Question 140. What is the Eighth Commandment?

 

Question 140. What is the Eighth Commandment?

Answer. The Eighth Commandment is, “Thou shalt not steal.”

Luke 12:33-34, “Sell what you have and give to charity. Provide yourselves with purses that do not wear out, a treasure in heaven that never fails, where no thief comes near, and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

In the Old Testament, the phrase “do not steal” meant “do not steal what should be offered to God.” With this title, you can hear pastors in some churches say that it is good to give a lot of offerings. However, this word has a different meaning from “give a lot of offerings.”

In the Old Testament, "offering something to God" means "being destroyed before God." It refers to animals being burned to death. In the Old Testament, everything offered to God that was not burned was stored in a warehouse called "offerings" to distinguish it. What is offered to God is something that is burned, that is, something that dies, and it is a shadow of the coming of Jesus Christ. The tithe also contains the meaning of looking to Jesus Christ. What is offered to God that is not burned in the fire is returned to people.

This was used for the priests and other Levites, orphans, widows, etc. The word "offering" ended at the end of the Old Testament. Jesus Christ accomplished all of this. The concept of offering money to God ended.

The phrase, “offering offerings to God,” should not be used in the New Testament era. In the Old Testament era, people went to the temple and offered sacrifices to God and burned them, but in the New Testament, Jesus accomplished all of this. If believers believe that Jesus Christ solved everything, offering to God is nonsense. Now, offering to God is offering myself and moving forward in Jesus Christ. In other words, offering the spirit within me to God. Therefore, giving money is not an act of offering to God, but rather has the meaning of donating it to the church and having it used.

In Matthew 19:21, Jesus said, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." Today, many believers think of offerings as giving to God, and they give them as an offering to God.

The meaning of offerings is different in the Old Testament and New Testament eras. In some churches, there are people who say, "The tithe of the Old Testament era was changed to an offering in the New Testament era." Jesus said it was an offering, but church people say it was an offering. We must know the exact meaning of offerings and offerings.

The word "alcohol" was used in the Old Testament, and the "alcohol chest" in the Old Testament was a concept of a treasure house or a national treasury. The Hebrew is translated as "lysika" and the Greek is "gazophilakeo", and it refers to a storehouse of offerings offered to God in the courtyard of the temple of God.

This is not a small offering box in the New Testament church. 2 Chronicles 34:9-10, 14 talks about the treasury. The treasury was a warehouse where all kinds of tithes and offerings were kept. The Hebrew word “bo” means “to come in.” Everything that entered God’s treasury was an offering. The tithes of the Old Testament were also part of what was in the treasury. Therefore, it is difficult to say that “the tithes of the Old Testament were changed into the offerings of the New Testament.”

The term "alcohol" in the New Testament era is different from the concept in the Old Testament era. In the Old Testament era, all tithes and offerings offered to God were gathered in the treasury. The offerings were given to God and used for the people in charge of the temple of God (the Levites), orphans, and widows. Therefore, it is not the first time it was used in the New Testament era.

Jesus did not use the word alms, but rather called it offering. The Hebrew word for offering was korban, minha. When the apostle Paul preached, he made a living out of his own free will. In the New Testament era, he gave living expenses through offerings, and helped the poor and widows. The Greek word that Jesus used, doron, is translated as offering.

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