Annotated Gen.14.18 "Melchizedek" We shall come back to Lot after explaining the promise of God to the patriarch.
" And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God."
His appearance is as a forerunner to the patriarch who shall observe the act of circumcision as a sign of entering into the life of his Son whose Advent itself is a pledge to the promise of the indwelling Spirit upon all men. The basis of fath is same for both.
The Lord from heaven sets bread and wine so circumcision signifies outward observes condemning the flesh and drawing blood in the process. Mind you it is before the Law of Moses was enjoined upon the nation of Israel. Abraham was to be the priest-king and of the latter aspect we have the proof in his successful campaign against the confederacy of nations.(14.1-17)
As commanded of God he serves as a priest administering the covenant."and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him."(17.23) Thus the Spirit is setting Abraham as the Father of many nations of which the Jews constitute only one part. It is ofthm God promises, " And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth:... then shall thy seed also be numbered./ Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee"(13.16-17). The Covenant of the flesh is merely pendent to the Covenant God has entered with his Son. "The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek."(Ps.110.4)
Circumcision is of no value since his Son shed abroad the Holy Spirit. Upon this promise stands the church of the first born and of the spirits, "the spirits of just men made perfect,/And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling."
Imposter church may contain the seed of Abraham but none of it can be said to be of 'another seed' of Jesus the Mediator. Church of Rome was on the ruins of Rome.
" And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God."
His appearance is as a forerunner to the patriarch who shall observe the act of circumcision as a sign of entering into the life of his Son whose Advent itself is a pledge to the promise of the indwelling Spirit upon all men. The basis of fath is same for both.
The Lord from heaven sets bread and wine so circumcision signifies outward observes condemning the flesh and drawing blood in the process. Mind you it is before the Law of Moses was enjoined upon the nation of Israel. Abraham was to be the priest-king and of the latter aspect we have the proof in his successful campaign against the confederacy of nations.(14.1-17)
As commanded of God he serves as a priest administering the covenant."and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him."(17.23) Thus the Spirit is setting Abraham as the Father of many nations of which the Jews constitute only one part. It is ofthm God promises, " And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth:... then shall thy seed also be numbered./ Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee"(13.16-17). The Covenant of the flesh is merely pendent to the Covenant God has entered with his Son. "The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek."(Ps.110.4)
Circumcision is of no value since his Son shed abroad the Holy Spirit. Upon this promise stands the church of the first born and of the spirits, "the spirits of just men made perfect,/And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling."
Imposter church may contain the seed of Abraham but none of it can be said to be of 'another seed' of Jesus the Mediator. Church of Rome was on the ruins of Rome.
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