ÿþ<script language="javascript">function link() { open('../links.html','_self'); }</script><html> <head> <title>Who was Melchizedek?</title> <link href="../rr.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"></link> </head> <body scroll="auto"> <span class="header">Who was Melchizedek?</span> <span class="content"> <P> All we know of him is recorded in Genesis 14:18-20. </P> <P> He is subsequently mentioned only once in the Old Testament, in Psalms 110:4. </P> <P> The typical significance of his history is set forth in detail in the Epistle to the Hebrews, in Hebrews 7:1-28. </P> <P> The apostle there points out the superiority of his priesthood to that of Aaron in these respects: </P> <P> 1. Even Abraham paid him tithes<BR/>2. he blessed Abraham <BR/>3. he is the type of a Priest who lives for ever<BR/>4. Levi, yet unborn, paid him tithes in the person of Abraham<BR/>5. The permanence of his priesthood in Christ implied the the Levitical system<BR/>6. he was made priest not without an oath <BR/>7. His priesthood can neither be transmitted nor interrupted by death: &quot;This man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. </P> <P> The question as to who this mysterious personage was has given rise to a great deal of modern speculation. </P> <P> It is an old tradition among the Jews that he was Shem, the son of Noah, who may have survived to this time. </P> <P> Melchizedek was a Canaanite prince, a worshipper of the true God, and in his peculiar history and character an instructive type of our Lord, the great High Priest (Heb 5:6,7 6:20). </P> <P> One of the Amarna tablets is from Ebed-Tob, king of Jerusalem, the successor of Melchizedek, in which he claims the very attributes and dignity given to Melchizedek in the Epistle to the Hebrews. </P> </span> <hr size="1" noshade="true"></hr> <address onclick="link()">Content Courtesy of <u class="link">RaptureReady.com</u></address></body> </html>