by Gloria Phifer
Gen. 14:18-20 Melchizedek…King of Salem
He was the priest of the Most High God (Elyone) Possessor of Heaven and Earth.
This was a type of communion.
Let's look at our High Priest at Passover…the night before He gave His life on the cross.
Luke 22:14-20.. Jesus gave His diciples the cup of wine and the bread. He made a New Covenant…a New Testament. Not under the law but by grace and truth. John 1:16-18
1 Cor. 15:23-26.
Genesis 14:20. Abram was told ..."The Lord has delivered your enemies into your hands…"
When Jesus gave His life as the Pure Lamb of God…His enemies were delivered into His
Nail Pierced Hands. Jesus is The Lord of Glory. 1 Cor. 2:7-8, Col.
When Jesus served the last supper…communion…He was demonstrating giving His life for us. Bread represents His body. Wine represents His blood.
What is interesting to me is in Gen. 14. Melchizedek served Abram bread and wine. In the next chapter Genesis 15 The Lord Jehovah made the covenant with Abram.(Abram did nothing...he was in a trance on the ground.) Abram accepted what the Lord did for him. 1st the type of Communion and then the Covenant.
Jesus served the bread and the wine at the last supper. The next day, He made a New Covenant by giving His life; His body and His blood for us. We are saved by Jesus covenant with us…nothing that we do. Only accepting what He has done for us.
Jesus is The King of Peace and He is our High Priest. He made the New Covenant with us and paid the price of giving His own life to pay for the New Covenant.
When we receive Communion we remember the New Covenant that He has made for us.
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After writing about how our eternal high priest is similar to Melchizedek (and different from later O.T. priests) in Heb. 7, Heb. 8 describes Jesus' new covenant as a fulfillment of Jer. 31:31-34 (and different from the covenant/law of Moses). The new covenant does relate to communion on a new level: all those part of Jesus' new covenant will "know the Lord" and be able to teach one another (Heb. 8:11). For God will put his laws into their minds and hearts and will be their God (8:10). Paul expresses this new communion and covenant as Christians being a "letter" that is "written with the Spirit" (2 Cor. 3:3); in the new covenant, we are in the Spirit, and the Spirit gives life (3:6). This is a life of "being changed into his likeness" and comes from the living Lord, through his Spirit (3:18).
ReplyDeleteThank the Lord for our High Priest and the New Covenant. Having Jesus in our hearts...His Spirit becomes one with our spirit. We are being changed into His image. What a wonder that we are His workmanship to the glory of God.
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