Here Men That Die Receive Tithes

By Pastor Boniface Amani Gichina (Read More Powerful Biblical Articles in this other blog: http://yourlivingbread.blogspot.com/)

In The Order of Melchizedek
We are told in the Bible that God made Jesus a priest in the order of the man called Melchizedek Hebrews 6:20.

Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

 A thousand years before it happened, the Bible foretold that the Messiah would be that kind of priest as recorded in Psalms 110:4.

The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

But what do we know about Melchizedek, and what great deeds did he do, so that Jesus would be like him?

Firstly, Melchizedek appears only in four verses of the Bible, and therefore we know almost nothing about his background and life. This is one way in which Jesus became a high priest like Melchizedek (Hebrews 7:12-16). Neither Jesus nor Melchizedek had relatives who were priests of God; both were simply chosen by God to be who they were and to do what they did.

Secondly, the only two deeds that Melchizedek performed in the four verses of Genesis where he appears were (1) he received tithes from Abraham and (2) he blessed that great man of God. That’s all he ever did, as far as the Biblical record is concerned.

Now, if Jesus is a high priest like Melchizedek, the very least that he should do is: (1) Receive tithes from righteous people and (2) bless them. That is what Melchizedek did. It seems incongruous that we should be told that Jesus would be a high priest like Melchizedek but that he would only do one of the two things that we know Melchizedek did

Melchizedek was ordained by God to receive Abraham’s tithes, and because Melchizedek was ordained by God to minister for Him on earth, whenever Melchizedek received tithes down here, those tithes were received in heaven. The same is true in this New Testament.

"And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth." (Hebrews 7:8). 

And if those men are truly men of God, then "there” (in heaven) he (Jesus) receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth."

This is the reason I stress so much to you that you should make certain that the hand into which you place God’s tithes and offerings is the hand of a man whom God has ordained to receive His tithes. Otherwise, you are subsidizing the lifestyle of "a robber", and helping to finance your own worst enemy.

Bringing God’s tithes and offerings to the wrong man hurts that man, as well as everyone else including God. It encourages that man to believe that he really is what he has been misled to think that he is. It enables him to continue functioning in a position for which God has not equipped him, which means that the tithes and offerings finance him to continue misleading himself and the people who trust him.

When God’s tithes and offerings are given to a man whom God has not sent, the money is used by Satan to poison the hearts of God’s own children.

If the man who receives your tithes and offerings is truly of God, then the tithes and offerings that he receives are received in heaven. If he is not sent by God, then you provide Satan with the means to abuse God’s people and to continue to confuse and divide the children of God everywhere.