Tithing and Priests
By Isaac Aluochier
All scripture quotations are from the Hebrew Names Version of the World English Bible published at http://www.ebible.org/bible/hnv/.
This publication replaces and supersedes "Tithing and the Malki-Tzedek Priesthood - A Scriptural Study" published at http://www.serveyahweh.org/Tithing/tithing.htm.
CONTENTS
- TITHING
- Avram Tithes To Malki-Tzedek (Genesis 14:1-24)
- Yaakov Promises To Tithe To Yahweh (Genesis 28:1-22)
- Tithing After Yaakov's Example
- Tithing In Yisrael (Leviticus 27:30-34)
- Tithing In Yisrael More Restrictive Than In Avraham And Yaakov's Day
- Where Was Malki-Tzedek When The Children Of Yisrael Were Commanded To Tithe?
- Institution Of The Aharonic Priesthood (Numbers 18:1-32)
- Domain Of The Aharonic Priesthood
- Non-Levites Excluded From The Priesthood Within Yisrael
- Giving To Yahweh's Priest Is Giving To Yahweh
- Yahweh Has Given The Holy Things Of Yisrael To Aharon's House
- What Is The Priestly And Associated Status Outside Yisrael?
- Yahweh's Tithe Is Not Restricted To Yahweh's Priests
- Assistants To Yahweh's Priests Tithe To Yahweh's Priests
- Yahweh's Priests Do Not Tithe
- Tithing Statutes And Ordinances Within The Land Of Yisrael (Deuteronomy 12:1-32)
- Tithes Eaten By The Children Of Yisrael
- Did Yahweh Tolerate A Number Of Different Tithing Practices
- Children Of Yisrael Reminded To Share Their Tithes With The Levites
- Adequate Provisions During Intensive Learning To Fear Yahweh Always (Deuteronomy 14:22-27)
- A Tithe For The Needy (Deuteronomy 14:28-29)
- The Year Of Tithing (Deuteronomy 26:12-15)
- Pray For Yahweh's Blessing When You Provide For The Needy
- Robbing Yahweh (Malachi 3:1-4:6)
- Yahweh Blesses Those Who Faithfully Tithe To Him
- How Yahweh's Blessing Reaches His Faithful Children
- Tithing In Yisrael To Remain Applicable At The Time Just Prior To The Messiah's Return
- Administration Of Tithing In Yahudah After Return From Captivity (Nehemiah 10:34-39)
- Administration Of Tithing In Yahudah By Nechemyah (Nehemiah 13:12-14)
- Administration Of Tithing In Yahudah By Chizkiyahu (2 Chronicles 31:1-21)
- Why Tithes And Offerings Were Given To The Priests And Levites
- The Results Of The King's Command To Give Tithes And Offerings
- Tithing To Yahweh Is Goodness, Righteousness And Faithfulness
- Tithing Is Not One Of The Weightier Matters Of The Law (Matthew 23:23)
- Practice Of Tithing Ought To Continue (Luke 11:42)
- Temper With Humility Your Observance Of Tithing And The Rest Of Yahweh's Law (Luke 18:9-14)
- PRIESTS
- Priests Outside Yisrael (Genesis 41:45, 50; 46:20)
- Paroh's Dealings With The Priests In Mitzrayim Similar To Yahweh's Later Dealings With The Priests In Yisrael (Genesis 47:22, 26)
- Moshe's Father-In-Law Was A Priest Outside Yisrael (Exodus 2:16-21; 3:1)
- Yahweh Chose To Make Yisrael A Kingdom Of Priests (Exodus 19:1-8)
- Yahweh Does As He Pleases With What Belongs To Him
- Malki-Tzedek Priesthood For Yisrael
- Yisrael Had Priests Prior To The Institution Of The Aharonic Priesthood (Exodus 19:21-25)
- Yahweh Proposed To Make All Of Yisrael Malki-Tzedek Priests
- Institution Of The Aharonic Priesthood (Exodus 28:1-31:18)
- Yahweh Chose Aharon's Family To Be His Priests
- Priests Are To Facilitate People In Their Domain Being Accepted Before Yahweh
- Aharon's House To Have The Priesthood In Yisrael Perpetually
- Why Yahweh Delivered The Children Of Israel Out Of Mitzrayim
- Priests Are To Make Atonement
- Within Yisrael Aharon And His Son's Priesthood Is Everlasting Throughout Their Generations (Exodus 40:12-15)
- Sin Committed Unwittingly (Leviticus 4:1-35)
- Actions Of A Priest Imputed To Those Under His Domain
- Priests To Make Atonement For Those Under Their Domain (Leviticus 5:1-19)
- Priests To Distinguish Between The Clean And The Unclean In Their Domain (Leviticus 13:1-59)
- Priests To Exclude The Unclean From The Company Of The Clean
- Priests To Determine Whether The Unclean Have Been Cleansed Of Their Uncleanness (Leviticus 14:1-57)
- Priests To Make Atonement Before Yahweh Upon The Cleansing Of An Unclean Person
- Priests To Ensure That Those Under Their Domain Do Not Come In Close Proximity With Contagious Uncleanness
- Yahweh's People Are Not To Associate Themselves With Uncleanness
- Priests To Separate Yahweh's People From Their Uncleanness (Leviticus 15:31)
- The High Priest Must Make Atonement For All Of Yahweh's People (Leviticus 16:32-34)
- Priests Must Not Defile Themselves (Leviticus 21:1-15)
- Priests Must Competently Determine Various Matters According To The Law (Leviticus 27:1-34)
- Those Who Are Holy Within Yisrael (Numbers 3:1-13)
- The Tribe Of Levi Given To Aharon
- Firstborns In Yisrael Belong To Yahweh
- The Time Yahweh Sanctified The Firstborns In Yisrael
- Within Yisrael The Priesthood Belongs To Aharon's House
- Why Did Yahweh Transfer The Priesthood To Aharon's House? (Exodus 19:21-25)
- Rebellion Against Yahweh And His Priesthood (Numbers 16:1-50)
- Faithless Rebellion
- Contradiction In The Rebels' Position
- Rebels Coveted The Priesthood
- In Human Controversies Let Yahweh Settle The Matter
- Datan And Aviram's False Accusations Against Moshe
- Rebels Against Yahweh Play With Death
- Moshe's Works Were At Yahweh's Command
- Rebellion Against Yahweh's Set Order Is Despising Yahweh
- What Is Offered Before Yahweh Is Holy
- No Stranger Should Undertake Priestly Duties
- The Congregation Was Courting Death
- Atoning Act Of The High Priest Covers All Under His Domain
- The Aharonic Priesthood (Numbers 18:1-32)
- The Role Of The Levites
- Priests Should Act To Ensure That Wrath Does Not Befall Those Under Their Domain
- Yahweh's Priests Should Be Consulted In Determining Difficult Legal Matters (Numbers 27:1-11)
- Consult Yahweh, Through His Priesthood, In Determining Difficult Legal Matters (Numbers 27:12-23)
- Yahweh's Priests Are His Judicial Officers Over His Congregation (Deuteronomy 17:8-13)
- Priests To Accurately Preserve Yahweh's Law (Deuteronomy 17:14-20)
- All Assistants To Priests Should Be Accorded Equal Treatment With Respect To Their Provisions (Deuteronomy 18:1-8)
- Priests Must Ensure That The Justice Process Is Not Abused (Deuteronomy 19:16-21)
- Priests Should Strengthen Yahweh's People In The Face Of Difficult Circumstances (Deuteronomy 20:1-4)
- Priests Should Be Close To Yahweh To Facilitate Transmitting Yahweh's Will In Judicial Matters (Deuteronomy 21:5)
- Priests Must Adjure Yahweh's People To Walk Faithfully In His Word (Deuteronomy 27:9-10)
- Priests To Accurately Preserve And Teach Yahweh's Law (Deuteronomy 31:9-13)
- Yahweh Sometimes Speaks To His Priests Through His Judges For His People (Joshua 3:1-4:24)
- Yahweh's Priests Have A Very High Status In His Congregation (Joshua 6:1-27)
- Priests Have A Leading Role In Judicial And Legal Matters (Joshua 14:1-2)
- Who Is The Priest To Walk Before Yahweh's Messiah Forever? (1 Samuel 2:35-36)
- Tzadok, A Priest Who Was Also A Seer (2 Samuel 15:27-28)
- Yahweh's Priests To The Nations (Isaiah 61:1-11)
- Returned Yisraelite Exiles To Be Sent Back To The Lands Of Their Exile As Yahweh's Priests (Isaiah 66:6-24)
- Yisraelites Exist Among The Various Nations
- Aharon's Children Are Scattered Among The Nations
- Aharonic Priesthood To Be Active After Yahweh's Judgement On The Nations
- Yirmeyahu, A Priest Who Was Also A Prophet (Jeremiah 1:1-10)
- It Is For Yahweh's Priests To Handle His Law And Thereby Know Him (Jeremiah 2:1-37)
- Priests Should Know Yahweh's Ways And Laws (Jeremiah 14:18; 18:18)
- Priests Should Remain Holy By Not Profaning Themselves (Jeremiah 23:10-11)
- Aharonic Priesthood Shall Not Cease To Operate After Yisrael's Restoration (Jeremiah 33:14-22)
- Priests Should Preserve The Law (Ezekiel 7:26)
- Priests Should Preserve The Sanctity Of Holy Things (Ezekiel 22:26)
- Tzadok's Sons To Minister As Priests After Yisrael's Regathering (Ezekiel 40:45-46)
- Aharonic Priesthood To Have Sacrificial And Offering Responsibilities After Yisrael's Regathering (Ezekiel 42:13-14)
- Aharonic Priesthood To Be Fully Operative After Yisrael's Restoration (Ezekiel 43:16-27)
- Tzadok Priesthood A Continuation Of Aharonic Priesthood (Ezekiel 44:9-31)
- Yahweh's Allotted Land To Aharonic Priests (Ezekiel 45:1-5)
- Yahweh's Priests Will Perform Their Sacrificial And Offering Duties On Yahweh's Feast Days (Ezekiel 45:18-25)
- Priests Should Remain Faithful To Yahweh (Ezekiel 48:11)
- Priests To Impart Knowledge Of Yahweh's Ways And Laws To His People (Hosea 4:1-6)
- Priests Should Dissuade Yahweh's People From Prostitution (Hosea 5:1-15)
- Yahweh's Priests Should Not Teach For Hire (Micah 3:11-12)
- Priests Should Be Ready To Competently Answer Matters Arising Out Of Yahweh's Law (Haggai 2:10-14)
- Hasatan Is The Adversary Of The High Priest (Zechariah 3:1-10)
- The Branch, The Malki-Tzedek High Priest Over Yisrael (Zechariah 6:9-15)
- Priests Must Not Dishonour And Despise Yahweh (Malachi 1:1-14)
- Duties Of Yahweh's Priests (Malachi 2:1-17)
- Moshe Was Yahweh's Priest! (Psalm 99:6)
- Yahweh's Priestly Order For Human Beings Apart From The Aharonic Order
- A Priest Forever In The Order Of Malki-Tzedek (Psalm 110:1-7)
- Yahweh's Priests Clothed With Righteousness And Salvation (Psalm 132:9, 16)
- Ezra The Priest And Scribe (Ezra 7:1-28)
- Works Of Yahweh's Priests (Nehemiah 8:1-18)
- Priests Should Deal With Authorities To Facilitate Proclamation Of Yahweh's Words To His People
- Priests Should Teach Yahweh's Law To His People (2 Chronicles 15:3)
- Priests Should Go About The Dwelling Places Of Yahweh's People And Teach Them His Law (2 Chronicles 17:7-9)
- Judging Should Be In Accord With Yahweh's Word (2 Chronicles 19:4-11)
- Priests Should Judge Yahweh's People And Teach Them His Law
- Priests And Scribes Should Be Knowledgeable In Yahweh's Word (Matthew 2:1-8)
- Yah'shuah's Disciples To Be Malki-Tzedek Priests (Revelation 1:4-6)
- Malki-Tzedek Priesthood Open To All Human Families (Revelation 5:8-10)
- Those In The First Resurrection Will Forever Be Malki-Tzedek Priests (Revelation 20:4-6)
- CONCLUSION
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