Jarbreaker:
I'm not even gonna get the verse, there are 12 gates on New Jerusalem ... all this Israel is in the past, old testament old covenant replacement theology business must mean you're gonna go line up at a gate labeled BAPTIST or METHODIST or LUTHERAN, right ?
I guess I'll be standing at the Word of faith gate................ :lol:
Your right
Jarbreaker, Jesus fulfilled the law.There is still a law, that hangs on that new commandment of Love God, and Love neighbor. It is the same covenant, or else we are not the seeds of Abraham. What people are not looking at is that Jesus said, you ought to have
loved, had
judgment,
shown mercy, and not left out paying tithes.
Judgment, love and mercy fall under Love God, love neighbor, which all the law hangs.
Then we have the commandments............ Thou shall not Kill, Steal, (sounds like the devil) commit adultery, and so on.
Those where commandments, and to break any of those would be breaking that Love command which puts you under the Law.
Now God considered not paying tithe stealing..........and God said if you bring the tithe you get blessed.
God never said it was OK not to pay tithe, Jesus never said it, and not anyone said it was OK to steal. (People make that up.)
Look at this............
Luk 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in
all the commandments and
ordinances of the Lord blameless.
God separates
Ordinances, and
commandments. commandments hang on that law of love. stealing is in there, for if you love God, you don't do to him what he considered stealing.
Ordinances.... were all the things that like washing, preparing and a bunch of religious steps they had to take. It was those that were removed from us............ Never Ok to steal though.
Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Notice that commandments were not used.
Now if God changed his mind about stealing the tithe.........I like to know were it's at. We have on Covenant, it was though Abraham, else we are not His seed.
Thank you
Jarbreaker
Jesus Is Lord