The question relates to a "when".
Has anyone read about when the SDA church began taking up tithe on Sabbath? I think I have read that, when we began taking up tithes, it was accepted on any day apart from Sabbath. There seems to have been a change. Can somebody please verify this, or show me that I am mistaken?
(I have also understood that the treasury/storehouse in the Temple was open all week, except during Sabbath. Again, can anybody verify this, or show me that I am mistaken?)
Regards,
Stewart.
Hi,
In the OT Levitical system, the tithe was paid to the tribe of Levi then through the Levi's, the Aaronic priests (24 sons of Aaron) who served in the temple were paid. So the money was never directly brought to the temple at any time (that I know of). Only offerings (animals, grains/cereals and drinks , not money) were brought into the sanctuary/temple. I'm not sure if sis White ever wrote about the practice of her days.
On another note, the storehouse/treasury is not the church.
This world is the Lord's storehouse, from which we are ever drawing. He has provided fruits and grains and vegetables for our sustenance. For us He makes the sun to shine and the rain to fall. The whole human family, good and evil, are constantly drawing from God's storehouse. It makes every difference with those so highly privileged how they receive the Lord's gifts and how they treat the contract the Lord has made with them.
He has made them His almoners, directing them to draw from His storehouse, and then make a return to Him in gifts and offerings, "that there may be meat in mine house." -- Manuscript 73, Dec. 12, 1900
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The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof." This earth is the Lord's storehouse, from which we are ever drawing. He has provided fruits and grains and vegetables for our sustenance. For us He makes the sun to shine and the rain to fall. The whole human family, good and evil, are constantly drawing from God's storehouse. It makes every difference with those so highly privileged how they receive the Lord's gifts, and how they treat the contract the Lord has made with them. He has made them His almoners, directing them to draw from His storehouse, and then make a return to Him in gifts and offerings, "that there may be meat in mine house," He says. {RH, December 17, 1901 par. 11}
The storehouse is the world. The tithe is for the advancement of the Word in the world. So that means all who are faithfully preaching the true/original Adventist message should be paid with the SDA tithes. The general conference claims all tithe and offerings must go to her. But there is no biblical support on her claim. Sis White in many of her writings warned specifically against the tithe money going to a central point of collection and distribution.
