When you make an offering, do you offer the first one or a leftover? [The first one.] Why so? In Korea, when a sacrificial offering is made at a shamanist temple, do they kill a female cow or a male one? None of you know about it. When you look back the history of Greece or Rome, they initially sacrificed animals as offering objects, but later they also killed humans for the offering. You know the story of Shim Chung. At the time of making an offering, was the offering object a female or a male? [A female.] Why? This coincides with the understanding of the Fall taught in the Principle. Why should it be pure? It is because we must bring a pure one from the realm of Satan who took the first one from the Heaven's world. When you make a special offering to God, the offering object should be pure. That is how you can build a relationship with God. You should not use a left-over for that purpose.

For this reason, when you tithe, it should be the purest one, offered with your sincere heart and mind invested for it. That is what the offering object is supposed to be. If we talk about this, it will be endless. Anyhow, you must understand that an offering object should be pure. Suppose that you are going to offer a son as an offering object. Would you offer a son whom you dislike or who is hopeless? Such a son is not qualified to be an offering object. He should be the best son, whom you love the most. Why? Because an offering object is in the stead of yourself. (48-85)

That is the habit that you should build in your daily life. The first and the purest one that you obtain should be offered to God. If not, God will not be present. At the place where no fresh, new one is present, neither can God be present.

That is what you must understand. You should not use leftovers for an offering. That is defiled. If you do, those whose eyes are spiritually open by the grace of God will recognize it immediately. That is why you are asked not to go a defiled place.

When you make a donation on Sunday at the church, if children say: "Mommy, daddy, money for donation, please...," would you say, handing one bill, "Here it is for your Sunday school"? Is God a beggar? Is He? Is the church minister a beggar too? The church and a minister should not be treated that way. In the last days, everyone has to offer what has been kept deep in the safe. If you want to offer money, you should prepare a safe from now on. Just as harvested grains are stored in the barn until the fall, you should save donation money, tithes, in a special place in the safe. Then one year later, if for some reason you cannot offer it to God, your children and relatives should put their heads together, and with sincerity and love, they should humbly offer that tithe. (166-71)

When you make a donation, you should not use money left over after purchasing something to eat. That money is defiled. Further, God would not be present with the donation that is made out of change after you purchased things at the market. (48-86)