1999
About Tithing
February 1999


“About Tithing,” Friend, Feb. 1999, 23

About Tithing

Write the missing word for each sentence in its place in the diagram.

1. Some tithing money is used to build ______________, sacred buildings where special ordinances are done for the living and the dead.

1. T __ __ __ __ __ __

2. In Malachi 3:10 [Mal. 3:10] the Lord says that He will open “the ______________ of heaven” if we pay our tithing.

2. __ I __ __ __ __ __

3. Tithe means one ______________.

3. __ __ __ T __

4. Tithing money is also used to build meetinghouses with ______________, where we worship every Sunday.

4. __ H __ __ __ __ __

5. In Genesis 14:18–20 [Gen. 14:18–20] and Alma 13:15, we learn that the prophet Abraham paid his tithing to ______________.

5. __ __ __ __ __ I __ __ __ __ __

6. Lorenzo ______________, the fifth Church President, promised the Saints in St. George a blessing of rain for their crops if they would pay their tithing.

6. __ N __ __

7. Doctrine and Covenants 64:23 [D&C 64:23] teaches us that those who pay tithing “shall not be burned at [Christ’s second] ______________.”

7. __ __ __ __ __ G

Answers:

  • (1) temples, (2) windows, (3) tenth, (4) chapels, (5) Melchizedek, (6) Snow, (7) coming.