discouraged in that
by saying the "Lord’s table is contemptible" (much like those
today who take your tithes and offerings to buy for themselves the
best of goods and services while refusing to help those who are not
a member of their church); they were making the
people give defected and sick animals for God as
tithes and offerings; and taking the best of the livestock and
grain offerings for themselves to sell for profit. Nor
were these priests of Levi keeping God’s command to the Levites
in Deuteronomy 26:12-13, where God said to them…
"12 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, 13 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""…
The Levites were
commanded to receive tithes and offerings from the people;
however, in the third year they were to share this tithe
given to them by those who had livestock and land to tithe on
with "the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow".
In Malachi 3,
these "sons of Levi" were not during
this because they did not fear God.The below listed Scriptures tell us what most
of the ministers today are about - these are the tele-evangelists,
the super-ministers, and the mega-church ministers who believe
building bigger churches are more important than taking care of the
needs of the widows and the poor and needy in their
community.
Notice, the Holy Spirit through
the apostle Paul says, "many" not a few ministers
are peddling God's word for profit from your "tithes and
offerings"
- 2 Corinthians 2:17... "For we are not, as so
many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from
God, we speak in the sight of God in
Christ."
Here again in Jude
1, the Scripture points us to those who "run
greedily in the error of Balaam for profit". They live
in mansions and very costly temples while claiming to serve God and
His Christ Jesus. Many of you know these super ministers and their
up and coming students of their greed (see Rev.
2:14).
In Malachi
1:6-8, it is shown
that God were speaking to the leaders
(the Levites and Priests of Israel) who were defrauding and robbing God of
the tithes and offerings not the people who brought the tithes to
them (the people continued to give and tithe to them even while
these corrupt Levites and priests stole from God - and the widows,
the poor and strangers in the land). These priests were not
giving God His due honor before the people by taking care of those
widows and orphans in need nor were they sacrificing the best of the
grain and livestock to God rather they were keeping the best for
themselves to sell and increase their own wealth from the things
tithed and offered by those who were required to tithe. Just
think of the glory our God in heaven would receive if these
so-called "tithes and offerings" ministers actually
followed these old Covenant instructions by helping the poor and
needy with your "tithes and offerings" money
instead of helping themselves. Today, we as
Christians are called upon in the New Testament (or
Covenant) which requires much more in giving and helping those in
need than the Old Testament. For, we as Christians shall be
judged by our treatment of those in need and those well
to due Christians will be judged by what they did with their
money (Matthew 19:16-24; Luke 12:33; Luke 19:1-10 and
Matthew 25 - See The Poor and Widows
Page).
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Malachi 1:6-8... "6 A son honors his father, and a
servant his master. If I am a Father, where is the honor due
Me? If
I am a Master, where is the respect due
Me?" says
the LORD Almighty. "It is you, O priests, who show contempt for
My name. "But you ask, 'How have we shown contempt for Your
name?' 7 "You place defiled food on My altar. "But you
ask, 'How have we defiled You?' "By saying that the LORD's
table is contemptible. 8 When you bring blind animals for
sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice crippled
or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your
governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would
he accept you?" says the LORD Almighty…"
Notice in verse
6 of Malachi chapter one God says, "It is you, O
priests, who show contempt for My Name"; there you
have it, it were
the priests not the people, who were not
respecting God as a Father and Master (if they were sons or servants
then they did not show it, making them neither as for as God was
concern). God says these priests showed Him contempt instead of
honor and "place defiled food on"(v. 7) His altar (this
phrase give us more proof that God was talking to the Levitical
priesthood because they were the only ones commanded by God to offer
the sacrifices on the altar). These priests said to the people,
"the Lord’s table is contemptible"(v. 7) causing the
"whole nation" to be cursed because of their evil deeds
(Malachi 3:9); this gives us further Scripture proof that it
were the priests and not, I repeat not the people who God is talking
about in Malachi 3. Because only the priests sins
brought sin on the nation, the sins of the people were atoned for by
the priests; therefore, it was not possible for the people not
tithing to bring a curse on the whole nation. So, I say to you
today where these self-appointed gospel peddlers claim the people
were robbing God - its not the people but the Levites and the
priests who were robbing God - read it for yourself. This makes
Malachi a prophecy for these same ministers who claim the right of
extracting "tithes and offerings" from you because
they are during the same thing these "sons of
Levi" were doing; and that is keeping the better part
of your money for themselves and "their churches pet
projects".
Now, when we move
to Malachi chapter two we see God is still speaking to the
priests and not
the people as so many Christians have been led to believe by their
leaders, these money lovers and self-proclaimed "tithes
and offerings" collectors who have declared themselves to
be God. For they say to those who they demand money from,
that if you don't give to them you are robbing
God. Thereby, claiming if you want to give to God then you must
give to them and no one else. These ministers peddles the word
of God for profit and financial gain - teaching for doctrine the
traditions of men and doctrines of Satan concerning tithes and
offerings; something God have not command them, and He
have not given them this authority to demand money from you under
the new Covenant. They are misusing the Holy Scripture
to fill their pockets and "their
churches" bank accounts. They are "living it
up" on the word of God rather than being content, and
helping those in need. These ministers are refusing to
preach the word without cost. The Holy Spirit speaks of these
ministers in 2 Peter 3:16… where it is said, these ministers
have used Malachi 3 as "untaught and
unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the
rest of the Scripture". Yes, some twist the Scripture through
ignorance and some through deceit and evil motives, and they all
resist sound doctrine.
In Malachi 2:1-9, the
Admonition for the Priests
(Notice here God through the prophet
speaks of the admonishment of the Priests not, I repeat not the
people):
Malachi 2:1-9... "1 And now this
admonition is for you, O priests.
2 If you do not listen, and if you do not set your
heart to honor my name," says the LORD Almighty, "I will
send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I
have already cursed them, because you have not set your heart to
honor me. 3 "Because of you I will rebuke your
descendants; I will spread on your faces the offal from
your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off
with it. 4 And you will know that I have sent you this
admonition so that my covenant with Levi may
continue," says the LORD Almighty. 5 "My covenant
was with him, a covenant of life and peace, and I gave
them to him; this called for reverence and he revered me and
stood in awe of my name. 6 True instruction was in his mouth and
nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace
and uprightness, and turned many from sin. 7 "For the lips of a
priest ought to preserve knowledge, and from his mouth men should seek
instruction-because he is the messenger of the LORD Almighty.
8 But you have turned from the way and by your teaching
have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with
Levi," says the LORD Almighty. 9 "So
I have caused
you to be despised and humiliated before all the people, because
you have not followed my ways but have shown partiality in matters
of the law."
Notice verse 1 "this admonition is for you, O priests",
and verse 4 where God says, He is sending these evil
priests this admonition because of His covenant with Levi that it
may continue. Then in verses 5 and 6 God speaks of His
covenant with Levi and how Levi "stood in awe" of His Name
and gave Him "reverence and revered" His Holy Name (this is
why ministers should refuse to be called reverend - for only God
deserves to be called reverend - yet, since this sin is so common
among the churches of Babylon the Great these ministers refuses all
sound reasoning in this matter even resisting the Holy Spirit).
For as Christ Jesus says, they love to be revered by the
men, parading themselves as someone important, and to have
"the best seats in the synagogues [or in
the churches], greetings in the marketplaces, and to be
called by men 'Rabbi, Rabbi' [or
'Reverend']" (Matt. 23:5-12).
Next, God praises Levi for giving "true
instruction" and that "nothing false was found on his lips";
but these priests in verses 7 and 8 are bearing false
witness about the word of God nor are they preserving knowledge (you
would expect men of God to give sound doctrine). They were
causing many to stumble because of their teaching; and of these
"sons of Levi" God says, they "have violated"
(v. 8) His covenant between Him and Levi. God also says in
verse 9 that He have caused them "to be despised and
humiliated before all the people", because they did not follow
His ways and showed "partiality in matters of the law". [We see
and hear this today where the men of this
evil world refuse to go to these "gospel
peddlers" churches (for most of them are filled with
women), and others even accuse these lovers of money of
living high on the hog while their churchgoer can barely pay their
rent and feed their family]. And for those of you who are
faithful givers of tithes, you will be able to see this when these
"gospel peddlers" only help those who give to their
churches (if you are not a member then you of out of luck), and only
those who tithe to them are allowed to speak in their churches. Yet,
these "gospel peddlers" wonder out loud in their
sermons, why people despise them for their behavior; and they still
believe you should reverend them when they have not honored and
revered God nor kept His laws.
Now, let us
re-read Malachi 3 again,
where it speaks of these priests robbing God. [Today,
they are commonly called ministers or some other names which I
will not mention nor should they use them because it blasphemes God
Holy Name]. We will
start in verse one, and I want you to pay particular
attention to verses 3-5, and 9; where we see the phrases
"sons of Levi", "that they may offer to the Lord an offering in
righteousness", "then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem", "those
who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans", and "even
this whole nation". You know the more I study what God really
says about "tithes and offerings"; the more I wish
these "gospel peddlers" would rightly divide God’s
word for a change and give God His honor and reverence among the
people of this world. For many of our poor widows and fatherless
children would be cared for with the tithe money they collect,
and God would receive His honor and be reverend. Yet, these
ministers uses your "tithes and offerings" for
"their pet projects". Oh yea, they will
definitely declare to you the word of God when they stand to profit
from it, but never are they truthful when it may take money out of
their pockets and their "human
organizations" aka "their
churches".
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