GoD's WorK - God's Puzzle Solved

106 God’s Worktry because Abraham tithed to Melchizedek. They take this fromThe Old Testament and try to put it into The New Testament byadding a bit of coercion and then mix both of them together. Thisis a recipe for disaster. You may think that is a stretch. But it ispart of a line of reasoning that has been used to bring about a beliefin a hypothetical so-called New Testament “tithing system.”What else would it be called? No matter what anyone might wishto call it, it is in complete error. Yet, some seem to believe in sucha notion. But it is only an illusion as subsequent facts will soonshow. Various elements of this overall problem will be covered inmore detail throughout this book.The LevitesThere is another aspect that must be considered. Connected withthis overall belief that tithing is a Law for you today is the notionthat tithing is based on the tithes given to The Priesthood ofIsrael. But the matter of Abraham and Jacob’s tithing was longbefore any tithes were paid to God’s Priesthood serving in thetemple, i.e., The Levites. When you read the context of the twoaccounts about: (1) Abraham and Jacob and (2) The Levites, yousee that each situation has nothing to do with tithing - as a systemor a requirement (Hebrews 7:5-12). In Chapter 7 of Hebrews,the subject concerns the spiritual development of an individualto the point of becoming perfect.It is not about tithing. The tithing system for the temple wasonly used as a point of illustration - and was not laid down as adoctrinal requirement. But often, these texts are not explainedin this way. Hence a false meaning has been derived from thesestatements in Hebrews 7. Tithing was mentioned in Hebrews 7 toillustrate that the story about Melchizedek came well in advance ofthe much later history concerning The Aaronic Priesthood. There