GENESIS CHAPTER 14 - 14:18 THE SCOFIELD BIBLE

GENESIS CHAPTER  14

14:18 > Melchizedek, type of Christ the King-Priest. The type strictly applies to the priestly work of Christ in resurrection, since Melchizedek presents only the memorials of sacrifice, bread and wine. "After the order of Melchizedek" ( HEBREWS  6:20 ) refers to the royal authority and unending duration of Christ's high priesthood ( HEBREWS  7:23__24 ). The Aaronic priesthood was often interrupted by death. Christ is a priest after the order of Melchizedek, as King of righteousness King of peace ( ISAIAH  11:4__9;  HEBREWS  7:2 ), and in the endlessness of His priesthood, but the Aaronic priesthood typifies His priestly work.

14:18 "Most high" or "most high God" ( HEBREWS  El Elyon ). "Elyon" means simply 'highest" 
( 1 ) The first revelation of the name ( Verse  18 ) indicates its distinctive meanings. Abram, returning from is victory over the confederated kings ( GENESIS  14:1__7 ), is met by Melchizedek, King of Salem . . . the "priest of the most high God" ( El Elyon ), who blesses Abram in the name of El Elyon, "possessor of heaven and earth." This revelation produced a remarkable impression upon the patriarch. Not only did he at once give Melchizedek "tithes of all" the spoil of the battle, but when the king of Sodom offered other of that spoil to Abram, his answer was: "I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD [ jEHOVAH ], the most high God ] El Elyon ], the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet," ( GENESIS  14:18__23 ).
( a ) The LORD ( Jehovah ) is known to a Gentile king ( Melchizedek ) by the name "most high God" ( El Elyon ); ( b ) a Gentile is the priest of El Elyon and ( c ) His distinctive character as most high God is "possessor of heaven and earth."   

14:18 Appropriately to this Gentile knowledge of God by His name "Most High" we read that "the Most High divided to the nations [ Gentiles ] their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam," ( DEUTERONOMY  32:8 ) As "possessor of heaven and earth," it was the prerogative of the Most High to distribute the earth among the nations according to whatever principle He chose. That principle is declared in Deuteronomy  32:8. To the same purport is the use of the name in Daniel, the book of Gentile prophecy ( DANIEL  3:26;  4:17,  24,  25,  32,  35 ).
( 2 ) As "Possessor of heaven and earth," the most high God has and exercises authority in both spheres: ( a ) as the heavenly authority of El Elyon ( DANIEL  4:35,l  37;  ISAIAH  14:13__14;  MATTHEW  28:18 );  ( b ) the earthly authority of El Elyon ( DEUTERONOMY  32:8;  PSALM  9:2__5;  21:7;  47:2__5;  SAMUEL  22:14__15 ).

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