dttw aic Registered User
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(7/1/02 6:22 pm) Reply
Melchizedek
he had no parents, had no begining, had no end, and Jesus is a priest unto his order, but who was he. some people say he was the the Holy Spirit, or Jesus in physical form. what do you think?
From Melchizedek we know that he was a priest and king of Salem (later Jerusalem). Personally I don't believe that the point of Hebrews (v3 "without father, without mother" etc) is that he did not have any parents, but only that there was no record of it. Priests under the law of Moses were required to be of the tribe of Levi, of the family of Aaron. For the Melchizedekian priesthood, ancestery was not relevant but was by divine appointment only. Hebrews 7 describes several similarities between Melchizedek and Christ. Verse 1 says he was made like the Son of God...he was a type of Jesus as he was both king and priest.
hnovilla
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(11/12/02 4:54 pm) Reply
Melchizedek
The writer to the Hebrew was very specific as to this person was...the Holy Spirit or Jesus...? Let's not add our personal opinions/phantasies!
Melchizedek
I think your view that Melchizedek's parents were not recorded is interesting, but I don't believe that it would be mentioned without a greater significance. There are simply to many other people mentioned in the book of Hebrews that do not have their parents mentioned, and/or the lack of the record of their parents.
Man of God
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(7/26/03 6:11 am) Reply
Re: ¿Melchizedek?
I have done some studying of Melchizedek, since I picked this as my log-in name. He is mentioned in Gen 14:18-20, Psalm 110:1-4, and Hebrews 6:20, & 7:1-28. There is a lot of mystery surrounding him, but it seems that he was both king and priest, and also a non-Israelite.
The point of all this is that the Levitical priesthood given through Moses was only meant for the Israelites, not all the nations.
Levites did not have the right to become kings, they were priests. Jesus came from the tribe of Judah, whose children have only the right to become kings. Since our Savior received the priesthood in the order of Melchizedek, His children shall receive the right to become both priests and kings (and rule with an iron scepter in the Millenium {Rev 2:26-28, 3:21.}) And as a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek, Jesus can intercede for all nations to bring them to the Lord.
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