Tithing is a Kingdom Tax
Malachi 3:7 This is God's Kingdom, he said in Malachi 3: 7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroyc the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts
The Holy Bible : King James Version. electronic ed. of the 1769 edition of the 1611 Authorized Version. Bellingham WA : Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1995, S. Mal 3:7-11
Your Tithe gives you access to all the KINGDOM benefits!
That is what the windows of heaven opening means - access!
Offerings are your Investment into the Kingdom
You are blessed from your offerings, he multiplies your offering. Giving an offering activates a spiritual process that God has set up to benefit you, others, and his Kingdom work. This process is called Seedtime and Harvest. He has promised in Genesis 8:22 and Luke 6:38 that if you give into his Kingdom. That he will bless you and your family for your giving.
When you give, it empowers the Kingdom, to add what you gave, to what others have given, so that the Kingdom can do kingodom work to help others. Our vision is for the hungry, the battered, the children, the neglected and the evanglizing of the world. Please review these scriptures.
Luke 6:38 Give (your time, your gifts your money), and it (the benefit that you bestow upon others) shall be given unto you; good measure (not scarcely), pressed down (compacted to fit more in), and shaken together, and running over, shall men (God will cause you to be blessed) give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it shall be measured back to you
2 Corinthians 9:6–7 The Message Bible
