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The pastor said that if I was not giving 10% of my GROSS income to the church, I was robbing God. He
told me that the “storehouse” in verse 10 is the church in the New Testament (and specifically the
church that I was attending at the time).
As I studied this passage, I found out that my pastor was lying about several things in this passage.
First, the storehouse was a building in Jerusalem, not the church. And the tithe under the Mosaic law
was actually three tithes of only the animals and the crops that were raised, resulting in 23.3% of an
Israelite’s crops and herds, but nothing else. Sometimes pastors can use passages out of context to
prove their point, and in doing so are lying to their congregation.
I hope you never do that!
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