I was pondering over Cahn’s book, The Mystery of the Shemitah, recently, and it hit me, “Why are seminary students coming out of seminary preaching tithing and failing to note about how it connects to the Jewish Calendar. Russell Kelly states on his site on a poll taken about 10-12 years ago where about 3 out of 4 Southern Baptist ministers believed in tithing to the church directly (please note this trend may have changed). Yet these staffed minister didn't follow the Jewish Calendar nor a requirement for Saturday Sabbath. I had a Messianic friend of mine when I asked about ministers requirement on storehouse tithing and he asked those following questions to me like if the ministers advocates following the Sabbath, Passover, and the Calendar. Here is the problem with tithing, to teach it an assembly would have to follow the Calendar as well. I am not saying a designation of a tenth is bad thing at all during this year. But it is not at all a biblical command during this year. But I left with some thoughts on this.
Will over the next tenth months churches will have to tighten the budget because no biblical requirement for tithing exists? I would not think that would be necessary. Really and truly what concerns God in the time of the Shemitah is the releasing of financial burdens and debt. Helping your local assembly would be such an act of carrying burdens. Here is the thing and something to think about if you are Christian banker and still demanding debt this year wouldn't it make sense to release those burdens debtor somehow rather than worrying on tithing. During the last Shemitah in 2008, banks and financial markets suffered. That type of judgment during the Shemitah is not really a mystery if you really think about it. I really don't think it about not tithing this year but rather. "What are you doing this year to help your neighbor to release them from debt and financial problems?"
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