2/19/2024 0 Comments Audio sermon genesis tithingAnd blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.’’ And he gave him a tithe of all.Ībraham paid a tithe to Melchizedek who was a type of the coming Christ. And he blessed him and said: "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth 20. Genesis 14:18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine he was the priest of God Most High. After the battle and Abraham’s victory, as he was on his way back in the King’s Valley, something happened. Abraham was at war with the regional kings. You can read the entire 14th chapter of Genesis to get the whole story but because of space I will start at vs.18. I don’t want to bore you with definitions, however it is important to understand the meaning of something before we talk about it. 14:20) (2) Melchizedek, whose genealogy is outside that of the Levites, took "tithes" of Abraham, the recipient himself of the divine promises (3) whereas death is the natural lot of those who receive "tithes," the death of Melchizedek is not recorded (4) the Levites who received "tithes" virtually paid them through Abraham to Melchizedek. 7:4-9 shows the superiority of the Melchizedek priesthood to the Levitical, in that (1) Abraham, the ancestor of the Levites, paid "tithes" to Melchizedek (Gen. Text: "to give tithes," in Luke 18:12 (some texts have No. ![]() Vines says this - Transliterated: apodekateuo According to Strong’s, the Hebrew word ma`aser translated tithe means a tenth.įeminine of GSN1182 a tenth, i.e. I would like to take a look at this from a Biblical perspective, and try to see the truth of God’s Word and find out, why the tithe? ![]() They say it has no part of the New Covenant, and that it is legalistic and holds us in bondage. Many have said that tithing has been done away with, and that it is for the Old Covenant only.
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