2007-08-19 19:53:33 · 11 answers · asked by Dungeon Master 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
that he is a cool mother f***er
2007-08-19 20:01:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Gen. 14:18 - this is the first time that the word "priest" is used in Old Testament. Melchizedek is both a priest and a king and he offers a bread and wine sacrifice to God.
Psalm 76:2 - Melchizedek is the king of Salem. Salem is the future Jeru-salem where Jesus, the eternal priest and king, established his new Kingdom and the Eucharistic sacrifice which He offered under the appearance of bread and wine.
Psalm 110:4 - this is the prophecy that Jesus will be the eternal priest and king in the same manner as this mysterious priest Melchizedek. This prophecy requires us to look for an eternal bread and wine sacrifice in the future. This prophecy is fulfilled only by the Eucharistic sacrifice of the Catholic Church.
Malachi 1:11 - this is a prophecy of a pure offering that will be offered in every place from the rising of the sun to its setting. Thus, there will be only one sacrifice, but it will be offered in many places around the world. This prophecy is fulfilled only by the Catholic Church in the Masses around the world, where the sacrifice of Christ which transcends time and space is offered for our salvation. If this prophecy is not fulfilled by the Catholic Church, then Malachi is a false prophet.
Heb. 5:6,10; 6:20; 7:15,17 - these verses show that Jesus restores the father-son priesthood after Melchizedek. Jesus is the new priest and King of Jerusalem and feeds the new children of Abraham with His body and blood. This means that His eternal sacrifice is offered in the same manner as the bread and wine offered by Melchizedek in Gen. 14:18. But the bread and wine that Jesus offers is different, just as the Passover Lamb of the New Covenant is different. The bread and wine become His body and blood by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit.
Heb. 4:3 – God’s works were finished from the foundation of the world. This means that God’s works, including Christ’s sacrifice (the single act that secured the redemption of our souls and bodies), are forever present in eternity. Jesus’ suffering is over and done with (because suffering was earthly and temporal), but His sacrifice is eternal, because His priesthood is eternal (His victimized state was only temporal).
2007-08-19 20:10:51 · answer #2 · answered by Illuminator 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If memory serves the word Melchizedek means "God / king of the Just". And the order of Melchizedek were/ are? the Levitical priests or any that are chosen by God to be priests. What ever , they must be called by God.
2007-08-19 20:02:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the order of Priesthood (found in Genesis) the Catholic Church uses in its liturgy of Holy Orders, conferring Apostolic succession to the validly ordained Priests.
He is first seen mentioned as the priest of God and king of Salem who blessed Abraham. Abraham in return gave Melchizedek, the Priest and King, 10 percent of what he owned. Thus also began the practice of tithing.
There has always been a mysterious connection to God and Christ since Jesus Christ is also known as our High Priest and King. Melchizedek is seen as an early Old Testament prefigurement of the Christ we come to know in the New Testament. Quite possibly one and the same person.
2007-08-19 20:01:47 · answer #4 · answered by Augustine 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He was an enlightened human like Jesus, Buddha, Horus, Krishna and others. He is described by Paul in the book of Hebrews in almost the same terms that enlightened early Christians are described in the first chapter of Johns Gospel.
That's what he was.
Jesus is Melchizedek because Jesus is everyone.
John 14:20
At that day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Mathew 25:44
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
25:45
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of the least of these, ye did [it] not to me.
Jesus was Melchizedek as he is you and he is me and we are him but blind to the oneness he taught.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh-1JVctSOY
♥Blessed Be♥
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2007-08-19 20:03:45 · answer #5 · answered by gnosticv 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
JESUS is MALKI-TSEDHEQ! HE truly had no genealogy in Abraham's day. Thus the writer of the Epsitle to the hebrews, being in company with others witnessing the Epistle's writing, he said in the first person plural that they had more to say on this Mystery, which he didn't here divulge.
2007-08-19 19:59:45 · answer #6 · answered by Travis J 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Melchizadek was God the Father (see Heb. 7:3).
2007-08-19 20:02:09 · answer #7 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In my church, worthy men get the Melchizedek priesthood
2007-08-19 19:58:09 · answer #8 · answered by Love Yahoo!!! wannabe a princess 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
that the word priest originally meant teacher, and therefore this is the first instance of it being used in a different context
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2007-08-19 20:21:00 · answer #9 · answered by hedgewitch 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
HE was the high priest that Abraham paid his tithes to.
2007-08-19 19:56:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know that no one talks about him that much. Is there a new religion based on that guy now?
2007-08-19 19:58:17 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋