10 Aug The Mysterious Tenth King
In Genesis 14 there are two stories told, but joined together by the characters of Lot and Abraham.
Initially there is a battle between four invading kings, against five local kings including the King of Sodom, the city in which Lot was living. The four foreign invading kings Amraphel of Shinar, Arioch of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer of Elam, and Tidal of Goyim, were victorious. Lot was taken captive.
So the first story is a battle involving nine kings and the capture of Lot, but then Abraham gets involved and takes the battle to the four victorious kings and with his household soldiers, a groups numbering over three hundred men, he is victorious. Lot is rescued, and along with Abraham’s military victory he obtains a huge amount of plunder.
On the way back from the victory, he stops and gives Melchizedek a tithe of the plunder. He gives that king one tenth of the spoils of war.
But Melchizedek is also a king, a tenth king. And he represents one tenth of the kings in this story. He is a tithe of the kings. And he is the king who represents Christ. His name means king of righteousness, which is Christ. He is also the actual king of salem, which means peace. Christ is also the king of peace.
And so in this story we have a mysterious figure. Out of ten kings there is one king who is holy, who belongs to God. Alongside the example of Abraham giving a tithe, the portion of money that belongs to God, we see the same with the kings.
Do you belong to God?
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