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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 44
2 Thessalonians 2:14 -3:18
We depend totally on the free-will offerings of God’s people. We have to tithe, because it was already practiced back with Abraham. Let’s start in Genesis chapter 2 verse 1 and particularly verse 2.
Okay, that’s where the seventh day Sabbath was first introduced in Scripture—when God Himself rested from the six days of creation.
Okay, verse 20, there it is.
“And blessed be the most high God, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him (That is Abram gave to God.) tithes of all. So here we have the concept of tithing, or the ten percent as people like to look at it, way back here before the Law was ever introduced. The seventh day Sabbath, tithing, and circumcision all became part of the Mosaic Law. Genesis 17:10
Every man child among you shall be circumcised.” Now verse 12:
All right, now what I want to do is show how all three of these concepts—the Sabbath and tithing and circumcision—were picked up by the Mosaic Law as we go on into Israel’s history.
Now in Exodus 16, the Law still hasn’t been given. That doesn’t happen until chapter 20. Verse 23:
“And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake today, (That was on Friday.)The Sabbath day, Saturday, and so verse 25:
All right, the Law hasn’t been given yet. But it was something that God incorporated. All right, when you get into chapter 20—turn over to that in Exodus. It becomes part of the Mosaic Law. Exodus chapter 20 verse 8 and it’s the same concept that He just gave them in chapter 16.
It’s that constant reminder that God instituted the seventh day of rest back there in Genesis chapter 2.
All right, now let’s do the same thing with tithing. All right, now let’s see where it picks up in the Law. Leviticus, and, oh goodness, if people would just do a word-study of tithing, they wouldn’t have so much difficult.
“And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’S: it is holy unto the LORD. Now verse 32:
So God provided for the Levite tribe, the priests’ tribe, with the tithes of the other tribes. I wish people could understand that. The tithe was that which was given to support the Levites. All right, now verse 34:
So tithing is not, now, just something that came from Abraham. It is now part of the Law.
II Chronicles chapter 31 verse 5. II Chronicles—that’s right after the Kings—II Chronicles 31 verse 5. Start at verse 4, Honey.
Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.” This is law.
Not just the Ten Commandments, but the Law. the Levites, (They were the ones to accept the tithes.) that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.”
All right, then the last one that everybody likes to use to put their people under the pressure of tithing is Malachi. Well, that’s not what the tithe was. All right, Malachi 3—drop down to verse 8.
“Will a man rob God? In tithes and offerings.”
“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house,…” The Levites. Now on top of the tithes, there were also offerings that were other than the tithe. All right, now that pretty much covers the fact that tithing and the seventh day Sabbath and circumcision all went into the Law.
Because I have to establish, now, that all three of these concepts—the seventh day Sabbath, the tithing, and circumcision—all funneled down into the Mosaic Law. And the Mosaic Law was in force when Christ began His ministry. Everything that Jesus said or taught was under the Law. He never went contrary to the Law of Moses. All right, in Luke’s Gospel chapter 1, we’ve got John the Baptist, verse 59.
All right, when you come across the page to Luke chapter 2, we have Jesus in full accordance with the Mosaic Law in verse 21.
All right, in Philippians chapter 3, might as well start at verse 4, Honey.
Circumcised? The Law. According to the Law. The seventh day Sabbath—I Corinthians chapter 16. Here Paul writes:
Now I can also use that verse for the next segment, for tithing. They were to bring their offerings, not their tithe. All right, now let’s see. Colossians chapter 2 starting at verse 14. We’re not under Law. All right, look what he says in verse 14.
All right, then our last one again—circumcision. Galatians chapter 5, so that all three of these concepts which went into the Law, have now been abrogated by Paul’s declaring us not under Law but under Grace.
2. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, (According to the Law—if you’re going to practice circumcision according to the Law as part of your salvation.) Circumcision went away with the Law.

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