The Falsification of Malachi

(Malachi means: “My messenger”)

Malachi is one of the shortest books in the Bible—only four chapters long. But it’s the most abused.

According to the Bible, the story of Malachi took place around 515 B.C. and was written in and around 400 B.C., and takes place within God’s Holy Land set aside for his chosen people, the Israelites, and the laws governing the Holy tithe that was only acceptable within the boundaries of the Israelites’ territory.

First and foremost, the Book of Malachi was written against the preachers who stole said tithes that belonged to God by offering him sick, blind, lame, and smelly animals instead of healthy animals they kept for themselves.

The simplification of God’s tithing law here is: The Israelite farmers within God’s Holy Land were to give 10% of their grown foods and animals to the Levitical priesthood, who in turn would provide 1% to the High Priest, who would give part of that tithing, which included unblemished and healthy animals, to God.

The problem was that the High Priests kept robbing God by offering him the blind, lame, diseased, and sick animals along with moldy bread and flea-infested fruits for his tithe—and kept the unblemished and healthy animals and good food for themselves.

“For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles … But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible” (Mal. 1:11-12).

Three interesting facts for you believing Christians to note here: (1) That this was the only time 10% of a tithing was mandatory, and— (2) it had nothing to do with money. It was all about produce grown in the ground and livestock within the Holy boundaries of God’s chosen people, which God increased to cover the tithing, of which—9% went to the priest and 1% to the High Priest. (3) God’s anger was not with the people but their high priest for stealing his tithe.

Not much has changed in 2 534 years. Every time a preacher tells you to have to tithe 10%, he’s not only robbing you but God, too. For any preacher who uses the Old Testament (any part of it) to shame you into tithing is being fraudulent or deceitful. Tithing in the Old Testament was under the Old Covenant and was only for God’s chosen people, the Israelites, within the land given to them—by God. The Old Covenant died with Jesus on the cross when he uttered the words “it is finished.” The New Covenant started with one given out of the kindness of one’s heart—which is not under any mandatory law from God or man.

Malachi Chapter Two

Once again, like in chapter one, God addresses the priest, not the people. For it is the preacher who is robbing God of his tithe.

“And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings … Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts … And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi” … (Mal. 2:1-4).

“The Law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his mouth … For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi” … (Mal. 2: 6-8).

Malachi Chapter Three

As in chapters one and two, God continues to address the preachers (priests).

Even from the days of your fathers, ye have gone away from mine ordinances and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. *(Now notice this next verse—God is mimicking the priest’s response) But ye said, wherein shall we return? *(Now notice the next verse—God is answering their “Wherein shall we return”?) Will a man, rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, *(NOW! Notice this next sentence from God—because he is talking directly to those Christians who are tithing to these wolves) even this whole nation” (Mal. 3:7-9).

Now, this whole chapter 3 is God rebuking the priest and not the people—until the end of Mal. 3:9—when he says, “even this whole nation.” If you know these preachers (priests) are deceitful, and you still support them in your donations, you’re as guilty as they are in breaking God’s law and throwing Jesus Christ under the bus.

It’s important one understands Mal. 3:10—God is still talking to the preachers (priests) who have stolen his tithes and not modern Christians.

“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, *(Now God is asking the priest to return the taxes they have stolen, and if they do—he says the following) and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it (Mal. 3:10). *(In other words—fill your storehouses with food).

Note This: This whole chapter 3 in Malachi—and all the words therein were for priests in 515 B.C. who had stolen God’s tithes and had absolutely nothing to do with money or modern-day “Pirates of Christianity” from the Word-of-Faith Ministries that practice and preach the Health and Wealth Gospel known as the “Prosperity Gospel” in 2017.

Summary

The LORD is coming—and he’s not bearing gifts! This is one time I’m glad to be an atheist—don’t kill the messenger!

Ivan Peter Kovak