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PERSECUTION LB wrote this on the 19 th of Dec. 2018 Please read this article regarding the persecution of Christians in China and mobilize fervent focus prayer for them, especially those pastors who have signed a document declaring their steadfast faith in Yeshua Christ and be praying for our brothers and sisters in Christ in North Korea. “This time, the government shut down a church in Chengdu and arrested many members of the church. Some of the members were taken away to the station  from their homes  including children. Pastor Wang, the senior pastor, is still missing and his wife is under house arrest for inciting subversion.”  My response below. Dear LB, Interestingly a similar thing happened recently here in India in Jaunpur UP. The Hindu nationalist state government cracked down on a regular gathering on an open ground where around 4/5000 believers met to worship on Sundays. The pastor and few others had been taken into police custody. Any believers going in

The tithe is manipulated and misused all over the world. Torah mentions three types of giving- 1. Temples tax. Half a shekel for everyone rich or poor. The Jewish Priests were exempted.  When tax collectors came to Yeshua, he asked them does a Prince gives taxes. Nevertheless, to fulfill all formalities he sent Peter with fishing rod. Peter caught a fish with a coin stuck in its mouth and gave it to the temple tax collectors. Exodus 30:13–16 . Matt. 17: 24-27  2. Tithe: Tithe was not gold or silver or cash. It was food. Only those who were landowners gave tithe out of their produce. They gave animals, grains. first fruits, oil, wine etc.as tithe.   After slaughtering the animal and smearing the blood on the four horns of the altar and offering the head and the fat with the organs like liver and heart etc. the priests would waive the animal around on top of the altar of fire and gave it back to the devotee keeping one leg for himself. The devotee would then take the animal back