Lot is taken captive and Abram rescues him. Melchizedek (see Hebrews 7) blessed Abram and received a tithe from Abram as early indicator of the contrast between the unilateral covenant that God made (a Seed of the woman would crush the serpent’s head) and the bilateral covenant that God made through Moses with Israel at Sinai, which demonstrated the human inability to ever do even the simplest things that the law requires.
Lot is taken captive and Abram rescues him. Melchizedek (see Hebrews 7) blessed Abram and received a tithe from Abram as early indicator of the contrast between the unilateral covenant that God made (a Seed of the woman would crush the serpent’s head) and the bilateral covenant that God made through Moses with Israel at Sinai, which demonstrated the human inability to ever do even the simplest things that the law requires.