“The order of Melchizedek”
Who is this Melchizedek that is talked about in the Original Covenant ( O.T.) and the Renewed Covenant (N.T.) He seems to be a mystical character, king of Salem, Salem later renamed Jerusalem that gives us a hint. Who reign’s as King in Jerusalem during the millennium? Hum……………! And a priest of the High God also if you read the ancient rabbinical writings which are often referred to for historical content of Old Testament times there is much said about this mystical character. The question is for what purpose and was he a real character?
Genesis 14:18-20 (MSG)
(18) Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine—he was priest of The High God— (19) and blessed him: Blessed be Abram by The High God, Creator of Heaven and Earth. (20) And blessed be The High God, who handed your enemies over to you. Abram gave him a tenth of all the recovered plunder.
Psalms 110:4 (AMP)
(4) The Lord has sworn and will not revoke or change it: You are a priest forever, after the manner and order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 5:6 (AMP)
(6) As He says also in another place, You are a Priest [appointed] forever after the order (with the rank) of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 5:9-10 (AMP)
(9) And, [His completed experience] making Him perfectly [equipped], He became the Author and Source of eternal salvation to all those who give heed and obey Him,
(10) Being designated and recognized and saluted by God as High Priest after the order (with the rank) of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 6:20 (AMP)
(20) Where Jesus has entered in for us [in advance], a Forerunner having become a High Priest forever after the order (with the rank) of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:11 (AMP)
(11) Now if perfection (a perfect fellowship between God and the worshiper) had been attainable by the Levitical priesthood—for under it the people were given the Law—why was it further necessary that there should arise another and different kind of Priest, one after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one appointed after the order and rank of Aaron?
Hebrews 7:17 (AMP)
(17) For it is witnessed of Him, You are a Priest forever after the order (with the rank) of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:21 (AMP)
(21) For those who formerly became priests received their office without its being confirmed by the taking of an oath by God, but this One was designated and addressed andor change His mind, You are a Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. saluted with an oath, The Lord has sworn and will not regret it
Now I have thought about this for the past week there is so much here that needs to be explained but that was not the intent of this study. I would really like to do a whole study just on this subject. But I would like to leave you with these verses and my thoughts:
Hebrews 7:1-3 (AMP)
(1) FOR THIS Melchizedek, king of Salem [and] priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, (2) And Abraham gave to him a tenth portion of all [the spoil]. He is primarily, as his name when translated indicates, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, which means king of peace. (3) Without [record of] father or mother or ancestral line, neither with beginning of days nor ending of life, but, resembling the Son of God, he continues to be a priest without interruption and without successor.
“The order of Melchizedek” is the order of a priesthood that originated in the heavenly realm. First mentioned in the Old Testament in the Hebrew culture and then expounded on in the New Testament. The New Testament Church with its Greek (Hellenistic roots) has failed to see the culture behind the words. The book of Hebrews is not about a new covenant that is taught in most Church’s in this country but about a renewed priesthood after the order of Melchizedek.
Now I would like to say this, the past two years going back in History and analyzing what has happened to this country, you know the way I think because I have gone through my rant many times in these studies. I believe everything that is going on is a spiritual battle in this world and it started in the book of Genesis:
Genesis 3:14-15 (AMP)
(14) And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all [domestic] animals and above every [wild] living thing of the field; upon your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust [and what it contains] all the days of your life. (15) And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel.
God declared war on Satan but he also gave Satan dominion over this earth. To use people to deceive and lie and cheat to have his way on this earth, now think about this the Hebrew people are God’s chosen people so Satan turns the entire population of the world against them including the words and culture that God gave them. Even the western Hellenistic trained Church who has adopted replacement theology which for people that don’t understand what replacement theology is( it’s main teaching is that the so called New Testament church has replaced the Jewish people as God’s favorite people) are you beginning to see what is going on here! Satan has used anti-Semitism to turn the whole world against the Jewish people and in so doing he has also spread a false spin on his word. There is only one bible and one word of God. God does not deceive but someone else is a master at it.
Now many of you might think I am some kind of nut case, my children have for years, do your home work study history. Study the early Church and you will see how Satan has worked his deception, through people, down through the ages. It will jump off the page and smack you right between the eyes.
Question everything, because what you see or think you see is not what is really going on. People have become sheep and are being lead down a path of destruction and 80% don’t have a clue what is going on and that was also Satan’s plan. Don’t just listen to what they are saying look at what they are doing, and you will get a whole different picture.
Constantine’s Christian Creed
”I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms, unleavened breads and sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews, and all the other feasts of the Hebrews, sacrifices, prayers, aspirations, purifications, sanctifications, and propitiations, and fasts and new moons, and Sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns and chants, and observances and synagogues. absolutely everything Jewish, every Law, rite and custom and if afterwards I shall wish to deny and return to Jewish superstition, or shall be found eating with Jews, or feasting with them, or secretly conversing and condemning the Christian religion instead of openly confuting them and condemning their vain faith, then let the trembling of Cain and the leprosy of Gehazi cleave to me, as well as the legal punishments to which I acknowledge myself liable. And may I be an anathema in the world to come, and may my soul be set down with Satan and the devils.” (Stcfano Assemani, Acta Sanctorium Martyrum Orientalium at Occidentalium, Vol. 1, Rome 1748, page 105)
Furthermore, any follower of the “Jewish Messiah” (Yeshua HaMashiach) who wished to join this “holy community” was compelled to adopt a different set of rules and customs. Subsequently special creeds were drafted, to which the Christian would have to swear such as: “1 accept all customs, rites, legalism,and feasts of the Romans, sacrifices. Prayers, purifications with water, sanctifications by Pontificus Maxmus (high priests of Rome), propitiations, and feasts, and the New Sabbath “So! dei” (day of the Sun,), all new chants and observances, and all the foods and drinks of the Romans. In other words, I absolutely accept everything Roman, every new law, rite and custom, of Rome, and the New Roman Religion.”
Additionally, in approximately 365 AD, the Catholic Council of Laodicea wrote, in one of their canons: Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day. Rather, honoring the Lord’s Day. But if any shall be found to be Judaizers, let them be anathema (against) from Christ”.
Men becoming God, Question Everything.
Shalom Alecheim,
PapaJD
