LeBuick said:
I also had this question to ask, Would a Pharisee being a temple worker have crops and animals? If not, why would this one say "I give tithes of all that I possess"? If he tithed of all that he possessed, seems that would be more than crops and animals... He says all...
Lk 18:10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
They had crops and animals. You have been shown verses where they lived on land provided by one of the tribes, they weren't allowed to own the land but they were provided land to live on, them and their "cattle and beast". They worked the temple in one week shifts with a rotation of 24 courses. At the most, they worked the temple 2 weeks a year, they lived on the provided land the rest of the year raising cattle and crops.
I wll combine answers to your 3 posts in this one. God isn't changing. The law was to drive people to Christ. It isn't our schoolmaster. Jesus did indeed fulfil it. God does in fact reveal different things at different times,
(Deu 29:29) "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Christinas are NOT under the law or ever have been, other than what is naturally written on our hearts.
Your other "before the law verse" was about Jacob. You sure you want to use that one? Tithe all you want but like I said before, better be doing the other 612 also. I don't care if you "tithe" or not, you better be sure of it if you are teaching God's children to do it though, He will be mad at false teaching.
Gal 5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and
do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Gal 5:2 Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you
accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.
Gal 5:3 I testify again to
every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
Gal 5:4
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Gal 5:5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
Gal 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Gal 5:7 You were running well.
Who hindered you from obeying the truth? Gal 5:8 This
persuasion is
not from him who calls you.
Gal 5:9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
Gal 5:10 I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and
the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is. Gal 5:11
But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
Gal 5:12 I wish
those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
Gal 5:13
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Gal 5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Paul is pretty clear on what God thinks. Give all you want, even teach others to give all they want, this is a good thing. Be sure that God might call you to the carpet for teaching falsely. Paul wanted the ones teaching circumcision(law) in the verses above to cut the whole ......... well, you read it and you'll get the message.
Christians have NEVER been under the tithe or any other part of the law to fund God's church, I would study what you teach if I were you. You are overriding what God told in Paul's writings.
