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     THE MISUSE OF MALACHI 3:10; THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN   
      
   Tithing teachers often claim that the "windows of heaven" in Malachi 3:10   
   refers to God pouring down money, expensive homes, expensive cars and a list   
   of material items "if you tithe." As seen below in a careful study of the   
   Hebrew words used in Malachi    
   3:10 and in proper context of Malachi 3:11 which states that the results of   
   the windows of heaven opened would be the following...   
      
   1. "neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field"   
   ...that is to say their agricultural produce would not die, rot and fall to   
   the ground due to a lack of water. This is a clear reference to the results of   
   an abundance of water    
   being supplied by God.   
      
   2. The other blessing was stated as a form of divine protection from crop   
   destruction by the devourer, or locust destroying crops; "And I will rebuke   
   the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your   
   ground."   
      
   In Malachi 3:11, who or what is “the devourer”? A devourer might be   
   anything that devours crops in the farm, e.g.; locusts, worms etc., but   
   usually refers to locust.   
      
   In Exodus, locusts were the 8th of 10 plagues inflicted on Egypt, where the   
   Israelites were enslaved. “They will cover the face of the ground so that it   
   cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail,   
   including every tree    
   that is growing in your fields."   
      
   From March to October 1915, a plague of locusts stripped areas in and around   
   Israel of almost all vegetation. This invasion of "biblical proportions"   
   seriously compromised the already depleted food supply of the region.   
      
   In 2013, Haaretz (an Israeli newspaper) reported;   
      
   "Israel Sprays Crops Across Negev in Battle Against Locust Plague. Agriculture   
   Ministry spraying pesticides to try and save crops from what it has defined as   
   'medium-size' swarm; insects covered nearly 2,000 acres of desert overnight."   
      
   As in Genesis 7:11 and Genesis 8:2, Malachi 3:10 refers to WATER from the   
   windows of heaven, water provided by God in Malachi 3:10 resulting in the   
   promise in Malachi 3:11 for crop growth and a healthy abundant harvest, not   
   "windows of heaven" pouring    
   out private jets, a Rolls Royce, mansions, multi million dollar homes and   
   multi million dollar bank accounts "if you tithe to your favorite minister."   
      
   COMPARISON OF THREE SCRIPTURES USING THE PHRASE "WINDOWS OF HEAVEN."   
      
   The exact same phrase "windows of heaven" is used in all three verses...    
      
   >> Genesis 7:11 - "windows of heaven" ...were opened, resulting in the flood   
   of Noah.   
      
   Genesis 7:11 - "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month,   
   the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the   
   great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."   
      
   Hebrew;   
   "windows"   
   Original: ארבּה    
   Transliteration: 'ărubbâh    
   Phonetic: ar-oob-baw'    
   Definition: Feminine participle passive of H693 (as if for lurking); a lattice   
    (by implication) a window, dove cot (because of the pigeon holes), chimney   
   (with its apertures for smoke), sluice (with openings for water): - chimney,   
   window.   
      
   Hebrew;   
   "of heaven"   
   Original: שׁמה שׁמים    
   Transliteration: shâmayim shâmeh    
   Phonetic: shaw-mah'-yim    
   Definition: The second form being dual of an unused singular; from an unused   
   root meaning to be lofty ; the sky (as aloft ; the dual perhaps alluding to   
   the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether   
   where the celestial bodies    
   revolve): - air, X astrologer, heaven (-s).   
      
   Hebrew;   
   "were opened"   
   Original: פּתח    
   Transliteration: pâthach    
   Phonetic: paw-thakh'    
   Definition: A primitive root; to open wide (literally or figuratively);   
   specifically to loosen, begin, plough, carve: -  appear, break forth, draw   
   (out), let go free, (en-) grave (-n), loose (self), (be, beset) open (-ing),   
   put off, ungird, unstop, have    
   vent.   
      
   >> Genesis 8:2 - "windows of heaven," resulting in the flood of Noah.   
      
   Genesis 8:2 - "The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were   
   stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;"   
      
   Hebrew;   
   "windows"   
   Original: ארבּה    
   Transliteration: 'ărubbâh    
   Phonetic: ar-oob-baw'    
   Definition: Feminine participle passive of H693 (as if for lurking); a lattice   
    (by implication) a window, dove cot (because of the pigeon holes), chimney   
   (with its apertures for smoke), sluice (with openings for water): - chimney,   
   window.   
      
   Hebrew;   
   "of heaven"   
   Original: שׁמה שׁמים    
   Transliteration: shâmayim shâmeh    
   Phonetic: shaw-mah'-yim    
   Definition: The second form being dual of an unused singular; from an unused   
   root meaning to be lofty ; the sky (as aloft ; the dual perhaps alluding to   
   the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether   
   where the celestial bodies    
   revolve): - air, X astrologer, heaven (-s).   
      
   >> Malachi 3:10 - "windows of heaven"   
      
   Malachi 3:10 - "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."   
      
   Hebrew;   
   "windows"   
   Original: ארבּה    
   Transliteration: 'ărubbâh    
   Phonetic: ar-oob-baw'    
   Definition: Feminine participle passive of H693 (as if for lurking); a lattice   
    (by implication) a window, dove cot (because of the pigeon holes), chimney   
   (with its apertures for smoke), sluice (with openings for water): - chimney,   
   window.   
      
   Hebrew;   
   "of heaven"   
   Original: שׁמה שׁמים    
   Transliteration: shâmayim shâmeh    
   Phonetic: shaw-mah'-yim    
   Definition: The second form being dual of an unused singular; from an unused   
   root meaning to be lofty ; the sky (as aloft ; the dual perhaps alluding to   
   the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether   
   where the celestial bodies    
   revolve): - air, X astrologer, heaven (-s).   
      
   THE BLESSING FROM THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN ('ărubbâh shâmayim shâmeh)   
   RESULT IN...    
      
   Malachi 3:11 - "And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall   
   not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit   
   before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts."   
      
      
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