<TITLE>14. Par 58-61</TITLE>L-58 If He had no father, He had no mother, He had no beginning of days or ending of life, Melchisedec still exists. Is that right? Made on the order... Having no father, no mother, but was made like unto the son of God, abides a priest continually... He can't... He had no beginning. He has no end. He had no father; He had no mother, yet He was a man. And He came from Salem: peace. He was the King of peace. He was the King of righteousness. He was not only a King, but He was a Prince: and He is the Prince of peace. He's the Rose of Sharon. He's the Lily of the valley, the Morning Star, the Alpha, Omega; He that was, which is, and shall come, both Root and Offspring of David. He was before David, in David, and after David. Who was this Priest? None other than the incarnated Lord Jesus Christ.
In His magnificent power He was the same One a little later on, after he met Abraham, and gave him, as being a covenant people, the communion... Then now, through that same covenant, we take... And He was in a shadow, that Melchisedec, when He become a Man of flesh, would be cut into part, and the communion would be given the furtherance of His broken body, as we take today.

L-59 There that Melchisedec met Abraham. And Abraham paid tithes to Him. Amen. Abraham, the greatest man on the face of the earth, paid tithes to Melchisedec, the King of peace, the King of Salem, the King of righteousness. And He was a Prince, and He was... He was a Prince; He was a King, and He was the Servant of the Most High, which Jesus was.
And when Abraham, a few years later, not long after that, when Lot had backslid, and Sodom had been burned, and Abraham was left alone with Sarah, out on the barren grounds when their--their cattle was all dying from starvation, it looked like God had failed him. But he had strong faith to believe. And one day setting in the door of his tent, under the big oak... (It still stands in a memorial today as a charred over hulk.) And there, Abraham setting in the door of his tent, seeing Melchisedec coming to him, three Men walking...

L-60 Now, I just imagine Abraham said, "I seen Him before." And He comes up, and he said, "Let me... just come by, my Lord. And let me fetch a little water for Your feet." Somehow, way down, that covenant man, down in his heart, knew that that was Somebody more than a man.
He said, "We're strangers." Said, "We've come from a foreign country." (Their clothes were dusty. Yes, they was: all the way from glory.) And so they walked up there and said to Abraham... They brought them a little stuff and washed... And Abraham begin to look at them. He slipped back in the tent and said, "Sarah, stand here just a minute." Out to the herd he went and got the fattest calf he could find, and killed it, and brought it back, and gave this Man some meat and bread and milk and butter... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-61 Now, when Melchisedec, the King of Salem, the Priest of the Most High, the King of peace, which was none other than the forepart of the Lord Jesus Christ, and when He met Abraham, He fed Abraham the communion and blessed him. And here He... Abraham meets Him on His journey to Sodom and feeds Him meat and bread. Oh, don't you see the connection between the man... He promised... Our bread and water is sure and God will do it just as certain as we're setting here. And every Divine promise He has made, He's obligated to do it.
And when the two Angels went on towards Sodom, Abraham stood there and he looked around with the Man. He said, "If I'll find so many and so many," as he kept saying down to ten... And when He left, then the Angel or the Man that was standing by him disappeared and vanished by the sacrifice. And Abraham said, "I've talked face to face with Almighty God." Melchisedec.


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