<TITLE>09. Par 37-41</TITLE>L-37 And what was the first thing they did? Abraham, returning back with Lot, his wife, his children, and all the possessions, triumphally, walking back to the home grounds again, he met Melchisedec. Melchisedec was the King of Salem. Salem is Jerusalem. When the Jews went into Jerusalem, they called J-u- salem--Jerusalem. "Salem" which means "the city of peace." He was the King of the... Listen, let us read it.
To whom Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being interpreted the King of righteousness, (Who was this King that met him? Coming back from the triumph with the victory, as the Church is today from Calvary.), after that the King of Salem, which is the King of peace;
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days or ending of life;

L-38 Who was this King of Salem? A great King of Jerusalem, not the earthly, the heavenly. The earthly Jerusalem was a type of the heavenly; and here come the King of Salem which is first the King of righteousness, the King of peace. He didn't have any father, didn't have any mother. He didn't have beginning of life or ending of days. Oh, my. Without a descent, none other than Christ, Himself. That's Who the Church meets when they go up into the air.
And when Abraham met Him, he give Him the tithes of all that he possessed. You know what they did? The first thing they did was set down (I feel really emotional.), set down and broke bread and drink wine and taken the communion after the battle was over.

L-39 And the Bible tells us, Jesus Christ did, that, "We'll eat no more of the fruit of the vine, until I eat it anew with you in my Father's Kingdom." That when the last battle is fought and the victory's won and the waywards has been brought back to the Kingdom of God, we'll set down in the Kingdom of God, and with our Melchisedec Who has no beginning of days or ending of here... (Oh, my, He's our King that's eternal One), eat the communion again with Him. Oh, what a beautiful picture, just marvelous, Old Testament gives to the New Testament believers.

L-40 The law having a shadow of things to come and not... Listen. The law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of those things. It was a shadow of the image.
David ruled over the world in the golden age of Israel. What was he? The shadow, David setting on the throne, all the world at his feet. What was it the shadow of? It was shadowing something, traveling... the Son of David, Who is the Son of God, Who is Melchisedec, Who is beginning of days and ending of years, He has none. The shadow, during the Millennium He will set on the throne of David and rule all nations, the shadow of good things.

L-41 What is it today? We look and see the shadow. Men and women who profess to be Christians and live like the world. They say, "Oh, I belong to church. What difference does it make?" It's a shadow of the deceiver from the Garden of Eden, who pretended to be good, who pretended to have light, who pretended to have wisdom, but was a deceiver. And that's the way men and women does today that calls the Name of Jesus Christ and doesn't depart from sin. Foreshadowing the punishment that they will receive with him who is a deceiver.
Jesus said to those religious Pharisees, "You are of your father the devil."


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