14. You will be oppressed and crushed always (v 33)
15. You will be mad when you see your own helplessness (v 34)
16. You will be smitten with a sore botch (boils and ulcers) that cannot be
healed (v 35)
17. You and your king will suffer captivity to a foreign nation (v 36)
18. There you will serve idols (v 36)
19. You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all
nations (v 37)
20. Your crops will be destroyed by locusts (v 38,43)
21. Your vineyards will be eaten by worms (v 39)
22. You will lose your olive crops (v 40)
23. You will not enjoy your sons and daughters because they will become
slaves to foreign nations (v 41)
24. The strangers that are among you will be exalted and you will be
humbled (v 43)
25. You will borrow from strangers (v 44)
26. They shall be the head and you shall be the tail (v 44)
Indeed, the breaking of the Law is a frightening prospect. Tithing is
therefore important for anyone who does not want to experience these wide-
ranging curses. As you can see, not paying tithes brings upon you much more
than the curse of Malachi.
5. People who do not pay tithes are cursed with the curse that comes on
those who repay God’s goodness to them with evil.
How did you come by the health you have? How did you come by the
strength that you have? How did you come by the job you have? How did
you come by the intelligence and opportunities that you have? What hast
thou that thou didst not receive? If you did receive all these things from God
how come you do not return to Him and honour Him with the first fruits of
your substance?
Throughout the Bible, curses are spoken over ungrateful people who return
evil for good. Perhaps, the most severe and frightening of these is found in
the hundred and ninth Psalm. In this Psalm, you discover twenty-seven
different curses that follow the ingratitude of those who reward good with
evil and love with accusations and suspicion. You learn about the future of
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