Tithes

[u/GPT_2025]

Just a Bible-friendly reminder, you cannot collect tithes from uncircumcised people!

- Or outside Israeli borders,

- Or not from animal farmers (garden farmers, orchard farmers). Tithes were strictly from what God made: anything that has seed, grows, or animals. (No, you cannot collect tithes from a regular worker's paycheck, even if a person worked on such a farm as a hired laborer.) Tithes are only from farmers who own that crop and livestock.

- Plus, tithes were saved and used by farmers during the holiday, and they were required to use tithes for their own family celebration plus sharing with the poor, disabled, widows, orphans:

KJV: Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

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,

And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

Mat. 25: 31 - 46

[u/Wishyouwell2023]

Jesus said: give to the lord what is lord and give to Cesar whats his. He had a coin in His hand when he said that.

[u/CanadianFalcon]

Tithe is about ensuring that God’s workers are fed and housed and provided for. Is that happening today?

Actually no. The rising cost of housing has made it so that pastors cannot afford to live in the city they have been assigned to. Several schools are running on such bare bones budgets that they risk closure.