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HEBREWS 7:11-28 The Perfect and Eternal Priest

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LESS IS MORE

• So few mentions • Vast speculation and interest • Angels, Heaven, • Dead Sea Scrolls have many mentions (linked to Michael) • Deuterocanonical book of – birth story • Serves in the heavenly temple? Immortal?

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GENESIS 14:17-20

17 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. He was priest of God Most High.) 19 And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; 20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!”

And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

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PSALM 110:4

4 The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever

after the order of Melchizedek.”

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FEATURES OF THE FIGURE • King of Salem () • No given genealogy • Brought out Bread and Wine • Was a Priest of God Most High • Conveyed God’s blessing to Abram • Abram gave him a Tithe • Priesthood given by sworn appointment from God

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BROUGHT BREAD AND WINE

• Unleavened – Deliverance • Mana – Provision • Lord’s Prayer – Daily Bread – Super substantial bread • Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God in Luke 14:15 • feeds the 5k • John 6 – I am the bread of life • Last Supper – This is my body • First miracle at a wedding in Cana • Last Supper – This is my blood

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KING AND PRIEST OF SALEM

King of (place) under the true King and Kingdom of God Priest of God in that place, means a place of worship, means a temple

The city of Salem is understood by all later Jewish tradition to have been Jerusalem. Consequently some commentators understand the Melchizedek tradition in Genesis 14:18–20 as justifying a high priesthood in Jerusalem predating the Solomonic temple and even ; however, it is difficult to understand why the Zadokite priests would have promulgated tradition that ultimately undermined their own authority.

Schniedewind, W. M. (2000). Melchizedek, Traditions Of. In Dictionary of background: a compendium of contemporary biblical scholarship (electronic ed., p. 693). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

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HISTORICAL JERUSALEM

• Archeological evidence of a settlement as far back as 3500 BC. Rusalimum • 1900 BC Abraham • 1600 BC Canaanites giant walls to protect water systems • 1400 BC vassal to Egypt = Ú-ru-sa-lim • 1000 BC sacks Jerusalem • 970-931 Solomon’s reign – Construction of the “First” Temple

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REVELATION 21

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man.

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HEBREWS 7:11-12

11 (K)Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of ? 12 For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well

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HEBREWS 7:13-14

13 For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar. 14 For it is evident that our Lord was descended from , and in connection with that tribe said nothing about priests.

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HEBREWS 7:13-14

15 This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek, 16 who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.

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HEBREWS 7:17-19

• 17 For it is witnessed of him, • “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.” • 18 For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness 19 (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

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HEBREWS 7:20-22

20 And it was not without an oath. For those who formerly became priests were made such without an oath, 21 but this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever.’” 22 This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.

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HEBREWS 7:23-25

23 The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, 24 but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. 25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

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HEBREWS 7:26-27

26 For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. 27 He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

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HEBREWS 7:28

28 For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

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KING AND GOD AND SACRIFICE

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