Chapter 17: Myth—Giving 10% Is A Tithe

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Myth—Giving 10% Is A Tithe

The reason the Levites tithe was called a heave offering is because it

was aimed at God above in Heaven. It was “a lifting up” offering to God. The same could be said about the tithe, but God makes a Temple distinction between the “tithe” of the Israelites and the “offering” of the Levites.

A Gross Blessing Or A Gross Lie?

At the top of the tithe apostasy is the assertion that you owe the tithe on your gross income. After all, the tithe preacher will rant, “Do you want a gross blessing or a net blessing?” This is yet another example of someone

who truly delights in lies and the misrepresenting of God’s truth. Listen up. God made it clear that only the YIELD of the land should be tithed. The simple formula to find the yield of the land is as follows:

Yield Equals Output Minus Input!

Suppose a farmer started his crop year by planting 10 bushels of corn seed and after looking at the harvest, the farmer thinks he will wind up with 20 bushes of corn seed. How much should he tithe? Two bushels would

scream Matthews. And it must be the first two bushels picked! Well if that was so, how would the farmer know his true bushel yield? Suppose he is under pressure from Matthews the tithe apostle and decides to just do what he says. The farmer picks one bushel at a time and tithes 10% of that bushel

and every bushel picked thereafter. That is tithe formula Matthews insisted that he follow. The farmer continues to do the same, pick and tithe, but after the tenth bushel there was no more corn in the field to pick. At the end of the harvest, the farmer only gets back 9/10th of the seed that he started with.

Now what? The apostate tithe preacher got want he wanted, didn’t he?

The farmer tithed one bushel and wound up with less than he started with [nine]. He never obtained a yield and disobeyed God’s command to

only tithe of the yield. Ten bushels out minus ten in equals a zero yield. Guess what? No tithe was due from the farmer. Who robbed God? Yes, it was the apostate tithe teacher who extorted a bushel of seed from the farmer when God had said under such conditions he was not supposed to tithe.