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Melchizedek and Jesus: How to find Jesus in the Old Testament pt 6 | Mike Winger | YouTubeToText
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okay so today in our continued study of
Jesus in the Old Testament where we're
approaching the issue of Melchizedek
this is a hotly debated guy the question
is how is Melchizedek a type of Christ
and is he actually Jesus because a lot
of people think he's actually Jesus
literally showing up a Christ often E in
the Old Testament and so I'll unpack all
these ideas but I think personally and I
could be wrong here is my opinion is
that Melchizedek gives us kind of like a
template for one of the ways in which we
will look for other types of Jesus in
the Old Testament because it's like
we're saying hey if this is how God
shows us about Jesus in the Old
Testament through Melchizedek then maybe
he does the same type of thing through
other people in the Old Testament so
that's that's kind of where we're gonna
be going so I'm gonna try to showcase
those those things for you to to look at
now Melchizedek it's difficult sometimes
for the brain to think about Melchizedek
but it's not difficult to get the
passages there are only four passages in
question dealing with Melchizedek the
the first time he shows up is in Genesis
14 this is where he shows up and he and
he meets Abraham so we read up in
Genesis 14 we read about the story of
how lot and his people lot and the
people he's living with they were taken
captive by some foreign King and Abraham
goes with and with his army and he
rescues lot so he saves a lot and brings
him back and he's coming on his way back
from this battle with all these multiple
kings that just fought and we pick up on
the story in verse 17 of Genesis 14 it
says 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 and Melchizedek and that's
the first time he shows up in the Bible
Melchizedek king of Salem brought out
bread and wine he was a priest he was
priest excuse me of God Most High and he
blessed him and said blessed be Abram by
God Most High possessor of heaven and
earth and blessed be God Most High who
has delivered your enemies into your
hand and Abram gave him
tenth of everything and that's all we
get like that's all we have about
Melchizedek and you wouldn't think that
much about him you kind of be like who
was that guy like what was going but
there's more we get in Psalms and then
there's more in the book of Hebrews
where it directly tells us Melchizedek
is related to Jesus so let's unpack
here's what we know about him here's a
little we just got right we hear his
name which was Melchizedek all right we
all got that yeah I think you came in
here already knowing that information
but but his name is Melchizedek and he's
the king of a place called Salem now
this may well be Jerusalem and I'm
inclined to think it is Jerusalem there
are back then as there are today there
are multiple cities with the same name
so they're Jerusalem though its old name
was Salem that was just the name of the
of the place before it was called
Jerusalem Psalm 76 - supports this it
says about God his abode has been
established in Salem his dwelling place
in Zion so even years later it was still
sometimes referred to as Salem not just
Jerusalem to Zion and Jerusalem are the
same location basically so some people
think maybe this thing king of Salem is
actually a title here's one of the
debates the hotly debated issues on
Melchizedek he's the king of Salem but
that's just a title because we find out
later Salem means peace as many of you
already know right Salem means peace so
maybe he's the king of peace and it was
a title type thing I have a problem with
this because if you read Genesis 14 we
have lots of guys who it says they're
the king of king of king of and they're
always locations they're never titles so
amraphel king of shinar right arioch
king of ellasar tidal king of bera
king of sodom etc etc and it's even in
the same passage right in Genesis 14 17
Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with
him the king of Sodom went out to meet
him in the valley of shaveh so we have
the king of Sodom then we have
Melchizedek who is the king of Salem so
I think it's not a title I think the
context seems to indicate like an actual
place he's a king of an actual place you
know what does he do it
so he's Melchizedek he's the king of
Salem he brings out bread and wine and I
can't save this for
like how can you miss the implications
of him bringing out bread and wine like
how can you possibly miss the obvious
implications of this I mean Jesus comes
and he dies for us and then gives us a
symbolic representation of his sacrifice
in bread and wine using the Passover but
now when we read milk is that we
realized this picture this symbol goes
back before Passover that it was even
being used back then so he gives him
bread and wine that seems pretty obvious
and pretty neat to me he's also a priest
he's a priest so he's a king and he's a
priest and what kind of priest he's not
Levitical so in the timeline of Israel
Abraham's like around 2,000 BC right but
but the Levitical priesthood and the
Mosaic law and all that sort of
structure given to Israel didn't happen
until around 1400 BC at least by my
reckoning around 1400 so we're saying
the Levitical priests didn't exist in
fact we have no idea how this guy was
doing what he was doing
we just know he was a priest but it's
he's not Levitical but was he a pagan
priest no it says he's a priest of God
Most High this is often how the pagan
Kings might have referred to the God of
Israel because the Israelites were
claiming that their God was above all
their God was the one creator of all
things because they were monotheists so
when it says he was the priest of God
Most High that is to say the true God
so he's a non Jewish priest of the true
God who brings out bread and wine to
Abraham and all that stories getting
real interesting now you know like this
who is this guy
well we don't know the details but we
know priest King Melchizedek king of
Salem all that and then the last thing
is well two things really
Abraham tithes to him took the word
tithe just means 10% so Abraham gave him
10% of everything Abraham had he gives
it to Melchizedek and then Melchizedek
blesses Abraham so if anyone doubts who
Melchizedek is that he's priest of the
Most High God or the God Most High
listen to the blessing that he gives he
blesses Abraham in the name of the God
who is the possessor of heaven and earth
that's a monotheistic claim
because because what the Hebrews the in
Hebrew they don't have a word for
universe when they want to refer to
everything in creation they go heaven
and earth or heavens and earth that's
what they say so when he says possessor
of heaven and earth that is really a
claim that this is the God of all things
and then he refers in verse 22 the God
who has delivered your enemies into your
hands and we know it was God Almighty
who blessed Abraham in that battle and
gave him the victory in Genesis 14 22
Abraham later on it says but Abraham
said to the king of Sodom I've lifted my
hand to the Lord God Most High possessor
of heaven and earth
so obviously the the textual clues are
there this may not seem important to you
guys but if you listen to the debates on
the visit ech some people will say it
was a pagan god that no kiss Nick was a
priest of but that's not what the text
says and sometimes scholars as much as
we love and appreciate scholars and
sometimes we don't love and appreciate
them very much actually sometimes they
get so caught up in reading extra
biblical texts that they forget to check
the biblical text and I think here the
real text makes it clear he's the priest
of God Most High the one and only God so
really interesting and definitely
incomplete and you noticed that there's
like a bunch of puzzles we just laid out
who is this mochas a dead guy how is he
a priest of God but not not Levitical
and not from Abraham why is he bring out
bread and wine why is every I'm tied to
him why does he bless Abraham like what
is going on here I think that the Old
Testament lays out lots of questions and
then Jesus comes out and gives us a
bunch of exclamation points right he
turns to questions straightens out those
little question marks into exclamation
points so that we go whoa
instead of huh and that happens over and
over again as I study the Old Testament
I get these whoa moments that before
seeing Jesus there were just like huh
what's going on so the next time he
shows up is in Psalm 110 so let's look
at Psalm 110 Genesis 14 is the first
time Psalm 110 is the second this is
Psalm 110 is clearly messianic it's a
fairly short Psalm it's just seven
verses we're gonna read through the
whole thing and it is actually quoted
more than any other Psalm in the New Testament
Testament
so Psalm 110 is is the most popular New
Testament Psalm to quote
and we actually have Jesus himself
quoting it when he decides to stump with
the Pharisees that's a good way to put
it yeah he said the stump of the
Pharisees with a question about this
verse so Psalm 110 verse 1 it says a
psalm of David the Lord says and that's
capital lort so les yeux way says to my
lord sit at my right hand until I make
your enemies your footstool now this is
the verse that Jesus quotes David writes
a psalm and according to Jesus that's
who is the author of this song so David
writes the psalm and David says Yahweh
says to my lord David's Lord whoever
that is and then Jesus uses this to
stump the Pharisee so if you would turn
to Matthew 22 but keep your place in
Psalm 110 and you might keep Genesis 14
open and be ready for Hebrews chapter 7
I'll be going there too huh Matthew 22
verse 41 so we know how the Pharisees
used to try to stump Jesus right what
they did was they would come up and ask
him a hard question there's a woman she
had a husband and the husband died and
she married another guy and he died and
married another guy and he died and
married 53 other guys and they all died
I'm exaggerating and then you know whose
wife will she be in heaven and Jesus
would answer like you don't know the
power of God you don't know the
scripture is like they don't marry in
heaven so he would which is which is
it's it's great how Jesus could answer
the skeptics questions even the trick
questions I think that's really
interesting but they couldn't answer his
so in Psalm excuse me in Matthew 22 41
we have where Jesus asks them a question
now while the Pharisees were gathered
together Jesus asked them a question
saying what do you think about the
Christ that is the Messiah
remember Messiah or Christ same word two
different languages right messiahs the
Hebrew Christ is the Greek and so that's
the same exact word and he was what do
you think about the Messiah whose son is
he and they said to him the son of David
it was well known that he had to be a
descendant of David the promises came
through David but Jesus wants him to
understand there's more to the Messiah
than just his lineage from David so
verse 43 he said to them how is it then
that David in the spirit calls him Lord
now think for a second Popeyes think for
a second about what Jesus is saying
about the Old Testament how David in the
spirit calls him Lord he's saying that
David was inspired by the Holy Spirit
while he was writing the scriptures
that's the interesting interesting thing
so how is it then that David in the
spirit calls him Lord saying the Lord
said to my lord sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies under your feet
question mark if then David calls him
Lord how is he his son and no one was
able to answer him a word nor from that
day did anyone dare to ask him any more
questions oh this happens on social
media right when someone tries to
challenge you as you're sharing your
faith and then they try to challenge you
with trick questions and if you're able
to have wisdom hopefully and grace but
but wisdom to get on target in the
answer and then they just stop asking
you how it's just after well and I mean
some people don't some people don't ever
get the clue and they just continue to
ask questions forever but they decide
not to ask Jesus anymore questions after
this now Jesus that he quotes this in
mark 12 36 in Luke 20 verse 42 and 3 I
mean in acts 2 verses 34 and 35 it's
courted by Peter in Hebrews 1:13 it's
also quoted this particular Psalm Psalm
110 verse 1 the Lord said to my lord sit
at my right hand until I make your
enemies your footstool that is quoted
over and over again and it's always
quoted for the same basic reason to
establish that the identity of Messiah
is greater than David or is Lord or is
better than angels or he it's showing
how high and lofty Messiah is so yes
he'd be the son of David but it also be
his Lord now that's a question mark
isn't it how is he the son of David and
his Lord Jesus answers that was a big
exclamation point because look at my
identity I'm the son of man and the son
of God that's how so then in back to
Psalm 110 back to Psalm 110 so now now
you see this my point of that little
detour with this this is a messianic
Psalm for sure
not only did the the Jews know it back
then this was messianic but it's quoted
throughout the New Testament as being so
so let's continue reading Psalm 110 now
we know it's got this like really
important messianic thrust verse 2 it says
says
Lord sins forth from Zion your mighty
scepter rule in the midst of your
enemies your people will offer
themselves freely on the day of your
power in holy garments from the womb of
the morning that do of your youthful
yours the general thrust of verse 2 is
that this person that David speaking of
will be king right ruling with a scepter
that's a king that's a royal kingship
that he has he's the son of David but
he's the Lord and he's also got it he's
a king let's keep reading verse 4 the
Lord has sworn and will not change his
mind and here's where milk is a debt
comes in you are a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek so he's this
he's the son of David he's the Lord he's
gonna rule his king and yet he is a
priest and it's after the order of
Melchizedek not the Levites not the
ironic priests no Melchizedek verse 5
the Lord is at your right hand he will
shatter kings in the day of his wrath he
will execute judgment among the nation's
filling them with corpses he will
shatter Chiefs over the wide earth he
will drink from the brook by the way
therefore he will lift up his head so I
just want to finish reading it so we can
get it all in our minds but the basic
idea in Psalm 110 is we have a ruling
king who is also a priest a king and a
priest and we have one particular
example of that in Melchizedek who was a
king and a priest
interesting interesting one of the ways
they knew this was about Messiah is that
it was never fulfilled in David this is
pretty simple it highlights the the
usefulness of different prophecies and I
keep I keep pointing this out there's a
concept I want us to get because it's
really helpful all prophesy or
foreshadowings are not always evidence
for the Bible sometimes it's just
theology like you're just learning
theology some prophecies they prove God
spoke right so I read about like the
destruction of Tyre in Ezekiel I read
about Psalm 22 and how the Messiah will
will suffer describing crucifixion
before it was invented you know I
Jesus quoting it on the crowd like some
things are really like that's evidence
for God's inspiration of the Scriptures
but not all prophecies like this which
is why sometimes if you're studying
prophecy you're like how is this going
to help me prove to this skeptic that
the Bible is God's Word
and my answer is it's not like not every
prophecy is for that one purpose some is
and use those prophecies for that some
prophecies just give clarity on theology
and that's what Psalm 110 verse 1 was
about just clarifying who this Messiah
is so you get better theology that was
what that was about
and some are just there to encourage
exhort or strengthen people they're not
proving anything is just about
encouraging your heart God speaking
prophetically in these in these ways so
it's not like the only purpose of the
Bible is to prove that the Bible's from
God God actually has things to say once
you realize it's from him and so he has
other things to add the reason why I
labor on this is because sometimes and
maybe even now you know watching online
there's a skeptic who would look at
these things and go that doesn't prove
Jesus's but that doesn't prove he's no
but that doesn't prove but that's not
the point right that's the evidence for
the Bible series I did a whole twenty
part series on that that's that's the
point of that series this is theology
we're getting digging into so let's now
now we've got the two bolt system
process Genesis 14 and Psalm 110 and now
we're gonna go right to the new
testament to how it interprets these
things so turn to Hebrews chapter 5 it
comes up briefly in Hebrews 5 we're
gonna read a chunk of this and then the
next passage will be in Hebrews 7 so he
was 5 and Hebrews 7 so in Hebrews 5 it
just it just kind of I wasn't gonna read
Hebrews 5 but I decided we should just
go ahead and just read the whole thing
just to absorb it because it helps set
the stage for what he's talking about in
Hebrews 7 about Melchizedek so we
already know Melchizedek is a priest
he's a king and then the Messiah will be
a priest after the order of Melchizedek
whatever that means
let's find out Hebrews 5 1 for every
high priest chosen from among men is
appointed to act on behalf of men in
relation to God to offer gifts and
sacrifices for sins he can tell gently
with the ignorant and wayward since he
himself is beset with weakness because
of this he's obligated to offer
sacrifice for his own sins just as he
does for those of the people and no one
takes this honor for himself but only
when he's only when called by God just
as Aaron was so far this is all about
the Aaronic priesthood right the Levites
this is their priesthood but there's
principles to learn so also verse five
Christ did not exalt himself to be made
a high priest but was appointed by him
who said to him you are my son did they
have begotten you as he also says in
another place you are a priest forever
after the order of Melchizedek where's
that from Psalm 110 right so according
it again verse 7 in the days of his
flesh Jesus offered up prayers and
supplications with loud cries and tears
to him who was able to save him from
death and he was heard because of his
reverence although he was a son he
learned obedience through what he
suffered and being made perfect he
became the source of eternal salvation
to all who obey Him being designated by
God a high priest after the order of
melchizedek about this we have much to
say and it is hard to explain since you
have become dull of hearing yes the New
Testament is not always nice it's always
not always kind to you in a sense you've
become dull of hearing and the next
whole chapter chapter 6 he talks about
how dull they are and how he's like what
there's really no point in me starting
over with salvation with you guys look
like you either receive it or don't now
I'm moving on to talk about Melchizedek
this is next-level Christianity stuff
but if I have to rebuild the first floor
with you there's no point I mean it's a
really scary passage Hebrews 6 which I'm
thankfully not teaching tonight yes save
that for later
there's we all have questions about
Hebrews 6 so there's a lot here but just
to mention here's a little bit of what
we get so far in Hebrews 5 about
Melchizedek right priests help people in
their relationship with God especially
dealing with sin okay Jesus fulfills
that they are sympathy because they have
weaknesses too in fact their weakness is
often stem from their own sinful natures
Jesus is separated from them a little
bit there he had weak physical weakness
but no sin and so he he understands the
frailty of humankind but but wasn't
sinful so there's a difference there and
Jesus is a high priest but he's unlike
the ironic priests he's a Melchizedek
Ian priest he's a priest after the order
of Melchizedek
and he saves quote all who obey Him so I
just gotta mention really quick because
in the Mormon Church they believe they
have an active priesthood called the
Melchizedek II and priesthood and the
young men in the Mormon Church will be
ordained as priests after the order of
Melchizedek that's a total twisting of
the scripture there's only one person
who is a priest after the order of
Melchizedek his name is Jesus
but what because this is a confusing
passage because it's a hard passage this
is what often time cult groups do is
they take hard passages build really
detailed theology systems based off of a
confusing passage and then they make you
try to accept it because they quote a
verse you don't understand and it's
really kind of a weird tactic they have
never let someone cause you to embrace
all this theology because you don't
understand a verse like just just go I
don't understand that but I don't think
it says all that like that's fair enough
to say and it will protect you so yeah
there's just one guy who's a priest
after Melchizedek and his name is Jesus
so Hebrews six verse 20 the last verse
in Hebrews 6 we come to our final
passage about my own kiss attack and
then I'm gonna try to answer a bunch of
questions we've laid out a bunch of
those things so far and we'll try to get
to the answers verse 20 of Hebrews 6 it
says where Jesus has gone as a
forerunner on our behalf
speaking of like that Tabernacle in
heaven he washed us clean having become
a high priest forever after the order of
Melchizedek and now here's the inspired
commentary you don't need me to tell you
what Melchizedek is about because God
tells us right here in Hebrews 7 for
this Melchizedek king of Salem priest of
the Most High God met Abraham returning
from the slaughter of the Kings and
blessed him remember how he blessed him
and to Abraham important to him Abraham
apportioned a tenth part of everything
he ties he is first by translation of
his name king of righteousness and then
he is also king of Salem that is king of
peace so far this is really easy
no because they okay this I got this
this is easy peasy stuff right points of
comparison the name Melchizedek means
king of righteousness malik means king
Tzedek means
he's righteous king that's who he is
that's what his name means so we have by
the way there's a debate on this as well
did it really mean king of righteousness
or did it mean my king is righteous or
did it mean that his name meant Malik
King is is said ech which is the name of
this pagan deity is my King Zedeck is my king
king
okay pause the inspired commentary he
says Melchizedek which means king of
righteousness so it helps us and
translates this for us there's a big
debate on this I'm not going to get into
it but they've even found a text in
Egypt that showed Melchizedek as simply
a name that meant king of righteousness
so we we have like ancient verification
for this I share that because I never
know who might watch these this
commentary these videos and maybe they
needed to hear that yes they actually
found evidence to support that so easy
peasy right Jesus is the king of
righteousness he is the righteous King
right first John 2:1 it says my little
children I'm writing these things to you
so that you may not sin but if anyone
does sin we have an advocate with the
father Jesus Christ the righteous
he is righteous the only one who's
righteous he is the remember when Jesus
says why do you call me good no one is
good but God and then first John 2:1
goes yeah Jesus the righteous like yes
that's him he is the righteous one but
he's also the king of peace see a
righteous King implies he's gonna bring
down a righteous judgment on sinners but
he's the king of peace bringing and
restoring our relationship with a God
king of Salem shown Romans 5:1 it says
therefore since we've been justified by
faith we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ he is ultimately the
Prince of Peace he's our king of peace
so there's a contrast here
I love the the intensity of the cross
when you really think about it
conceptually about how the wrath of God
and the love of God come together on the
cross about how the righteousness of God
and the peace of God come to come
together on the cross Psalm 85 10 is one
of my favorite verses that capsule
eights that it says steadfast love and
faithfulness meet righteousness and peace
peace
kiss each other and I just picture the
cross like righteousness which would
require judgment and peace kiss each
other they meet and through the cross
were reconciled she's our king of
righteousness and he's our king of peace
this to me is more confirmation that God
from the moment when Melchizedek is
doing this stuff with Abraham God is
planning out how this will come out in
the text of Scripture so that you could
study it later and see Jesus that this
was all an agenda on God's mind and this
means something else
names can have typological significance
I mean if Melchizedek named and though
he's king of Salem he's just the king
but it means king of peace and I can go
oh that relates to Jesus then this means
that in my little toolbox I can go I can
look up the meaning of a name and see if
that maybe has some significance as a
type of Christ as I'm studying the Old
Testament which is just kind of fun so
now you can do this now I have no agenda
here I don't know what names I'm gonna
apply this to exactly except to say I
think that God tends to do things
consistently and if he does it with
Melchizedek he may do it with somebody
else and somewhere else in the scripture
and I think I can't think of places
where I think he does this and we'll get
into that stuff in future weeks so does
this mean every name is a type of Christ
Adam and Eve no no not necessarily
but it means that it could be there and
that's that's fun for me I can look at
these New Testament examples of types to
give me a tool a tool set to go to the
Old Testament on my own I remember we
had a class called hermeneutics when I
was in the school ministry and in this
book hermeneutics it was fantastic book
they talked about principles for Bible
study but when he came to types they had
a few principles and the last they had
like five principles on identifying
types of Jesus in the Old Testament the
last principle I think was the fifth one
I totally disagree with and the last
principle was it's only a type if it's
clearly identified in the New Testament
as a type of Christ and I was like well
why do you even need the other four
principles if that's one of your
principle I don't even need to think
about types I just make a list of the
New Testament examples and that's all we
get but yet
that's not all we get that's really not
all we get there's no reason why I mean
Jesus on the road to emmaus we did this
in the first week on this Jesus in the
Old Testament thing the road to miss
Jesus opened and beginning at Moses and
to all the prophets right all the
Scriptures he shows them the things that
pertain to him there's more there's more
and I think it's one of the noblest
things you can do to soberly look for
types of Jesus throughout the Old
Testament so verse 3 let's continue
verse 3 in Hebrews 7 he's without father
or mother or genealogy having neither
beginning of days nor end of life but
resembling the Son of God he continues a
priest forever here's the debate now
that's that's the verse right there that
one verse gives us most of the debate
we're gonna look at so he doesn't have
father and mother so I mean he's eternal
he's unborn he's undying no father no
mother no genealogy he doesn't have a
beginning of days and he doesn't have an
end of life he resembles the son of God
and he continues as a priest forever now
depending on how you take this you may
think that Melchizedek isn't a type of
Christ he's actually Jesus he just
continues as a priest forever and he's
okay who's who's uncreated Jesus right
like that would that would fit that
would fit so on the pro side for people
who think that Jesus this is a Christ
often an actual appearance of Christ
um he's eternal unborn undying that
would imply it Hebrews 7 8 might imply a
Christ a phony as well because verse 8
it says in the one case tides are
received by mortal men speaking of the
Levites but in the other case by one of
whom it is testified that he lives well
he lives like just Melchizedek still
live today then is that the point but I
have some things that make me think it's
not a Christ often II so let me share
that with you because that's my personal
opinion we can feel we can disagree on
this issue I certainly disagree with
plenty of people on it but here's the
reasons the Old Testament if you took it
by itself you would never have thought
Melchizedek was eternal right like if
you just read the Old Testament in
isolation as a new you never would have
thought he was eternal it just wouldn't
you just he's a guy he's the king of
Salem he's a priest of the Most High God
like but but eternal unborn undying like
those things no I don't think so
um in verse 3 it says resembling the Son
of God
it doesn't say as the son of God if it
was a Christ often II I wouldn't think
he would be said to be resembling the
Son of God I would think he would just
be said to be the son of God right if it
was Jesus I would have thought having me
the beginning of days nor end of life
but as the son of God he continues you
know as a priest forever but instead
he's resembling the son of God in verse
20 of chapter 6
Hebrews 6:20 and quoting the Old
Testament well it says you are a priest
forever after the order of Melchizedek
it doesn't say you are Melchizedek a
priest forever that would be the
implication if Melchizedek and Jesus are
the same person
but instead of Jesus is similar to
Melchizedek we have that so that would
uh that would also cause some problems
because Melchizedek was king of Salem so
we're not talking okay every Christ
often II I've read so far Jesus shows up
and then leaves but if Melchizedek is a
Christ often II he was literally ruling
and reigning in Salem long term and
functioning as a priest there for those
people and that to me seems a little bit
unlikely I'm not saying it couldn't
possibly happen but it would almost
imply that Jesus came and lived an
actual full life before he came with the
Incarnation and that's confusing to me
so you see why at first glance you go
that's a cry that's Christ off on you
but when you start to look at the other
puzzle pieces you go that's kind of
creating some problems for us if we have
that perspective I think in verse 4 it
says see how great this man was speaking
of Melchizedek um I just want to know it
doesn't say see how great he is
it's just weird to refer to him in the
past tense in that sense and in verse 21
of chapter 7 it says he was made a
priest by an oath and we'll get to there
we'll get there in a minute
he was made a priest by an oath and that
took place either like a milk in okay
Psalm 110 occurs hundreds and hundreds
of years after Abraham and it says you
are a priest forever well Hebrews sevens
commentary on Psalm 110 says he became a
priest by an oath meaning the person
Psalm 110 is talking about was not
already a priest
was already a priest so if he became a
priest by now that either happened at
the time of David when the oath was
given or it was you are and it was
declaration about Jesus and when he came
he became the priest melk it you know
priest in the order of Melchizedek
there's another reason to think it's not
a christophany um so Jesus was a priest
made a priest long after Melchizedek had
already been a priest so then those are
two different people and in verse 15 of
Hebrews 7 it says quote another priest
arises in the likeness of Melchizedek
okay so it's not the same guy that's the
context I see there some people say no
no no Mike you're wrong it's not a
christophany it's not a human who
represents Jesus it's an angel who
represents Jesus so Mike is the next
different than Jesus but it's an angelic
being that's why it can be said to be
without father or mother except it also
says he's without beginning of days or
end of life and angels do have a
beginning of days so I feel like that
doesn't really apply to angels if we
take that literally so how do I explain
the the statements without beginning
adays how do I explain that if it's not
if that's a human how's it human without
beginning of days here's what I think
and I hope I can express this well see I
think I get it right but getting it out
of my mouth to someone else that's the
challenge that's the real challenge of
teaching so um I think that Melchizedek
had a beginning of days and an end of
life in a genealogy I think the point is
it's not written in the text
I think Hebrews is saying God included
the story written this way so it would
be a picture of Christ which to me is
kind of exciting when you think about
the implications so there was a there
was more to the story of Melchizedek but
the the particular details written and
the ones left out were written in and
left out so it would be a better picture
of Jesus does that make sense I hope I
hope this makes sense it means that as
I'm looking at the Old Testament I not
only look at the people and events but I
look at how it was written
why was this detail just that there was
there was more to that guy's life but it
was left out because God wanted to draw
a better picture of Christ through the
Old Testament Melchizedek had a
genealogy in my opinion I could be wrong but
but
my opinion yet our genealogy but how is
he without genealogy in the story in
Genesis 14 there's no genealogy in
Genesis 14 he doesn't start his life he
doesn't end his life he just shows up
does his thing and he's gone and we
don't know any more details about him I
think in that sense he's a picture of
Jesus Christ in the text and that's the
point it means that the text was more
the goal than the actual guy himself
this means that the Bible is more
profound and more important than maybe
we've realized and so to me that that
here's here's how I view it call me
because it it could cry Stephanie you
have to answer those other questions
that I have real hard time answering I
don't know how to answer those issues if
you call Melchizedek a picture of Christ
I feel as though I can answer the
genealogy issue the without beginning of
days an end of life I feel like I can
answer all those issues and the other
issues and it all makes sense so that's
my personal view yeah there's other guys
too or you read about them Jephthah
we'll get there I don't know why but
Jeff's that's one of my favorite
pictures of Christ interesting but but
you read his story and you realize in
these few verses in the beginning of a
story it's so a picture of Christ in my
opinion and if they had added more
details more and more details about his
life it would have broke the picture
down that's the point you see Joseph the
story of Joseph we read we have a lot of
him right but we if we read more and
more and more about him it would
eventually start to just look less and
less like Jesus but we have less
information in order to keep it looking
more like Jesus that's the idea so
that's my perspective my view on that
for what it's worth and you may disagree
but you're wrong alright so hebrews
hebrews so we'll continue Hebrews 7
verse 4 it says see how great this man
was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a
tenth of the Spoils and now he's talking
about the greatness of Melchizedek
because it's relates to the greatness of
Jesus Melchizedek is a picture of Jesus
and those descendants of Levi who
receive this is now this is a
challenging part but stick with me here
the descendants of Levi who received the
priestly office have a commandment in
the law to take tithes from the people
that is from their brothers is realized
tithe to the Levites
tithe too though these are also are
descended from Abraham but this man who
does not have his descent from them
receives ties from Abraham and blessed
him who had the promises those are the
two points he's gonna highlight spoiler
right here they tithe
Abraham tithe and Melchizedek blessed
him and he's gonna say these two things
make Melchizedek better than Abraham
because you tie this someone better than
you spiritually in some sense at least
in this context and then the one who
blesses is greater than the one who gets
the blessing so he's gonna he's trying
to show how great Melchizedek is to show
how great Jesus is so verse 7 it's
beyond dispute that the inferior is
blessed by the superior Abraham then
would be inferior to Melchizedek in the
one case tie this back to the tithe
issue are received by mortal men but in
the other case by one of whom it has
testified that he lives one might even
say that Levi himself who receives tithes
tithes
paid tithes through Abraham for he was
still in the loins of his ancestor when
verse 9 one might even say that you
could actually translate that phrase
like in a sense so Paul's again he's
drawing analogies to Jesus he's not
saying that Levi was literally in the
loins of Abraham he's going to know in
the story
Levi's from Abraham so in a sense Levi's
tithing - so what's the point milk is it
x better than Levi and the milk is a
dekyon priesthood that Jesus has is
better than the Levitical priesthood
which now you zoom out and go that's
what Hebrews is about right Jesus is
better Jesus is the fulfillment and the
better fulfillment of all those Old
Testament realities and what blows me
away is this means that the priesthood
that was to supersede the Levites came
long before the Levites and Abraham
himself tithed to that guy that's pretty
significant isn't it now if I was Jewish
I'd be like good because I want to know
there's a solid grounding in the Old
Testament for who Jesus is and what he
does so he's greater than Abraham for
two reasons right Abraham ties two
cos avec and two he blessed Abraham and
the inferiors blessed by the superior
you have examples of this in the
scripture and other places you know the
father is going to bless the sons before
he passes away that sort of thing to
highlight this to draw our attention
this verse six of Hebrews 7 it says he
blessed him who had the promises
remembering how great Abraham was in you
all the nations of the world will be
blessed and he comes and he blesses
Abraham Abraham that's a kind of a big
deal so how does this relate then to the
melt to the to the Levites in the
Melchizedek ian's thing going on here is
again a part of Hebrews saying that even
the system of the law
that was coming through the Levites that
it was it was its forerunner or not for
honor but it was preceded by this guy
Melchizedek who interceded for Abraham
to draw him to God by being the priest
between Abraham and God and then yet
he's a picture of Christ and then Psalm
110 prophetically speaks about this
future priest king who will come in the
order of Melchizedek cites I think it's
just absolutely amazing
it shows us the purpose of the whole
like literally Melchizedek speaks to
something about the purpose of the
Levitical law in general it's a pretty
profound thing but we got to move on so
verse 11 now if perfection have been
attainable through the Levitical
priesthood for under it that people
receive 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
Aaron just highlighting what why bother
having a priest after the order of
Melchizedek if if the ironic priesthood
is enough if the Levites are enough for
when there was a change in the
priesthood there is necessarily a change
in the law as well for the one of whom
these things are spoken belongs to
another tribe from which no one has ever
served at the altar so Jesus this is
speaking of Jesus he comes from a
different tribe that's not the Levites
he comes from the tribe of Judah the
kingly tribe so how could he be a priest
you're not part of the Levites because
you're a priest after the order of
Melchizedek do you see how the the
question marks are answered with the
exclamation point of Jesus price really
neat stuff I wish I could like
pause and just teach for 15 minutes on
that one concept alright verse 14 for it
is evident that our Lord was descended
from Judah and in connection with what
with that tribe Moses said nothing about
priests this becomes even more evident
when another priest arises in the
likeness of Melchizedek who has become a
priest become a priest as an he wasn't
already a priest not on the basis of a
legal requirement concerning bodily
descent but by the power of an
indestructible life for it is witnessed
of him you were a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek highlighting
the foreverness of that priesthood every
one of the high priests would die it was
kind of planned out right in fact the
whole City of Refuge thing happens when
the high priest dies not like this is
kind of expected but Jesus when he comes
as a priest he's a priest how long
forever so there was an eternal
priesthood promised and the Levitical
thing was a temporary thing to be a
schoolmaster lead us to Christ is the
idea so this solves a problem with Jesus
Jesus he can be the king of Israel
because he's of the tribe of Judah so
he's in the proper line of descent but
how could he be a priest how could he
intercede on our behalf how can he ever
live to intercede for me because he's a
priest after the order of Melchizedek
and this is an Old Testament promise an
Old Testament truth and it's only
answered in Jesus and it predates the
Levitical priesthood and one of the
messages that we get as we're doing
Jesus in the Old Testament is this is
not about us reading Jesus into the Old
Testament it really is kind of like
saying guys the Old Testament doesn't
make sense without Jesus it just doesn't
make sense without him you have lots of
passages where I don't even know what
you're supposed to do with Melchizedek
or the promise in some 110 without Jesus
how do you answer this without him you
don't alright verse 18 we're continuing
Hebrew sevens a long chapter four on the
one hand a former commandment is set
aside because of its weakness and
uselessness for the law made nothing
perfect it was good the law was good it
just couldn't fix you it just pointed
out your error but on the other hand a
better hope is introduced through which
we draw near to God and it was not
without an oath for those who formerly
became priests were made such with an
oath the Levites the air the ironic
as well which is like a subdivision
within the Levites verse 21 but this one
was made a priest with an oath by the
one who said to him the Lord is sworn
and will not change his mind you are a
priest forever now I'm so pause for a
second please don't underestimate the
incredible importance of seeing Jesus
throughout the Old Testament you can't
do this with Mohammed and I like when
people try you can't do this with Joseph
Smith remember what happened with Joseph
Smith looked to find prophecies about
himself in the Old Testament he added
extra verses at the end of Genesis in
order to make something there because it
doesn't exist the the the passages
because I Mike
people can find anything they want in
the Old Testament I'm like go ahead you
find your proof text for whatever guy
you want on song-song or some other
weird thing going on and I'll get my
proof text for Jesus and let's compare
the quality of those texts how's that sound
sound
you can't do this with anyone else in
fact if Jesus isn't the Messiah then the
truth is the Old Testament is just
failed if he's not the Messiah the
Messiah didn't come at all and it's over
and the hope of mankind is is just gone
but he is so verse 22 this makes Jesus
the guarantor of a better covenant the
one who guarantees it
the former priests were many in number
because they were prevented by death
from continuing in office which is
something that prevents a lot of us from
continuing but he holds his priesthood
permanently because he continues forever
consequently he's able to save to the
uttermost those who draw near to God
through him since he always lives to
make intercession for them now sometimes
we read this person we think Jesus is
praying for me he's interceding for me
it's a different kind of thing it's not
that he's praying for you
it's kind of better than that it's that
his constant life his living life after
sacrificing for you is constantly making
you close to God it's like the blood of
the intercession of blood how can you
draw near to God I'm living to intercede
am i enough to bring you to God yes and
Here I am always here always alive
always interceding for you that's a
powerful verse to remember for those who
struggle with feeling condemned
feeling beat up with feeling like you're
how could I be forgiven I'm like in
Jesus how could you not be forgiven
really how on earth can you not be
forgiven in Christ I don't see how it's
possible verse 26 for it was indeed
fitting that we should have such a high
priest wholly innocent unstained
separated from sinners and exalted above
the heavens 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 and for all when he offered up
himself for the law appoints men in
their weaknesses or their weakness as
high priests but the word of the oath
which came later than the law appoints a
son who's been made perfect forever and
this is where we could easily miss I
think some of the points we should catch
the word of the oath is that verse in
Psalm 110 for right you're a priest
forever according to the order of
Melchizedek that's the oath I have sworn
and will not relent you're a priest that
oath came after the law meaning after
the Levitical laws already in place God
promises some future priests
why bother promising a future priest if
the priests we have are enough do you
see the insufficiency of the law is
written into it so that we would know it
was temporary and that's the point there
really means stuff man one of these days
I'd love to actually do a full on
teaching through the book of Hebrews
like taking our time going through it on
like Sunday nights or something like
that and and maybe by then I'll figure
out what to do with Hebrews six I hope
I'll just get a guest teacher for that
day I did last time so so the
Melchizedek priesthoods better because
it's eternal it's got better sacrifice
it's got a better effect it's one time
with a constant effect that lasts
forever instead of a bunch of guys
rising up and dying and insufficient for
actually perfecting you and all that
sort of thing
so in conclusion after I feel like I've
just been going a mile a minute like
remember those micro machine commercials
that micro machine guy that would talk
like super fast I feel like that's I've
been doing it so I just knew how much I
had to get through so our tools we got
two things right one we have Melchizedek
and all the incredible richness of
theology the clarity on the-- Allah
who Jesus is and what he did for us when
we see Melchizedek in Genesis 14 Psalm
110 and the explanation in Hebrews six
and five and seven on the other side we
get tools so that we can get better and
better at finding Jesus in the Old
Testament in the passages the New
Testament doesn't specifically identify
and that's what we're doing
so here's what we're adding to our tool
set in particular one thing that's
really neat is names alone can be
significant in finding types of Christ
in the Old Testament I don't know how
you can argue with that point after
finding out about Melchizedek his title
even he's king of Salem like the town
he's the king of ends up with having
meaning as far as how it pictures Christ
I think that's neat we also see
something else it's not just Melchizedek
king of Salem look at how many points
where Melchizedek connects to Jesus he
shows up he just he doesn't have a
genealogy whether that's literal or if
it's because the story has no genealogy
so it's a picture of Christ whichever
side you take on that so there's one
point no genealogy no mom or dad right
no beginning event or end of days he's a
priest and he's a king his name means
king of righteousness he's the king of
peace Abraham tithes to him he brings
Abraham bread and wine and there's a
promise that this priesthood will so
like there's something hanging in the
text that that leaves you with a
question going how will this be
fulfilled this Melchizedek Ian promised
is priest forever so there's like 10
points of correspondence to Jesus in
this story so the two tools I want to
focus on is names matter not that they
always matter but they matter and to
multiple points of Correspondence if you
want to say this is a type of Christ
it's probably going to need to
correspond to Jesus in more than one way
because God is able to do that so yeah
so that's what I have for you guys today
and I don't even know what we're gonna
do next time because I haven't had time
to think about that because I'm gonna be
coming to Florida and they won't be
doing this again for two weeks or three
weeks well if the Jesus in the Old
Testament what we'll do the Q&A thing
coming up soon so let's pray
father God we're excited yeah we dipped
our toes maybe even our whole legs into
this topic of hook is a deck there's
obviously more much more there in the
theology of it and all that but it's
exciting God to think that in Genesis
with Abraham you have this priest show
up who's a picture of Christ that ends
up superseding the Levitical priesthood
yet it's all Old Testament that's so
exciting to us lord help us to see how
you have have embedded in the Old
Testament more and more about Jesus and
about who he is and what he would do
help unveil our eyes so that in our
reading of the Scriptures the Old
Testament we see what you always
intended for us to find in Jesus name Amen
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