Tithing, God's money

The Eternal God, Lord of Heavenly Hosts said: "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine" [1].

This statement from the Heavenly Father testifies that all the sound riches we possess on earth belong to Him. In other words, God is the one who distributes wealth to His children according to His Law, which requires that everyone earn their bread by the sweat of their brow, for "if any would not work, neither should he eat" [2]. God distributes wealth according to His Laws.

On this basis, it is easy to understand that God is the one who gives retribution to each of His children according to the fruit of their labors. God gives wealth to each human being according to His Natural Laws; according to the Law of Karma, according to the mission He entrusts to each person, according to the preparation He operates in each one, etc. The following few examples provide an idea of the process of wealth distribution by God.

A future billionaire is always prepared to receive billions to do useful works when the time comes. For this, he begins by experiencing the hardships of poverty, which teach him to know the situation of the poor, the value of wealth, and therefore to manage it meticulously and sustainably when he has it in abundance. He learns not to lose his head in the face of wealth; not to privilege the things of this world, but to keep his eyes fixed on God to accomplish his mission with this wealth.

In another case, according to the Law of Karma, a billionaire who has wasted the wealth that God entrusted to him to do His work in a past life must be born miserable in a new life to pay for the fruits of his failures, of his disobedience to God.

There is also the case of a servant of God who must focus on God's mission. For this person, having a great fortune can be a source of worry, as it is not easy to reconcile the management of wealth with the conduct of spiritual works. In this case, God will give a job with average but adequate compensation to this servant and will accompany him with a second servant to whom He will give the wealth necessary for the execution of the first servant's mission. It is understood that the second servant will receive the gifts and skills necessary to properly manage this wealth.

A conscientious father whose children are all great servants of God will receive wealth commensurate with the education of these great spirits. Consequently, he will receive the good fruits of his good management. Conversely, in a past life, a father who wasted his fortune by refusing to take care of his family will be born in a new life in a poor family or in a family where his parents refuse to take care of him. Later, when he is of working age, he will engage in an activity whose remuneration will barely allow him to meet his needs. This is how he will pay the consequences of his past actions.

A libertine mother who refused to take care of the spiritual education of her children in favor of a life oriented towards fashion and worldly things will be born in a new life under the conditions of an orphaned girl, left to fend for herself. Her life as a prostitute will make her experience indescribable pain that will be the retribution for her past actions.

A leader who has embezzled and squandered the wealth of his people will be born with a motor disability, begging, sitting on a street corner. He will daily extend his hand to passers-by who will spiritually represent the people he mistreated in a past life. This is how he will pay for the fruits of his wickedness and bad governance, in a situation of indescribable incapacity and humiliation.

An impatient person, envious, thirsty for material goods, and who, consequently, has reached out to the devil to be rich on earth, will live in the devil's prisons once dead. She will be enslaved by the devil who will take away everything he gave her on earth. Moreover, in a new life, this person will never know the happiness of God's wealth. She will live in absolute misery, from the beginning to the end of her life on earth.

Some people suddenly lose their jobs; others go from being billionaires to homeless people. In happy cases, another category of people sees their lives change abruptly, going from misery to glory, to material abundance. These examples show that in the same sequence of earthly life, a person can also pay for the fruits of their actions and/or spiritual evolution.

There are multiple and multiform examples, which depend on the complexity of the lifestyle, choices, and decisions of human beings. Consequently, one must refrain from complaining about what one earns as retribution at the risk of falsely accusing God of being unjust. For each reaps what he has sown. And God is uncompromising on the matter. His iron Laws give everyone what they deserve in the smallest details. On the contrary, one must aspire to a better life by keeping the focus of one's thoughts pure; by asking God for forgiveness for all past or present failings that put us in difficult living conditions. It is under these conditions that man will profit from his earthly existence.

Tithing is a Law of God

Man must show gratitude to God by voluntarily offering a portion of his wealth in the form of a tithe, in accordance with the wisdom that says: "for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee". "O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own" [3].

Men have known about tithing for a long time. In his time, Abraham himself gave his tithe to Melchizedek, king of Salem, servant of the Eternal Almighty God [4]. This means that the Law of Tithing was well known to the men of that time.

Indeed, every spiritual person who recognizes the Sabbath day as the day of rest must also know the importance of the tithe and the spiritual obligation to pay it. In other words, the payment of the tithe is part of God's Laws.

Every spiritual person who recognizes themselves as a child of God, who benefits from God's protection and graces, must show gratitude to God by paying the tithe. Like God's Laws and Ten Commandments, the payment of the tithe is mandatory for all believers. However, the application of this law is based on the principle of free will. For man is free to observe or not God's Laws, knowing the consequences that follow according to the Law of cause and effect.

How to pay the tithe?

It should be known that there is no scale in the payment of the tithe. The only rule that prevails is the free will to give what one sincerely feels to give according to one's own means at the time, knowing that God is watching us and knows everything. The tithe can be paid in kind or in cash. There is no need to constrain someone or to track them down to pay their tithe. It is praiseworthy to leave everyone with their conscience before God. For if it is accepted to constrain a faithful believer to pay his tithe, then the same should be true of constraining him to respect all the Laws and the Ten Commandments of God. Yet God Himself cannot constrain anyone to do His Will given that He has placed free will in every human being.

Who should pay the tithe?

The law of tithing requires that all who recognize the existence and goodness of God pay the tithe, without exception. Therefore, the tithe must be paid by all leaders of places of worship as well as by faithful believers.

Where should one pay the tithe?

The tithe must be paid in a place of worship worthy of the name, that is, a place of worship that truly vibrates in the Authentic Worship of God. For this, the one who wants to pay his tithe must intuitively feel where to pay it. One must refrain from paying one's tithe in a place of worship where one is aware of the misuse of God's money; a place of worship where the spiritual leader seizes the tithe, makes it his personal fortune. Continuing to give one's tithe in such a place of worship, despite proven embezzlement, is to become guilty before God in the same way as the unscrupulous leader.

What is the tithe used for?

If it is previously recognized that the tithe is God's money, then it must be used as prescribed, namely to pay the expenses of the place of worship, to take care of the destitute, street children, orphans, widows/widowers, people in difficulty... at God's own request. For it is said: "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 unto the Lord" [5]. At no time should the tithe serve as remuneration for the spiritual leader of a place of worship. Therefore, like all faithful believers, the spiritual leader must engage in an activity from which he will draw his remuneration outside the place of worship.

Who manages the tithe?

Logically, the place of worship must be considered as the house of God, that is, a place that vibrates in the Laws of God, a place that meets the conditions of good concentration, where every believer goes to establish intimacy with God in worship full of Grace. This place must be placed under the spiritual responsibility of an Authentic Servant of God who manages it under God's orders.

Any spiritual leader who cannot communicate or cannot be in intimacy with God does not deserve to be considered a servant of God. That one is not recognized by God. Therefore, he acts on his own account and according to his own interests.

To these unscrupulous leaders, regarded as lost servants, false prophets..., God sends this severe warning message: "You, the false prophets and the lost prophets, you are hypocrites. Beware of your dishonest and unhealthy practices. Beware for the Lightning of my Holy Wrath is not far from you. Beware!"

[1] Haggai 2:8, [2] 2 Thessalonians 3:10, [3] 1 Chronicles 29:14-16, [4] Genesis 14:18-20, [5] Leviticus 27:30

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