Sat.’s Devo - Who is this Melchizedek?

Read: Hebrews 4:14-7
The Old Testament is the picture of the natural that points to the spiritual. The spiritual manifested in the flesh in the New Testament and was poured out so that all could walk in the natural, in the spirit. Sounds confusing but it is a continuous circle from the natural to the spiritual in our own lives. God had a priesthood in heaven. He showed it to Moses on the mount and Moses copied all that he saw in heaven and scaled it down to build the tabernacle. Melchizedek was God’s High Priest until Jesus came. Then the office went to Jesus. In the Old Testament, the high priest was the high priest until he died, then it went to one of his descendents.
Hebrews tells us that the high priest is chosen to represent the people in their dealings with God. The job of the high priest was to offer sacrifices for sin. God appointed Jesus to be the high priest after Melchizedek’s order which was heavenly. Jesus became the sacrifice once and for all for sin and offered himself. They didn’t take his life from him, he laid it down willingly.
Melchizedek made a cameo appearance in Genesis 14 when he appeared to Abraham after he fought in the battle against the kings. If you go back to that story and look up the names of the kings he fought in that battle you will find they stood for “chained”, “in evil”, “in wickedness”, “bondage”, “change of father”, to name a few. The other side was just as wicked. Some of their names meant “the dead”, “double-horned mind readers”, “terror”. They fought in a place called Sidon which means “vale of cultivators”. So they were the cults of the day fighting against one another. The only reason Abraham got involved was that the winners took the people of Sodom as their reward and Lot and his family was among them. Abraham went after them to get Lot back. Abraham succeeded and took all the spoils. What a picture of how we should fight and win in spiritual warfare. When a loved one has been take by the enemy, we must pursue them in the spirit and get them back. The place that Abraham fought was called Hobah which was near Damascus. Hobah means “hiding” and Damascus means “sackcloth”. Abraham fought them at night. We don’t fight like the world but we fight in the secrecy of our prayer room, in hiding, in the night. We humble ourselves, fast and pray before God. Then we declare a victory over the devil and take back what he stole from us and more. Abraham left with the spoils of all those kings! He then met Melchiedek who brought wine and bread and they sat and ate holy communion together. He blessed Abraham and Abraham gave him a tenth of all he had taken.
Lord, may we not be afraid to go after what the devil had stolen from us and bring it back into the church of God.