Tues.’s Devo - More on Mel

Read: Hebrews 7-10
Today, we learn a little more about this much debated Melchisedec. I have studied him at length and changed my conclusions more times than I care to admit, but today… I see a little clearer, I hope. Melchisedec preceded the established priesthood of Aaron and the Levites. In the day he lived the father was the priest of the house. Mel was a father, priest and a king and this was the order that Jesus resembled - a priesthood where he was Father God, High Priest, and the King of Kings. Mel took his office very seriously and his righteous was well known around the world much like Job’s was. In the third verse it says that he was without mother, descent, having no beginning of days, nor end of life. What that meant during their time was that his birth and death and genealogy was not recorded because didn’t have to prove his priesthood like the Levites did later. Then, the priesthood was limited to the Levite tribe and the family of Aaron so they had to have records. Melchisedec was definitely a type of Jesus in all these aspects. Jesus was born of a humble birth but his genealogy could be traced only on his mother’s side. Who can trace God’s genealogy since he is without beginning and end?
When the priesthood went to the Levites it came through the law. When Jesus became our High Priest, the law had to change. The law given by Moses did not make things perfect but Jesus’s law of grace gives us the hope of perfection. Since we now have an eternal High Priest, we have an eternal hope.
Jesus is now seated in the true tabernacle of God, the throne room. Moses saw this on the mount and was told to duplicate it on earth on a much smaller scale. He did this to show us of what goes on in heaven minus the sacrificing since Jesus became the last and final sacrifice for sins. Since we have a new priesthood, we have a new covenant. The laws of this covenant are written on our hearts and in our minds. We will know that we are his people and we will know God. That is awesome!
The first tabernacle could take their sin away but it could not give them a clean conscience. The blood of Jesus washed our bodies and our conscience clean.
Thank you Lord, that we are them that believe to the saving of the soul. Thank you for being our High Priest and giving us the best covenant of all - the covenant of salvation and grace.