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Per Fidem Intrepidus means "Fearless Through Faith". My courage isn't my own, it comes from the Holy Spirit, it's my faith in God and my personal savior Christ Jesus that calms my fears and allows me to move forward in this fallen world. Personally I'm afraid of a lot of stuff, but having the faith that Jesus adopted me as his little, sin filled, brother keeps me going.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

O.T. Tuesday - What's a Melchizedek?


This is one of those things that pop up when I'm reading the bible that seems almost meaningless at first, then when I get to the New Testament I find that it wasn't so meaningless at all, but I have to really start digging to find out what it was that I just read. Melchizedek is one of those items. I even turned to a Jewish friend to insure that I got the pronunciation correct. 

Malchezedek is isn't a thing, it's a person, a relative of Abram (eventually Abraham) who ruled Salem which eventually became Jerusalem. We first meet Malchezedek in Genesis after Abram avenged the capture of his nephew Lot at the hands of Chedorlaomer, the king of Elam, who with a bunch of other kings sacked Sodom and took Lot prisoner. We pick up the story of the War Of The Kings after Abram and three hundred eighteen of his men rescued Lot:
17 Then after his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High.
19 He blessed him and said,
"Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;
20 And blessed be God Most High,
Who has delivered your enemies into your hand."
He gave him a tenth of all. (Genesis 14:17-20)

So in a nutshell, Abram took three hundred eighteen men and rescued his nephew. Then Melchizedek, the King of Salem and priest of God Most High, brought out bread and wine and blessed Abram, and Abram gave him a tithe. In more enlightening terms Melchizedek serves as high priest to his kinsman Abram. He comes to Abram after a huge battle where Abram incurred blood guilt. Melchizedek performed a purification ritual of some form to help the warriors deal with their guilt, most likely this ritual involved the bread and wine. In thanks Abraham offers Melchizedek the tithe. (source)

Melchizedek makes his next appearance in Psalms:
4 The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind,
“You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.”(Psalm 110:4)
Psalm 110 is talking about the messiah, and when the author of Psalm 110, King David, speaks of the order of Melchizedek he's not talking about a fraternal organization like the Knights of Pythias or the Order of the Moose, which was buzzing around in my brain. In modern English David would be saying something like "...just the same as Melchizedek."

Now here's where I start getting tangled up in the bible. Most pre-Exodus stuff is fairly easy: Cain and Able, Noah built an ark, the Tower of Babel never got finished, Jacob saw a ladder (I probably would too if I used a rock for a pillow, but I don't think I'll see the angels he saw), Joseph had an awesome coat, and Melchizedek was a priest. But how is that possible? In the Jewish tradition priests come from the tribe of Levi, but Melchizedek was a priest LONG before Jacob and Leah made Levi. So how can you have a priest before you have any Levites? (if any reader has a suggestion PLEASE comment... I'm confused)

So what Psalm 110:4 is saying about the Messiah is that the messiah is so awesome that he'll be a priest forever - until the end of time and beyond. More importantly the messiah is not going to be from the tribe of Levi, because if he was he'd be a normal priest (kohen), he'll be a priest just like Melchizedek not having connection to the tribe of Levi. 

Jesus, as we know, is of the tribe of Judah. In Hebrews he's called a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek, and the implications of that go beyond prophesy, but that's a topic for another blog entry. Lets take joy in the fact that the bible defined the Melchizedek priesthood, and flatly stated that the messiah would be a high priest just like Melchizedek, and he is! Another prophesy dead on!

5 comments:

  1. There are people of lofty positions and schools who try to say that kingship and priesthood was handed down from Abel to Seth to Noah to Abram. However kingship comes from the concept that the elder brother rules the house. Before the Flood these elder brothers were angels, not patriarchal. Otherwise Moses would not have made it clear that son of parents and his wife a daughter of parents must leave families and become their own family, husband is king. My study shows the first king was not Nimrod but Reu the son of Peleg. Nimrod was Peleg's excuse because according to tablets the kings of Ur were called kings of Kish. I do not believe they were; but rather Peleg had been raised in Kish and so those who did not like these kings of Ur labeled them as kings of Kish. In other words Peleg accuses Nimrod of ruling his father's city Kish and yet Peleg openly proclaims his son Reu as king over anyone older than Reu if they wish to stay in Peleg's city Ur. Clearly, for this to happen it means that Peleg felt he was a slave living in Kish. Babel was not a city, it was an astral observatory built for Kish just 5km west. It became a city because men became priests (monks, caretakers, teachers) of that observatory so that having no time to grow food, make clothes, etc, these goods were donated or sacrificed to them. To the intent of observing the planets (the gods). However, as in today's schools or any school we have negligence and incompetence in assigning these positions which will presume they have truth andyou dont solely by appointment to say so. Obviously Nimrod (Narmer who was called Nar, but in ridicule as Nar merod) had lead over this Babel project that Peleg disagreed with because the founding year of Ur is the year after Babel and it is 210 miles south of it. The connection of Reu to being mistaken as Nimrod occurs in many ways. The city building a tower is Ur. They built one too. Ur means The City. And to say it was called Babel is equivalent to when Jerusalem was also destroyed by Babylon because it had become known as Babel. Reu's kingship is honored in the Era 747bc as 1460 years 365 leap days earlier as 2207bc. His 80-year rule as Reu A.Anipada ruling for his father Peleg Mes.Anipada ends with the anointing of Meskiag on 2127bc Dec 25 because it is the 10th month 1st day of the 360-day calendar. But in Greek this gets confused with Noah's death (2021bc Dec 25), and the memorial to Noah (1770bc Dec 25) which follows Nimrod's death (at 500; actually on April 22 =Mekir 15 =12-15 as 21 days before the new year 600 that makes Nimrod 500). Confusion of dates makes many kings including Gilgamesh and Ur-Nammu andhis grandson Amar-Pal all look like Nimrod. This is why people fail to see the Bible says THEY ARE JUST LIKE Nimrod the mighty.... not that they are him, but they are like him. Thus when Shem Melchizedek and Abram defeat AmarPal, it is regarded as being a war against Nimrod (his doctrine defining what kings should do). Why defy this doctrine? because Shem was a passive Melchizedek, while Nimrod was an activist Melchizedek. Shem in war (with Abram) against AmarPal was the rare turning the tables as Jesus did. Thus when Nimrod died in 1770bc the tablet of Hamurabi says that he proclaims himself as Melchizedek in his 22nd year (which ends 21 days after Nimrod's death) on new year 1770bc Persian Pamenot 1 (May 13). So where do kings and priests come from? The elders of the city are all kings who give advice to younger men. Gathered together this body of elders are a body of kings. BUT a king is a young man so wise they proclaim him elder or king and he rules them (a new city-order contrary to nature). The priests are also a body but as elders they reliquish their kingship to be teachers of the king, the young man. And they supply the knowledge to the king to make his decisions.

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  2. Thus even the priests have younger men who humble themsleves to be student-teachers to gather knowledge for the king. In essence it is all about leaving the family order of nature and instead turning life into a business of masters over slaves in debt. Moses resolved this saying every 7 years all debts are cancelled, all is new and debtless. BUT under Sargon (whose name Sar means king, but comes from the number 3600, and when Ur dispersed at Peleg's death in year 340 it was but 20 more years to 36 decades) so that it says in tablets WHO IS KING AND WHO IS NOT. Everyone a king in his own mind, everyone a god. Is it the planets, is it 400-year old parents, is it young 200-year olds dying of old age, is it appointed ones, the young, the old? who isnt a king, they all are. Sort of like what the internet does for all online, they all feel they are kings of knowledge, know-it-alls. Nimrod is foremost a king for two reasons. He created the Egyptian House of Kings (The Pharaoh) despite warning it would someday be controlled by one king, and that it would be those Hamites. And no matter what he did without moral, he was the last to die at 500 during a century that no one could live up to 200. This made him the last god. I came across this site looking to see whether jacob gave Joseph the coat of Melchizedek, or merely made him a coat of Melchizedek the year Hamurabi died in 1750bc. I guess i was wrong that it wasnt a coat passed down by Shem, pending on defining the word made (for Joseph).

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  3. There are people of lofty positions and schools who try to say that kingship and priesthood was handed down from Abel to Seth to Noah to Abram. However kingship comes from the concept that the elder brother rules the house. Before the Flood these elder brothers were angels, not patriarchal. Otherwise Moses would not have made it clear that son of parents and his wife a daughter of parents must leave families and become their own family, husband is king. My study shows the first king was not Nimrod but Reu the son of Peleg. Nimrod was Peleg's excuse because according to tablets the kings of Ur were called kings of Kish. I do not believe they were; but rather Peleg had been raised in Kish and so those who did not like these kings of Ur labeled them as kings of Kish. In other words Peleg accuses Nimrod of ruling his father's city Kish and yet Peleg openly proclaims his son Reu as king over anyone older than Reu if they wish to stay in Peleg's city Ur. Clearly, for this to happen it means that Peleg felt he was a slave living in Kish. Babel was not a city, it was an astral observatory built for Kish just 5km west. It became a city because men became priests (monks, caretakers, teachers) of that observatory so that having no time to grow food, make clothes, etc, these goods were donated or sacrificed to them. To the intent of observing the planets (the gods). However, as in today's schools or any school we have negligence and incompetence in assigning these positions which will presume they have truth andyou dont solely by appointment to say so. Obviously Nimrod (Narmer who was called Nar, but in ridicule as Nar merod) had lead over this Babel project that Peleg disagreed with because the founding year of Ur is the year after Babel and it is 210 miles south of it. The connection of Reu to being mistaken as Nimrod occurs in many ways. The city building a tower is Ur. They built one too. Ur means The City. And to say it was called Babel is equivalent to when Jerusalem was also destroyed by Babylon because it had become known as Babel. Reu's kingship is honored in the Era 747bc as 1460 years 365 leap days earlier as 2207bc. His 80-year rule as Reu A.Anipada ruling for his father Peleg Mes.Anipada ends with the anointing of Meskiag on 2127bc Dec 25 because it is the 10th month 1st day of the 360-day calendar. But in Greek this gets confused with Noah's death (2021bc Dec 25), and the memorial to Noah (1770bc Dec 25) which follows Nimrod's death (at 500; actually on April 22 =Mekir 15 =12-15 as 21 days before the new year 600 that makes Nimrod 500). Confusion of dates makes many kings including Gilgamesh and Ur-Nammu andhis grandson Amar-Pal all look like Nimrod. This is why people fail to see the Bible says THEY ARE JUST LIKE Nimrod the mighty.... not that they are him, but they are like him. Thus when Shem Melchizedek and Abram defeat AmarPal, it is regarded as being a war against Nimrod (his doctrine defining what kings should do). Why defy this doctrine? because Shem was a passive Melchizedek, while Nimrod was an activist Melchizedek. Shem in war (with Abram) against AmarPal was the rare turning the tables as Jesus did. Thus when Nimrod died in 1770bc the tablet of Hamurabi says that he proclaims himself as Melchizedek in his 22nd year (which ends 21 days after Nimrod's death) on new year 1770bc Persian Pamenot 1 (May 13). So where do kings and priests come from? The elders of the city are all kings who give advice to younger men. Gathered together this body of elders are a body of kings. BUT a king is a young man so wise they proclaim him elder or king and he rules them (a new city-order contrary to nature). The priests are also a body but as elders they reliquish their kingship to be teachers of the king, the young man. And they supply the knowledge to the king to make his decisions.

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  4. The name Melchizedek comes from Molech Zedek (King Righteous). Shem died at 600 and 400 years later in his year 1000 is when Joshua killed the king of Jerusalem who had taken the name Adonis Zedek (Lord Righteous). The word is founf in the islands of Hawaii. The main populated island was Moloka island (Moloka isle or Moloka 'i) and the king would vacation off Mau island (Mau isle or Mau 'i) on a small cresent isle called Molokin isle (Molokin 'i). People ignore why the apostraphe in these names (O ' Ahu and Lana 'i = Lana island, Kaua island = Kaua 'i). So interesting that the word for king makes it from middle east to Hawai' i

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  5. In God I believe in the order, Melchizedek according to the "blue print" later I knew by Prophecy and vision for my mission that the order was giving to me, since September 2009
    I been living and having many signs about that I use and believe in covenant of Living God too.
    THANK

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