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WORD by Charles L. Feinberg, Th .D ., Director, Talbot Theological Seminary The Tithe
(Part One) age of the patriarchs, the era of promise. Under the Law of Moses the tithe received its fullest expression and importance. Moses, by the ex press command of God, charged Is rael to tithe the fruit of the ground and the cattle (Lev, 27:30,32). The tithe of grain and fruit could be re deemed by the owner by buying it at one fifth more than its selling price (Lev. 27:31). The tithe of the herd and the flock could not be re deem ed. Grain was tithed after threshing; the fruit of the vine and the olive tree was made into wine and oil before the tithe was taken (Num. 18:27). The tithe was paid to the Levites (Num. 18:21,24), as a return for their ministry and because they had no territorial possession in the nation. Tithes were to be brought to the sanctuary (Deut. 12:5,6,11). If the distance to the temple was great, they were permitted to change the tithe into money, and then at the sanctu ary purchase what they wanted (Deut. 14:23-27). Tithes were brought in the days of the second temple (that of Zerubbabel). See Nehemiah 13:10-14 and Malachi 3:10. Tithing was in force in the time of our Lord, as is clear from Luke 11:42 and 18:12. The Pharisees went beyond the letter of the Law of Moses and tithed even garden herbs (Mt. 23:23). It should be added also that, according to the Mosaic Law, the Levites had to give of the tithe they received a tithe to the priests, literally “ a tithe of the tithe” (Num. 18:26-28). In times of spiritual declension the people were careless in the matter of the tithe. Giving is usually a good thermom eter in any day to gauge the warmth or coldness of the profession of a believer. Note 2 Chronicles 31:4-12 and Malachi 3:7-12. (To be contin ued.) END.
¥t is nothing short of amazing that 1 there should be so much confusion M among the Lord’s people on the matter of giving, and specifically with regard to the tithe. One posi tion holds to so-called “ storehouse tithing” and bolsters the view by strange misapplications of Scripture. The conviction grows upon one that such reasoning is merely a display of special pleading for some ulterior purpose. The extreme from the view just given is that which declares that the believer today has nothing whatsoever to do with the matter of tithing. The truth actually lies in neither position. The Hebrew ma‘aser and the Greek dekate may properly be translated as “ tenth.” The Hebrew word is found in more than a score of in stances in the Old Testament, while the Greek term occurs only four times in Hebrews 7. The practice of tithing was not confined to Israel, for it is found among many other nations of antiquity. The custom of paying tithes to a priest or a sanc tuary was widely known and fol lowed in ancient times. It is stated that the Egyptians gave a fifth of their crops to Pharaoh (Gen. 47:24). The first mention of the tithe is in Genesis 14:20 (cp. Hebrews 7:4) where Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils of battle to Melchizedek, priest of the Most High God, evidently for the sanctuary at Salem. In patriarch al times there is another reference to the tithe when Jacob at Bethel ex pressed his desire to give the Lord a tithe,; should the Lord prosper his way. (Gen. 28:22.) Jacob has been criticized rather severely for this promise, and often by those who do not even give a tithe of their income. How strange is the human heart. It has just been seen that the tithe first appeared in the Scripture in the
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