>>> A Tithing Lie Exposed............................................................................................

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>>> A Tithing Lie Exposed...

>> Many tithing teachers when confronted with a long list of scripture solidly establishing the fact that all tithes that were surrendered (paid) were limited to agricultural products from the Land of Israel, and the fact that not one scripture can be found describing the tithe as money (currency, coins, gold, silver) paid to anyone, will often claim that the "currency of Israel was fruits, vegetables and clean animals," as if to say that brick layers, stone cutters, clothing makers, doctors, carpenters, scribes and others who worked in Israel were all paid with "bags of grapes," or "jugs of wine," or "a bag of corn."

In other words; the "official currency" used in Israel was "agricultural products for purchases and paying bills," is routinely falsely claimed.

This false claim is made in order to further claim in error that "since fruits, vegetables, etc, was the currency of Israel in ancient times, tithes must be paid today in the equivalent currency of the modern day world; that of money, currency of some type."

>> While some bartering activity involving the exchange of agricultural products did happen, there is no indication that the economy of Israel (and before with people such as Abraham) was based on a "currency of fruits, vegetables and clean animals."

Fruits, vegetables and clean animals were the products of Israeli agricultural production, but they were not the "currency of Israel."

The scriptural answer to this error filled tithing deception and false teaching will be addressed in two parts;

>> PART ONE; a list of 15 scriptural references (see below) clearly describing the tithes as limited to agricultural products from the Land of Israel; fruits, vegetables and clean animals. In this comprehensive list, money, currency, is never included as an item to be tithed on. Money is never listed as a tithe.

To include money as an item to "pay a tithe with" is adding to the Word of God something that is not found in scripture, and it is also teaching from silence where the Word of God does not speak; a very bad idea...

"You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you." - Deuteronomy 4:2

"Do not add to His words Or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar. Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him." - Proverbs 30:5-6

"Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it." - Deuteronomy 12:32

Even in Deuteronomy 14:24-26 any agricultural products temporarily converted to money for the purposes of transportation was not be used to pay a tithe, and must be "bound to the tither's hand" (given to no one as a tithe) and converted back to titheable items that are not currency, plus the authorization from God to purchase other items for use at the festival where "the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name" (a Festival of Israel)...

"And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household..."

>> PART TWO; a list of scripture clearly (see below) recording money, currency, used from the time of Abraham, through the time of Jesus, to the Book of Acts. Money, currency, coins, were used to purchase items, buy land and pay debts. It was NEVER used to pay a tithe, NOT EVER.

>>> Scriptural References for Part One; THE SCRIPTURES CLEARLY DESIGNATING THE TITHE TO BE LIMITED TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS ONLY;

With any subject in the Bible, we need to get God's definition of it, otherwise we end up in confusion and error. God does not define the giving of 10% of your income (paycheck or any other income) as "tithing," God's definition of tithing is found in the Bible, not the traditions of men. You will find God's definition of tithing in the 613 statutes of the Torah or scripture referring to the Torah. Any other description of tithing is false and misleading.

God never designated money as suitable for tithing. A minimal of 16 times in through the Old and New Testaments God states that the tithe shall be fruits, vegetables (or derivatives of fruits such as oil or juice) and clean animals grown on (or born on) the promise land. Even in Malachi 3:10 (the flag ship scripture for tithing teachers) the tithes are described as MEAT (food), not money.

>> Tithe scriptures designating the tithe limited to agricultural produce from the Promise Land...

> Lev. 27:30, 32 "And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s. It is holy to the LORD.… And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the LORD."

> Num. 18:27 "And this your heave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing-floor, and as the fullness of the wine-press."

> Num. 18:28 "Thus you also shall offer a heave offering to the LORD of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and you shall give thereof the LORD’s heave offering to Aaron the priest."

> Deut 12:17 "You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your wine, or of your oil."

> Deut. 14:22 "You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year."

> Deut. 14:23 "And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first offspring of your herds and of your flocks, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always."

> Deut. 24:21 "When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."

> Deut. 26:12 "When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase [produce: RSV] the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled."

> 2 Chron. 31:5 "And as soon as the commandment was circulated, the children of Israel brought in abundance the first fruits of grain, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the fields; and the tithe of all things they brought in abundantly."

> 2 Chron. 31:6 "And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps."

> Neh. 10:37 "And that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage."

> Neh. 13:5 "And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where previously they laid the grain offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the offerings of the priests."

> Mal. 3:10 "Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat [food] in my house."

> Matt. 23:23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin (spices, ie, fruits,vegetables)..."

> Luke 11:42 "But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone."

>>> Scriptural References for Part Two; THE SCRIPTURES CLEARLY DESIGNATING THE USE OF MONEY (CURRENCY) AS FAR BACK AS ABRAHAM UP TO THE TIME OF JESUS AND THE BOOK OF ACTS;

Tithing teachers will often claim that fruits, vegetables and clean animals were the "currency of the day in Israel," and that they "didn't have money as we know it," so therefore money can be used to tithe. That is a lie as scripture reveals...

>>> List of scriptures showing the use of money in the Old and New Testaments (NOTE CLOSELY; MONEY IS NEVER MENTIONED AS BEING USED TO PAY A TITHE...NOT EVEN ONCE)...

Genesis 23;12-16 "But Abraham bowed before the Hittites 13 and said to Ephron, so that everyone could hear, “May I ask you, please, to listen. I will buy the whole field. Accept my payment, and I will bury my wife there.” Ephron answered, 15 “Sir, land worth only four hundred pieces of silver—what is that between us? Bury your wife in it.” 16 Abraham agreed and weighed out the amount that Ephron had mentioned in the hearing of the people—four hundred pieces of silver, according to the standard weights used by the merchants."

Exodus 38:28 "And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.'

Exodus 38:29 "And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels."

Leviticus 5:15 "If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:'

Leviticus 27:3 "And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

Leviticus 27:4 "And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.'

Leviticus 27:5 "And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.'

Leviticus 27:6 "And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver."

Leviticus 27:7 "And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.'

Leviticus 27:16 "And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver."

Numbers 3:47 "Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty)"

Numbers 3:50 "Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:"

Matthew 21:12-13 "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."

Mark 12:41-42 "And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing."

Acts 8:20 "But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money."