China has now restricted travel for over 35 million people in 12 cities due to the coronavirus outbreak that was said to originate in Wuhan, China. Now, more than two thousand confirmed cases have been reported, in countries such as China, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, France, Australia, Canada, and the U.S. Coincidentally enough, this “outbreak” coincides with the Chinese New Year, with 2020 as the “Year Of The RAT”….
The U.S. has also enforced screenings in five airports so far, due to “confirmed cases.”
But What Is The REAL TRUTH About This “Coronavirus?”
And did it REALLY originate from China to begin with, or is there ANOTHER Origin?
Why are there coronavirus patents relating to the use of such a coronavirus in a vaccine to “prevent and/or treat a disease?” Per the current assignees belonging to the Pirbright Institute, and also the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) along with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) — The better question is, WHO Are The Ones FUNDING Such Patents and Vaccines?
It’s also no coincidence how in spring 2018, Bill Gates informed listeners at a discussion about epidemics hosted by the Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Journal of Medicine that a “new disease” could kill 30 million within 6 months, and how it could happen posthaste. And, from a TED Talk back in 2010, Bill Gates even quoted: “The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
But Do You Know The BIGGER Agenda?
Did you know that World Governments and Alphabet Soups such as the WHO, CDC, UN, FDA, FEMA, etc. team up together and travel into what they call “third-world countries,” bringing their Killer Vaccines with them? They then vaccinate the women and children there, when they are purposefully causing and spreading diseases. Once these diseases have been spread, and an “epidemic” has been declared, they then label this “epidemic” with a creative name, such as “Ebola.”
Then, mainstream medias such as ABC, FOX, CNN, etc. report an “epidemic” initially caused by the Government to begin with, to make you think it’s a worldwide “epidemic” when really this isn’t the case at all. This thusly triggers fear and chaos in the general sleeping public, thereby giving the Government more tyrannical control.
In order to offer a solution to their created problem, the Government begins to enforce the Rule of Law — such as mandatory vaccines, mandatory healthcare, mandatory screenings and other “security” measures leading up to martial law. When such measures only focus on one thing and one thing only: Depopulation. So that more people will gladly accept these Killer Vaccines.
Is This ALSO The Case With The Coronavirus? Is China Another TEST?
THE TRUTH REVEALED!!!
WAKE UP AND SEE THE TRUTH THAT’S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!!!!
PLEASE SEEK YAHUAH AND HIS TRUE SON YAHUSHA — WHILE THERE’S STILL TIME!!!
The 10 Awakening Stages That Everybody Has To Go Through
At least once in our lifetime, we will most definitely experience awakening. When I myself experienced my own awakening, I began to notice others too who were just starting to go through the process.
It was surprising but everyone I met was on the brink of their awakening. After realizing how important this process of finding your true self and seeing beyond the veil is, I wanted to reach out to everyone going through the same and help them out through it.
It starts slowly and eventually transforms you completely. Had I been aware of these stages, I would have experienced my awakening better. So, here is a list of those ten stages
The 10 Stages of Awakening:
1. You are despondent and frustrated. However, you no longer want to depend on external stimuli for your happiness and emotional stability. You look out for healing and happiness and peace out there. Awakening has begun for you.
2. You see life in a whole new light and feel a sense of freedom. New energies begin to flow in and out of you. There is a sense of euphoria.
3. There is a push-pull between from staying awake and closing your eyes. You are taking a leap into an unknown territory.
4. Everything seems to be falling apart. However, it is actually falling in the right place. Also, you may feel as if, for the longest time, you are being in the dark. This, on the contrary, is to make you understand the ‘light’.
5. After the existential crisis, you will begin to contemplate a lot. This self- reflection and retrospection will make you look at the bigger picture. You will realize the power of inner resources.
6. You begin to feel the interconnectedness of everything: nature, animals humans and the Almighty. Your consciousness expands. You begin to think and feel profoundly.
7. You feel one with the universe. Your mind, body and heart feel united and in sync. You move away from the tangible towards the intangible, that is, energy and intention.
8. You begin to align yourself with your true, authentic self.
9. As you go ahead, you realize you are co-creating with the universe and this energizes you beautifully.
10. By this stage, you align yourself with the Divine and follow the Path of unconditional Love. You love deeply, and boundlessly. Your love germinates from within and reaches out the whole world around you. Mental peace is finally home. And that, my dear, is the most awakened you.
The waking up process is a very personal experience. Once we become aware of the existence of a fabricated world we thought to be real and that our true nature is anything but what we’ve been told, there’s no turning back.
It may appear to be a lonely path, but we are by no means alone in this awakening. It is happening in all walks of life. Whether a banker or corporate employee wakes up to the scam being perpetrated on humanity and pulls out of the matrix, or a normal taxpaying worker realizes they’re contributing to a military industrial machine hell bent on war, control and world domination, we’re all the same.
And those are just surface issues compared to the deliberate socially engineered suppression of man’s innate spiritual nature, whether we call it social liberty or the freedom to create and manifest as we truly are.
Triggers for Awakening
There are many such triggers that wake people up. When a child dies from a supposedly preventative vaccine, or becomes autistic for no reason, things change. Once someone realizes, for example, how the world was scammed on 9/11 and that the powers that be are willing to perpetrate such atrocities to promote their agenda, the digging begins in sincerity. When we realize we’re at the complete mercy of parasitic central bankers more than willing to not only implode the world’s economy, but finance both sides of any conflict for personal gain and control and that our governments are complicit in this scheme, we start to grasp the enormity of what befalls us.
In addition, that we have rapidly devolved into an advanced militarized surveillance police state is driving many to ask some hard questions – and the answers can be startling and difficult to swallow, especially when you realize they have cut off all avenues of recourse.
Another major issue is that it’s more evident by the day that our very health is under attack, again by complicit government and multinational corporations pushing GMOs, adulterated food, vaccines, pharmaceuticals, atmospheric aerosols and the like, all of which have been proven to be extremely hazardous to humanity. Yet they push harder by the day, mandating program after destructive program. Meanwhile, natural and organic farming and foods, as well as supplements, are under intense attack by these very same perpetrators.
The truth about these issues and many, many more including massive planet harming programs such as fracking, electrosmog, and the geoengineering assault on humanity are driving a major perceptual paradigm shift amongst all walks of life as we delve more deeply into who is doing all this and why.
There Is No “They” – Oh Really?
This is often the final breakthrough point for many people. As the true picture starts to crystallize, the horrific realization that the “powers that be” are fundamentally a clandestine cabal with front men comes into focus. These are powerful minions, more interested in total control and weakening and subjugating humanity via health degradation, dumbed down education, mindless “bread and circus” government controlled media, depraved violence and sex oriented entertainment, and a draconian militarized police crackdown. The ugly truth then comes to the fore.
It can be staggering. If you take just 9/11 and other false flag events and realize they were staged to bring about this Orwellian police state where the citizens are now terror suspects, it can be very difficult to swallow.
A quick perusal of history soon follows, where people realize these same false flag/false enemy tactics were used to justify almost every war, leading to such totalitarian states as Stalinist Russia, Communist China and Nazi Germany, each of which descended into horrific pogroms, decimating their own populations of anyone potentially daring to question the new regime.
It’s not all black and white. There are of course good people working for bad people, powers and programs, wittingly and unwittingly. Many are trying to change and improve our existing structure. Many good people are performing wonderful services within this overarching societal program thinking it can be changed constructively. What we’re addressing are the overarching deceitful and destructive powers and mechanisms at play that are attempting to bring humanity into a weakened subservient role to some sort of worldwide fascist control state, eliminating personal and national sovereignty to support and obey a very few powerful self-appointed elites.
And it’s coming on fast. The recent FCC takeover of the internet being a prime example of the internal version, while wanton wars proliferate unchecked while the economic and survival conditions of regular people continues to tank.
This becomes evident as anyone pursues almost any avenue we’re discussing here. To realize this massive program is being orchestrated by some form of “they” soon becomes obvious. The reality of the conspiracy that JFK so eloquently pointed out before he was surgically removed from office via assassination hits squarely home. Please listen to his entire speech.
We Have to Find Out for Ourselves
An essential element to a true awakening is investigating and learning for ourselves. One of the main control mechanisms has been teaching humanity to only trust what they’ve been told by these same agendized so-called authorities. How many times have you heard, “If 9/11 was an ‘inside job’, surely it would have been on CNN. If something was really wrong surely someone would have said something.”
Well, a lot of people have and continue to speak out. And what’s the response? Anything contrary to the official narrative is “outlandish conspiracy theories” as they parrot the phrase “you’re either with us or with the terrorists, which results in the subsequent demonization and marginalization of any form of questioning or healthy criticism.
Waking up from that media and education entrancement is another shocker. Could they do such a thing? Could we really be facing such a totalitarian crackdown? And why?
When I was young there were over 60 media companies vying for audiences. Real investigative reporting, although it’s always been tampered with or suppressed, was still available. Today 6 mega corporations own all of the media. The very same corporations that own much of the corporate military industrial and agra-pharmaceutical infrastructure. Conspiracy is not a stretch – of course these power brokers would twist information to suit their intentions.
The word conspiracy has been stigmatized for a reason – don’t ask questions or there will be consequences.
All of this will take some serious researching, most likely in places people have never dared to look before. And this is good. Don’t let anyone tell you what the truth is, find out for yourself and be convinced in your own mind and heart. That’s a new phenomenon for most, as odd as that may seem, but stepping outside the propaganda mainstream is a must. And it is oh so refreshing.
The Shock Does Wear Off – And Don’t Worry, We’re in this Together
There are so many interconnected “rabbit holes” of similarly repressed, twisted or hidden areas of information that it can be staggering. Once we realize we’ve been lied to about any one of these serious issues, we begin to question everything. And that is extremely healthy. You may not find support for your new found perspective from those around you, but there are millions who are sharing your experience. Thanks to the internet you can find others undergoing the same transformation quite readily and derive a lot of encouragement and support.
Battling through the naysaying of close friends and loved ones seems to act like a chrysalis, much like the cocoon a metamorphosing butterfly has to struggle to escape. And as we know, that is exactly what drives the blood into the wings of the birthing creation that will soon bear the beautiful new awakened soul to glorious new heights and vistas.
One thing that won’t wear off is your absolute disdain for what is being perpetrated on our fellow humans. As the expression goes, “If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.” If you knew your home was under attack and malevolent forces were coming for you and your children, you would do anything in your power to protect your family. That soon becomes an innate awareness regarding the current toxic social and physical world we’re experiencing and the need for a conscious response.
Awakening Your Spirituality
This goes hand in hand with anyone experiencing this consciousness shift. If things here are so massively manipulated, what lies beyond all of this? What are we being kept from? Why do I sense I am so much more? Where does YAHUAH or Love or human kindness come in? And for so many with some form of religious or spiritual background or understanding, the question always arises, “Is this some form of spiritual warfare?”
These are very important questions to pursue. There must be meaning in all of this. “Certainly all of humanity is not as wicked as these psychopathic control freaks.” Yes, that’s true. Unfortunately, the aggressor often rules the day in this hierarchy of control our world has adopted for millennia. History bears this out.
The beauty of gaining a new spiritual perspective is that it puts these influences in their place. We discover new ways to perceive our true indomitable nature which gives tremendous peace and confidence in spite of what we’re currently faced with. This sense of profound conscious awareness and spirituality only grows as our pursuit for truth, in love, gains momentum.
Awake, But Never Alone
A sense of isolation following the initial awakening is natural. It’s foreign to everything we’ve been taught, with implications that can be mind-boggling as well as heart breaking. However, we are very much connected and sharing a profound common experience. Knowing we are not alone is very important to keep in mind.
Building community also becomes a priority, where we can contribute to the healing of the planet at every level possible. Whether it’s activist or spiritual associations this is very important. It may only be on-line at first, that’s fine. Find kindred spirits and empowering and informative websites and blogs and even attend meet up events in your area on some of these subjects of concern.
This awakening of consciousness is transpiring at an accelerating pace, and it’s something to be very encouraged about. Once you get past the shock of what you’ve “found out” it becomes easier, but it will drastically alter your life.
Enjoy it, be empowered and take action accordingly. Trust your heart.
The darkness cannot put out the Light no matter how hard they try.
Please share this freely with those embarking on this magnificent journey.
The 6 Grand Illusions That Keep Us Enslaved to the Matrix
For a magician to fool his audience his deceit must go unseen, and to this end he crafts an illusion to avert attention from reality. While the audience is entranced, the deceptive act is committed, and for the fool, reality then becomes inexplicably built upon on a lie. That is, until the fool wakes up and recognizes the truth in the fact that he has been duped.
Maintaining the suspension of disbelief in the illusion, however, is often more comforting than acknowledging the magician’s secrets.
We live in a world of illusion. So many of the concerns that occupy the mind and the tasks that fill the calendar arise from planted impulses to become someone or something that we are not. This is no accident. As we are indoctrinated into this authoritarian-corporate-consumer culture that now dominates the human race, we are trained that certain aspects of our society are untouchable truths, and that particular ways of being and behaving are preferred.
Psychopaths disempower people in this way. They blind us with never ceasing barrages of suggestions and absolutes that are aimed at shattering self-confidence and confidence in the future.
Bansky, the revered and elusive revolutionary street artist, once commented:
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.” – Banksy
Advertising is just the tip of the iceberg. When we look further we see that the overall organization of life is centered around the pursuit of illusions and automatic obedience to institutions and ideas which are not at all what they seem. We are in a very real sense enslaved. Many call this somewhat intangible feeling of oppression ‘the matrix,’ a system of total control that invades the mind, programming individuals to pattern themselves in accordance with a mainstream conformist version of reality, no matter how wicked it gets.
The grandest of the illusions which keep us enslaved to the matrix, the ones that have so many of us still entranced, are outlined below for your consideration.
1. The Illusion of Law, Order and Authority
For so many of us, following the law is considered a moral obligation, and many of us gladly do so even though corruption, scandal, and wickedness repeatedly demonstrate that the law is plenty flexible for those who have the muscle to bend it. Police brutality and police criminality is rampant in the US, the courts favor the wealthy, and we can longer even lead our lives privately thanks to the intrusion of state surveillance. And all the while the illegal and immoral Orwellian permanent war rages on in the background of life, murdering and destroying whole nations and cultures.
The social order is not what it seems, for it is entirely predicated on conformity, obedience and acquiescence which are enforced by fear of violence. History teaches us again and again that the law is just as often as not used as an instrument of oppression, social control and plunder, and any so-called authority in this regard is false, hypocritical, and unjust.
When the law itself does not follow the law, there is no law, there is no order, and there is no justice. The pomp and trappings of authority are merely a concealment of the truth that the current world order is predicated on control, not consent.
2. The Illusion of Prosperity and Happiness
Adorning oneself in expensive clothes and trinkets, and amassing collections of material possessions that would be the envy of any 19th century monarch has become a substitute for genuine prosperity. Maintaining the illusion of prosperity, though, is critical to our economy as it is, because its foundation is built on consumption, fraud, credit and debt. The banking system itself has been engineered from the top down to create unlimited wealth for some while taxing the eternity out of the rest of us.
True prosperity is a vibrant environment and an abundance of health, happiness, love, and relationships. As more people come to perceive material goods as the form of self-identification in this culture, we slip farther and farther away from the experience of true prosperity.
3. The Illusion of Choice and Freedom
Read between the lines and look at the fine print, we are not free, not by any intelligent standard. Freedom is about having choice, yet in today’s world, choice has come to mean a selection between available options, always from within the confines of a corrupt legal and taxation system and within the boundaries of culturally accepted and enforced norms.
Just look no further than the phony institution of modern democracy to find a shining example of false choices appearing real. Two entrenched, corrupt, archaic political parties are paraded as the pride and hope of the nation, yet third party and independent voices are intentionally blocked, ridiculed and plowed under.
The illusion of choice and freedom is a powerful oppressor because it fools us into accepting chains and short leashes as though they were the hallmarks of liberty.
Multiple choice is different than freedom, it is easy servitude.
4. The Illusion of Truth
Truth has become a touchy subject in our culture, and we’ve been programmed to believe that ‘the‘ truth comes from the demigods of media, celebrity, and government. If the TV declares something to be true, then we are heretics to believe otherwise.
In order to maintain order, the powers that be depend our acquiescence to their version of the truth. While independent thinkers and journalists continually blow holes in the official versions of reality, the illusion of truth is so very powerful that it takes a serious personal upheaval to shun the cognitive dissonance needed to function in a society that openly chases false realities.
5. The Illusion of Time
They say that time is money, but this is a lie. Time is your life. Your life is an ever-evolving manifestation of the now. Looking beyond the five sense world, where we have been trained to move in accordance with the clock and the calendar, we find that the spirit is eternal, and that the each individual soul is part of this eternity.
The big deception here is the reinforcement of the idea that the present moment is of little to no value, that the past is something we cannot undo or ever forget, and that the future is intrinsically more important than both the past and the present. This carries our attention away from what it actually happening right now and directs it toward the future. Once completely focused on what is to come rather than what is, we are easy prey to advertisers and fear-pimps who muddy our vision of the future with every possible worry and concern imaginable.
We are happiest when life doesn’t box us in, when spontaneity and randomness gives us the chance to find out more about ourselves. Forfeiting the present moment in order to fantasize about the future is a trap. The immense, timeless moments of spiritual joy that are found in quiet meditation are proof that time is a construct of the mind of humankind, and not necessarily mandatory for the human experience.
If time is money, then life can be measured in dollars. When dollars are worth less, so is life. This is total deception, because life is, in truth, absolutely priceless.
6. The Illusion of Separateness
On a strategic level, the tactic of divide and conquer is standard operating procedure for authoritarians and invading armies, but the illusion of separateness runs even deeper than this.
We are programmed to believe that as individuals we are in competition with everyone and everything around us, including our neighbors and even mother nature. Us vs. them to the extreme. This flatly denies the truth that life on this planet is infinitely inter-connected. Without clean air, clean water, healthy soil, and a vibrant global sense of community we cannot survive here.
While the illusion of separateness comforts us by gratifying the ego and and offering a sense of control, in reality it only serves to enslave and isolate us.
Conclusion
The grand illusions mentioned here have been staged before us as a campaign to encourage blind acquiescence to the machinations of the matrix. In an attempt to dis-empower us, they demand our conformity and obedience, but we must not forget that all of this is merely an elaborate sales pitch. They can’t sell what we don’t care to buy.
About the Author
Sigmund Fraud is a survivor of modern psychiatry and a dedicated mental activist. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com where he indulges in the possibility of a massive shift towards a more psychologically aware future for mankind.
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Shavuot has a double significance. It marks the all-important wheat harvest in the Land of Yisrael (Exodus 34:22); and it commemorates the anniversary of the day YAHUAH gave the Torah to the entire nation of Yisrael assembled at Mount Sinai, although the association between the giving of the Torah (Matan Torah) and Shavuot is not explicit in the Scriptural text.
The Feast is one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three Scriptural pilgrimage festivals. It marks the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer, and its date is directly linked to that of Passover.
The Torah mandates the seven-week Counting of the Omer, beginning on the second day of Passover, to be immediately followed by Shavuot.
This counting of days and weeks is understood to express anticipation and desire for the giving of the Torah.
On Passover, the people of Yisrael were freed from their enslavement to Pharaoh; on Shavuot they were
given the Torah and became a nation committed to serving YAHUAH.The word Shavuot means weeks, and the festival of Shavuot marks the completion of the seven-week counting period between Passover and Shavuot.
According to Jewish law, Shavuot is celebrated in Yisrael for one day and in the Diaspora (outside of Yisrael) for two days. Reform Judaism celebrates only one day, even in the Diaspora.
Scriptural
Names in the Torah
In the Scriptures, Shavuot is called the Festival of Weeks (Hebrew: חג השבועות, Ḥag ha-Shavuot, Exodus34:22, Deuteronomy16:10); Festival of Reaping (Hebrew: חג הקציר, Ḥag ha-Katsir, Exodus23:16),and Day of the First Fruits (Hebrew יום הבכורים, Yom ha-Bikkurim, Numbers28:26).
Shavuot, the plural of a word meaning “week” or “seven”, alludes to the fact that this festival happens exactly seven weeks (i.e. “a week of weeks”) after Passover.
The Book of Jubilees and the Essenes
This literal interpretation of ‘Shabbat’ as the weekly Shabbat, was shared by the 2nd-century BCE author of the Book of Jubilees who was motivated by the priestly sabbatical solar calendar of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE, which was designed to have festivals and Sabbaths fall on the same day of the week every year.
On this calendar (best known from the Book of Luminaries in 1 Enoch), Shavuot falls on a Sunday.
The date was reckoned fifty days from the first Sabbath after Passover. Thus, Jub. 1:1 claims that Moses ascended Mount Sinai to receive the Torah “on the sixteenth day of the third month in the first year of the Exodus of the children of Yisrael from Egypt”.
In Jub. 6:15–22 and 44:1–5, the Observance is traced to the appearance of the first rainbow, the day on which YAHUAH made his covenant with Noah.
Why Tithing Is Not YAHUAH’s Will For Believers Today
(A Contextual Study Of The Book Of Malachi)
By Rob Thornton
The words of the prophet Hosea continue to echo to us today (Hosea 4:6), “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge.” We can safely apply that today, for as in this case, it’s Scriptural knowledge that many lack, and as such, they are easily lead to believe anything.
Prayerfully, this study will set straight an often debated, often misunderstood topic.
In this study, we will dived into the content of the book of Malachi, in context, to show why the isolation of Malachi 3:8-10 cannot be used to justify the unscriptural modern practice of monetary “tithing”.
You must seriously ask yourself this: How does the isolation of Malachi 3:8-10 render the rest of the book of Malachi obsolete?
Well, it doesn’t. You have to read the ENTIRE BOOK of Malachi for the proper context of chapter 3, verses 8-10. It is noteworthy to mention, that the majority of people who quote the Malachi chapter 3 verse to defend modern monetary “tithing”, never quote the whole book of Malachi in its proper context.
Neither do many pastors teach what the tithe truly was and the purpose of the tithe according to what Scripture says.
The tithe according to Scripture was always agricultural in nature, never monetary. This bears repeating… At NO POINT IN SCRIPTURE did the tithe consist of money.
Detailed study of Scripture reveals how the people of Yisrael partook of the tithe and ate amongst themselves as a feast, and they were partaking of this meal with YAHUAH. It is also never mentioned that the children of YIsrael tithed to the poor, nor is it mentioned that YAHUAH permitted the children of YIsrael to take the tithe and turn it in for money, “for themselves”, not for YAHUAH (Deuteronomy 14:24-26).
***This article was not written to convince you NOT to give – it isn’t about not giving; that is patently false. Giving is encouraged. This IS about the correct handling of the Word of YAHUAH, which should be everyone’s concern in the Body of Messiah.***
The intent with this article is to demonstrate that tithing is an entirely false and fabricated doctrine being taught to Christians today.
One of the first important keys to understanding the REAL Scriptural truth about tithing is knowing that there is a huge difference between tithing and giving.
Giving is free and is Spirit-led. Tithing was an old Covenant ordinance under the Law of Moses, which none of us living today were ever under.
Also key is knowing the difference in what is taught as tithing in churches today and what the Scriptures actually teaches on the subject. With study and prayer, you will find the two are diametrically opposed.
This is also NOT about the operational costs and expenses of a local church building. “How will the church run, how will the lights stay on if people don’t tithe?” This is one of many common examples of cognitive dissonance being activated when people are forced to confront the Scriptural reality of the tithing concept, and how it is not meant for the Christian Church.
Nor was it ever.
“In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time; performs an action that is contradictory to one or more beliefs, ideas, or values; or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.“ (www.wikipedia.com)
So, if you are reading this right now and you are feeling uneasy, nervous even; it’s a normal reaction. It means that you have been taught incorrectly regarding this topic of tithing.
Uneasiness is normal when something in which one has been indoctrinated is challenged. This is what cognitive dissonance does, but be encouraged because confusion is often the prelude to clarity.
This is one of the major “hot-button” issues in the Body of Messiah and can be very controversial, even divisive.
Remember this: YAHUAH DOES NOT contradict Himself.
Again, this is about the CORRECT HANDLING OF SCRIPTURE. You do not need a degree in divinity for that. You don’t need bible college, seminary or any special theological training, nor do you need a lofty religious title in front of your name. You just have to be able to read. The Bereans in the book of Acts (17:11) did not have divinity degrees or titles, but they searched the Scriptures diligently to see if what they were being taught was true. Refuse to be spoon-fed, conditioned, indoctrinated, even brainwashed into readily agreeing with anything people tell you. This includes pastors, even YOUR pastor. Search the Scriptures in context for yourself, through prayer, to verify what I am telling you here.
If YAHUAH’s hand is truly on what a local assembly is doing, if it is YAHUAH ordained, then it will prosper. Nothing will be able to stop it and it WILL NOT REQUIRE THE EISEGESIS (basically, willfully altering the context) OF YAHUAH’S WORD. It DOES however, require the same measure of faith that is used as a tool against the Saints to condition them into monetary tithing. Where is the faith of the tithe teachers then? Where is the faith that YAHUAH will move and bless the work of the Kingdom without church leaders having to misrepresent His Holy Word?
“Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for YAHUAH loveth a cheerful giver.” (2 Corinthians 9:7)
The bottom line: The book of Malachi is not addressing the Christian church, the Body of Messiah, the Ecclesia. Tithing was part of the Mosaic Law given to the people of YISRAEL- NOT the Church.
Tithing is not the will of YAHUAH for the New Covenant Believer.
This study was conducted in order to focus on modern tithe teaching pastors’ favorite “go-to” passage of Scripture that they use to “guilt-trip” saints into parting with their money – Malachi 3:8-10. Anytime you hear a preacher invoke Malachi 3:8-10, then you should perk up and pay close attention, because he is likely going to take it gravely out of context, not teaching it completely and Scripturally. I have seen it happen more than enough times to be able to confidently make that statement.
Understand that the entire letter of the tithing ordinance from YAHUAH is found in Numbers 18. Please study to show yourself approved.
Now let’s talk about the tithe, what it is and what it is not. Be willing to unlearn what you have previously, and likely erroneously been taught.
I will provide information and an in depth study on the matter below.
Let’s ask a few questions……. First of all, what does the word “tithe” mean? Tithe literally means tenth, or tenth part of.
WHAT IS THE “STOREHOUSE”?
What the storehouse is NOT, is the local church building. Thus, it is also not the bank accounts of pastors, ministers or church employees.
What WAS the storehouse? Well, the storehouse was just that – it was to store FOOD in storerooms within the temple in Jerusalem, to support the Levitical priests who had no inheritance (Deuteronomy 14:27) and whose ministry was essential to the people of YIsrael.
WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE STOREHOUSE?
The Levitical priests were in charge of the storehouse.
Carefully consider the following verses in Nehemiah 10:37-38 New Living Translation (NLT):
37 We will store the produce in the storerooms of the Temple of our ELOHIYM. We will bring the best of our flour and other grain offerings, the best of our fruit, and the best of our new wine and olive oil. And we promise to bring to the Levites a tenth of everything our land produces, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our rural towns.
38 “A priest—a descendant of Aaron—will be with the Levites as they receive these tithes. And a tenth of all that is collected as tithes will be delivered by the Levites to the Temple of our ELOHIM and placed in the storerooms.”
Then, in Nehemiah chapter 13, the Levitical priests started to profane the priesthood and actually were robbing the storehouse and, by not giving the Levites their portion of the tithe, they kept it back for themselves.
Nehemiah 13: 1-13 helps to bring into very clear focus the events of the book of Malachi.
Now, let’s take a closer look at Malachi.
From the outset, it’s very important to understand who YAHUAH was talking to and why. When we do understand this, we can put things in proper perspective. So who was YAHUAH talking to? We find out in Malachi chapter 2 (emphasis mine):
1 “And now, O PRIESTS, THIS COMMANDMENT IS FOR YOU. 2 If you will not hear, And if you will not take it to heart, To give glory to My name,” Says YAHUAH of hosts, “I will send a curse upon you, And I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, Because you do not take it to heart. 3 “Behold, I will rebuke your descendants And spread refuse on your faces, The refuse of your solemn feasts; And one will take you away with it. 4 Then you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, That My covenant with Levi may continue,” Says YAHUAH of hosts. 5 “My covenant was with him, one of life and peace, And I gave them to him that he might fear Me; So he feared Me And was reverent before My name. 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, And injustice was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and equity, And turned many away from iniquity. 7 “For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, And people should seek the law from his mouth; For he is the messenger of YAHUAH of hosts. 8 But you have departed from the way; You have caused many to stumble at the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” Says YAHUAH of hosts.” (Malachi 2:1-8)
Now let’s go to Malachi chapter 3:
“And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers,
Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien— because they do not fear Me,”
Says YAHUAH of hosts.
“For I am YAHUAH, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.
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 YAHUAH of hosts.
“But you said, ‘In what way shall we return?’”
(Malachi 3:5-7 NKJV)
Then YAHUAH goes on to say in verse 8: “Will a man rob YAHUAH?……..”
Consider the words of YAHUSHA here: “…Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.” (Matthew 25:45)
WHO WERE “THE LEAST OF THESE”?
Well, let’s go up a couple of verses:
“42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
44 “Then they also will answer Him,[a] saying, ‘Master, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’” (Matthew 25:42-44 NKJV)
It echoes the righteous anger of YAHUAH in Malachi. Remember:
“And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the SORCERERS, and against the ADULTERERS, and against FALSE SWEARERS, and against THOSE THAT OPPRESS THE HIRELING IN HIS WAGES, THE WIDOW, and THE FATHERLESS, and that turn aside THE STRANGER from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.” (Malachi 3:5 KJV)
The words of YAHUSHA end the chapter in Matthew 25 by saying, “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” (Matthew 25:46)
THE HIRELING
The hirelings, for the sake of this discussion, are people who work jobs to provide for their families: wage earners. Notice in Malachi chapter 3 verse 5 YAHUAH says “…against THOSE THAT OPPRESS THE HIRELING IN HIS WAGES”
* Things should be coming into clearer view right now, something should be clicking…your “check engine” light should be flashing…you should be realizing that something is very wrong with the way you have been taught this tithing doctrine your entire church life. *
Keep reading…
Question: In order to be oppressed, someone must be over you, right? Who was over and/or the ones in charge of the storehouse? Was it not the Levitical priests??
Curiously, modern preachers of the false monetary tithe like to consider themselves “the priests of the temple”, yet through manipulation of Scripture, they have no problem “oppressing the hireling in his wages”.
“…ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith YAHUAH of hosts.”
Now that we have established that YAHUAH was talking to the priests, let’s examine Malachi 3:8-12:
8 “Will a man rob YAHUAH? 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 YAHUAH 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 YAHUAH of hosts; 12 “And all nations will call you blessed, For you will be a delightful land,” Says YAHUAH of hosts.
“MEAT (FOOD) IN MINE HOUSE”
This should be self-explanatory at this point. It was never money according to Scripture. Not then, not now. We will continue to examine this further….
THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN
Rain. In Malachi, it was rain to water the CROPS – simple. It is not a magic portal that will open up to rain money, cars, houses and all types of material items; contingent upon you paying a legalistic 10% of your income.
The nation of Yisrael lived by their agriculture and depended upon the rain. YAHUAH’s blessing in relation to the tithe had to do with his provision of water; no rain and they would starve (Malachi 3:10). If they did not give YAHUAH their tithes which was part of the conditional blessing in the Mosaic covenant, YAHUAH would bring a curse upon them, the ground would not yield food because he would not allow it to rain. Tithing was Yisrael’s moral obligation in order for YAHUAH to bless the work of their hands.
The windows of heaven were also referred to in Genesis 7:11 at the beginning of the Flood (which was JUDGMENT):
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.”
And again in Genesis 8:2: “The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,” – in other words, the rain stopped. This is just like in Malachi, when YAHUAH withheld the rain from watering the crops – the true titheable item.
You should notice common themes in Scripture regarding the Scriptural tithe: land, ground, seed, fruit, fields, vines, livestock (the King James version refers to “meat” in Malachi 3 verse 10) and various produce. Fishermen (YAHUAH did not require fish), carpenters, blacksmiths, people that were not in agriculture were not required to tithe. NO ONE WHO WORKED TO EARN WAGES WAS REQUIRED TO TITHE IN SCRIPTURE. Look up ANY mention of tithing in the Scriptures – it was always consumable.
“POUR YOU OUT A BLESSING THAT THERE SHALL NOT BE ROOM ENOUGH TO RECEIVE IT”
“Pour”: Again referring to the rain that YAHUAH will release to water the fields. YAHUAH promises to bless our needs, not our greeds. People today tithe monetarily with their minds affixed on any number of material possessions “raining down from the windows of heaven”. This is a by-product of the pollution of the “prosperity gospel” in the institutional church. It has created a church full of people only concerned with what God can GIVE them. People tithe today because of covetousness. That’s actually the way it’s taught in the institutional church. “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you”, abusing and misapplying Luke 6:38. Luke 6:35 says “But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.” The proper context is found by reading verses 27-38. In these verses, YAHUSHA is generally speaking on how to treat other people. But tithe teachers have turned it into an unscriptural discourse on paying 10% of your money to their churches.
“THE DEVOURER”
Insects – locusts or other pests that would eat the CROPS, which again, was the true tithable item. Pay specific attention to Malachi 3:11 for context.
WHAT WAS THE SCRIPTURAL TITHE?
Leviticus 27:30 NKJV
“And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is YAHUAH’s. It is holy to YAHUAH.
Leviticus 27:32 NKJV
“And concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock, of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to YAHUAH.”
(See also Deuteronomy 14:22-25 and 2 Chronicles 31:5-6)
WHEN DID THE TITHE BECOME MONEY?
In short, the tithe was never monetary – EVER.
True Scriptural tithing requires Levites, a Levitical priesthood, a temple, and an agricultural sacrificial system DESPITE MONEY BEING WIDELY USED DURING THAT TIME (money is mentioned several times in Genesis).
Nowhere in Scripture was the tithe that YAHUAH considered holy ever money, yet this unscriptural tradition thrives. Leviticus 27:31 even lays out a PENALTY FOR THOSE THAT WISHED TO BUY BACK THEIR TITHE:
“If a man redeems any of his tithe, he must add a fifth of the value to it”. Think about that. YAHUAH didn’t require money then, He doesn’t require money now.
Now, to completely shut down the false argument that money was not in circulation in that time; and that they “only bartered and traded with produce, so that means we have to use money today to tithe” – see Deuteronomy 14:24:26 as it clearly illustrates that money was in use at that time, but was NOT considered the titheable commodity.
Don’t just believe me – search the Scriptures IN THEIR PROPER SCRIPTURAL CONTEXT and you will find this to be true.
Further, YAHUAH states in Deuteronomy 12:32 – “Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.”
With that being said, who gave the go-ahead for the tithe to magically turn into a monetary requirement?
Tithes were reintroduced by the Roman Catholic Church, arrogantly and illegally usurping the authority and context of Scripture.
Tithes were mentioned in councils at Tours in 567 and at Mâcon in 585. They were formally recognized under Pope Adrian I in 787.
The Catholic Encyclopedia (1912 edition only) says, “In the beginning [provision] was supplied by the spontaneous support of the faithful. In the course of time, however, as the Church expanded and various institutions arose, it became necessary to make laws which would insure the proper and permanent support of the clergy. The payment of tithes was adopted from the Old Law, and early writers speak of it as a divine ordinance and an obligation of the conscience. The earliest positive legislation on the subject seems to be contained in the letter of the bishops assembled at Tours in 567 and the Canons of the Council of Macon in 585.”[1][16]
(The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XIV, 1912, s.v. “tithe.”)
If you are giving 10% of your income to an institutional church – you are doing just that – giving your money to a church. It is not considered a Scriptural tithe. It’s considered a tithe according to the standards of MEN, but it is not a true Scriptural tithe. Even Scriptural tithing is obsolete by way of the New Covenant.
OTHER ARGUMENTS:
These are some of the most common arguments that you will hear in support of tithing, and they are always based on Scripture taken out of context.
Abram’s Tithe to Melchizedek; or the “Tithing Was Before the Law” logical fallacy
Abram’s (Abraham) tithe to Melchizedek (Genesis 14:17-20) cannot logically be used as an example to establish what tithe teachers claim is an “eternal principle” for tithing simply because it predates the Mosaic Law.
Abram’s tithe was:
1. Not from his own wealth
2. From possessions captured in war (therefore not from his own increase, not from his property)
3. A one time voluntary act
4. Not for supporting the poor or Levites
5. Not a command from YAHUAH
Abram’s tithe to Melchizedek looks NOTHING like the tithe ordained by YAHUAH to the children of Yisrael, therefore we cannot use this example to establish principle. Extra-Scriptural study of that time/culture suggests that even pagans gave a mathematical tenth (tithe) to rulers/kings as was the custom of that time. Moreover, what Abraham tithed wasn’t even allowed to be tithed under the Mosaic law. YAHUAH gave specific instructions as to what His holy tithe was to be. War spoils were not tithes under the Mosaic law. Abraham’s tithe to Melchizedek were from spoils of war. Because tithing was mentioned before the Law does not validate the practice for today.
Jacob’s Vow
Similarly, Jacob’s vow to give a tenth (Genesis 28: 20-22) cannot be used to establish principle for modern monetary tithing, as what he proposed to YAHUAH was CONDITIONAL.
Jacob wanted YAHUAH to move first, THEN he would give a tenth. Does that sound anything like the tithing ordinance in Numbers 18? Was that a command from YAHUAH? Was that to support the Levites and the priests at the temple? No.
Scripture does not support the tithe as being monetary, as being anything other than agriculture and livestock, nor as being for the Ecclesia. To even call it tithing is eisegesis, and suggests we are under the Law.
The tithe is only MENTIONED in the New Testament, and it only referred to how it was practiced under the Covenant. If it were principle, YAHUSHA and the Apostles would have taught it, but they did not.
Matthew 5:17-18 – Messiah Fulfills the Law
Proponents of tithing also use this Scripture to try to justify the practice by taking this Scripture out of context to mean that the Law was not destroyed. They take this to mean that the Law is still binding today. What they often fail to realize is plainly stated in the words of YAHUSHA The Messiah, yet they continue to fail to grasp context.
17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.”
YAHUSHA FULFILLED the Law with His finished work at Calvary. That is important to understand.
Matthew 23:23 – YAHUSHA Rebukes the Pharisees
Another commonly misapplied verse of Scripture, that many tithe teaching pastors and tithe payers argue was a command for Christians to tithe, is Matthew 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 this passage, YAHUSHA was speaking to the Pharisees. The fact that YAHUSHA was the one speaking should be very revealing in and of itself. He was speaking to the Pharisees, which establishes two things:
1. YAHUSHA had not gone to the stake, so the Mosaic Law was still in effect.
2. The Pharisees, as Jews, were still under the old Covenant, and were required to tithe as under the law.
YAHUSHA was rebuking the Pharisees, who were so meticulously legalistic about the Law, that in their self-righteousness, they tithed the smallest bit of produce, but as YAHUSHA said, neglected the WEIGHTIER matters.
YAHUSHA said they ought to have tithed as they were still under the Law at that time, under the old Covenant. If YAHUSHA had told the Pharisees to break the Law, He would have been the false teacher they constantly tried to paint Him as, thus they would have succeeded in trapping Him in a lie as they relentlessly tried.
The fact remains that there is no longer a command to tithe, and the way it is taught and practiced today in modern churches is not according to Scripture.
(for more flawed attempts to refute the Scriptural truth about tithing, see “The Illogical (stupid) Things People Say To Defend Tithing”http://wp.me/p43Y62-3k)
IN OTHER WORDS, SALVATION IS FREE. You cannot pay for salvation. You cannot buy into it. The Kingdom of YAHUAH is not a ponzi scheme. YAHUAH is not an extortionist. You don’t OWE YAHUAH money.
DO NOT BE DECEIVED
“8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Messiah.” (Colossians 2:8 KJV)
Modern, monetary tithing, as it is taught in the institutional church, is a tradition of man, it is a philosophy of man.
Allow NO pastor to mentally, emotionally or spiritually browbeat you into tithing, regardless of HOW good he preaches or of how compelling his argument for tithing seems to sound. Some pastors will preach you into a state of ecstasy and teach you something unscriptural all at the same time if you are not Scripturally insightful. Tithe preachers come up with any number of clever ways to manipulate you into giving them your money – visual aids, demonstrations, twisting of Scripture, emotionalism, slick catch phrases, anything – EVEN TEACHING THE SCRIPTURAL, CONTEXTUAL TRUTH about tithing but calling it deceptive names like “tithing under grace”. The manipulation in that one is extremely subtle, but it is there. In any case, ***Manipulation is NOT the spirit of YAHUAH that these church leaders profess, it is actually akin to witchcraft*** They will even resort to pre-emptive damage control by telling you things like, “I’m not trying to take your money”, or “your money does not support me”…all the while taking a salary from the church, which is largely funded by donations from congregants. In other words, that is a LIE.
There are many pastors who know that the modern monetary tithe is a false teaching, yet they won’t tell the congregation, because they benefit greatly from the tithe money. Many of them operate in ignorance because that is what they were (incorrectly) taught. Still, others KNOW what they are doing and monetary gain is more important to them than rightly dividing the Word of YAHUAH.
It’s astonishing, really. Many of the leaders of this day are the ones actually robbing YAHUAH by robbing His people, yet these leaders manipulate YOUR mind into thinking that YOU are robbing YAHUAH by not tithing to THEIR church (in other words, their business, their building, business plan/model or “vision”), which is not a tithe but more like “dues”, similar to a Masonic Lodge. Tithes were never money, always food, fruit, crops, oil, wine, garden produce, livestock….
Further, as alluded to before, tithing IS NOT A CONDITION OF YOUR SALVATION. That is UNSCRIPTURAL, it is FALSE DOCTRINE. Run from anyone that is teaching this and mark such as a false teacher! To be saved, one needs only to believe the Gospel, the death, burial and resurrection of YAHUSHA HA’MOSHIACH for the remission of our sins. There is nothing else that you can do. No church can give you salvation. It is between you and YAHUAH!
Church leaders often preach about “not compartmentalizing God” or “putting God in a box”, but they do just that when they expect that YAHUAH can be “activated” by the works of the flesh, by going under the bondage through the legalistic tradition of modern, monetary “tithing”. We do the same thing when we believe them and follow that way of thinking.
Again, to reiterate: “So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for YAHUAH loves a cheerful giver.” (2 Corinthians 9:7). Your giving is not based on a set percentage. Everyone, if so led, can support the work of their local assembly some way, with their serving, their money, the gifts or talents they have; ESPECIALLY IF THAT ASSEMBLY IS BUILT ON AND THRIVES ON CORRECT, SOUND SCRIPTURAL DOCTRINE, and NOT indoctrination.
“Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life” (1 Timothy 6:18-19).
Your giving is not mandated to go to a local church either. You are free to do so, but it is not mandated (though the tithe-teaching pastor would tell you differently). Consider giving directly to someone that you know is in immediate need. THIS IS WHAT TRULY HONORS YAHUAH. If you ignore someone’s need to give to a tithe teaching preacher first, consider that the money you gave will FIRST go to that church’s overhead expenses and salaries, and any other number of expenses BEFORE it goes to the needy. Surely you know someone struggling that would be immensely blessed by the money you plan to run to a church building with to “tithe”. There is a single mother in your congregation right now that needs your precious tithe money to feed her kids or to keep the lights on. There is a man in your church that has to pick between eating and putting gas in his car to get to work for the week just to make it to payday. These people may even be your family or friends. Help someone. You can do this and still give to your Assembly if it is on your heart. But you will NOT be dishonoring or robbing YAHUAH by “tithing” into someone’s life. That is not Scriptural.
I hope this study helps you and sets you free. PLEASE NOTE THAT I’M NOT SAYING DON’T GIVE OR TO STOP GIVING to your local Assembly. What I am saying is that YAHUAH is against THIS type of giving: Out of fear of being cursed due to overt compulsion, browbeating and spiritual abuse, or subtle passive-aggressive compulsion – when anyone’s story of any measure of blessing in their life is automatically attributed to them having paid monetary tithes. Out of demanding a set percentage. Out of blatant manipulation, twisting and isolation of only certain passages of Scripture to fit man-made ideas and doctrine (proof-texting and eisegesis). It is from THIS type of bondage that you are set free.
**YAHUAH is not into compulsory giving, for that becomes works-based religion, which sucks the life out of one’s spirit.**
I have known people that tithed under compulsion from religious leaders but were sitting in the dark, or even on the verge of losing their home. I have known people that tithed faithfully and still struggled. I have known people that did NOT “tithe” and were blessed because of their Spirit-led free-will giving and generosity.
It is way past time for “tithe” teaching preachers to be intellectually and Scripturally honest on this subject, for the entirety of YAHUAH’s Word is the truth (Psalm 119:160), not just those proof-texted Scriptures that fit man’s selfish doctrines and traditions. The bottom line: the tithe does not exist today for the Christian Church under the new Covenant, and this is verified by Scripture.
Below are links to in-depth studies on the topic of the tithe and I pray that they are, along with this writing, received in love. I pray that they will help you in your research. I could post many links on the subject of tithing, but none of them will make sense if you don’t study the subject in its true and complete context in Scripture. I have listened to, read and studied many arguments against tithing, as well as many arguments FOR tithing. The arguments FOR modern, monetary “tithing” are all long on catchy phrases, personal opinion and isolated Scriptures, yet short on true SCRIPTURAL exegesis. Prayerfully study the Word for yourselves. Make a decision today to be the good ground that YAHUSHA spoke of in Luke 8:15, a fruitful believer in the Scriptural and contextual truth of YAHUAH’s Word, which is the seed.
May the Grace and Peace of MOSHIACH YAHUSHA rest upon you at all times. Amein.
“Study to shew thyself approved unto YAH, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15)
The tenth or tithe was instituted by the Almighty at a time when there was a body of set-apart people who devoted their entire lives to serving YAHUAH
Sadly, today, all those in the so-called “full time ministry” are in gross error, as evidenced by much of the material on this site, by giving a tenth regularly to such people the person giving YOKES, that is connects, themselves to the sins of the person that they are giving to and open themselves up for judgment and attack by the Satanic realm, see the webpage on Judgment in this Life
The harsh reality is that one of the principal reasons that YAHUSHA lived and died was to enable individual believers to walk in right standing with YAHUAH, be led by His Spirit because the Priesthood was corrupt and the Temple was about to be destroyed so the ordinances of Moshe could no longer be observed using the traditional means
Thus we are EACH called to personal relationship with YAHUAH and the harsh reality is that you will NOT get there through your local Priest or Pastor, you will HAVE to turn directly to YAHUAH
Accordingly, financially supporting a Professional Religious Minister, while it may feel good, is NOT productive for you or for them
Yes, YAHUAH may tell you to give money to any person on the planet but, today, He is NOT going to ask you to contribute a tenth of your income monthly to such a Professional
Note also that because of the Yoke you will stunt and hold back your own growth with YAHUAH and IF you attend Church, or Synagogue or Mosque regularly you are likely to be led into serious error, worship YAHUAH in the privacy of your own home, be taught by His Spirit, fast regularly and actively seek to become His friend
But, you say, what about “prosperity”?
The brutal truth?
It is NOT from YAHUAH!
It has taken me a LONG time to get to grips with this but it is the truth
YAHUAH wants us to seek treasure in Heaven, He wants YOU to aspire to become a wise steward, then a good and faithful servant, then an overcomer and ultimately His friend, those are ETERNAL ranks and rewards
Yes, YAHUAH likes to give his children good things in this life but the forces of darkness do NOT want the true servants of YAHUAH, the servants who are making an impact, blessed so it is VERY difficult for a truly committed believer who is actively seeking truth and seeking to get close to YAHUAH to prosper, it IS possible, but it is VERY difficult
You see, there is a catch
As you get closer to YAHUAH you become a threat to the forces of darkness, while you were sitting in church and abdicating your responsibility to seek relationship with YAHUAH to another, you were not much of a threat, so the forces of darkness were NOT too vigilant with regard to sin in your life, BUT once you become serious then Judgment in this Life kicks into HIGH GEAR and they will seek judgment for even the smallest infringement
Thus, the harsh reality, those who are prospering in terms of prosperity teaching are prospering because they are little or NO threat to the Satanic realm, they are using the blasphemous names, worshipping idols (Jesus, the Cross, the Bible, etc) and having little impact so, because they believe that YAHUAH is rewarding them, the Satanic realm goes out of its way to reward them!! So they prosper in their sin, error and delusion!!
This principle relates to “The Mark of the Beast”!
But the Mark of the Beast is the micro-chip you say?
NOT SO, the Mark of the Beast is IN the forehead, in other words it is IN your brain in other words it is WHAT YOU THINK and it is IN your right hand so it is what you write and what you shake hands on (covenant on), IF you are breaking ANY of the Ten Commandments in what you think, speak, contract, write or otherwise do you HAVE the Mark of the Beast and you will be able to engage profitably in commerce
Thus most believers are able to prosper in terms of prosperity teaching because they HAVE the Mark and are therefore free to trade — in other words they are NOT opposed by the forces of darkness in the area of finance — so, IF you are prospering in terms of Prosperity Teaching you have a serious problem
But this I say, He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for YAH loves a cheerful giver.
QORINTIYM SHENIY (2 CORINTHIANS) 9:6-7
What to do with your money?
When YAHUAH tells you to give, then give, but make sure that YAHUAH has spoken and do NOT yoke yourself to people who are in error.
Else engage in works for YAHUAH, whatever those may be and use the tenth (tithe) to finance those activities — YOU are called to minister but support yourself through full time employment.
YAHUSHA the Hebrew Messiah AND Jesus Christ are NOT the same Individual.
The Bibles that we have, speak of the Words, Thoughts, and Actions of the True Messiah. But man has changed and created their own name ( Jesus ) and image and attached it to the True Messiah.
Here is an interesting Study that will certainly open our eyes to the TRUTH!!!
There Is Only One True Mediator That YAHUAH Has Chosen, YAHUSHA.
Acts 17:29-31 29 “Therefore since we are YAHUAH’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.
30 In the past YAHUAH overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
Man cannot create their own mediator as Aaron did in Exodus
32, between YAHUAH and man, the golden calf. This is exactly what has happened again with the created mediator that man has created called Jesus. As we read in Exodus 32, this course of action is detestable to YAHUAH and it causes YAHUAH to become Righteously Angry.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one Elohim, and one mediator between Elohim and men, the man YAHUSHA the Messiah;
The Christian Church is living out Exodus 32 and they don’t even realize the role they are playing in satans Theater.
Golden Calf was created by Aaron, Jesus Christ was created by the Catholic Church.
You cannot create a False Image, False Name and attach it to YAHUAH or YAHUSHA.
The name Jesus is not the English name for YAHUSHA nor does it hold the meaning of YAHUAH Saves or YAHUAH is Salvation. The name Jesus holds no meaning at all in the English language, it is meaningless.
Satan has many deceptive thoughts and ideas that appear to be innocent to man BUT YAHUAH absolutely finds detestable.
As we read Exodus 32, we can see great similarities between the golden calf that Aaron created and Jesus Christ the Catholic Church has created.
Exodus 32:2-5
2 Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.”
3 So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.
4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to YAHUAH.”
1) Aaron took the gold earrings and made a calf to represent a mediator between Israel and YAHUAH.
Catholic Church took the image of the Popes son, Cesare Borgia and used this image as the son of YAHUAH and called this image Jesus.
2) Aaron said, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to YAHUAH.”
Catholic Church and many others use the image of the Popes son and false name Jesus as a means of worship.
The Catholic Church has even went further, the Catholic Church believes this about their Popes ?
“The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ, Himself, hidden under the veil of flesh.” ~Catholic National article 1895~
“We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” ~Pope Leo XIII~
“The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” ~Pope Pius V~
You can study more truths about the Catholic Church.
Exodus 32:7-8
7 Then YAHUAH said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt.
8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’
Yes, the Golden Calf, Jesus Christ, and the Pope are all idol’s, created by man to be worshipped by man.
Exodus 20:3-7
3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, YAHUAH your ELOHIYM, am a jealous ELOHIYM, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7 “You shall not misuse the name of YAHUAH your ELOHIYM, for YAHUAH will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
We cannot make idols to worship and replace, YAHUAH or YAHUSHA.
We cannot take the names of YAHUAH and YAHUSHA in vain,
YAHUSHA said another would come and people would worship him.
John 5:43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
Beware of False Messiah’s proclaiming they are ELOHIYM Almighty !!!
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4
1 Concerning the coming of our Master YAHUSHA and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers,
2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of YAHUAH has already come.
3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.
4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called ELOHIYM or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in ELOHIYM’s temple, proclaiming himself to be ELOHIYM.
Revelation 22:12-16
12 “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
14 “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
16 “I, YAHUSHA, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the assemblies. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”
Revelation 18: 4-5
4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,
5 for her sins have reached to the sky, and YAHUAH has remembered her iniquities.
2 Corinthians 5:20
We are therefore the Messiah’s ambassadors, as though ELOHIYM were making his appeal through us. We implore you on the Messiah’s behalf: Be reconciled to YAHUAH.
2 Corinthians 6:1-2
1 As ELOHIYM fellow workers we urge you not to receive YAHUAH’s grace in vain.
2 For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.”
I tell you, now is the time of YAHUAH’s favor, now is the day of salvation.
Revelation 18: 4-5
4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,
5 for her sins have reached to the sky, and YAHUAH has remembered her iniquities.
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