Joshua 6:24 (KJV)
And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.

Here is a principle we see again and again in the Old Testament; the thing that is offered to God is burnt to dust.

There is a symbolic thing that happens there. God, of course, needs nothing. When we give to God in this “careless” way, we acknowledge that. He does not need our gifts. We give out of obedience and worship, not His necessity.

Then too, by burning it up we insure that we don’t come back later to reclaim it. It is gone for good and forever. In much the same way we must view our offerings as gone from us forever. We can’t take them back. We must not force control over them.

Some of the goods from Jericho were kept for the house of the Lord. Our gifts are truly sacrificed; never to be brought up again. At the same time those gifts enter into the treasury of God’s house. There they support the facilities and the ministries of the church.

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Joshua 6:24 (KJV) Your Offering, Burnt To Dust

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