From: b_otw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 8:20:56 PM UTC-7, No One Special wrote:   
   > Rock Solid Proof; (Funny how Genie "PhD" never told his "king's tithers"   
   this fact...    
   >    
   > The Book of Numbers gives us ROCK SOLID PROOF that God's commanded tithe was   
   solely agriculture.    
   >    
   > Read Numbers 18:21-32. God said that He gave the tithe that was required of   
   the children of Israel to the tribe of Levi.    
   >    
   > Numbers 18:21 - "And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the   
   tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, [even]   
   the service of the tabernacle of the congregation."    
   >    
   > Numbers 18:24 - "But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer   
   [as] an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit:   
   therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have   
   no inheritance."    
   >    
   > In the rest of the passage, we see that a tithe of tithes is to be lifted   
   before the Lord as an heave offering. The tithe of tithes is given to the   
   Aaronic Priests.    
   >    
   > But, notice verse 31...    
   >    
   > Numbers 18:31 - "And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households:   
   for it [is] your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the   
   congregation.    
   > Do what with the tithe? Spend it? No! The Levites were to EAT the tithe.    
   > The tithe required of the children of Israel was strictly agricultural."    
   Oops!!!   
      
   rpbc: The priest class always follows the money.  Unlike vegetables, money can   
   be stored, accumulated where it can buy influence and peddle favors, become   
   the object of worship as it translates to coercive influence, power... like   
   banking cartels that    
   finance both 'sides' in war.  Who else can afford it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)