"Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse that there may be food in my house. So put me to the test in this right now," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and see if I won't throw open the windows of heaven for you and pour out on you blessing without measure.

"Then all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

and, "Now we call the arrogant one blessed. Those who do evil prosper and those who challenge God escape the consequences.'"