Melchisedek makes us think of the Epistle of the Hebrews.  Hebrews leads out

thoughts up to the right hand of God where Christ is, as the seated Priest. And this in

turn leads us to Ephesians where the church is "seated together" in heavenly places.

The words of Gen. 14: 20 remind us of Eph. 1: 3:--

Like Abraham, we have met with One Who directs our hearts upward to where all

fullness dwells. We can therefore quite easily repudiate the things of the world that

would be our legitimate rights, were we not co called and blessed.

We trust that the second element in blessing is now clear to us all.  (1) The first

element of blessing, as set forth in the experience of Abraham, is "the obedience of

faith".  (2) The second element of blessing, as set forth in the same history, is the

position of "separation".