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Redemptive Plan Of God In Tithing

This is highlighted in the Gospel according to Matthew 5: 17-19:

“Do not think that I have come to do away with or undo the Law
or the Prophets; I have come not to do away with or undo but to
complete and fulfill them… for truly I tell you, until the sky and
the earth pass away and perish, not one smallest letter nor one

little hook [identifying certain Hebrew letters] will pass from the
Law until all things [it foreshadows] are accomplished…whoever
breaks or does away with or relaxes one of the least [important]
of these commandments and teaches men so shall be called least
[important] in the kingdom of heaven, but he who practices them
and teaches others to do so shall be called great in the kingdom of
heaven” Mathew 5: 17-19 [AMPC]

We must indeed call to mind that the Law that Jesus was referring
to here is not the obligations that were enumerated at the Mosaic
Law. Christ abolished the requirements that were enumerated for
observance before man could commune with God, through His
death on the cross.

There are certain concepts of the Law that stand out such as; the
coming of the day of the Lord, and the many other prophesies of
restoration of Israel; the Messianic age and the apocalypse still have
relevance today . The same stands today like the principle of tithes;
there is no scripture abolishing tithes as an Old Testament concept
that is deemed to be irrelevant.

There is the need to shed more light on the subject of tithing as
a spiritual principle and examine the underlying spiritual benefits
regarding it. This would in so doing protect the believer from some

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