In March 1993 I had a dramatic encounter with Yah that left me with absolute 100% certainty that He existed and that my life was a mess.
Yah referred me to a committed Believer who led me back to Yah and shared his dramatic personal relationship with the Creator.
He took me to his church, a large Charismatic Christian assembly with a 5,000 seat auditorium. Because Yah had referred me to the man I embraced his church immediately and jumped fully into attending two meetings on Sundays and taking on board all that they taught.
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One of these things was divine prosperity coupled to giving Tithes (10% of gross income before tax) and Offerings. Every meeting somebody would get up and preach for about ten minutes on prosperity and giving and they would then send round baskets to collect the Tithes and Offerings – psychologically it was very difficult to say no. Just about everyone gave and the church was very prosperous.
I immediately started giving more than 10% of my gross income before tax into the baskets with additional amounts at special meetings.
Tithing Abandoned
My finances remained stuck and nothing happened, I went for counseling, and did everything I was supposed to do but there was ongoing financial difficulty.
Eventually after several years I discovered that some of what they were teaching, that directly impacted my life, was in serious error. In due course I came to understand that giving to an assembly that had serious error relating to areas in my life that were important was entirely futile and yoked me to their error in a negative and prejudicial way.
I moved to other assemblies and the experience continued, I gave more with the same result.
Eventually I dug myself into a financial hole of debt and tax obligations as a consequence of giving far more than I could afford.
I had to stop tithes and offerings in order to pay my tax debt, by then I had learned of the errors relating to the false names “The LORD”, “God”, “Jesus”, “Christ”, the false Sunday Sabbath and so on.
I then realized that there was no ministry that I could give my money to without yoking myself to their error and cursing my finances. So I ceased giving to any form of religious organization completely and increasingly focused on my own ministry.
During this period in a very disgruntled space I wrote an article “Tithing today is NOT from Yah”
Yah does NOT Magic Finances
I also realized that it required marketing, sales technique, skilled and hard work and general commercial savy to make a significant income TOGETHER with a good relationship with Yah and doing His will.
I realized that waiting for Father to magic finances was presumptuous, foolish and futile.
In July 2022 I wrote the article “2022.07.05 The biggest error crippling Mature Anointed Believers” which addressed this point.
Flowing from this, in March 2023 I wrote the article “2023.03.02 About Tithes and Offerings and End Time Issue Ministries” which skirted around the topic of it perhaps being valid for people who were benefiting from my ministry to give tithes and offerings.
In May 2023 I wrote the article “2023.05.01 Emunah {Faith} for Finances” which revisited prosperity teaching and presented the validity of giving Tithes and Offerings to an appropriate ministry, one that had truth relative to the giver and was helping them to grow.
This article is an elaboration of the points made in the two articles above.
Tithes and Offerings should be an INVESTMENT in the Kingdom of Yah
What is very clear to me is that Tithes and Offerings should be an INVESTMENT in the Kingdom of Yah. The funds should be directly applied to activities that are producing outputs of value to Yah.
See the article “2022.09.01 What are YOU doing to earn a High Throne for Eternity? -- About your Heavenly Account” for a discussion of the credits that accrue in Heaven for service to Yah.
Only Yah knows the true value of your investment – vital to ask Him
In considering what is presented here it is vital to understand that there are no practical measures of performance, one can monitor website visits, which I do, one can monitor email opens, etcetera. But there is NO human measure of what happens in a person's heart with they read or hear something that you have sponsored. Sometimes a seed that is planted today will only bear fruit years from now and ONLY YAH will know that.
Yokes
Do NOT under any circumstances make donations to a ministry that is in serious error or sin relative to your revelation, you will become a partner (yoked as in a yoke of oxen) in that error and sin and be judged accordingly.
ETI is a Valid Spiritual Investment
Following the last of the above articles a few people started to give to ETI and one person made quite a sizeable investment in mailing lists followed by monthly contributions which continue today. Interestingly my own finances also picked up.
Then, about four months ago, I was speaking to a chap who has been walking with me for a number of years and he mentioned that his finances were not going well.
I went to Father and Father said I should tell him to Tithe to my ministry, which he started doing.
He subsequently reported a noticeable improvement financially which he directly attributed to Tithing.
I am aware of a number of other people who are battling financially and it now seems that I am doing them a disservice by not inviting them to give Tithes and / or offerings to End Time Issue Ministries.
There are now a few people who are giving more or less regularly and it seems to me that I should invite others to do the same.
To this end following is a list of the services that we finance for ETI that you might like to contribute to. The goal is to enable people who are donating to specify how they want the funds invested.
The key principle is that whatever fruit the various activities bear for Yah will be credited to the accounts of the people making those donations.
Services Purchased by End Time Issue Ministries to which Tithes can be applied
The application of Tithes and Offerings to any of these services qualifies the giver to participate in the spiritual benefits of the service in terms of people helped to grow and unbelievers brought to belief.
This reward will generally be in terms of increased standing in Heaven as well as a financial return in terms of improved earnings in this life. This also qualifies as an investment in Emunah {Faith} which is, in its own right, pleasing to Yah.
The benefits of the monthly items only last for that month and partial contributions can be made. The purchase of a mailing list is a one off capital investment with long term benefit.
It is vital to understand that the benefits accrued are known only to Yah. I have NO knowledge of the spiritual impacts of any of these services, this is all recorded in Heaven and I will learn the outcome when I come before the Judgment Seat. So will you.
I encourage you to recognize this before you give.
- Website hosting
The main website is hosted on a high performance server to give fastest possible access times worldwide.
The website brings people into Belief and helps people to grow in relationship with Yah.
It provides a resource for people who have already connected with ETI to grow.
It is accessible to any person anywhere in the world who has access to the Internet and is seeking knowledge about Yah and His ways -- between 50 and 500 hits a day.
Monthly investment £230 ($300)
- Primary email list -- MailChimp
This is the list which I use to post weekly messages -- the regular articles to help people grow.
The list helps people to grow closer to Yah and teaches about numerous truths, etcetera. It covers diverse topics.
There are currently (August 2024) just over 1,200 people on the list most of whom have been on for a long time.
This is also used for new contacts who ask to be placed on the email list primarily from LinkedIn.
Monthly investment £35 ($45)
- Global bulk email campaigns -- SMTP Provider
This service comprises various lists, some of which are many years old, others have been purchased relatively recently with offerings.
These email campaigns help random people to grow and draws unbelievers to Yah -- reaches people all over the world.
About 60,000 people weekly all around the globe.
Monthly investment £125 ($150)
- Weekly Radio and TV broadcasts
About ten channels on Internet radio and Internet TV.
Hosted in the USA but broadcast globally.
Also live streamed on LinkedIn and posted to other channels including YouTube.
Broadcasts are also posted on the website together with transcripts and shared with the MailChimp and WhatsApp lists.
Also one minute teasers on various other Social Media Channels.
Helps random people to grow and draws unbelievers to Yah.
Reaches people all over the world.
Monthly investment £325 ($410)
- Purchase new email lists of people around the world
Lists can be purchased for a selected country or for a thin slice across dozens of countries.
Used with the SMTP Provider service, helps people to grow and brings unbelievers to Belief.
This is for the purchase of a list that can be used forever on the SMTP Provider service – the investment lasts for as long as the email campaigns continue which I hope will be a very long time.
Most recent purchase was 5,500 email addresses worldwide for £300 – this is about the smallest list it is practical to acquire and set up. Much bigger lists are available and investment is proportional.
This is a capital investment as the list can be used repeatedly for as long as the campaigns continue.
This investment is open ended, the more finances we receive the more email addresses we can purchase – my ambition is to reach millions of people this way.
For each list of about 5,000 people there is an ongoing cost of around £15 ($20) for the additional email sends, directly proportional to the size of the list purchased.
Ambition – global reach in multiple languages
We are entirely self-funded plus the Tithes and Offerings that we receive and have big ambitions including translating the core of the website into at least seven languages – there is currently a small Spanish site in addition to the main ETI site
We would also like to broadcast weekly in those same languages and purchase millions more email addresses, sending out millions of emails weekly in the same languages.
Once we are receiving funds to cover the specific costs listed above we will progressively expand into the other fields.
If you are able to assist with curating translations into any other language I would really like to hear from you. It is my impression that we can use AI translation software to translate but then need people to vet and edit the translations and then add them to the respective websites.
Revival and physical visits
It is also my ambition that people who have been impacted by the ministry will build their own ministries with powerful anointings and reach millions of people, initiating revival.
I periodically receive invitations to go and teach and preach in other countries and I would like to come to a point where we have the finances to do that. In particular, I have a number of contacts in Africa and in Asia that I would like to visit.
If you would like to contribute
If you would like to contribute, please click here to send the money to PayPal
In sending the money please specify which of the above you would like to contribute to giving me a first, second and third choice.
We pray nightly for those who contribute financially to receive a return on their investment financially and rewards in the life to come.
Funds will be applied only for the stated investments unless you give me explicit alternative instructions.
Conclusion
I have concluded that it IS valid to invite people who are deriving benefit from End Issue Ministries to contribute financially to invest in the work of the Kingdom of Yah.
If you feel that Father is indicating to you that you should contribute, please use the link above.
Please feel free to email me at James@ETIMin.org and I will answer your questions and support you in your journey to become a Friend of Yah.
I look forward to hearing from you.
May Father bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and grant you His Peace
May Yah judge me severely and correct me harshly and show me the level of my present deception and how to correct it with regard to everything that I write and publish
Warm regards and blessings,
Dr James A Robertson
Spokesman and Emissary of Yah
End Time Issue Ministries
04 August 2023