Over the years I have written a few times about tithing and have basically warned against giving to assemblies {churches} that are in error. This was born out of a situation where I tithed religiously early on in my walk and repeated suffered financial loss because I was in error on diverse topics and the church I was tithing to was entrenching those errors so that, because I was yoked to a ministry in sin with my money, I was cursed.
I also have spoken out against what I call “beating the sheep” – having people sit in a congregation and subjecting them to a lecture on why the Bible says they should tithe and why they should tithe to that ministry and then sending round buckets or other receptacles so people feel obliged to give.
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I remain implacably opposed to that.
Do not give money to any ministry or religious organization unless you are clear they are in right standing with Yah depending on where you are in your walk with Him AND do not give if they give you a lecture on why you should give to them and then manipulatively exhort you to give to them.
Notwithstanding all the above I have recently encountered a number of people who have gone to great lengths to clean up their lives with Yah and yet are struggling financially. In each case I have been impressed to suggest to them that they are not tithing and that this is cursing their finances.
Consider particularly Malaki {Malachi} 3:8 to 12:
“8 “Will a man rob the Almighty {God}? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings [you have withheld]. 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, this whole nation! 10 Bring all the tithes (the tenth) into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says Yah the Eternally Self-Existing {the LORD} of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you [so great] a blessing until there is no more room to receive it. 11 Then I will rebuke the [e]devourer (insects, plague, Satan) for your sake and he will not destroy the fruits of the ground, nor will your vine in the field drop its grapes [before harvest],” says Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts. 12 “All nations shall call you happy and blessed, for you shall be a land of delight,” says Yah the Eternally Self-Existing of hosts.” Amplified Bible amended https://biblehub.com/amp/malachi/3.htm
The article “2023.03.02 About Tithes and Offerings and End Time Issue Ministries” at https://www.etimin.org/about-tithes-and-offerings-and-end-time-issue-ministries goes into considerable detail on the background to tithing so I will not discuss that here.
Suffice it to say that I have now concluded that notwithstanding my comments to the contrary in days gone by it IS necessary for Believers to give a tithe (10%) of their income to the service of Yah, this may be to a ministry that they are truly confident is serving Yah effectively or it could be that they engage in ministry themselves and use the funds to support a website, bulk email mailing lists, radio or TV broadcasts, etcetera.
I leave it up to you to ask Yah what you should do with your tithe.
Please feel free to email me (James) by replying to this email if you have questions or comments.
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
02 March 2024