“Return unto Me, and I will return unto you _______ (your name), saith the LORD of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?
Will a man rob God? yet ye have robbed Me. But ye say . . . Wherein have we robbed Thee? In tithes and offerings,” saith the LORD.
Bring ye all the tithes (Exodus 36:3-7) into the storehouse, that there may be meat (food) in Mine house,
and prove Me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts . . . if I will not open unto you _______ (your name) the very windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes . . . and all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightsome* land (greatly desired, a place well favored), saith the LORD of hosts !” Malachi 3:7-12
“Give (from a willing heart, not grudgingly), and it shall be given unto you; in good measure . . . yea, pressed down
and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same portion that ye mete (measure to others) with all ,
it shall be measured to you again !” Luke 6:38
“In that day . . . will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean, yea, from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you . . .
Then the heathen (unbelieving) that are left round about you shall know . . . that I the LORD build the ruined places, and I the LORD plant that which was desolate . . . For I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it !”
– Ezekiel 36:25-56*