"you're not recognizing any difference between freewill offering and remittance of tithe, and not recognizing any difference between compulsion under law to return a specified portion and uncompelled generosity. "
If this were not a freewill offering, how would this rob God? Remember now the testimony, it is this whole nation. That proves that it is not some who gave in the law and some who failed to give in the law, these tithes. It proves this was failure to be generous and of good will towards God and the poor, from every man of Israel, because all lacked faith, and faith in righteousness, and the righteous gives and spares not, but without faith means wicked and they are greedy all day long.
Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Proverbs 21:26 He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteousgiveth and spareth not.
If this were not a freewill offering, how would this rob God? Remember now the testimony, it is this whole nation. That proves that it is not some who gave in the law and some who failed to give in the law, these tithes. It proves this was failure to be generous and of good will towards God and the poor, from every man of Israel, because all lacked faith, and faith in righteousness, and the righteous gives and spares not, but without faith means wicked and they are greedy all day long.
Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Proverbs 21:26 He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteousgiveth and spareth not.