Apostate Leadership: gross misuse of Malachi 3

Apostate Leadership in the church: gross misuse of Malachi 3 in reference to giving.

It has come to my attention the need to correct the errors many leaders in the body of Christ about the misuse of Malachi 3 as a reference in giving.

The New King James Version Chapter 3

8 “Will a man rob God?

Yet you have robbed Me!

But you say,

‘In what way have we robbed You?’

In tithes and offerings.

9 You are cursed with a curse,

For you have robbed Me,

Even this whole nation.

10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,

That there may be food in My house,

And try Me now in this,”

Says the LORD of hosts,

“If I will not open for you the windows of heaven

And pour out for you such blessing

That there will not be room enough to receive it.

11 “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes,

So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,

Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,”

Says the LORD of hosts;

12 And all nations will call you blessed,

For you will be a delightful land,”

Says the LORD of hosts.

First of all, if you have been baptised to the Lord Jesus Christ in water baptism, you have become dead to sin and alive to Christ; you have become dead to the Law of Moses and redeemed from the curse of the Law: