We know it is human nature to want to learn more, or even fill in the blanks of a story with our own conjectures. People want to learn about enigmatic Melchizedek, and Scripture almost teases us with references to him.
Abram had been called and blessed by God. We read that he was a wealthy and powerful man. There was a war going on (Gen. 14), and Abram's nephew Lot was living in Sodom. He was one of the people carried off in a raid, and Abram took his own men in battle against several kings!
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The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, Dirk Bouts, 1465 |
There is probably no more mysterious figure in all of Scripture than Melchizedek. He comes on the stage of Scripture in Genesis 14, disappears for close to 1,000 years before being mentioned again by David in Psalm 110, and then disappears off the pages of Sacred Writ for another 1,000 years before being mentioned by the writer of Hebrews. It is in Hebrews that we are confronted with some mysterious and difficult-to-understand facts about this ancient king and priest.
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