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Comparison
Melchizedeck/Jesus Christ
A comparison of
Melchizedek and Jesus Christ as to:
Ancestry, Names, Kingdoms,
Priesthood., Gifts & Sacrifices, Blessings, Tithes
GIFTS &
SACRIFICES
- Melchizedek
Hebrews
8:3 tells us that every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and
sacrifices. We know that Jesus' blood was His sacrifice and His ascension
brought the gift of the Holy Spirit. But what was Melchizedek's sacrifice
and gift?
Melchizedek
brought out bread and wine. (Genesis 14:18)
This is in
type, a foreshadowing of the Last Supper when Jesus celebrated the
Passover with his disciples. It was at this meal that Jesus instituted the
new covenant and did so it with breaking bread and drinking wine. This
outward act represented the internal reality of the new covenant.
(Hebrews
8:6-13 NKJV) But now He (Christ) has obtained a more excellent ministry,
inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established
on better promises. {7} For if that first covenant had been faultless, then
no place would have been sought for a second. {8} Because finding fault with
them, He says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make
a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; {9}
"not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because
they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.
{10} "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write
them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
{11} "None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying,
'Know the LORD,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the
greatest of them. {12} "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and
their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more." {13} In that He
says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming
obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
The
reality of this new covenant was that it required the blood sacrifice of the
mediator himself. Since Jesus' blood was not tainted by Adam (remember that
His body came from the Holy Ghost in the womb of Mary), He allowed himself
to suffer humiliation and death at the hands of His own people under Roman
rule. His actual crucifixion was at the hand of the Romans. This was the
one-time atonement, for all that Adam had lost.
(Hebrews
9:24-28 NKJV) For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands,
which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the
presence of God for us; {25} not that He should offer Himself often, as the
high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another;
{26} He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the
world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin
by the sacrifice of Himself. {27} And as it is appointed for men to die
once, but after this the judgment, {28} so Christ was offered once to bear
the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second
time, apart from sin, for salvation.
Melchizedek
brought out bread and wine.
Jesus
said,
"I am the
bread that came down from heaven."
Jn 6:33.
(John
6:33-40 NKJV) "For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and
gives life to the world." {34} Then they said to Him, "Lord, give us this
bread always. " {35} And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who
comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never
thirst. {36} "But I said to you that you have seen Me and yet do not
believe. {37} "All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who
comes to Me I will by no means cast out. {38} "For I have come down from
heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. {39} "This
is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should
lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. {40} "And this is the
will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him
may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
(1
Corinthians 10:16,17) The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the
communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break,
is it not
the communion of the body of Christ?
For we,
though many, are one bread and one body;
for we all
partake of that one bread.
(1
Corinthians 11:24,25) and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said,
"Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance
of Me."
In the same
manner He also took the cup after supper, saying,
"This cup
is the new covenant in My blood.
This do, as
often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."
Melchizedek's sacrifice? There was none.
Melchizedek's gift? His blessing
given from heaven.
This lack of sacrifice represents the
priesthood of the believer who stands before God with nothing to offer of
his own.
He is pure in his reliance upon Christ for
everything. --------
just as Adam was (in his original state) in
the garden of Eden.
Everything that man has or is, was provided
by Christ.
When you start on the Street of
Gold and look at the outline of the
"Order" you will see: sacrifices, works, and blessings;
yet all of these can only be accomplished
through
Christ.
in you
(the hope of Glory) ! |
