Malachi 3:10 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.Greetings. The modern church has taken the above good verse and put sin on it by making it their own thoughts; also, we have added spiritual death unto ourselves. Romans 7:13Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. Churches falsely believes that Malachi 3:10 speaks of the physical; thus, bring your physical money into their physical building and God will double or even in some cases triple your money back to you. And the windows of heaven opening, and monies being poured down; watch out for those falling silver dollars. I said the following in jest to make us think, which most people find less time to do. God calls His house a storehouse which has nothing to do with a physical building. There would be nothing wrong with physical people meeting in a building to praise God if you could find a group that understood who God is. Acts 17:23For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. When we praise God according to our own interpretation of the meaning of the scripture; we are praising unknowingly: we are ignorantly praising ourselves. When I hear people in the marketplace boasting how God has blessed them, as it relates to the physical, I can discern they really don't know God. John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. The Spiritual man does not judge the Law or speaks his own wisdom about the word but allows the words to judge his thoughts. John 14:10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Since Jesus was a Spiritual man: clothed in the sinful flesh and yet we are born natural being also clothed in the sinful flesh. If I am a natural man, what kind of natural man am I? Jude 1:10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Thus, to praise God I must become a Spiritual man and God’s words are Spiritual being also. Nobody becomes a Spiritual man by repeating after a man at a physical altar. Malachi 3:10 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. Now this meat in the above verse has nothing to do with a physical leg of lamb; but we ask in faith that the Holy Ghost make known it’s Spiritual meaning as He will. It can never be my will about a scripture and again my judgement or will is sin. John 5:30I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. We have thought God’s will has something to do with: who we will marry, how much debt do I take on, what job should I take? How can a two-legged brute beast spiritually discern the above verse or even a word. Please understand how we must start to think on a higher level. Isaiah 55:8''For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,'' declares the Lord. God is not coming down to my level of thinking; Spiritually this would involve Him coming down from the cross, thus the image of the old man of sin could never be destroyed. We have seen Jesus as just a man and the Bible as just an image of our corrupt thinking. Job 40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. We have corrupted every verse we could get our vile mouth on. Let’s examine the word storehouse and this will give us more spiritual understanding into what God desires to reveal to us. Understand when I start to write these letters, I am allowing the Holy Ghost to correct my thinking over a period of days sometime months even years. 1 Corinthians 2:14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. The Bible is a Spiritual Law book to correct the vile thinking of man and none of us wants to be corrected.
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Deuteronomy 28:8The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.Another name for storehouse could be a barn, and we have imagined storehouses and blessing as to something only physical.The land in the above verse symbolizes God’s word and this spiritual fact is hidden in the next verse. Psalm 106:24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word.We all unknowingly at first despised God’s word by judging their meaning in our own devilish wisdom and reject the Holy Ghost council: we shall not be blessed in the land or word. When reading the Bible, we must learn to allow the Holy Ghost to give us good council on every word and verse He draws us to. I shall not lay or settest wicked spiritual hand quickly on none of the verses as to the Interpretation of their meaning. 1 Timothy 5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.When we agree with other men devilish wisdom concerning the scripture, we are partaker of their sins. Anybody can go to a Theological seminary or give themselves flattering titles and draw men after them. It is easier to answer to men then to God: just give the Pastor your monies and praise him, and you will have men seal of approval. People stand in physical lines and have Preachers lay hands on them: carnal mindedfoolishness and a waste of time. In our physical storehouses we lay up things sometime against hard times. Is Saint Paul warning Timothy to laid up something physical or mental in the next verse? 1 Timothy 6:19laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.Could we have stored up many wicked thoughts in our hearts or minds against the Lord’s character? I have and so has everyone born of a woman. As a kids when we did something wrong, and when our fathers got home: he had something in store for us. What do we think God has kept in store for us when we make His word our wisdom? 2 Peter 3:7but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. Michael Rudolph Hodges / This is a part 1 of my newest book, due out in about two months. 4/16/2021 email us and we will send you a free copy. michaelhodges71yahoo.com
God’s words kept in storage; can a Pastor explain that? Judgement day is when we allow God to judge our wicked thoughts against His words: we have all fallen away from His truth, which is perdition. Hebrews 10:39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. Again, perdition is when we have fallen spiritual away or draw back from God’s truth. People go to altar call lines and fall backward when Pastors lay hands on them: carnal-minded foolishness. 2 Thessalonians 2:3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.The man that will deceive us in the above verse is our own wisdom about the Bible. Marvelous things can come forth out of this if we can except the judgment, without drawing back: it could be the saving of our souls. Either we are coming forth to except judgement or we flee away from it. James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Our thoughts concerning the meaning of the scripture are devilish, we must learn to resist them. Be careful not to break your Spiritual neck, when judgement comes. 1 Samuel 4:18And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years. Spiritually we will look at the truth hidden in 1 Samuel at another time: it will be glorious. Strange thing I recall didn’t Hollywood make a movie sometime back with the word perdition, in the title? Malachi 3:10 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. Are the windows in the above verse physical, if so what brand? Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God, Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, wherein have robbed me. Thee? In tithes and offering. The false Churches Pastors of today often used this verse to justify begging for themselves and have made themselves Gods or Princes over God’s words. Will man rob Pastors of their Bentley, $1,000,000 homes, and lovers. No! Will we rob God of His glory, which is His word? Yes, on any given Sunday: we will rob Him in the marketplace, we will rob Him in the workplace, we will rob Him every time we open our vain mouth. Philippians 2:6who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Yet we are being in the form of a man have made our own thoughts greater than God. We have refused to offer a spiritual tithe and offering acceptable to Him. That offering or tithe must be His words as He sees them: anything else is sin. Hebrews 5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. How could we offer God any Spiritual meat when most so-called Christian are not even on the milk of the word: milk is the word anybody can see. 1 Corinthians 3:2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. Ever witness a physical baby spit milk back up?
Malachi 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house. Since the meat in the above verse is not anything physical and if it were could you imagine the smell of rotting meat coming out of your local Churches. Yet there is a spiritual stank coming from your local Churches, and have we ever witnessed the more physically beautiful Churches of today. Stained glass windows, beautiful, padded pews, professional praise singers with women singers, with dresses fitted perfectly just below the knees. Isaiah 3:24And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. God’s people of Isaiah times looked the part, yet the people hearts were far from Him. Ephesians 4:28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. The above has nothing to do with a physical thief and if it did a so-call Christian should know better. The good things we would be laboring for would be God’s words from heaven; only then would we have something to give them that are in need. Millions go to these Churches and remain spiritually poor: the Pastors have nothing to give and refuse to give up their wisdom in this world. We steal God’s glory because we refuse to labor for the meat that gives eternal life. John 6:27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Michael Rudolph Hodges 4/19/2022
STOREHOUSES OF BLESSING?