MELCHIZEDEK

[Ben1445]

Well, not anymore, but that's beside the point.

So, not the same yesterday, today, and forever?
Not a descendant of David?

The Levitical priesthood originated in and stood by the law, and according to the law, Jesus is disqualified from the priesthood. His priesthood predates Abram's call, circumcision, and the law. It was, and is, essentially, a gentile priesthood, a universal priesthood, an eternal priesthood.

I am not defending the Levitical priesthood.

The Jewish thing was the parentheses in God's plan. They opened at Sinai, and closed at Calvary. The Jewish thing is over. It's done with. Kaputt.

So when God promised David an eternal heir to a Jewish throne, God didn’t mean it?

I really was trolling. I know how much you hate the Jews. I couldn’t leave it alone.

Methinks God uses them to provoke you to jealousy.

 

[Aaron]

So, not the same yesterday, today, and forever?

Was He always a man, or did He become a man in time? Obviously the verse you're wresting to support the notion of eternal "jewishness" has to do with His divinity, not his earthly parentage.

Not a descendant of David?

According to the flesh, yes, and also the son of Mary.

But we no longer know Him after the flesh.

Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. - 2 Corinthians 5:16-17

I am not defending the Levitical priesthood.

You most definitely are.

So when God promised David an eternal heir to a Jewish throne, God didn’t mean it?

You need to think a little harder about what was promised, and what the fulfillment is.

While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? - Matthew 22:41-45

The house of David is the Church.

When they had finished, James stood and said, "Brothers, listen to me. Peter has told you about the time God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people for himself. And this conversion of Gentiles is exactly what the prophets predicted. As it is written: 'Afterward I will return and restore the fallen house of David. I will rebuild its ruins and restore it, so that the rest of humanity might seek the LORD, including the Gentiles--all those I have called to be mine. The LORD has spoken-- he who made these things known so long ago.' - Acts 15:13-18 NLT

I really was trolling. I know how much you hate the Jews. I couldn’t leave it alone.

Ah now, quit your fibbin'. I know exactly where you're coming from, and you know nothing of the sort.

 

[Ben1445]

You most definitely are.

I don’t know why I ever engage you on this. You don’t listen to me anyway. I think you just like to argue so now when I tell you that I am not defending the levitical priesthood and you are mistaken, you must have me back in that position to argue with.
You have no credibility in discussion. You don’t listen.

 

[Ben1445]

Ah now, quit your fibbin'. I know exactly where you're coming from, and you know nothing of the sort.

You don’t know me at all. Your belligerence betrays you.

 

[Ben1445]

Ah now, quit your fibbin'.

I thought we were not allowed to call people liars around here.

But I did throw the rock in the hornet nest. I can handle it. I’m just sorry that you lack any amount of trust that you think I am lying to you.

 

[Aaron]

I don’t know why I ever engage you on this.

So you weren't just trolling. You were fibbin'.

 

[Alex2165]

Another notable fact about Christ's priesthood...it isn't a Jewish one.

How come the " Christ's priesthood...it isn't a Jewish one." if the Christ Himself is a JEW in flesh? Christ has been a GOD, and a King, and a Priest of the world before Melchizedek even existed, and Melchizedek himself is only a priest of Salem, his own kingdom. While it is true that Melchizedek appointed on his priesthood by GOD, but Melchizedek is not the priest of the world but only of his own kingdom, on which and from the same place much later the priesthood of the tribe of Levy and Jesus Christ will be the worldwide.

 

[Alex2165]

Excerpts from A.W. Pink:

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)

This is very interesting comment. Certain possibilities from this evaluation may arrive as a proper understanding of the mystery of Melchizedek. Thank you.