Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High. He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth: and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.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.
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A promise madePsalms 110:4
A thousand years later Yahweh swears that the coming king will be a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
“Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.”
Fulfilled hereHebrews 7:3
Hebrews reads the silence of Genesis as a portrait: no father, no mother, no genealogy, made like the Son of God.
“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.Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.”
The same threadHebrews 7:25
The priest with no recorded end points to the priest who lives forever and saves completely.
“Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
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The same thread (this verse)Psalms 110:4
The oath points back to the priest-king who blessed Abraham and received a tenth of everything.
“Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.”
A pattern of (this verse)Hebrews 7:3
Melchizedek appears without genealogy, the pattern Hebrews reads as a priesthood without end.
“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.Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.”