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The Tithing Key
The following is a revelation of one of the Kingdom Keys the Lord gave me yesterday. I am not capable of putting things together like this. John 14:26 ”But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will... moreThe Tithing Key
The following is a revelation of one of the Kingdom Keys the Lord gave me yesterday. I am not capable of putting things together like this. John 14:26 ”But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.” These keys are meant to be given to the whole body of Christ. This is not a normal tithing message. I also don’t receive tithes or offerings of any kind.
The Tithing Key
The Lord has been speaking about unifying His church over the last decade. In Zephaniah 3 it talks about Him giving His people a pure language. We will be able to understand each other as He is putting us all on the same page. Many of us have experienced this already.
In Joel 2 we see a picture of the remnant as a mighty army. This is an army of people, not the host. The description of the army ends with "The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble, the sun and moon grow dark and the stars diminish their brightness. For the Lord gives voice before His army, for His camp is very great. For strong is the one who executes His word. For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible who can endure it?" Joel 2:10 -11
The sun and the moon and the stars growing dark also appears in the first three gospels. In Matthew 24 Jesus talks about a great tribulation for Israel and in verse 29 he says “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened the moon will not give its light. The stars will fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken."
Mark 13:24-25 "But in those days after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars of the heavens will fall, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken."
Luke 21"And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations with perplexity the sea and waves roaring; men's hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.”
I believe this is not talking only about cosmic events but events in the spiritual world with those heavenly bodies being spiritual beings. This is the spiritual war that is described in Joel 2.
In Mark 13:23 Jesus says “I have told you all things beforehand.” Not some things, but all things. He's not speaking just about what He says in the New testament. All of the Old testament is the word of God and He revealed to us ALL things. He gave us a broader description of what He speaks of in the New Testament through the prophets and the prophetic events that happened in the Old Testament.
In Joel 2:6 - 9 we see that this army of the Lord is a unified army "Everyone marches in formation and they do not break ranks. They do not push one another; everyone marches in his own column."
They don't fight each other, they stay in their own lane, they work together as one body, they all do their share and they are extraordinarily successful. This is manifested in the physical world as well, prompting people to turn to God in verses 12-17.
Jesus is coming back for one body and one bride, a spotless bride. “Unspotted by the world.” James 1:27 So why then has the church as a whole not seen extraordinary success on this earth? While we've managed to spread the gospel, we seem to always be defeated by the world. Many Believe this is just the persecution that was spoken about by Jesus. They believe the rapture is a rescue operation. I used to believe that. But Jesus is not coming back for a battered woman. He is coming back for a spotless bride, a glorious church. Ephesians 5:27
Our life group has been studying the book of Joshua. The Israelites in Joshua are a foreshadow of the church and as they are led into the promised land by God they are victorious. They are not overtaken by their enemies and oppressed. They don't “kind of” defeat Jericho. However, in Joshua 7, shortly after taking Jericho, the Israeli army flees before their enemies and are defeated in battle. Why was this? Because one man robbed God of his tithe. One man was uncommitted and disobedient. Joshua 7:10 (b) "For they have taken some of the accursed things and have both stolen and deceived and they have also put it among their own stuff." Jericho was to be completely destroyed. The bronze, silver, gold and iron was set aside and devoted to the Lord. Just as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was Adam's tithe, the plunder from Jericho was Israel's tithe when entering their inheritance. He who steals from the Lord by keeping the tithe for himself amongst his own stuff becomes a cursed. How many believers are claiming what is God’s as their own stuff?
Malachi 3:10 - 12 is often quoted in regards to tithing and claimed by believers for the blessing mentioned there, but the first part of this chapter is often neglected. The beginning of the chapter talks about Jesus coming back and purifying His church that they may "…offer an offering to the Lord of righteousness." Malachi 3: 8- 9 says "Will a man Rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say in what way have we robbed You? In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse for you have robbed Me even this whole nation."
In verse 6 it says "For I am the Lord. I do not change." It did not suddenly become okay to keep what is the Lord's in the New testament.
The curse is the same one put on anyone who took from the plunder of Jericho or tried to rebuild it for themselves because Jericho belonged to the Lord. It was the tithe of Israel from their inheritance. It is akin to the curse on Adom and Eve when they took from the forbidden tree that belonged to the LORD. The curse didn't just apply to the one who did the stealing. It applied to the everyone! While the Lord deals with us as individuals and certainly blesses those who tithe, we are also one body and one bride so when one of us robs God in tithes it effects our ability as a whole to receive the blessing and the victory.
In Acts 4 and 5 we see the church acting in full power and prosperity, with persecution, as Jesus said it would be in Mark 10:29-31. However, in Acts chapter 5 we see Ananias and Sapphira lying to God. And while they didn't necessarily steal His tithe they tried to deceive Him in what they kept for themselves. They pretended to have a commitment and He saw right through it. In Joshua 7 the crime was not just stealing from God but also lying to Him. Peter takes care of this problem immediately, or rather Holy Spirit does through Peter. I wonder what it would have been like if Peter had let that slide. I think it would have looked a lot like the church today, walking around with a limp, a headache and impaired vision; Wondering why they keep getting knocked down like Joshua did.
Joshua 7:6-9 “Then Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads. And Joshua said, “Alas, Lord GOD, why have You brought this people over the Jordan at all—to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Oh, that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan! O Lord, what shall I say when Israel turns its back before its enemies? For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”
In order for scripture to be completely fulfilled the church has to awaken, divide (sheep from goats, wheat from tares, wise virgins from foolish ones) and act as one in our commitment to God and His kingdom.
In November of 2020 the Holy Spirit told me "The restrainer does it pretty poor job of restraining when it's asleep." It also does a pretty poor job of restraining when it isn't trained and committed. Discipline, training and commitment are required for effectiveness. An army is not effective if it is unfit and unwilling to obey commands from its commander. We cannot effectively restrain the enemy if we are not awake and we will not be given the power and victory if we rob God and are disobedient to His commands.
This has to be done as a whole not just as individuals. The body of Christ as a whole will not see true success until all of its members stop robbing God.
The average tithe in the United States body of Christ is between two and three percent because the majority don't tithe at all. That means 20% of believers carry the full burden of financially supporting God's kingdom. That is not okay.
Most of the believers who don't tithe, don't trust God to provide for them and therefore they rob Him because they are leaning on their own understanding and their own strength. This is essentially calling God a liar. It's believing God won't bless you and provide for you and do what is the very best for you even though He specifically says to test Him in this. You cannot be fully committed to a God you don't trust. If you can't trust God to take care of physical debts and needs how can you possibly trust Him to take care of your debt of sin and save you from spiritual death?
It's like people who drive with their brakes on. The right foot is on the gas and the left foot on is on the brake because they don't trust their brain or the car to do the work it's meant to do in the timing it's meant to do it. They hinder their own progress while doing damage to their own property, all while annoying the people around them and possibly causing an accident.
We can either trust God to take care of things and give him what He requires of His own resources to do it, or we can keep those things for ourselves, try to do it on our own and fail miserably. This behavior weakens the entire church and hinders the spiritual victory of the church as a whole.
This revelation is one of the main keys to the kingdom that Jesus is giving us now. Everyone in the body of Christ needs to use it. If you don't have a church to give a tithe to, give to a ministry. Also, sow into the kingdom above and beyond your tithe as you're able, it's like investing in Heaven’s stock market that only goes up.
The believers in Acts took care of each other. None of them was lacking because they shared everything. This is not communism. This was done by free will. No one was required to give into the community pool of goods and services. Everyone worked and everyone provided for each other because they had a desire to do so. That is how The kingdom of God should be operating. "On earth as it is in heaven." They will know us by our love for each other. (John 13 5) < Holy spirit put that cat there! I don’t even know how to make that cat! Happy Lion of Judah?
Investing in the kingdom in time, service and resources is how you store up treasure in heaven. Leading others to Christ, being obedient to and trusting God and giving Him what belongs to Him facilitates His kingdom coming on earth as it is in heaven.
This is the tithing key.
These keys are being given to the Faithful Church in Revelation 3. God has been sorting us out into the seven churches spoken of in Revelation 2 and 3. You need to find out what church you're part of. (The persecuted church is also the faithful church.) If you find yourself in any of the other categories you need to do as Jesus instructed in those passages and become part of the faithful church. In the season we are entering, God is going to free the persecuted church because the awakened and strengthened bride will be able to fully restrain the enemy. The Faithful Church is given the keys to free the Persecuted Church and slam doors shut on the enemy and restrain him until we’re taken out of the Way. (< That’s capitalized on purpose. Ponder it a while.) As we become one body and one bride we need to be obedient to God as one unit to be victorious in this.
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