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Melchizedek
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Hebrews 7:15 Melchizedek is there as a type of Christ, king of Salem, i.e., Prince of Peace.
18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High. Gen 14
15 And what we say is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest, Heb 7
" “But made like unto the Son of God”, or, more literally “but assimilated to the Son of God”. It is very striking to note that it is not the Son of God who was “assimilated to Melchizedek”, but vice versa. In the order of time Christ subsisted before Melchizedek; in the order of nature, Melchizedek was a priest before Christ was. The priesthood of the Son of God, ordained and appointed by the Eternal Three, was the original, and Melchizedek’s priesthood furnished the copy, and a copy given in advance is the same thing as the type. Melchizedek was “assimilated to the Son of God” as a type.
First , as priest of the most high God.
Second , as being a royal priest, possessing personal majesty and authority.
Third , as being the king of righteousness.
Fourth , as king of peace.
Fifth , as the one who “blessed Abraham”.
Sixth , as the one who received the grateful gifts of God’s people represented by Abraham.
Seventh, as not owing his priesthood to natural genealogy.
Eighth, as abiding a priest beyond the bounds of the Levitical limitations. “Abideth a priest continually” (verse 3).
Note carefully it is not that the natural life of Melchizedek had no end, but that his priestly life did not cease at the age of fifty; in other words, he continued a priest to the very end of his earthly existence, which shows he had no vicar or successor, deriving a priesthood from his. “The expression ‘abideth a priest continually’, therefore, is the equivalent to saying that he had a perpetual priesthood in contradistinction from those whose office terminated at a definite period, or whose office passed over into the hands of others” (A. Barnes)."
CHAPTER - MELCHIZEDEK (godrules.net)
18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High. Gen 14
15 And what we say is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest, Heb 7
" “But made like unto the Son of God”, or, more literally “but assimilated to the Son of God”. It is very striking to note that it is not the Son of God who was “assimilated to Melchizedek”, but vice versa. In the order of time Christ subsisted before Melchizedek; in the order of nature, Melchizedek was a priest before Christ was. The priesthood of the Son of God, ordained and appointed by the Eternal Three, was the original, and Melchizedek’s priesthood furnished the copy, and a copy given in advance is the same thing as the type. Melchizedek was “assimilated to the Son of God” as a type.
First , as priest of the most high God.
Second , as being a royal priest, possessing personal majesty and authority.
Third , as being the king of righteousness.
Fourth , as king of peace.
Fifth , as the one who “blessed Abraham”.
Sixth , as the one who received the grateful gifts of God’s people represented by Abraham.
Seventh, as not owing his priesthood to natural genealogy.
Eighth, as abiding a priest beyond the bounds of the Levitical limitations. “Abideth a priest continually” (verse 3).
Note carefully it is not that the natural life of Melchizedek had no end, but that his priestly life did not cease at the age of fifty; in other words, he continued a priest to the very end of his earthly existence, which shows he had no vicar or successor, deriving a priesthood from his. “The expression ‘abideth a priest continually’, therefore, is the equivalent to saying that he had a perpetual priesthood in contradistinction from those whose office terminated at a definite period, or whose office passed over into the hands of others” (A. Barnes)."
CHAPTER - MELCHIZEDEK (godrules.net)
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Thoughts, what is being said?
Heb 7:3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.
concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh, who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord; Rom 1:3,4
Rom 6:9 knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;
Col 1:18 And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things -- himself -- first,
Rom 8:29 because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;
Heb 7:14-16 for it is evident that out of Judah hath arisen our Lord, in regard to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. And it is yet more abundantly most evident, if according to the similitude of Melchisedek there doth arise another priest, who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,
Heb 5:5,6 so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: 'My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;' as also in another place He saith, 'Thou art a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'
Was Melchisedek, a man who was priest of God when Abraham was living, who died and will be raised out of the dead unto an endless life, that is conformed to the image of the Son of God ? Is that the order of Melchisedek. Of what order priest will we be?
which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail, whither a forerunner for us did enter -- Jesus, after the order of Melchisedek chief priest having become -- to the age. Heb 6:19,20
Heb 7:3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.
concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh, who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord; Rom 1:3,4
Rom 6:9 knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;
Col 1:18 And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things -- himself -- first,
Rom 8:29 because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;
Heb 7:14-16 for it is evident that out of Judah hath arisen our Lord, in regard to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. And it is yet more abundantly most evident, if according to the similitude of Melchisedek there doth arise another priest, who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,
Heb 5:5,6 so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: 'My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;' as also in another place He saith, 'Thou art a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'
Was Melchisedek, a man who was priest of God when Abraham was living, who died and will be raised out of the dead unto an endless life, that is conformed to the image of the Son of God ? Is that the order of Melchisedek. Of what order priest will we be?
which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail, whither a forerunner for us did enter -- Jesus, after the order of Melchisedek chief priest having become -- to the age. Heb 6:19,20
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