Tithes and offerings.
Citations:
Edward Partridge: Minutes of August 24,
1831
Joseph: ¶ Joseph Smith—History
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| Messenger
to prepare the way |
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Behold, I will send
my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom
ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant,
whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. |
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| Cannot
hide |
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But who may abide the
day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like
a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: |
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Purify
Righteous offering |
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And he shall sit as
a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi,
and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an
offering in righteousness. |
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| As
anciently |
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Then shall the offering
of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old,
and as in former years. |
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| Punish
wicked |
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And I will come near
to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers,
and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those
that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and
that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the
LORD of hosts. |
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| Chosen
won't be burned up |
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For I am the LORD, I
change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. |
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| Return
to Lord |
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Even from the days of
your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them.
Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But
ye said, Wherein shall we return? |
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| Robbed
God |
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Will a man rob God?
Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes
and offerings. |
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| Nation
cursed |
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Ye are cursed with a
curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. |
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Bring
tithes to storehouse
Be blessed |
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Bring ye all the tithes
into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, 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. |
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| Rebuke
devourer |
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And I will rebuke the
devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground;
neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith
the LORD of hosts. |
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| Be
blessed nation |
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And all nations shall
call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of
hosts. |
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| Have
spoken against the Lord |
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Your words have been
stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much
against thee? |
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| Vain
to serve the Lord |
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Ye have said, It is
vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance,
and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? |
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| Reward
wicked |
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And now we call the proud
happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God
are even delivered. |
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| Book
of remembrance |
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Then they that feared
the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it,
and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the
LORD, and that thought upon his name. |
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| Lord's
jewels |
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And they shall be mine,
saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will
spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. |
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| Discern
righteous from wicked |
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Then shall ye return,
and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth
God and him that serveth him not. |
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