We have now begun the 5th month. All of us have had about 20 weeks to earn a living. In doing so I want to remind and ask you all, just how many of you have remembered the widows and the orphans this year thus far?
This is the 3rd year of the Jubilee cycle. And anyone who has been reading our web site for any time will know how to prove beyond all doubt when the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are. Once you have done that, then you will know when the 3rd and the 6th year of the Sabbatical Cycles are.
Deuteronomy 14:28 At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay it up inside your gates. And the Levite, because he has no part nor inheritance with you, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are inside your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, so that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
It is almost a guarantee that some smart ass_ or should I say some clever person who does not want to obey Yehovah will write to me and say this is only speaking of the produce of the land. You are only to tithe of the produce that you grow. Since I am not a farmer I do not have to tithe.
So what they are saying is that only the farmers have to tithe, is that right?
Not one of these people has ever sent me ten bails of hey for every hundred they bailed. Nor have ever received five bushels of tomatoes for the fifty they harvested. In fact, they never send me a tithe of their produce. They just send me their excuses for why they will not obey.
Let me say here right now, I have never considered myself or this ministry to be a Levitical priesthood. I have never considered it worthy of tithing to. Only the Levite is be given the tithes and they are given that tithe in order for them to maintain the Temple. We have no Temple today and we have no priesthood so you should not be tithing. We do however have ministries to support, therefore we do accept your donations to help do the work we are doing here, but we never ask or demand a tithe.
I also remember one year I brought my First Fruits offering to a local synagogue and presented it in front of the congregation. It was rhubarb and Asparagus. This was the only First Fruits I had at that time when Pentecost arrived that year. Everyone watching was wondering what was going on and the Rabbi also did not know what to think. But I presented my First Fruits offering as I was commanded.
What does this word “increase” mean?
H8393 (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
תּבוּאה tebû’âh
1) produce, product, revenue
1a) product, yield, crops (of the earth usually)
1b) income, revenue
1c) gain (of wisdom) (figuratively)
1d) product of lips (figuratively)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Strong’s Number H8393 matches the Hebrew תְּבוּאָה (tĕbuw’ah),
which occurs 42 times in 40 verses in the Hebrew concordance of the KJV
Total KJV Occurrences: 42
increase, 23
Lev 19:24-25 (2), Lev 25:7, Lev 25:12, Lev 25:20, Num 18:30 (2), Deu 14:22, Deu 14:28, Deu 16:15, Deu 26:12, 2Ch 31:5, 2Ch 32:28, Neh 9:37, Job 31:12, Psa 107:37, Pro 3:9, Pro 14:4, Pro 18:20, Ecc 5:10, Isa 30:23, Jer 2:3, Eze 48:18
fruit, 7
Lev 23:39, Lev 25:3, Lev 25:21-22 (2), Deu 22:9, Jos 5:12, Pro 10:16
fruits, 6
Exo 23:10, Lev 25:15-16 (2), Lev 25:22, Deu 33:14, 2Ki 8:6
revenues, 3
Pro 15:6 (2), Pro 16:8, Jer 12:13
revenue, 2
Pro 8:19, Isa 23:3
gain, 1
Pro 3:14
Total KJV occurrences: 42
As you can see from the scriptures below, the same word Tebuah can and does also mean revenue.
Proverbs 15:6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure; But in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
Proverbs 16:8 Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
Jeremiah 12:13 (Darby) They have sown wheat, and they reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and do not profit. Be ye therefore ashamed of your revenues, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
Proverbs 8:19
(ASV) My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.
(BBE) My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.
(Brenton) It is better to have my fruit than to have gold and precious stones; and my produce is better than choice silver.
(CEV) What you receive from me is more valuable than even the finest gold or the purest silver.
(Darby) My fruit is better than fine gold, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
(DRB) For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.
(ERV) What I give is better than fine gold. What I produce is better than pure silver.
(ESV) My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.
(ESV+) My fruit is ?R16?better than ?R17?gold, even fine gold, and my yield than ?R18?choice silver.
(GNB) What you get from me is better than the finest gold, better than the purest silver. (Greek NT INT+)
(GW) What I produce is better than gold, pure gold. What I yield is better than fine silver.
H7620 shabuwa`
Swear an Oath: Literally to seven oneself. A common practice was to make seven declarations when making an oath. This declaration can be making the oath seven times or doing seven things to show the sincerity of the oath. (eng: seven, an exchange of the s and sh)
seven, period of seven (days or years), heptad, week
On my E-sword program, I am able to now pull up the Ancient Paleo Hebrew and for this word Tebuah which is as follows. But I do not have Paleo Hebrew font to match.
H8393 tĕbuw’ah – From בּוֹא
In Hebrew, this is spelled from right to left: Tet, Bet, Aleph
The Bet Aleph means: To Fill as to fill a Void: The filling of an empty space.
To fill a space by entering it.
I want you to notice that in the Beit which is the house it is the Aleph of Yehovah that fills that empty space.
Nf1) Eab% (Eab% B-AH) – Entrance: [freq. 1] |kjv: entry| {H872}
J) Afb% (Afb% BWA) ac: Fill co: Entrance ab: ?: To come or go into a space is to fill it. A void within oneself that desires to be filled.
V) Afb% (Afb% BWA) – Come: To fill a void by entering it. This can be understood as to come or to go. [A generic verb with a wide application meaning to come or go as a filling of a void] [freq. 2577] (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Hophal) |kjv: come, enter, go| {H935}
am) Afbm% (Afbm% M-BWA) – I. Entrance: A place of entering. II. West: The place where the sun enters the underworld. [df: awbwm] [freq. 24] |kjv: going down, entry, come, entrance, enter, in, west| {H3996}
if1) Eafbt% (Eafbt% T-BW-AH) – Filling: An increase of produce, usually of fruit. [freq. 42] |kjv: increase, fruit, revenue, gain| {H8393}
With this understanding, we should easily be able to understand that it is Yehovah who fills our empty space with HIs presence and His increase.
kf1) Eafbm% (Eafbm% M-BW-AH) – Entrance: A place of entering. [freq. 1] |kjv: entry| {H3997}
We are addressing those who claim that fruits only means crops and does not mean income. If you made $50,000 last year in wages then a tithe of that would be $5,000 that would not be able to be deducted as a taxable write off. There are no receipts when you give to the widows or the orphans or the stranger or the poor of the Levite. There is the simple satisfaction that you have kept the Torah of Yehovah and in doing your little bit you have helped the overall function of the Kingdom.
“the overall function of the Kingdom” how is my little part a blessing for the Kingdom. Read what you are told in Deut 26 when you do this one commandment. It says not that you will be blessed for doing your tithe but the Kingdom will be, the Nation of Israel. “Look down from Your holy dwelling, from Heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, as You swore to our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey. ”
Deuteronomy 26:11 And you shall rejoice in all the good which Jehovah your God has given to you, and to your house; you, and the Levite, and the stranger in your midst. When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow (that they may eat inside your gates and be filled), then you shall say before Jehovah your God, I have brought away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me. I have not broken Your commandments, neither have I forgotten. I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put any of it away for unclean use, nor have I given of it for the dead. I have listened to the voice of Jehovah my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me. Look down from Your holy dwelling, from Heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, as You swore to our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey. Today Jehovah your God has commanded you to do these statutes and judgments. You therefore shall keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul. You have today said that Jehovah is your God, and that you would walk in His ways, and keep His statutes and His commandments and His judgments, and listen to His voice. And Jehovah has taken you today to be His peculiar people, as He has promised you, and to keep all His commandments, and to make you high above all nations which He has made, in praise and in name and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to Jehovah your God, even as He has spoken.
Here is a very severe warning from Yehovah to each of us.
Exodus 22:21 You shall neither vex a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry. And My wrath shall become hot, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your sons fatherless.
By Joseph Dumond of SightedMoon.Com
Beyth Shalom Torah Ministry 