11.5: "Who is Melkizedek? (Order, etc.)" cont
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11.5: "Who is Melkizedek? (Order, etc.)" cont
As a point of interest, there is a Gnostic Christian text called
"Melchizedek" included in a "The Nag Hammadi Library," a collection
of Gnostic gospels and writings. In his introduction to and
commentary on the text, Bieger A. Pearson has this to say: "In this
tractate, Melchizekek's appearance in the endtime is tied to the
career of Jesus Christ: his incarnation, death, and resurrection.
In other words, Jesus Christ "is" Melchizedek! Such an idea can be
understood as rooted in an interpretation of Hebrews 7:3. Moreover,
the idea that Melchizedek is the 'Son of God' (i.e., identical to
Jesus Christ) gained currency in some early Christian circles,
particularly in Egypt."
Michael
mgates@panix.com
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The writer is using Melchizedek as an archetype of the new Pristhood,
which is said to be superior to the Law (administered by Moses brother,
Aaron, and the levites who followed after him). Neither Melchizedek nor
Christ came from the Aaronic line. Christ came from the Tribe of Judah,
which disqualified Him for priestly service to the Law.
This letter is trying to convince Jews that Christ is superior to the
Law, and that further labor under the Law is unnecessary.
(Xochipili)
xochipil@brewich.hou.tx.us
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The Order of Melchizedek
This is straigth from the Tanak and the Letter to the Hebrews. In
Genesis (14:18), Lot who is a kinsman of Abraham is captured during a
battle between the local ruling Kings, Abraham goes tafter one og the
victor's and reclaims him in battle with "318 men born of his house."
When he returns, victorious, the King of Salem, whose name is Mechizedek,
a neighbor who is now relieved of the threat of these mauraders, met
Abraham in the Valley of Shaveh and "brought out bread and wine, he was a
priest of God Most High and he blessed him." So where did this "priest"
come from, who was Melchizedek? This is before Moses and the temple, before
even Abrahams "call" so how could there be a "priest of God Most High"
(meaning YAH) when the revelation hadn't occured yet?
In Psalms 110:4 we find a single line, about David, the King to be,
"You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek" implying that
David, like the King of Salem (Peace), was fore-ordained to be a
intermediary appointed to rule over the defeated in battle as King, having
a sacred mandate. In Hebrews 6:20, Christ is said to be of this order, "a
forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the
order of Melchizedek." The interpretation here is that the Levites are not
the only ordained and legitimate order of priests among the Hebrew but there
is another order fore ordained as also specially empowered and with their
own laws, as manifested in Yeshua ben Miriam, not by the power of bodily
descent (ie lineage) but by "the power of the indestructible life" (Heb 7:
16), and thus a new convenant.
Later this concept of the priestly line outside of orthodoxy was
used as a means for validating yet other "priestly lines" but this leads
into occult history of which others are far more qualified to speak...
in sum, Yeshua was called "a priest of the order of Melchizedek" to justify
a new authority outside the conventional lines of transmission.
Coeur
[ZOS (IRWINL@COFC.EDU)]
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