Psalms 7:17

"I will give thanks unto Jehovah according to his righteousness,

And will sing praise to Jehovah Most High."

It is of great interest here that the true God is designated as Most High. Yes, it is true that the pagans of Palestine so designated one of their false deities, but "in the Bible" the term has no other application than the one evident here. It belongs to the true God and Creator of all things. Melchizedek was a priest of "God Most High" (Genesis 14:17-24); and in the few verses where he is introduced the expression "God Most High" is found four times; but the expression is not often found in the Old Testament. Significantly, Abraham himself used it and made it absolutely certain that the words refer to the true and only God. He said, "I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth" (Genesis 14:22).

The scriptural application of the words is made even more certain in the New Testament, where the author of Hebrews revealed Melchizedek as a type of Jesus Christ, absolutely forbidding the notion that Melchizedek was the worshipper of a false deity. Also in Luke 8:18 the demoniac confessed the Christ as "Son of God Most High," adding the request that Christ would not torment him. The Matthew account of the same event (Matthew 8:29) indicated that the demonic world recognized the right of God to torment them eventually in hell at some appointed time in the future, hence the request that Christ would not torment him "before the time."

Likewise, the martyr Stephen's great address has a reference to "The Most High" (Acts 7:48), revealing that Person as the one whose throne is in heaven and who "dwelleth not in temples made with hands."