“This king of peace and righteousness shows up with bread and wine, and Abraham gives him ten percent of everything. Your translation might say ‘spoils’ but in the Greek and Hebrew here, it literally means the top ten percent of everything Abraham had at that point…he gathered the best of […]
Hebrews 7: Off The Top
“This king of peace and righteousness shows up with bread and wine, and Abraham gives him ten percent of everything. Your translation might say ‘spoils’ but in the Greek and Hebrew here, it literally means the top ten percent of everything Abraham had at that point…he gathered the best of everything he had and laid it at Melchizedek’s feet. Why, is the question.”
-Teaching from 3/24/24
-Scripture References: Hebrews 7, Gen. 14, Ps. 110, Lk. 7:36-50, 2 Sam. 7