The feast of Pentecost:
Every spring the Israelites collect their first fruits of the harvest of the grain and wheat to offer in a burnt offering to God.
The feast of Tabernacles: In the fall the first fruits of the Grapes and olives were offered in celebration of giving back to God what he had given to them. Thanks giving
Abraham our father in Faith. Who at this time had just defeated the four kings who had just defeated the five Kings, which would make Abraham, King of the Hill. But then we see him give one tenth of all his captured and loot to Melchizedek so we could see how we are to offer to God our first fruits.
Then Melchizedek gives Abraham a blessing and has a sacrifice not of animals, but bread and wine just like we do to day. We see the Old Testament prefiguring, shadowing teaching us what to look for in the new covenant and we see the New Testament fulfilling the old not abolishing it. In Psalm 110 and Mathew we find how Jesus is our high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
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