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1 | Is tithing a command for chriatians? | 2 Cor 9:7 | Beja | 214868 | ||
Keily, Perhaps I am in fact misunderstanding your stance. To help me clarify, could you tell me what you see as the means of acquiring salvation in the various dispensations. Perhaps this question will not help me to understand, but it might drag out the distinctives in your stance for me. In Love, Beja |
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2 | Is tithing a command for chriatians? | 2 Cor 9:7 | keliy | 214900 | ||
Beja, In addition to my post yesterday, I did not mean to cut so short the last paragraph of my post. I was on a borrowed laptop, and the time became short. A study of Salvation would be favorable since it would reveal the necessity of faith, repentance, and confession of Jesus’ deity for the remission of sin. But this topic is about tithing, and tithing is unnecessary for salvation. The subtopic that grew from this thread is that of Dispensationalism, and you had asked me about the evidence for salvation in OT Dispensations. It would be very hard for Old Testament believers to confess the deity of Jesus of course. But there are many parallels, Such as Rahab who used a cord of scarlet threads that saved her from certain death. Being no Israelite, she still confessed her belief in Jos 2:9, "And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you." The scarlet thread she used to save her family is an obvious reference to the Blood of Jesus. Numbers 21:8 is another example: "And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live." Now I am aware that the salvation involving the fiery serpent was a physical salvation or deliverance, however Jesus teaches there are spiritual parallels. (Jn. 3: 14-17) Israel was restored as a nation in Nehemiah chapter 9, and when Jonah warned people of Nineveh of God’s wrath, they believed in God and turned from their evil way. As we look at these examples today, we can see in hindsight that Christ was being foreshadowed by the lessons that were being exemplified. This is because we have the advantage of historical record. The Israelites in the OT were being prepared for the coming of Christ, but they could not realize what the Types they were being given had signified until the Truth was made evident in the NT. God manifested Himself through laws in the OT, but in the NT, he could be recognized in the life of His Son. (If you have seen me, you have seen the Father -Jhn 14:9) The knowledge of the Life and Work of Christ is limited in many believers to His "Earthly Life." But we must not forget that Jesus was the eternal Christ. In Heb. 1:1, we read that God had spoken "at sundry times," as well as "in divers manners," and if we are to understand what He has spoken, we must distinguish between the class of people being spoken to, as the Jews, Gentiles or the Church, and we must also note the 'times' as well as the 'manners.' I am not trying to say that my understanding of Dispensationalism is complete, or even superior, but I do hope to have brought to light the definition and the exercise of Dispensations. Lord Bless, keliy |
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