The Bread, the Wine, and the Inheritance

There is a amazing verse in Genisis chapter 14, about Melchizedek who was a priest of the Most High God. He was King of Salem as well, and brought forth the bread and wine after Abraham's victory. This event is revealed to us in Hebrews for the purpose of displaying the true picture of Jesus as the Messiah. The promise was made to Abraham by God, and through that the physical pictures of God's spiritual reality occurred in the Israelites.

Many clung to that picture, and still do. They cling to the bonds of heredity, the promises made to their fathers. Yet those promises were a metaphor, a example, a partial model of what God had established for man from the foundation of creation. Even in the day of Abraham, the reality was pushing on the age, pregnant with the expectation of the fullness of the Messiah.

As in the book of Hebrews, this priest was of an order, yet not in Abraham's household. And it was Abraham who received ministry from Melchizedek, and gave to him a tithe. He yielded to this one outside of his actual promise from God the first portion of his inheritance, even yet before the promise was fulfilled. Abraham did not in his lifetime take possesion of the land promised to him, apart from the field he purchased. Yet he gave a top portion, the first fruits, the tithe to this priest and King of Salem.

Through the communion, through the blessing, Abraham walked in the promise of God. Yet the one who blessed is the King, the one who provided the communion is the intercessor before God. A priest of the Most High God! What does this mean? There is yet to be a Levitical system, no Mosaic dispensation, no tabernacle or temple. And here we find a priest of the Most High?

The next time priests are mentioned in context with service to God is in Exodus 19, where God says to Moses, "...ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation." He has an intention for us, a plan to walk in this reality. A kingdom of priests, that all would come before God, and all would minister unto each other and the world.

Now the function of a priest is to worship God, to find life, and to be a supply of life. Our priest is Jesus. He offered up the perfect sacrifice to God, interceding on our behalf, that we may partake of eternal life. He is also the King, the reality of the one who receives the Kingdom. He is God's son, who receives the inheritance.

His body was broken and spilled out. He yielded the blood, the life, the true wine of our communion. Broken, as a loaf offering, we partake and become one with His body. He, through His ministry before God as our High Priest, has brought us into His inheritance of the eternal Kingdom. We become part of His inheritance. The one who receives the Kingdom, the promised land, the one who sits at the right hand of God, who is the gate to the Garden of Eden, has invited us to be fellow priests.

There is no heritage that attaches you to the promise, no blood line that makes you part of it. We serve the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but the same God, by way of His son, brought forth the true priesthood, and the true inheritance. No physical contracts or ties have any claim upon that. No physical land or location, no building, no physical sacrifice, no Pope or priestly office of man has any claim in the reality.

The binding is through the blood. The experience of the reality through the Holy Spirit which fills us and transforms us. We, soaked in this unifying mist, penetrated from within by this powerful wind, begin to grow and exhibit the nature of the eternal garden. We walk as before the Lord in the realm of the Spirit. We worship, intercede, bless, and provide life for those in this age, in our localities. His inheritance grows by the workings of the Spirit through us, now, as we live.

May our eyes be opened, may we consult the Head Priest as to the riches He has obtained. Let us find our love in Him, let us break bread together in one faith, drink wine together in one Spirit. Let us minister to one another and the world by His leading. And walk in and as His inheritance, as a glorious testimony of the victory He wrought over death itself.