In one case, dying men receive tithes; but in the other, one about whom it is testified that he lives on.
In a little while, the world will no longer behold Me, but you will behold Me. Because I live, you also will live!
Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Now which ones heard and rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt with Moses?
And He says in a different passage, “You are a kohen forever, according to the order of Melechizedek .”
Yeshua has entered there as a forerunner on our behalf, having become Kohen Gadol “forever, according to the order of Melechizedek .”
Now on the one hand, many have become kohanim, who through death are prevented from continuing in office.
Now it is beyond dispute that the lesser is blessed by the greater.
Through Abraham even Levi, the one receiving tithes, has paid the tithe, so to speak—
And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this judgment,
and the One who lives. I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever! Moreover, I hold the keys of death and Sheol.