Things We Know

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Things We Know Things We Dont Know

• Who was he?
• Was it Christ?
• What can we learn from Melchizedek?

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What We Know

• Name Genesis 1418
• Melchizedek
• Name means king of righteousness
• City Genesis 1418
• Salem means peace
• Old name for city later called Jerusalem

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What We Know

• King Genesis 1418
• Not a nation just a city
• King mayor of a city and area around
• Priest Genesis 1418
• Not a pagan priest
• El Elyon Hebrew Most High God
• Same God Abraham worshipped(Genesis 1419)

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What We Know

• Kind Genesis 1418
• Brought Abraham bread and wine
• Was Paid Tithes Genesis 1420
• Tithe a tenth part
• Question a 10th of what?
• Mentioned in Scripture
• OT Genesis 1418-20 Psalm 1104
• NT Hebrews 56 510 620 71-21

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What We Dont Know

• Names of parents
• When he was born or died
• Where he was born or died
• His ancestry (family tree)

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What We Dont Know

• Nehemiah 761b - but they could not identify
  their fathers house nor their lineage, whether
  they were of Israel
• Nehemiah 764 These sought their listing among
  those who were registered by genealogy, but it
  was not found therefore they were excluded from
  the priesthood as defiled.

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What We Dont Know

• ISBE The argument of Hebrews 7 is similar to
  the rabbinic argument from silence, which assumed
  tht nothing exists unless Scripture mentions it.
  Since Genesis says nothing about Melchizedeks
  parents, genealogy, birth, or death, he serves as
  a type representing the eternal Son of God.

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What We Dont Know

• Halleys Bible Handbook What is the meaning of
  without father, without mother, without
  genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor
  end of life? Not that it was actually so, but
  that it appeared so in the Old Testament records.

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What We Dont Know

• Halleys Bible Handbook Levitical priests were
  priests because of their genealogy. But
  Melchizedek, without genealogy, was the
  recognized priest of the human race at that time.
• A mysterious, solitary picture and type, in the
  dim past, of the coming Eternal Priest King.

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A False View

• Some assume that Melchizedek was Christ appearing
  to Abraham.
• This is assumed from
• No beginning, no end
• Continually a priest
• This view fails to understand some passages

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A False View

• Made like
• To copy, to become like, make oneself like
• Hebrews 73 - 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.
• 2 things required one of which is a clone, a
  copy, made to look like the other

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A False View

• Another
• Greek (heteros)
• Hebrews 715 - And it is yet far more evident if,
  in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises
  another priest
• Heteros another of a different typeI have
  moved to another house.
• Allos another of the same typeHere is another
  songbook.

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A False View

• Type / Antitype
• Like a rubber stamp
• To strike against and leave an imprint
• Branding cattle, stamp, wax seal
• Thayer The mark of a stroke, a figure formed by
  a blow or impression

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A False View

• Type / Antitype
• Type the pattern, blueprint, design
• The tabernacle was a pattern
• Hebrews 85 - who serve the copy and shadow of
  the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely
  instructed when he was about to make the
  tabernacle. For He said, See that you make all
  things according to the pattern shown you on the
  mountain.

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A False View

• Type / Antitype
• Antitype the thing itself
• Hebrews 924 - For Christ has not entered the
  holy places made with hands, which are copies of
  the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear
  in the presence of God for us

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A False View

• Type Antitype
• Pattern Dress
• Blueprint House
• Design New car
• Tabernacle Heaven
• Melchizedek Christ

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What We Should Learn

• Combination of king and priest
• Not possible under Law of Moses
• Kings from Judah
• Priests from Levi
• Jesus is BOTH
• Mary Levi
• Joseph Judah
• Melchizedek is the type king and priest
  Christ is the antitype

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What We Should Learn

• Anointed One
• Hebrew Messiah
• Greek Christ
• 3 offices are anointed
• Prophet
• Priest
• King
• Jesus fills all 3 offices

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What We Should Learn

• Treatment of strangers
• We should treat ALL people with respect
• Melchizedek honored Abraham
• Abraham honored Melchizedek
• Abraham honored the king of Sodom

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What We Should Learn

• Who was higher?
• Abraham was a Patriarch over his family
• Little is known about the priesthood of
  Melchizedek
• Melchizedeks priesthood is older than the Law of
  Moses
• It is also higher than the priesthood of Levi

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What We Should Learn

• OT shows the type
• Hebrews 85b - For He said, See that you make
  all things according to the pattern shown you on
  the mountain.
• 1 Peter 321 - There is also an antitype which
  now saves usbaptism (not the removal of the
  filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good
  conscience toward God), through the resurrection
  of Jesus Christ

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What We Should Learn

• NT shows the antitype
• Type Antitype
• Melchizedek Christ
• Israel Church
• Noah Salvation
• Tabernacle Worship

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What We Should Learn

• Melchizedek is the pattern, the blue print, that
  will lead us to Christ.
• Follow the pattern.
• You will live in heaven itself.