"And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir./And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir."
Significance of bread and wine established Abram as truly born in the will of God and not by the will of Terah. By the same token Eliezer belonged to Damascus while Abram's name was in the rolls of holy Jeerusalem. His eternal priesthood prompted him to refuse the advancement when the king of Sodom offered him. He understood that when Melchizedek king of Salem blessed him."Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God."(14.18-19) Having partaken the bread and wine, he had entered into the will of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth. So he tells the king of Sodom,"I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,/That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich." The Spirit instructs with the solemn 'oaths',- we have two instances to compare here, Abram lifts up his hand unto the Lord, as the 'another' mighty angel does in the vision of St John. "And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,/And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein"(Rev.10.5-6) The Spirit is comparing to Jesus Christ and the last Adam so he was called for "the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,/ To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven."(Heb.12.22-23)
"And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir./And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir."
Significance of bread and wine established Abram as truly born in the will of God and not by the will of Terah. By the same token Eliezer belonged to Damascus while Abram's name was in the rolls of holy Jeerusalem. His eternal priesthood prompted him to refuse the advancement when the king of Sodom offered him. He understood that when Melchizedek king of Salem blessed him."Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God."(14.18-19) Having partaken the bread and wine, he had entered into the will of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth. So he tells the king of Sodom,"I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,/That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich." The Spirit instructs with the solemn 'oaths',- we have two instances to compare here, Abram lifts up his hand unto the Lord, as the 'another' mighty angel does in the vision of St John. "And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,/And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein"(Rev.10.5-6) The Spirit is comparing to Jesus Christ and the last Adam so he was called for "the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,/ To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven."(Heb.12.22-23)
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