X44 THE CHURCH SERIES PART 23 - Reimagining Giving Part 1: Old Testament

Notice in all the these the audience and commands are directed to specifically the children of Israel- the ones under the Mosaic Law. And directly connected to being in the Promised Land.
• For the gentiles the concepts and commands in the Law are good but they are shadows of the substance which is Christ. They are signposts pointing to something greater. Next episode we’re going to look at the substance.
Second, it was always produce and never money given to the Lord. Money was always exchanged for an animal, produce, drink, etc., Except for maybe the Royal Tithe was the only one in the form of money.
If we want to take this in context we need to see a few things:
• Before the law giving was voluntary not a commandment. This seems to be God’s ideals.
o We cannot take these Pre-Law examples too far though. We don’t see that the giving was in regularity or even immediate. It was usually in response of thanks to God for something big He accomplished.
• The Levitical tithe was to the Levites (the priests). Originally the whole nation were to be priests but they rejected this and God commissioned the Levites. Today we are a kingdom of priests in Christ, so we can’t exactly use this for supporting a class of religious professionals. We’ll see in the NT their possessions were at the disposal of the community when in need.
• The festival tithe was money saved up for you to use 3x a year to celebrate God with the community- essentially money to take 3 vacations with Jesus.
• The Storehouse tithe was about caring for the least of these. It was 10% every 3rd and 6th year in the 7-year cycle. This was for the care of the needy.
• The King’s Tithe was a tax for rejecting God.
The main ideals of tithing:
• Caring for the Levites (caring for those ministering in the family of God)
• Caring for the poor, widow, alien, and fatherless
• Fellowship and celebration with God
12 spies into Cannan was 1444 BC
RUTH - BOAZ 1200BC
SAMUEL 1050 BC
DAVID OVER UNITED ISRAEL 1003-970BC
DAVID NUMBERS ISRAEL 974
SOLOMON 989-931BC
946 PALACE COMPLETED
931 -586 DIVISION OF ISRAEL
875 ELIJAH
869 Jehosophat send LEVITES to teach the law
700 ISAIAH ASSYRIAH CONQUERS THE WORLD
600 JEREMIAH
605 DANIEL CAPTIVE
597 2nd invasion of Jerusalem by Babylon DEPORTATION
536-444 Jerusalem rebuilt - TEMBLES RESUMES IN 520
444 NEHEMIAH BUILDS WALLS OF JERUSALEM
THIS BEGINS 2ND TEMPLE PERIOD - 400 years of silence was anything but silent
331 Alexander the great - Battle of Arbela PERSIA FALLS
168 Antiochus persecutes Jews Desecrates the temple
165 Maccabees restores the temple
100-44 Julius Caesar
63-14AD Agustus Caesar
73-4 Herod the Great
4bc - 31AD Jesus
20-50 Herod Antipas
457-34 70 weeks prophecy
REITERATE: ROUGHLY 1444 YEARS
THE LAW” MOST OF WHAT WE ARE GIVEN IS LEVITICUS NUMBERS DEUTERONOMY
1 SAMUEL ROYAL TITHE
MALACHI 445-425BC 2nd Temple
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