Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe

Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe

# 49: There are 613 commandments given by God to the Israelites through Moses including several ordinances regarding tithing. The agriculturists within (and only within) the promised land – land promised to Abraham’s descendants – were required to give 10% of the increase of their crops  and livestock to the Levite priests.

Evangelical leadership often quote Malachi: “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me, even this whole nation.”

Pastors created the evangelical tithe by seriously distorting the Mosaic ordinances (directed to the Israelites, not Christ’s church) that dealt with God’s tithe. This took serious mutilation. The evangelical tithe doesn’t look like, taste like or smell like God’s Mosaic tithe. This awful tithe is sinister, corrupt, thievery.

What gives pastors the power to convince the congregants  the evangelical tithe is really God’s decree? The pulpit gives them this power. He who controls the pulpit controls the people. A shared pulpit lessens the pastor’s leverage and invalidates his salary. Can’t have that.