Prophecy
Satan's Infernal Revenue Service
Isaiah 56:11; Prov.22:16; Hosea 4:6; I Tim.6:5,10
My heart is grieved by the mass exodus from the church of people who truly love me and can take no more pressure to give until it hurts. Many are so blinded by their tears of frustration that they not only desert the institutional church but keep their distance from anything which even remotely resembles true commitment to Christ. In their bewildered minds they cannot discern the difference. Why? These former followers of Mine were brainwashed and hoodwinked into casting their bread upon the waters so they could wait many, many days for their shipload of fruit to come in for seed sown.
Well, I cannot put My seal of approval upon error, even when that error is obeyed out of ignorance. My people are destroyed through lack of knowledge of the truth. He who gives to greedy dogs who can never have enough shall sink into the despair of deeper darkness and poverty. So many of My people found that their ship sank long before it ever reached the blissful shore of fulfilment of their desires. But deception is like an intoxicating drug. You swear that you have had your very last fix and will take no more, but so many lack the courage to break free of error. It is a binding spirit of deception which holds My people in grievous bondage. Multitudes of disappointed Prosperity devotees are told to wait for the next wave to come in, then the next and the next. Perhaps next month, maybe next year, Scripture-twisters say, I will pour out blessings from heaven too numerous to count, if only those poor souls will keep on tithing out of their poverty and cheerfully do without the things they and their children need daily.
Those who cannot be persuaded to continue giving to satan's infernal revenue agents without visible reward are bound to their masters through other means. Threats issue from the pulpit that I will punish those who refuse to surrender to their teachers a tenth of their earned income or other monetary assets. Marinated in error, saints are brainwashed into associating Me, their loving Heavenly Father, with Pharaoh, who would not relent on the daily quota of bricks his overworked slaves must deliver. Only eternity will tell the heartbreak, emotional trauma and family feuds which are directly attributable to being taught a flawed, demonic concept of my nature and My relationship to My beloved Bride, the Church. Such crafty peddlers of lies who oppress my people skate on a very thin line which borders on blasphemy against the Holy Spirit because their slanderous sermons on giving cast a shadow on my character and rob Me of reputation as a God of perfect love.
Guilt-ridden saints fear to approach My Presence anymore, because they are taught that you must never appear before God empty. Yet those same unscrupulous prosperity teachers who teach you to come before Me with both hands full sometimes teach that you can only receive from Me if you hold out empty hands to receive! Why the inconsistency? To deny My all-sufficiency in presenting you guiltless before God the Father is to blaspheme against the precious offering of My Blood upon the heavenly Altar and to call it an inadequate offering on your behalf.
Just as sharks can smell blood a mile away, so those greedy infernal revenue agents can smell money from afar. So they hold infernal revenue services geared toward buttering up the congregants and getting them to open wide their purse strings, much more than their hearts, supposedly to Jesus.
These sleazy snakes are not My representatives anymore than Judas was my representative after he betrayed Me. And in My sight, they are every bit as bad because they have sold out My reputation in the sight of men for a bag of filthy lucre.
Those who know the real truth but hide it beneath a bushel basket in order to profiteer from the childlike innocence of babes in Christ, such shall suffer the greater damnation in the Day of Judgment, saith the Lord unto His Beloved Bride the Church. So do not cater to their lusts, and do not bow down before them as Baal lords. For most assuredly I have not sent these infernal revenue agents to bleed you dry.
Satan has. He's the one who's tied my people up with the tithe, a seemingly slender chain of just ten per cent, but a thick enough stream of poison to embitter the waters so that My people cannot drink of them. A thick enough net to entangle the saints in a web of confusion and to trip them as they seek to walk in liberty.
Yea, saith the Lord, proclaim liberty to all who have been held captive by legalists. Spread the glad tidings far and wide, and set My children free. You are not legally bound to tithe at all!
In ancient Israel, tithes were levied only on the yield OF THE LAND, and consisted of agricultural produce! Every tribe of Israel, except the Tribe of Levi, possessed a portion of the Promised Land, to be farmed and bequeathed to their descendants in perpetuity. Tithes were never meant to be garnished by the priests from the paltry pay packets of landless laborers! The vast majority of today’s Christians do not own farmland. More than a few of the earth’s Christians earn a subsistence wage, just barely squeezing by. It enrages Me to see the lavish lifestyles of today’s self-ordained “priests” financed by so-called tithes grudgingly given out of fear, not faith. This fear charlatans have instilled even in the hearts of babes in Christ, and I will not hold them innocent for perverting My Word.
People are taught to treat Me as a celestial vending machine which requires the insertion of money before I loosen up and dispense any kind of blessing. Pay “the Lord” first, and the big jackpot will shower out of the slot machine, so much you won’t have room to receive it. I am provoked to holy wrath by this crass corruption! I am grieved at the disgruntlement of My wounded sheep, who, impoverished both financially and spiritually, wander away to seek some promising new panacea for their ills.
The Sincere Milk of My Word which enables believers to grow in grace is to be freely imparted to all those who will receive it in humility. Any true minister of Christ will serve others, not himself. It is written: Let everyone who is thirsty come to the Waters, and HE WHO HAS NO MONEY, come ye buy and eat. Yea, come buy wine and milk WITHOUT MONEY AND WITHOUT PRICE.
Rejoice in Me, My people. Cast off your shackles and dwell in the glorious liberty which is your birthright in Christ Jesus.
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This article is brimming with heavenly power and truth. I can feel His tears, His anger, His anguish as I read. Where are the preachers who leave us awestruck, utterly drawn by the beauty of Jesus, rather than mired in a muddy valley of decision about which of the competing ministries is most worthy of our last penny? God is the Quintessential Giver; those who are made like Him will grow to be extravagant givers as well--out of overflowing joy, gratitude and fullness of faith. I, too, fear for those who destroy the tree by continually yanking at its branches. They hope to force dollar bills from a plant whose sap carries spiritual genes only. The winnowers fork is in His hand; He is even at the door.
Such confirmation that we can and should `come to the God of grace just as we are, without one plea, except the Blood that was shed for me`. Reader, if you have been affected by this Christ-dishonouring practice, return to your heavenly Father and know that He can love you no more or no less than He does now. Thank you Patricia for reminding us that we are to share what we have, not what we haven`t!
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