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hey brother let’s talk about melchezidek and Christ sometime ??

amen brother well put as we learn from Jesus ourselves in the gospel he begins to teach us to move and what type of actions to take and avoid. It’s part of kids really focusing on Jesus and hearing the gospel he preached to believers in him he eventually teaches us that we need to start applying what we believe to our life with our actions

“Our belief needs to be centered upon Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, and the gospel. And, then it needs to be followed-up with action just like God told the Israelites to move forward through the parting walls of the sea during the Exodus.”

exactly if we believe in God , then what he says will save us , will save us if we believe that should be the result and so obedience is just wise knowing this will save me ….and tbat other oath will destroy me . How am I so sure ? Jesus the Lord taught us in the gospel

but there’s milk for babes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.( milk )


For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned:

(Mmm milk )

but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
‭‭John‬ ‭3:16-18‬ ‭KJV‬‬

See the equation there anyone who believes will live forever ,

anyone who doesn’t believe is condemned because they didn’t believe.

So to someone who believes in Jesus this is sure spiritual milk that begins to build our faith in God these words of Jesus himself explaining these simple summary points salvstion is simple like that when we focus on Jesus like your saying there and hearing the gospel.

peter tells us this milk makes us grow

“Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.”
‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭2:1-3‬ ‭KJV‬‬

But even then we’re being Calle to a purpose and action that works with what’s being said here

1 “Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,”

2 desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

“if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” ( Because we know of Gods graciousness and mercy )

it doesn’t end because we know Gods gracious but grace that saved us is the source and beginning of our new life in Christ.

Like children were born and don’t know much but we learn and grow and the father keeps us close and warm and safe nothing is really expected of a babe but to learn and behave as to what they know but they learn as they are growing and sometimes they do wrong not knowing

Eventually we have to grow up is my point depending on the individuals relationship between God and themselves the Milk makes strong. Ones and the meat and potatoes with a glass of milk makes a strong man of faith

“For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭5:12-14‬ ‭KJV‬‬


hey brother let’s talk about melchezidek and Christ sometime ??

“So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, To day have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchisedec.

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭5:11

I'm down for a discussion about Melchizedek, brother. What are your thoughts about this interesting character in the Bible?

This is long; it's kind of a study I did for someone.

David made a prophecy about Christ in psalm 110.

John the Baptist, who was a descendant of Aaron, was commissioned by God to fulfill the word of God as prophesied by David by transferring the priesthood from the order of Aaron to the order of Melchizedek. This occurred at Jesus' baptism, which was the fulfillment or anti-type of the commissioning of Aaron the high priest described in Leviticus 8. Aaron was a shadow of the reality of Christ as high priest.

There are four things to notice about Aaron'e commissioning ceremony: 1) it was publicly done at the door of the tabernacle (doorway to God), 2) Aaron was washed with water, 3) he was clothed with garments that symbolized holiness, righteousness, godliness (Isaiah 59:17, Ephesians 6:14-17) and 4) he was anointed with oil

In a similar manner, Jesus 1) presented himself in public at the door of heaven, 2) was washed in water, 4) was anointed with the holy spirit and 3) was clothed with the spirit that abode on him.


Jesus implicitly acknowledged to John that he didn't need to be baptized with water, but entreated John to do it for the sake of fulfilling all righteousness, which I suspect means fulfilling the past shadow of Aaron's baptism/commissioning and fulfilling David's prophecy for the sake of honoring and glorifying God's word.


Now something interesting about Melchizedek. The bread and wine that Melchizedek the priest shared with Abraham seems to signify communion. Possibly a type or shadow of the new covenant meal fulfilled on Passover when Jesus shared bread and wine with his disciples

King of Righteousness, King of Peace.
Who is the King of Righteousness: Who ithe King of Peace?

“And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

and blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.

And he gave him tithes of all.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭14:18-20‬ ‭

notice this is before Sinai before the desert and deliverance out from Egypt yet there’s a high priest not of Aaron’s order ? And so we can assume there are also priestly duties and we can also see the mediation between the priest and the man and God an intercessor and mediator between the two

He blesses Abraham and then blesses the Lord God who delivered Abraham in the preceding war of the kings. But also he shows forth a figure of bread and wine.

I really enjoyed reading @ChristRoseFromTheDead 's commentary above about Melchizedek, which you did a nice spring board off the high dive with your excellent insights as well. I don't think I've ever made the connection between Melchizedek bringing forth the bread and wine to Abraham and Christ's institution of communion with the bread and wine representing His body and blood sacrificed for us. I never really thought about how Jesus took on a priestly role during the communion ceremony he shared with His disciples.

So, just who is Melchizedek? Hebrews 7 gives us some illumination:

Hebrews 7:1-3

New King James Version

The King of Righteousness

1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king of peace,” 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

As @JaumeJ noted, we need to consider Melchizedek as the "king of righteousness" and "king of peace." Hmm, kings and priests serve different functions within a Godly theocracy, yet Melchizedek is both a priest and a king? It's interesting that the translators of verse 2 in the NKJV have a lower case "k" for king, but Bible Gateway has this section titled with an uppercase "K" in their "The King of Righteousness" heading. There's some ambiguity here and mystery, too.

I was in an excellent small group Bible Study on the book of Hebrews a number of years ago, and we were trying to figure just who this Melchizedek is that just appears out of thin air to greet Abraham and bless him. We came to the conclusion that the answer lies in verse 3 - Melchizedek and Jesus Christ are one and the same. Who but God is "without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life"?

I'll leave it at that for now, but what we discussed about Jesus as High Priest earlier in Revelation is inspiring some really cool ideas.