THE BLESSING OF MELCHIZEDEK TO ABRAHAM IS AN INTERESTING ONE INDEED.
3 TIMES THE EXPRESSION IS MADE ‘THE MOST HIGH GOD’ (EL ELYON) BY MECHIZEDEK. GEN.14.18-20
And then we come to Abram in verse 22. "At this Abram said to the King of Sodom: “I DO LIFT UP MY HAND [IN AN OATH] TO JEHOVAH, THE MOST HIGH GOD, PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH."
SO ABRAM CLARIFIES OR EXPLAINS THE ‘ EL ELYON’ WAS JEHOVAH,. JEHOVAH THE MOST HIGH GOD.
WAS THIS JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT MECHIZEDEK CALLED 'THE PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH EL ELYON AND ABRAHAM WAS MORE PRECISE IN HIS DECLARATION, YHWH EL ELYON?
IT DOES APPEAR THAT THE BLESSING DISPOSED ONTO ABRAM WAS ONE THAT WAS CULTIC IN SOME SENSE RITUALISTIC OF A VICTORY AND OF COURSE THE BLESSING OF CANINITE FORMULATION.
BUT IT CANNOT BE OVERLOOKED THAT ABRAM INCLUDED HIS GOD JEHOVAH IN SUCH A BLESSING.
SOME HAVE SURMISED THIS TO MEAN A CORRELATION OF "EL ELYON PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH," WITH YHWH. AND RIGHTFULLY SO.
BUT THE PRECISE IDENTIFICATION OF THIS ONE NOT ONLY AS PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, BUT AS JEHOVAH THE MOST HIGH PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, CARRIES SOME WEIGHT IN REGARD TO THE INSPIRATION OF THE TEXT, TO INCLUDE THE DIVINE NAME AND ALSO ABRAM’S OWN UNDERSTANDING AND CONVICTION ON WHO THE ‘EL ELYON’ PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH WAS.
EITHER YHWH WHO INSPIRED THESE WORDS TO BE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN TO INCLUDE HIS NAME
AND OF COURSE WERE SPOKEN IN THIS ANCIENT TEXT BY ABRAM AND DEEMED NECESSARY TO BE ‘
INCLUDED IN THOSE INSPIRED WORDS AS JEHOVAH THE MOST HIGH GOD, PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.
TODAY THEOLOGIANS, OF COURSE, SEE NO NEED, AND NO DIFFERENCE IN THE TERM: ‘MOST HIGH GOD PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH TO INCLUDE: JEHOVAH MOST HIGH GOD PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. THEY ARE THE SAME EXPRESSION TO MOST.
BUT NOT TO ABRAM WHO SAW THE DIFFERENCE AND SO THE WRITTEN TEXT.
IN MY OPINION ANOTHER TACTIC TO REMOVE THE DIVINE NAME AND IT’S SIGNIFICANCE FROM THE INSPIRED TEXT.
AFTER ALL WE HAVE ALL HEARD IT. GOD IS GOD. WE ALL KNOW WHO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
OR DO WE? MOST IMPORTANT AS ABRAM MAKES CLEAR IN THIS INSPIRED TEXT, GOD IS JEHOVAH
PRODUCER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.
ABRAM WAARES SAMAYIM QONEH ELYON EL YHWH
ABRAM THE EARTH HEAVEN PRODUCER MOST HIGH GOD JEHOVAH
