The Order of Melchisadek

‘…we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God…’ (He 4:14)
In Jesus we have a high priest who is ‘the author of eternal salvation unto all that obey him.’(He 5:9) The word ‘all’ is what we need to focus on. The office of Levi was strictly for the Children of Israel and according to Law.
‘For the Law was given by Moses.’(Jn1:17). The writer of the Hebrews makes a point: there is an inherent infirmity of law on the reason that each high priest needs to offer up sacrifice first for himself and then for the people, and every time repeat the same procedure, in comparison with Jesus ‘who is holy harmless, undefiled …made higher than the heavens.’(He7:26-28, 24). With one offering he has fulfilled his Service. Since Jesus overcame death his priesthood is far superior to that of Levi, in that He continues forever to intercede for all those who hope in His mercy. This hope is qualified as‘an anchor of the soul.’
Jesus by birth cannot be entitled to a Levitical priesthood since he is from the tribe of Judah.(He.7:14) Be that it may the prophetical verse from the Psalm of David(Ps 110:4) refers to him as a priest after the order of Melchisedek.
The point is that a second Order of Priesthood exists since ‘the Law made nothing perfect’(He7:19).
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Who was this Melchisadek, the King of Salem?
According to the Bible scholars he was the priest of God Most High(‘el ‘elyôn) .There are records attesting to the fact there was indeed an office of high priests among the Cannanites around 2nd mil. BC. In a Ras Shamra liturgy, Baal, the supreme deity of the Canaanite pantheon,is referred as the ‘God Most High.’ Then the question arises was Melchisadek a worshiper of Yahweh or Baal? His sudden emergence from obscurity to bless Abraham and the patriarch giving tithes to the priest-king must be seen as the work of God even as Ruth, a Moabite woman becoming the progenitor of David and of Messiah. Whom God has taken in hand for His work is adopted into the family of God and has passed from life into immortality. Thus the priest-king of Jerusalem has no beginning or ‘end of life; but made like unto the Son of God...’(He7:3). Melchisadek is a type for Christ and his priesthood notwithstanding the odium of being a Canaanite priest-king , is universal. With Moses came Law while with Christ came Grace and Truth. Truth of the Order of Melchsadek transcends that of Levi since Levitical priests served under the infirmity of truth of nature.
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