{"id":7875,"date":"2016-08-11T16:53:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=7875"},"modified":"2016-08-11T16:53:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T16:53:43","slug":"jacobs-tithes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/7875\/jacobs-tithes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob&#8217;s Tithes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> After Jacob vowed to God to pay his tithes to God if God would bring him safely back from Haran, to whom would Jacob pay his tithes to?\u00a0 Could\u00a0 Melchizedek still be alive?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Billy M.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> ============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Billy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> Good question, Billy, but the Bible does not provide any answer to it.\u00a0 But then, were it not for a few verses in Genesis 14, we would not know that Melchizedek even existed.\u00a0 So, a lack of information about priests of God during this time does not mean that they were not around.\u00a0 Elijah, you will remember, had no information about any righteous people in Israel, and he grew discouraged, but God told Elijah that there were 7,000 in Israel who had not bowed to Baal.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> In short, I feel sure that Jacob knew who to bring his tithes to when God brought him safely home, even if we don&#8217;t know who it was.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> Thanks for the question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, After Jacob vowed to God to pay his tithes to God if God would bring him safely back from Haran, to whom would Jacob pay his tithes to?\u00a0 Could\u00a0 Melchizedek still be alive? Thanks, Billy M. ============ Hi Billy. Good question, Billy, but the Bible does not provide any answer to it.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}