The laws, and all sacrifices under the old testament ( and tithe was part of sacrifices) are a shadow of the new covenant of Christ. The thing that tithing foreshadowed can be known, by its intended purpose.
The purpose of tithing was one - that there may be meat in the hoouse/temple of God (in which levites and priests who were not given inheritance together with the other tribes got their provisions) They did not have land.
Malachi 3:10 |
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house...
So what tithe foreshadowed, just like the other sacrifices, can be determined from its purpose. Provision in the case of tithing.
Translated to the new testament, which has no physical temple or a tribe without inheritance, whose provision is it to be? And, in what form, because the temple of God, where this provision was needed before physically, has now become the individual Christian... and we have become a royal priesthood
1 Corinthians 6:19 |
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
A priesthood we are, that offers, not physical sacrifices as before, but spiritual offerings...
1 Peter 2:5 |
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
So you are the temple, and also the priest (in the heavenly temple) who was before sustained by tithe. So what is the meat, the tithes of the new temple? What is the provision of the new temple? A provision which is now a spiritual meat for the priests, for you? And do our modern pastors even qualify as priests and levites in the new spiritual temple? I'll let you judge.
The purpose of tithing was one - that there may be meat in the hoouse/temple of God (in which levites and priests who were not given inheritance together with the other tribes got their provisions) They did not have land.
Malachi 3:10 |
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house...
So what tithe foreshadowed, just like the other sacrifices, can be determined from its purpose. Provision in the case of tithing.
Translated to the new testament, which has no physical temple or a tribe without inheritance, whose provision is it to be? And, in what form, because the temple of God, where this provision was needed before physically, has now become the individual Christian... and we have become a royal priesthood
1 Corinthians 6:19 |
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
A priesthood we are, that offers, not physical sacrifices as before, but spiritual offerings...
1 Peter 2:5 |
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
So you are the temple, and also the priest (in the heavenly temple) who was before sustained by tithe. So what is the meat, the tithes of the new temple? What is the provision of the new temple? A provision which is now a spiritual meat for the priests, for you? And do our modern pastors even qualify as priests and levites in the new spiritual temple? I'll let you judge.
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