Who precisely are the thieves and robbers of whom Jesus speaks? Is he talking about men who mug us in the streets?
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The robbers then proceeded to cart away the money and valuables of those passengers who had not been paying their tithes. “I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.” Is he talking about highway robbers who snatch our cars? Is he talking about those “yahoo thieves” who rob us blind with a keystroke of the computer on the internet? Or is he talking about those who break into our houses in the dead of night?
“Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. ‘But you ask, ‘How do we rob you?’ In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse – the whole nation of you – because you are robbing me.”What pastors hide from unsuspecting Christians is the fact that God was not admonishing believers in this scripture in Malachi; he was admonishing pastors. The thieves said to be robbing God were the Levites; the pastors of biblical Israel.
“Do not be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren. Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ.”
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