Truth About the Tithe
Today’s Focus: Administrators of the First Covenant: Understanding Melchizedek
Scripture: Hebrews 7:1-12
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
Let’s get right to it. Hebrews 7 gives us a wonderful outline of who Melchizedek is. Let’s take a look.
Hebrews 7:1-3: For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is King of peace; Without father, without mother, without descent (genealogy), having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
Now in this set of scripture we get a complete glimpse into who this Melchizedek is. Now we know in Genesis 14:17-20 talked about the interaction between Abraham and Melchizedek. Here in Hebrews 7, we see a recount of this same story but let’s look at verse 3 because this was not discussed in Genesis and this gives us some background about Melchizedek.
Now in verse 3 it says that he does not have a mother, father, nor genealogy, neither beginning or ending of days but made like the Son of God. Please do not miss this. Notice the scripture does not say that he was like the Son of Man but the Son of God. What is the difference? Huge difference. We know that Jesus took the title Son of Man and Son of God. As the Son of Man, he had a father, mother and genealogy. His mother was Mary, His Father was God, and He had genealogy. In one of the gospels Jesus genealogy was recorded from 62 generations (Luke 3:23-38) and 42 Generations (Matthew 1:1-17). The Order of Melchizedek in Hebrew 7:3 describes for us an eternal order because the scripture says he was made like unto the Son of God. If he is eternal then He is a priest continually or forever. Now we know that Jesus is Melchizedek because He is the King of Righteousness, Prince of Peace and the Great High Priest.
In the next message we will start contrasting between the Levitical Order and the Order of Mechizedek.
At Our Father’s Service
Elder Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
