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

  1. TITHING
  2. Avram Tithes To Malki-Tzedek (Genesis 14:1-24)
  3. Yaakov Promises To Tithe To Yahweh (Genesis 28:1-22)
  4. Tithing After Yaakov's Example
  5. Tithing In Yisrael (Leviticus 27:30-34)
  6. Tithing In Yisrael More Restrictive Than In Avraham And Yaakov's Day
  7. Where Was Malki-Tzedek When The Children Of Yisrael Were Commanded To Tithe?
  8. Institution Of The Aharonic Priesthood (Numbers 18:1-32)
  9. Domain Of The Aharonic Priesthood
  10. Non-Levites Excluded From The Priesthood Within Yisrael
  11. Giving To Yahweh's Priest Is Giving To Yahweh
  12. Yahweh Has Given The Holy Things Of Yisrael To Aharon's House
  13. What Is The Priestly And Associated Status Outside Yisrael?
  14. Yahweh's Tithe Is Not Restricted To Yahweh's Priests
  15. Assistants To Yahweh's Priests Tithe To Yahweh's Priests
  16. Yahweh's Priests Do Not Tithe
  17. Tithing Statutes And Ordinances Within The Land Of Yisrael (Deuteronomy 12:1-32)
  18. Tithes Eaten By The Children Of Yisrael
  19. Did Yahweh Tolerate A Number Of Different Tithing Practices
  20. Children Of Yisrael Reminded To Share Their Tithes With The Levites
  21. Adequate Provisions During Intensive Learning To Fear Yahweh Always (Deuteronomy 14:22-27)
  22. A Tithe For The Needy (Deuteronomy 14:28-29)
  23. The Year Of Tithing (Deuteronomy 26:12-15)
  24. Pray For Yahweh's Blessing When You Provide For The Needy
  25. Robbing Yahweh (Malachi 3:1-4:6)
  26. Yahweh Blesses Those Who Faithfully Tithe To Him
  27. How Yahweh's Blessing Reaches His Faithful Children
  28. Tithing In Yisrael To Remain Applicable At The Time Just Prior To The Messiah's Return
  29. Administration Of Tithing In Yahudah After Return From Captivity (Nehemiah 10:34-39)
  30. Administration Of Tithing In Yahudah By Nechemyah (Nehemiah 13:12-14)
  31. Administration Of Tithing In Yahudah By Chizkiyahu (2 Chronicles 31:1-21)
  32. Why Tithes And Offerings Were Given To The Priests And Levites
  33. The Results Of The King's Command To Give Tithes And Offerings
  34. Tithing To Yahweh Is Goodness, Righteousness And Faithfulness
  35. Tithing Is Not One Of The Weightier Matters Of The Law (Matthew 23:23)
  36. Practice Of Tithing Ought To Continue (Luke 11:42)
  37. Temper With Humility Your Observance Of Tithing And The Rest Of Yahweh's Law (Luke 18:9-14)
  38. PRIESTS
  39. Priests Outside Yisrael (Genesis 41:45, 50; 46:20)
  40. Paroh's Dealings With The Priests In Mitzrayim Similar To Yahweh's Later Dealings With The Priests In Yisrael (Genesis 47:22, 26)
  41. Moshe's Father-In-Law Was A Priest Outside Yisrael (Exodus 2:16-21; 3:1)
  42. Yahweh Chose To Make Yisrael A Kingdom Of Priests (Exodus 19:1-8)
  43. Yahweh Does As He Pleases With What Belongs To Him
  44. Malki-Tzedek Priesthood For Yisrael
  45. Yisrael Had Priests Prior To The Institution Of The Aharonic Priesthood (Exodus 19:21-25)
  46. Yahweh Proposed To Make All Of Yisrael Malki-Tzedek Priests
  47. Institution Of The Aharonic Priesthood (Exodus 28:1-31:18)
  48. Yahweh Chose Aharon's Family To Be His Priests
  49. Priests Are To Facilitate People In Their Domain Being Accepted Before Yahweh
  50. Aharon's House To Have The Priesthood In Yisrael Perpetually
  51. Why Yahweh Delivered The Children Of Israel Out Of Mitzrayim
  52. Priests Are To Make Atonement
  53. Within Yisrael Aharon And His Son's Priesthood Is Everlasting Throughout Their Generations (Exodus 40:12-15)
  54. Sin Committed Unwittingly (Leviticus 4:1-35)
  55. Actions Of A Priest Imputed To Those Under His Domain
  56. Priests To Make Atonement For Those Under Their Domain (Leviticus 5:1-19)
  57. Priests To Distinguish Between The Clean And The Unclean In Their Domain (Leviticus 13:1-59)
  58. Priests To Exclude The Unclean From The Company Of The Clean
  59. Priests To Determine Whether The Unclean Have Been Cleansed Of Their Uncleanness (Leviticus 14:1-57)
  60. Priests To Make Atonement Before Yahweh Upon The Cleansing Of An Unclean Person
  61. Priests To Ensure That Those Under Their Domain Do Not Come In Close Proximity With Contagious Uncleanness
  62. Yahweh's People Are Not To Associate Themselves With Uncleanness
  63. Priests To Separate Yahweh's People From Their Uncleanness (Leviticus 15:31)
  64. The High Priest Must Make Atonement For All Of Yahweh's People (Leviticus 16:32-34)
  65. Priests Must Not Defile Themselves (Leviticus 21:1-15)
  66. Priests Must Competently Determine Various Matters According To The Law (Leviticus 27:1-34)
  67. Those Who Are Holy Within Yisrael (Numbers 3:1-13)
  68. The Tribe Of Levi Given To Aharon
  69. Firstborns In Yisrael Belong To Yahweh
  70. The Time Yahweh Sanctified The Firstborns In Yisrael
  71. Within Yisrael The Priesthood Belongs To Aharon's House
  72. Why Did Yahweh Transfer The Priesthood To Aharon's House? (Exodus 19:21-25)
  73. Rebellion Against Yahweh And His Priesthood (Numbers 16:1-50)
  74. Faithless Rebellion
  75. Contradiction In The Rebels' Position
  76. Rebels Coveted The Priesthood
  77. In Human Controversies Let Yahweh Settle The Matter
  78. Datan And Aviram's False Accusations Against Moshe
  79. Rebels Against Yahweh Play With Death
  80. Moshe's Works Were At Yahweh's Command
  81. Rebellion Against Yahweh's Set Order Is Despising Yahweh
  82. What Is Offered Before Yahweh Is Holy
  83. No Stranger Should Undertake Priestly Duties
  84. The Congregation Was Courting Death
  85. Atoning Act Of The High Priest Covers All Under His Domain
  86. The Aharonic Priesthood (Numbers 18:1-32)
  87. The Role Of The Levites
  88. Priests Should Act To Ensure That Wrath Does Not Befall Those Under Their Domain
  89. Yahweh's Priests Should Be Consulted In Determining Difficult Legal Matters (Numbers 27:1-11)
  90. Consult Yahweh, Through His Priesthood, In Determining Difficult Legal Matters (Numbers 27:12-23)
  91. Yahweh's Priests Are His Judicial Officers Over His Congregation (Deuteronomy 17:8-13)
  92. Priests To Accurately Preserve Yahweh's Law (Deuteronomy 17:14-20)
  93. All Assistants To Priests Should Be Accorded Equal Treatment With Respect To Their Provisions (Deuteronomy 18:1-8)
  94. Priests Must Ensure That The Justice Process Is Not Abused (Deuteronomy 19:16-21)
  95. Priests Should Strengthen Yahweh's People In The Face Of Difficult Circumstances (Deuteronomy 20:1-4)
  96. Priests Should Be Close To Yahweh To Facilitate Transmitting Yahweh's Will In Judicial Matters (Deuteronomy 21:5)
  97. Priests Must Adjure Yahweh's People To Walk Faithfully In His Word (Deuteronomy 27:9-10)
  98. Priests To Accurately Preserve And Teach Yahweh's Law (Deuteronomy 31:9-13)
  99. Yahweh Sometimes Speaks To His Priests Through His Judges For His People (Joshua 3:1-4:24)
  100. Yahweh's Priests Have A Very High Status In His Congregation (Joshua 6:1-27)
  101. Priests Have A Leading Role In Judicial And Legal Matters (Joshua 14:1-2)
  102. Who Is The Priest To Walk Before Yahweh's Messiah Forever? (1 Samuel 2:35-36)
  103. Tzadok, A Priest Who Was Also A Seer (2 Samuel 15:27-28)
  104. Yahweh's Priests To The Nations (Isaiah 61:1-11)
  105. Returned Yisraelite Exiles To Be Sent Back To The Lands Of Their Exile As Yahweh's Priests (Isaiah 66:6-24)
  106. Yisraelites Exist Among The Various Nations
  107. Aharon's Children Are Scattered Among The Nations
  108. Aharonic Priesthood To Be Active After Yahweh's Judgement On The Nations
  109. Yirmeyahu, A Priest Who Was Also A Prophet (Jeremiah 1:1-10)
  110. It Is For Yahweh's Priests To Handle His Law And Thereby Know Him (Jeremiah 2:1-37)
  111. Priests Should Know Yahweh's Ways And Laws (Jeremiah 14:18; 18:18)
  112. Priests Should Remain Holy By Not Profaning Themselves (Jeremiah 23:10-11)
  113. Aharonic Priesthood Shall Not Cease To Operate After Yisrael's Restoration (Jeremiah 33:14-22)
  114. Priests Should Preserve The Law (Ezekiel 7:26)
  115. Priests Should Preserve The Sanctity Of Holy Things (Ezekiel 22:26)
  116. Tzadok's Sons To Minister As Priests After Yisrael's Regathering (Ezekiel 40:45-46)
  117. Aharonic Priesthood To Have Sacrificial And Offering Responsibilities After Yisrael's Regathering (Ezekiel 42:13-14)
  118. Aharonic Priesthood To Be Fully Operative After Yisrael's Restoration (Ezekiel 43:16-27)
  119. Tzadok Priesthood A Continuation Of Aharonic Priesthood (Ezekiel 44:9-31)
  120. Yahweh's Allotted Land To Aharonic Priests (Ezekiel 45:1-5)
  121. Yahweh's Priests Will Perform Their Sacrificial And Offering Duties On Yahweh's Feast Days (Ezekiel 45:18-25)
  122. Priests Should Remain Faithful To Yahweh (Ezekiel 48:11)
  123. Priests To Impart Knowledge Of Yahweh's Ways And Laws To His People (Hosea 4:1-6)
  124. Priests Should Dissuade Yahweh's People From Prostitution (Hosea 5:1-15)
  125. Yahweh's Priests Should Not Teach For Hire (Micah 3:11-12)
  126. Priests Should Be Ready To Competently Answer Matters Arising Out Of Yahweh's Law (Haggai 2:10-14)
  127. Hasatan Is The Adversary Of The High Priest (Zechariah 3:1-10)
  128. The Branch, The Malki-Tzedek High Priest Over Yisrael (Zechariah 6:9-15)
  129. Priests Must Not Dishonour And Despise Yahweh (Malachi 1:1-14)
  130. Duties Of Yahweh's Priests (Malachi 2:1-17)
  131. Moshe Was Yahweh's Priest! (Psalm 99:6)
  132. Yahweh's Priestly Order For Human Beings Apart From The Aharonic Order
  133. A Priest Forever In The Order Of Malki-Tzedek (Psalm 110:1-7)
  134. Yahweh's Priests Clothed With Righteousness And Salvation (Psalm 132:9, 16)
  135. Ezra The Priest And Scribe (Ezra 7:1-28)
  136. Works Of Yahweh's Priests (Nehemiah 8:1-18)
  137. Priests Should Deal With Authorities To Facilitate Proclamation Of Yahweh's Words To His People
  138. Priests Should Teach Yahweh's Law To His People (2 Chronicles 15:3)
  139. Priests Should Go About The Dwelling Places Of Yahweh's People And Teach Them His Law (2 Chronicles 17:7-9)
  140. Judging Should Be In Accord With Yahweh's Word (2 Chronicles 19:4-11)
  141. Priests Should Judge Yahweh's People And Teach Them His Law
  142. Priests And Scribes Should Be Knowledgeable In Yahweh's Word (Matthew 2:1-8)
  143. Yah'shuah's Disciples To Be Malki-Tzedek Priests (Revelation 1:4-6)
  144. Malki-Tzedek Priesthood Open To All Human Families (Revelation 5:8-10)
  145. Those In The First Resurrection Will Forever Be Malki-Tzedek Priests (Revelation 20:4-6)
  146. CONCLUSION

 

 

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