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December 22, 2016
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The book Kleptomaniac: Who’s Really Robbing God Anyway explains why tithing ten percent of your income is not required on the pages of the Bible. It is journey through the pages of the Bible that uncovers the truth to debunk the tithe lies that has had God’s people captive for centuries. Frank Chase Jr on Indie Book Discovery
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The book Kleptomaniac: Who’s Really Robbing God Anyway explains why tithing ten percent of your income is not required on the pages of the Bible. It is journey through the pages of the Bible that uncovers the truth to debunk the tithe lies that has had God’s people captive for centuries. Frank Chase Jr on Indie Book Discovery
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December 20, 2016
November 23, 2016
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November 19, 2016
The Tithe and T’rumah Laws Ignored by Pastors and Christians
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Sunday after Sunday, the words, “Will a man rob God” are spoken to millions of believers across the country and around the world from Malachi 3: 8-10. While many pastors say we are under grace and not under the law, the New Testament does say we are under the Law of Christ, not the Mosiac Law. Yet many pastors who claim we are still under the tithing laws, don’t realize they are corrupting the law because there are 24 Laws regarding tithing that must kept if you are following the tithe law. The question is, why do pastors and churches ignore these laws from the list of the 613 laws and commands of the Old Testament. If you follow the tithe law then you must follow all 613 laws everyday. And if you break one of them you are guiltly of all of them. When you read these laws below, you will notice that not one single person who claims to biblically tithe actucally keeps or follows the tithe laws of the Bible. The 24 laws below are straight from the scriptures and explain what God expected as tithes, taxes and t’rumah offering from the Hebrew people. Notice in the list that everthing God requested in these tithe laws for the Levites and priests were all associated with livestock and crops and never money. The word T’rumah is what the priest received from the harvest, which was a heave offering called a tithe of the tithe given to them by the Levites. The tithe laws below explain how the tithe was handled. And you can be certain, money was never paid as a tithe. So when you look at these 24 tithe laws, you’ll see that modern day churches are not teaching the real biblical tithe. Since many pastors like to say the law is done away with, why do they like to commute the tithe laws into money and keep them as law. Judge for yourself what the scriuptures say about tithing.
402. That an uncircumcised person shall not shall not eat of the t’rumah (heave offering), and the same applies to other holy things. This rule is inferred from the law of the Paschal offering, by similarity of phrase (Ex. 12:44-45 and Lev. 22:10) but it is not explicitly set forth in the Torah. Traditionally, it has been learnt that the rule that the uncircumcised must not eat holy things is an essential principle of the Torah and not an enactment of the Scribes.
403. Not to alter the order of separating the t’rumah and the tithes; the separation be in the order first-fruits at the beginning, then the t’rumah, then the first tithe, and last the second tithe (Ex.22:28)
404. To give half a shekel every year (to the Sanctuary for provision of the public sacrifices) (Ex. 30:13)
405. That a priest [kohein] who is unclean shall not eat of the t’rumah (Lev.22:3-4)
406. That a person who is not a kohein or the wife or unmarried daughter of a kohein shall not eat of the t’rumah (Lev. 22:10)
407. That a sojourner with a kohein or his hired servant shall not eat of the t’rumah (Lev. 22:10)
408. Not to eat unholy things [Heb. tevel] (something from which the t’rumah and tithe have not yet been separated) (Lev. 22:15)
409. To set apart the tithe of the produce (one tenth of the produce after taking out t’rumah) for the Levites (Lev. 27:30; Num.18:24)
410. To tithe cattle (Lev. 27:32)
411. Not to sell the tithe of the heard (Lev. 27:32-33)
412. That the Levites shall set apart a tenth of the tithes, which they had received from the Israelites, and give it to the Priest [Heb.kohanim] (called the t’rumah of the tithe) (Num. 18:26)
413. Not to eat the second tithe of cereals outside Jerusalem (Deut.12:17)
414. Not to consume the second tithe of the vintage outside of Jerusalem (Deut. 12:17)
415. Not to consume the second tithe of the oil outside of Jerusalem (Deut. 12:17)
416. Not to forsake the Levites (Deut. 12:19); but their gifts (dues) should be given to them, so that they might rejoice therewith on each and every festival
417. To set apart the second tithe in the first, second, fourth and fifth years of the sabbatical cycle to be eaten by its owner in Jerusalem (Deut. 14:22)
418. To set apart the second tithe in the third and sixth year of the sabbatical cycle for the poor (Deut. 14:28-29)
419. To give the kohein [i.e. Priest] the due portions of the carcass of cattle (Deut. 18:3)
420. To give the first of the fleece to the priest (Deut. 18:4)
421. To set apart a small portion of the grain, wine and oil for the Priest [Heb. kohein] [Heb. t’rumah g’dolah i.e.(the great heave-offering) (Deut.18:4)
422. Not to expend the proceeds of the second tithe on anything but food and drink (Deut. 26:14)
423. Not to eat the Second Tithe, even in Jerusalem, in a state of uncleanness, until the tithe had been redeemed (Deut. 26:14)
424. Not to eat the Second Tithe, when mourning (Deut. 26:14)
425. To make the declaration, when bringing the second tithe to the Sanctuary (Deut. 26:13)
Even in these tithe laws, you also see that the priests received first sheerings of sheep’s wool, not the first tenth of shekels, silver or gold. So why do people persist in ignorance even when the scriptures prove tithing is not money but food. I guess the problem is that people don’t read their Bibles but depend on the interpretations of men.
It is evident from studying the scriptures that the only people who paid tithe in the Bible were the Owners of the annual agricultural havest and the owners of the flocks and herds on the yearly increase. These were the only ones who paid the tithe. So that there is no confusion, I will provide a list of occupations in the Bible that were not required to pay any tithes of money.
Blacksmiths 1 Sam. 13:19
Boat Builders 1 Kings 9:26
Carpenters 2 Kings 22:6, 2 Chrn 34:11, Mt 13:55
Doctors and Physicians 2 Chr 16:12, Jer 8:22, Lk 4:24
Doorkeepers 2 Ki 22:4
Government leaders and administrative Staff Ezr 7:25
Hair Cutters 2 Sam 14:26
Constructions workers Ex 36:1
Officers Jos 24:1, 1 Chrn 23:4
Tax collectors Mat 10:3, Lk 5:27
Nurses 2 Sam 4:4, 1 Ki 1:4
Loggers, Ec 10:9
Teahers 1 Ch 27:32, Jn 3:10
Tent Makers Acts 18:3
Well diggers 2 Sam 17:18, Jn 4:12
Jewelers Ex 39:8-14
Inn keepers 1 Ki 4:28
Merchants Neh. 3:31
Field Laborers 1 Sam. 8:12
This short list should give you an idea that all non-farmer and non-herder occupations did not tithe in Israel. Now, would they have given offerings from their wages, of course. It is also important to note that people who worked in the fields and in animal husbanddry to earn a wage did not tithe either because they were not the owners of the agricultural products or the animals. God defines what is to be tithed and he made it clear throughout the Bible that money was not acceptable as a tithe.
So what does the Bible tell Believers to do about giving money to the institutional church? But before I do that, the Ekklesia (Believers) is not an institution, it is a organism and when it becomes an institution, it becomes an empire of traditions of men instead of the commandments of Yahweh. So, when you give the first thing the Bible commands of Believers is that they take care of personal financial matters first. 1 Timothy 5:8 says, “People who don’t take care of their relatives, and especially their own families, have given up their faith. They are worse than someone who doesn’t have faith in the Lord” (CEV). Whether you believe it or not, God first requirment is that you take care of your financial responsibilities first before you allow any pastor or church have access to your banks account like a ATM debit card withdrawing money as they see fit from your finances. When you are single, perhaps you can give more money, but when you marry and start having multiple children, your first obligation is to your wife and children. The order is always a relationship with God first, family second and the so-called church, which is accurately difined as the Ekklesia (called out ones) is third in theological peaking order. You family has the first claim to your paycheck not the church. As you can see from the verse that you are obligated to help your relatives before you help the church if you have to choose between the two. The two groups Paul named in the verse is relatives (parents, grandparents, widows, aunts, uncles etc.). So if your grandparents are in need and you can help them, then the church has no authority over your money if a choice has to be made between church and your grandmother. The money goes to the grandparents according to the scriptures.
One way people try to obfuscate the scripture is that they try to get you to start tithing money at 2 or 3 percent and build up to ten percent over time. This method is totally unscriptural. You never hear God Tell Israel that since tenth might be to hard to start out I’ll let you start at 2, 3 or 4 percent and build up to ten percent. If you examine 2 Co 8:11-12 you will see something that is amazing about Paul’s insight on money. In 2 Cor 8:10-12 it reads, “And in this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it. So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have. 12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.” The context here is that the Corinthians had started a year ago to help people in Jereusalem who had a finanical need. Paul encouraged them to finish what they started. He wanted them to give by their ability, according to what they had. Now the amazing truth is that when you look at 1 Tim. 5:8 obligating you to your family first, then when a need arises in the community of believers and are asked to support it, the words by your ability/according to what you have speak volumes because Paul is trying to say that if you could not get past meeting the necessities of your own household and yet still had a desire to give the support those in need outside, God would still find that intention honorable becuase it was a desire in your heart. So in cases where a need exists and your don’t have the money to help, but have the desire to do it but can’t, God still will be pleased with you. Now how freeing is that. That’s why you should never feel guilty if you don’t have money to give. As long as you have a willing desire to give, God will bless and honor you for that.
If you are a Pastor who says God changed is mind and decided to commute His holy tithe received from owners of agricultural gain and owner of herds and flocks in Israel to cash money from everyone on the glove who works a wage earner professions then I have some questions for you to answer so I can be clear that God wants money as a tithe.
How is that Jesus who lived under the law got away with never paying a tithe, and yet I as a Gentile have a pay ten percent of my income to the church or be cused with a curse? Do you ever see the Messiah pay ten percent from his cerpentry work as a tithe?
Name the law or person and where the lived in the Bible who changed the Biblical tithe from animals and agriculture…..to money?
How did God reveal in His word that the tithe was forever now money and no longer crops or cattle?
Most importanly, when did God reveal and authorize you as a pastor or the church to change His tithe to cash money? And if He did, when did He do and how did God do it.
It is important to note that when a letter was written to the Gentiles in Acts 15:1-31, nowhere in the instructions from the Jerusalem did they instruct Gentile to tithe. The letter stated in verses 23-29 that they will do well if agstain from thing offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. So if tithing was important to pass along go Gentile believers in the Most High, why did they forget to instruct them on this new required cash tithe requirement or be cursed? When I wrote the book, Kleptomaniac: Who’s Really Robbing God Anyway I knew I would be dismembered from the institutional church. When you paying ten percent of your income to the church,which the Bible does not require, you are being exploited and the church is making merchandise of you and the Bible backs this up in 2 Pe 2:3 which reads, “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.” This new monetary tithe teaching, you are like a money tree to be shaken. And if you don’t tithe, dire consequences heralded from the pulpit on people who will not cough up ten percent and are stealing from God. Let me say this, don’t worre about those false words because they are not the words of the Bible but the traditions of men.
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October 29, 2016
Book Review: Kleptomaniac – Who’s Really Robbing God Anyway? by Frank Chase Jr
KLEPTOMANIAC, Who’s Really Robbing God Anyway is a trek through the pages of the Bible to find the untwisted truth about the centuries-old teachings on tithes and offerings. Every page of this book has information that will make you become an …https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Kleptomaniac
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September 19, 2016
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August 27, 2016
Kleptomaniac: Who’s Really Robbing God Anyway? Book Review and Tithing Study 41
For those of you who have been reading my posts. I was answering questions about amazing tithing untruths. Well, rather than bore you with all the written text, I decided to make a youtube video to finish out the series of questions. The video is titled, Tithing Study Part 40 Amazing Untruths About Tithing anwers the rest of the pamplet questions. I think the pamphet called Amazing Fact was a good lesson for me to learn how to rebutt and refure incorrect tithing questions. So when some pastor calls you out on church front street and says, “to steal from Jesus grieves Him much, your answer should be; where is the chapter and verse in the Bible to back up that statement. Really, do you think the Messiah is really crying becasue you did not pay Him some money! C’mon people don’t fall so easily to emotional manipulation. Search the scriptures on this word tithe and I know you will walk away amazed and perhaps angry that you allowed yourself to be so esaily convinced that the Bible really commanded that your should pay ten percent of your income until the day you breathe your last breath. I can tell you that has never been what the Scriptures teach and your best bet is to take the word and do an independent study on tithing. Plus, I’m glad to announce that Kleptomaniac: Who’s Really Robbing God Anyway? got its first book review from Reader’s Favorite.
Make sure you check out tithng blog study part 37 and 41 and this video so you can get all the responses that I gave disputing the amazing truths pamphlet about tithing. Most of you don’t know that after I compiled my initial tithing power point study, I started working on a power point study on New Testament giving. However, after completed 48 slides, I decided to dive head long into writing my current book.
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In my New Testament slides I did attempt to refute popular tithing statements as you can see below in two slides. I have to admit some pro-tithing arguments are hard to crack, but as long as you know that the foundation of the word tithe is land based, no one can slip money into the conversation without your first alerting them that they are following a Cathlolic doctrine and not the doctrine of the Bible.
When I was in Church for many years, I often heard the pastor say, Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s. This verse was frequently read during tithes and offerings. To the unsuspecting beleiver, they automactically assumed that Jesus meant that if you pay Cassar’s his taxes, you should pay God his tithes. It sounds good on the surface but when you dig a little deeper, it become clears that the converstaion is not about tithes, but could be about taxes or something else. Folks, if you study that verse in context it is not what many believers have thought. So in the next slide I debunk some common assumptions about this verse. You’ll be surprised that when you really study your Bible, you’ll find that many doctrines are simply traditions of men that have replaced the commandment of God. So study this slide and you determine what the Messiah really meant when he said, “Render, therefore unto Caesar, the things which Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” (Matthew 22:17-22).
Financial responsibility is suppose to be paramount in church so I gues I need to share some insight into how the Jewish people’s thoughts on finances. What you find in this next slide leads me to believe that no pastor should use the Bible as his sole means of support, which means they should work full-time Jobs. Jewish Rabbis always taught against using the TORAH to teach for the purposes of making money or earning a salary. When you read this next slide, you must evaluate your motive for going into the ministry and make sure money is not a motivating factor. Remember ministry is a sacrifice and it involves a life not not having everthing the world offers. I know many mega ministres and churches exist but that is not a practice from the Bible. It is something men have created. Most of the New Testament congreagtions operatated from house to house. In this nex slide you will learn a littl more about what charitable giving is in the New Testament and what the tithe means in Hebrew and how Jews could never tithe today.
I do hope that all of my effort to explian tithing in these blogs help many people get a better understanding of a subject that’s been hidden in plain sight for centuries. For some people, they will fall on their sword and proclaim tithing is required to the bitter end. Others who study the subject will come to know the truth and be set free to give from their heart and begin to teach others about what true biblical tithing really is according to the Bible and not according to the traditons of men.
August 15, 2016
Kleptomaniac: Who’s Really Robbing God Anyway? Press Release
Ladies and Gentlemen on June 1, the new title was released in ebook and the paper back on July 14th. It is available at all major online book stores. Do be in the blind about tithing, be in the know what the Bible really says about the tenth. Don’t be surprised to find out that what you thought you knew about monetary tithing is not required and that that Bible was changes to include money as a tithe when tithing is not money.
Now that the book is out and the word is out about tithing, I’m asking all my book readers to Share the Press Release for the New Book, Kleptomaniac: Who’s Really Robbing God Anyway?
August 6, 2016
Tithing Study Part 39 Amazing Untruths About Tithing (part 39)
The Amazing Tithing Study Guide that I have been examing is filled with so much innuendo and loaded questions, it’s almost hard to dispute for the average church goer. In this post, I will continue answering the questions in the pamphlet with correct biblical answers about tithing. Question 10 has been the lynchpin for tithing because it justifies tithing using Hebrews 7:8 as the smoking gun that unequivocally proves tithing beyond a shadow of a doubt. I have to say the Hebrew text is quite difficult to figure out. However, in the pamphlet they give one answer to the question and expect the reader to accept it as gospel. I suspect that the short answer to the question is because they don’t quite understand Hebrews chapter 7. Here’s question 10.
Question 10: When we tithe, who really receives our money? The Amazing Facts Pamphlet cites Hebrews 7:8 which reads, Here mortal men receives tithes, but there he [Jesus] receives them. The actual KJV reads: 8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. The pamphlet gives this answer: Jesus, our heavenly High Priest, receives our tithes. That’s all the pamphlet gives as an answer.
My Answer: To directly answer the question, when you tithe, the institution that receives your money is the church’s bank or credit union, not Christ. He is not collecting money from any believer. Christ does not receive money. The tithes and offerings get deposited into the church’s bank account. And it probably the same bank your check goes to. Now let’s deal with the Hebrew 7:8. First, the word “here men that die receives tithes” spoke of the Old Testament priests who die. And the words “there he receiveth them was speaking of Melchizedek. Hebrews 7:8 is not about Jesus receiving tithes. In the pamphlet, the author inserted Jesus in brackets to trick you into thinking that the levitical tithe was somehow passed down to the New Testament church. The whole context of Hebrews is about getting the Hebrew people to understand that they were no longer under the requirements of the old priesthood system but were under the priesthood of Christ as all believers are kings and priests and the Bible says, in 1 Peter 2:5 that Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. What Christ receives from us is not money, but spiritual sacrifices acceptable to Him. And as Kings and priests according to Revelation 5:10, God says, And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. If you know anything about the Levitical priests, they did not tithe to anyone and believers in the Christ priesthood because they are Kings and Priests do not tithe either. Let me also address this too, the priests did not receive the whole tithe. According to Scripture, they received a ten of the ten, which is a tithe of the tithe, and that is one percent in our modern vernacular. The Levites are the only one who had the commandment to accept the tithe from the people. The only person who receives the money when you tax yourself ten percent and hand it over to the church is the pastor and all the other full-time staff members who a part of the 501c3 charitable organization, which you can later file your donations on your taxes. The IRS does not care what ou call it as long as you have a receipt for what you donated to your institution like food for the poor to the local church. There is much misinterpretation of Hebrews chapter 7 because the whole chapter is being ignored to focus on verse 8 to make a doctrinal mandate for tithing, which is totally out of context. If you didn’t know, the tithe was passed down from father to son from generation to generation by bloodline and physical descent. Christ established a different priesthood with different promises and because He was not of the levitical line, the tithe could not pass down to Him because Jesus was from a different tribe and bloodline. To pay a tithe to Christ, a believer breaks the law and would be in sin. Rather than bore you with more evidence about question 10, I think it would be good to post some information about Hebrews chapter 7 from a book that was very helpful in my research journey on tithing. I will post three page from Tony Badillo’s book, Tithing God’s Command or Man’s Demand–Which? In the post below you will read exactly what Hebrews chapter 7 means.
Question 11: What Test did Adam and Eve fail, which all of us must pass if we would inherit His heavenly Kingdom? The answer in the Pamphlet is so long and so horrendously incorrect, it is not worth repeating. The pamphlet associates the tree of knowledge of good and evil that God told Adam and Eve not to touch with the tithe that God said was holy unto Him. Then the pamphlet inserts the tithe of income as God Holy tithe using Leviticus 27:30 and then sums up by saying it is an awesomely dangerous venture to take God’s own money, which he has earmarked for the saving of souls, and use it for our own personal budgets.
My Answer. First, the pamphlet tries to associate Adam and Eve’s prohibition against eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil with the tithe. The whole argument is a false association. Adam and Eve and the Tithe have no relationship to each other, one event is about obedience and the other is about tithing. Though the pamphlet cites Leviticus 27:30, the context is about crops and cattle, not money. The tithe was never used for the purpose of saving souls; the tithe was used to feed the Levites, the poor, the strangers, the orphans, widows and the hungry. In fact, there was more than one tithe in Israel, so the question is, are you tithing according to the Bible with multiple tithes? If you say you tithe according to the Bible and pay money, you would be scripturally wrong, hermeneutically incorrect and contextually out of context with the Word of God. So how is that your money is somehow earmarked for soul winning. It is a total misinterpretation of Scripture to grab money using scripture out of context. God does not need a tenth of your paycheck, he owns the whole world. Furthermore, God gave the tithe that belonged to Him to the Levites as a perpetual inheritance as long as they lived in the land and as long as the temple stood.
