Melchize-Who?

There was a man that I knew named Ken. He has since gone to be with the Lord. I was talking to him one day a couple of years ago and he told me that Jesus was Melchizedek. I wanted him to clarify, asking him if he thought Melchizedek was a "type" of Christ. He said, "no, Melchizedek was Jesus."

He asked me to pray about it and see if I didn't discover that truth out for myself. I never had the opportunity to speak with him about it again. I am though reading Hebrews chapter 7 this morning and can most assuredly understand why Ken would have thought that. But the author of Hebrews is arguing from the Old Testament that Melchizedek pre-figured a type of Christ.


He is 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.
(Hebrews 7:3 ESV)


Ken surely knows now the truth of Melchizedek way better than I do. Yet I can know that Melchizedek was not Jesus. Melchizedek resembled Jesus. He resembled Jesus is the way that he appears to be eternal. He has no beginning (recorded in Scripture) and no ending (recorded in Scripture). It appears his priesthood has no end (that is recorded in Scripture).

Verse 11 and following will argue that Jesus is comparable to Melchizedek. Maybe I'll read that tomorrow morning.

May Jesus Christ, who's Priesthood continues for ever, offer his eternal once and for all sacrifice for you to God the Father. May you be eternally forgiven because of your Great High Priest.