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   GOD IS NOT RESTRICTED BY TIME OR ANYTHING ELES   
      
   Abraham's tithe could be said to be "before the law," before the Law of Moses;   
   TRUE, but not limited to being before the Law of Moses from God's eternal   
   timeless point of view, and God's point of view is the ONLY ONE that counts.    
      
   The Bible tells us the following...   
      
   Revelation 13:8 - "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose   
   names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the   
   foundation of the world."   
      
   >> How could Jesus be slain (crucified) from (or before) the foundation of the   
   world when the world wasn't even created yet when He was slain? Was Jesus not   
   crucified just outside of Jerusalem at about 33AD long after the creation,   
   foundation, of the    
   world?   
      
   Galatians 2:20 - "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,   
   but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by   
   the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."   
      
   >> How could Paul be crucified with Christ when Paul was not physically nailed   
   to the cross on the day when Jesus was crucified?   
      
   Matthew 11:13-15 - "For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.   
   And if ye will receive it, this is Elias [Elijah], which was for to come. He   
   that hath ears to hear, let him hear."   
      
   >> How could John be Elias, yet Jesus said he was; "And if ye will receive it,   
   this is Elias" (Ref; See Malachi 4:5 - "Behold, I will send you Elijah the   
   prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:"   
      
   The answer is simple; God is not bound by or restricted by time, space, order   
   of events, by distance or by anything at all. If God reveals that from His   
   point of view (the ONLY ONE that counts) that Jesus was crucified from the   
   very foundations of the    
   world, then HE WAS. If God reveals that from His point of view, Paul (meaning   
   all of us) was crucified with Christ, then WE WERE. If Jesus, who was, and is   
   God Almighty, tells us that John was Elijah fulfilling Malachi 4:5, then HE   
   WAS.   
      
   Do as Jesus pointed out; receive it, receive that spiritual principle; "And if   
   ye will receive it, this is Elias [Elijah]..."   
      
   In the same manner, based on the same eternal timeless concept seen in this   
   verse we see the eternal point of view of God;   
      
   Hebrews 7:9 - "And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed   
   tithes in Abraham."   ...the Levite's tithe was a part of Abraham's tithe;   
   they "payed tithes in Abraham..."   
      
   The Levites represent the Law of Moses in Abraham's tithe, and therefore   
   include a component of tithing under the Law of Moses in Abraham's tithe to   
   Melchisedec...   
      
   Hebrews 7:11 - "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for   
   under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that   
   another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called   
   after the order of Aaron?"    
   The people received the law FROM THE LEVITES; Moses was a Levite who was the   
   Law giver.   
      
   So, therefore; yes, Abraham tithed in an earthly time-line before the Law of   
   Moses, but from God's eternal perspective as we see in Revelation 13:8,   
   Galatians 2:20 and Matthew 11:13-15, Abraham's tithe to Melchisedec was a   
   tithe that included the Levites    
   which was a tithe representing the Law.   
      
   CONCLUSION   
      
   Look at Abraham's tithe from God's eternal point of view, not from man's   
   limited point of view. Abraham did not tithe before the Law from God's point   
   of view, he tithed with the Law in him...   
      
   Hebrews 7:5 - "And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the   
   office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people   
   according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the   
   loins of Abraham:"   
      
   Hebrews 7:10 - "For he [Levi] was yet in the loins of his father [Abraham],   
   when Melchisedec met him."   
      
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