MELCHIZADEK
Melchizedek
[As to Jesus.] being designated by God and high priest after the order of Melchizedek. (Hebrews 5.10)
For as those experiences Jesus ... came into the earth, the first that were of the sons of God to enter flesh, there the first and only begotten of God. Again, as names would say, Enoch walked with God, became aware of God in his movements-still that entity, that soul called Jesus-as Melchizedek, without father, without mother, came-still the soul of Jesus; the portion of God that manifests.
... this entity [Jesus] was that one who had manifested to father Abraham as the prince, as the priest of Salem, without father and without mother, without days or years, but a living human being in flesh made manifest in the earth from the desire of Father-God to prepare an escape for man ...
Again there may be drawn to self a parallel from the realm of spiritual enlightenment of that entity known as Melchizedek, a prince of peace, one seeldng ever to be able to bless those in their judgments who have sought to become channels for a helpftd influence without any seeking for material gain, or mental or material glory-, but magnifying the virtues, minimizing the faults in the experiences of all ... Melchizedek is an interesting, yet enigmatic, Biblical figure
He is first mentioned in the 14th chapter of Genesis after a miraculous victory by Abram (before God renamed him Abraham) and his household over King Chedorlaomer and the numerous armies which he commanded. The king of Sodom along with Melchizedek, king of Salem, went out to meet the returning and victorious Abram and to offer thanks for his deliverance.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High. And he blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, maker of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him a tenth of everything. (Genesis 14:18-20)
The phrase "God Most High," or El Elyon in Hebrew, is one of the terms used for God at that time. A typical characterization was that El Elyon was "maker of heaven and earth." After paying tithes to Melchizedek, Abram accorded Melchizedek further respect by addressing the Lord in these terms as "God Most High, the maker of heaven and earth." (Genesis 14:22)
Melchizedek is involved with two acts which later became very important Judeo-Christian and religious rites: the payment of tithes and the symbolic use of bread and wine as in the Eucharist or Lord's Supper. He received the first Biblical tithes and was the first in the Biblical accounts to symbolically use bread and wine. We know from the Dead Sea Scrolls the Jewish Essenes had a ritual using these elements which Jesus may have borrowed.'
In the Canon of the Mass, the Catholic Church has further carried forward the pre-eminence of Melchizedek receiving tithes. The Church prays that the Father will accept its offering as He accepted "the sacrifice that Your high priest Melchizedek offered." Some Christian theologians have argued that Melchizedek's name is placed where Jesus'name should be in the Mass, for it was Jesus who sacrificed his life to God and is considered the mediator between us and God. In view of the special relationship the early Church found between Jesus and Melchizedek, as we shall see later, the substitution of Melchizedek's name for Jesus' may have been purposeful.
The only other Old Testament reference to Melchizedek is in Psalm 1 1 0, a prophetic psalm which makes promises about the messiah: "The Lord has sworn, and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek."' (verse 4) God thus, under oath, states that the messiah will be linked eternally with the Melchizedek priesthood. This psalm, in the quoted and subsequent verses, uses the term "Lord" to describe both God and the messiah. It is therefore important to Christianity because it provides a validation of the Deity of the messiah and authorizes the title of "Lord" for Jesus.
Melchizedek is next mentioned in the New Testament book of Hebrews. He is described as having been: "Without father, or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days, nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever." (Hebrews 7:3)
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