Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of our post today is Communion and the Cross.

We've all heard the phrase, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Indeed.

This is why God, at times, used actions in history to give prophetic pictures of future

events. Theologians often call these pictures types and shadows, taken from the language of

1st Corinthians 10, 11, and Colossians 2, 16, and 17.

One such picture is in Genesis 14,

which pictures the communion meal and Christ's victory at the cross.

The context is Abraham warring against an alliance of evil rulers who had attacked and plundered several other kings and their cities.

In the process, they had taken captive Abraham's relatives, Lott, and his family. Abraham launched a rescue operation, liberating his family,

and reclaiming what the evil kings had plundered. In response, he was blessed by one of the leaders

involved, Melchizedek, King of Salem.

Malkisadic was not only a king, but a priest.

Because of this and other remarkable details in the story,

God decided to use Malkisadic as a type of Christ, our king and high priests.

Here are a few of those remarkable details.

Number one, the blessing of Abraham by Malkisadik.

Malkisadik was from a race of people under a generational curse,

visited on them due to the sin of their father, Genesis 925.

In a striking paradox, a cursed king blessed Abraham. How could a cursed king blessed Abraham.

How could a cursed king possibly picture Christ?

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