TITHE OR HELL YOUR CHOICE - Mike Peralta (first ebook reader txt) 📗

do other scriptures, to their own destruction.”

 

The Punishment For Disobedience

The word “destruction” in 2 Pet 3:16 brings us to the next section of this book. In the bible “destruction” means damnation in Hell. In the latter part of this book I am including some Testimonies of Hell that God has revealed to several people still living on Earth. It is no trivial or minor matter to disobey God on any of His commandments. And I will show – through Scripture, and confirmed by people’s testimony – that the just punishment for sinning and disobeying God is Hell. And this includes disobeying Him in such matters of robbing God of the Tithe that is due Him. You may have a difficult time believing the Testimonies. However, they are only confirmations of what God has already warned us about in His Holy Word – The Bible. You can only disregard the Bible at your own eternal risk of destruction – in Hell. As I keep on saying, this is no trivial matter.

 

The Law And The Grace Of Christ

After covering the meaning of “Not Under The Law But Under Grace” we will come to see the great gift God has given us in both the Law and The Grace of God through Jesus Christ. The whole inter-relationship between these two teachings and commandments of God is so beautiful – once you properly understand it. This understanding is not really that difficult. It has seemed difficult because satan has deceived and lied to people in order to get them to disobey God’s life-giving instructions and thereby drag people into Hell.

 

The Tithe Law (Malachi Chapter 3)

Before getting into the punishment for disobedience we will cover some details of The Tithe Commandment as given to us from Malachi Chapter 3, Matthew Chapter 23, Luke Chapter 11, and Hebrews Chapter 7. As well as learning about the tithe we will also learn about the attitude God wants us to have about obeying His commandment of the Tithe – and in fact all His commandments. We are supposed to not only be obedient but also [cheerfully] be willing to obey as Isaiah 1:19 tells us: “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:”

The colon at the end of Isaiah 1:19 tells us that this last scripture continues. Isaiah 1:20 tell us: “But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.” Still another promise from God Almighty about the severe consequences if we continue to disobey and murmur against Him - our Creator.

God gives us plenty of warnings, all throughout His scriptures, about what we are facing with regard to His commandments. It would be a sad shame for someone to receive Christ as their Lord and Savior, at one point in their life but surprisingly end up in Hell. But this is happening to many, many people because of their disobedience to God. And if you are disobeying God – robbing God by not paying tithes, or in sexual immorality, or getting drunk and taking drugs, or in any unconfessed and unrepentant sin – you will most assuredly go to Hell as God warns. God does not want this for you – but it is your choice. Choose to always and in all ways to obey God. And to repent immediately. 

 

Chapter 2: The Ceremonial Laws

 We will start with Colossians 2:16, “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:” King James Bible (KJV) (Cambridge Ed.)

“Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,” Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

 

Food and Drink Laws

In the Old Testament God gave Israel regulations about clean and unclean animals that they could or should not touch and eat. In the New Testament times these laws have now turned into commandments regarding evil thoughts of the heart – from which evil originates. As Jesus says in Matthew 15:17-20 Jesus clarifies that what makes a man unclean are things from the heart such as “evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.”

So this command is not abolished but it’s practice is now clarified to be applied to avoiding unclean thoughts and actions that come from the heart.

 

Holyday Feasts, New Moons, [Special] Sabbath Days

Or of the sabbath days - Greek, "of the Sabbaths." The word Sabbath in the Old Testament was applied not only to the seventh day or rest, but also to all the days of holy rest that were observed by the Hebrews in their various festivals. Without a doubt that is what is being referred to in this passage of scripture. This is because the word is used in the plural number, and the apostle does not specifically refer to “The Sabbath Day” (the fourth of the ten commandments). If he had used the singular word "The Sabbath," it would then, of course, have been clear that he meant to teach that that fourth commandment had ceased to be obligatory – that “The Sabbath” was no longer to be kept. But the use of the plural term shows that he had in mind the several number of days which were kept by the Hebrews as festivals, as a part of their ceremonial laws.

In Leviticus 23:1-8 God distinguishes between “The Sabbath Day,” the fourth of the ten commandments, and the special sabbath days and festivals.

In Lev 23:3 God explains about “The Sabbath Day.” He repeats His commandment to “Keep Holy The Sabbath Day.” It is important to recognize that the need for The Sabbath Day still applies because it’s purpose is to bless man with a day of rest to honor and focus and listen to and worship God. As is well known in history, the Sabbath Day serves a very vital purpose and “is made for man.” Jesus Himself said “The Sabbath was made for man.” Since man still has to work for a living, then the need for The Sabbath Day of rest is still very much needed for modern man.

And then next God also explains about the appointed feasts – for example in Lev 23:4 the Passover (beginning at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month). It is now obvious that the Passover festival has been fulfilled in Christ and so that is why we do not physically observe this ceremonial law. It’s not that it is abolished. It is just that Jesus fulfilled it for us – once and for all – on the cross of Calvary. But we still need to observe the Passover (passed over from death) by receiving Christ as our Lord and Savior. Otherwise we would be condemned to spiritual death – which is Hell. Hence the new form of the passover – by receiving Christ as Lord – still applies.

 

Circumcision

In Genesis 17:9-11 God commands Abraham and his male descendants to undergo circumcision. “Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.”

Already in Moses’ time, circumcision was not only to be observed as a physical command – it was also to be seen as circumcision of the heart. As we see in Deuteronomy 10:16. “Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer.” Also Deuteronomy 30:6. “The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.”

What is very revealing is Jeremiah 9:25-26, “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh —Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places. For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”

God was commanding that circumcision was needed to be “of the heart” and not of the flesh only (in the Old Covenant). Of course now circumcision “of the heart” is still a requirement as stated in the New Testament by Paul the Apostle in Romans 2:26, “So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?”

So those who truly love and OBEY God and His commandments (keep the law’s requirement) are truly the ones who are circumcised in heart. So now although we are not required to be circumcised physically we are still commanded to be circumcised in the heart. Again in this way, in the case of circumcision, Jesus did not come to “abolish the law and the prophets” but requires that we obey circumcision “in our hearts.”

So our circumcision is fulfilled by receiving Christ as our Lord and Savior: Colossians 2:11, “In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:”

So it is truthful to say – if you are still practicing or went back to practicing “sins of the flesh” you are uncircumcised in heart – and you urgently need to repent and confess and forsake your sins in order to receive mercy from God. Prov 28:13, “He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whosoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.”

 

Chapter 3: Moral Laws (Ten Commandments)

These Commandments Still Apply

 

Let us start with:

The Ten Commandments:

(King James Version)

And God spake all these words, saying, “I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the