I say , that at this point in time , THE NEW COVENANT has yet to be put into OPERATION >
If you have a different view , use a verse that SHOWS when and HOW so please reply ?
dan p
The order of Melchizedek operated before Sinai.
Galatians the women are an allegory for the old and new covenants, two sons two covenants.
Genesis 15 Abraham dies....
To Abraham..... Meets Melchizedek
Genesis 15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Corresponds to Sinai:
Who was the seed of promise for an heir of his own bowels in this covenant?
Doesn't the book of Hebrews plainly tell us?
Heb 7: 6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. {descent: or, pedigree }
7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
8 And here
men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom
it is witnessed that
he liveth.
9 And as I may so say,
Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
10
For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
Ro 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
The 4th generation of his seed
Gen 15:16 But in
the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. {a burning … : Heb. a lamp of fire }
18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
But concerning Gen 17, in Isaac (sarah)
Mt 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Mr 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
Lu 20:38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
Heb 11:19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead;
from whence also he received him in a figure.
Heb 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,