WHO WAS MELCHITZEDEK, REALLY?

WHO WAS MELCHITZEDEK, REALLY?

Those of us in Messiah are under a new covenant, prophesied by Yermiyahu to be given to Israel (Jeremiah 31:31). It came! Under the new covenant all peoples of the world who are believers (regardless of their tribe) are priests (no longer just Levites) and Yeshua is the Cohen haGadol or the Great High Priest. But, how can that be since Yeshua was a Yudahite and Moshe spoke nothing concerning the tribe of Yudah? (Hebrews 7:14). Under the Mosaic Law all priests came from the tribe of Levi? Did Yeshua circumvent His own Law, the Law of God?

Yeshua is indeed the new Great High Priest (read Hebrews 2:17, 3:1, 4:14, etc.), yet of another order -no longer the Levitical order, but of MelKhiZedek. His name means “King of Righteousness,” and according to Psalm 110:4, He lived forever, which is the paramount qualification to be High Priest of His order! Yeshua did not circumvent the Law; He fulfilled it to inaugurate another.

MelKhiZedek is so Gadol (Great) that the author of Hebrews (Shaul, Apollos, Priscilla, or other) wrote, “observe how great he is!” He was a prophet; He appears in messianic prophecy: His name implies He was a King; He was a Righteous King; He was King of Yerushalayim; He was superior to Avraham (who was to bless all the families of the earth); He was superior to the Levites; He was superior to the Levitical priests; He has no beginning of days; He has no end of days, He lives forever; His testimony is that He is priest of a perpetual priesthood; both He and the priesthood live on; He has no genealogy, no father and no mother; His power of life and priesthood is an indestructible life; He is immortal; His priesthood is better than Aaron’s; His law is greater than Moshe; His order will never diminish. 

The author of the NT book of Hebrews makes an unequivocal correlation, a nexus of Yeshua and Malkhitzedeq. There are myriad OT “types” of Yeshua, yet types always fall short of the antitype in the NT. Yet, Malkhitzedeq is exalted everywhere He appears in the Divine Library. In fact, Avraham the patriarch, the father of all Israel, the father of faith tithed to Him. And, Malkhitzedeq received the tithes! Beyond YHWH Avraham recognized no one as his superior, except Malkhitzedeq.Malkhitzedeq was so gadol or great, that Yeshua arose in His image! What? Read Hebrews 7 and 8! Malkhitzedeq appears in history (Genesis 14), in Prophecy (Psalm 110), and in Doctrine (Hebrews 7). 

      The scroll of Hebrews was written to Jews who claimed faith in Yeshua but were defecting [back] to the old covenant rituals and beliefs under the OT law. In the book of Hebrews in every comparison of the [old] Jewish system, Yeshua is said to be “better than;” better than the angels, the tabernacle, sacrifice, etc., but not better than Malkhitzedeq rather of the same order (Hebrews 5:6-7). 

        Ancient Yisrael’s kohenim or priests were inferior since men were taken from men, ordained by men, offered sacrifices for men yet also for themselves, since they too were sinful. The Malkhitzedeqian priesthood was, in every way, SUPERIOR! 

        In the millennial kingdom -not too far in the future- we are NOT going back to the old, antiquated, mosaic covenant and its laws and rituals. Oy Vey! In fact, the author of Hebrews says the old Jewish covenant is obsolete (8:13). It is much too inferior, substandard, low-grade, mediocre, and minion compared to the Malkhitzedeqian priesthood of Yeshua. Also, MalKhiTzedeq was not Jewish! And, in His order we are one new man. Not Jewish! Not Gentile! (Eph.2:14-16). 

            Read more and study MalKhiTzedeq in my book: Crumbs from the Jewish Table