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By admin, May 22, 2011 12:41 pm

Jehovah's Witnesses, from the old priest named Melchizedek was a real human being, why does the Bible say? ..?

he was "without descent"? This statement is made ​​in Hebrews 7:3. "For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him and Abraham shared tenth of all things, is, above all, by translation, "King of Justice" and is then also King of Salem, meaning "King of Peace." Being fatherless, motherless, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of God he remains a priest forever. "-Hebrews 7:1-3. Jesus says in Proverbs 8:22" Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way, the first of his past achievements. 23 From time indefinite I was installed, from the beginning, from the time before the earth. can sort it out, please?

Hello! good question! This statement is made in Hebrews 7:3. Note the verse in context: "For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him and to whom Abraham apportioned a tenth of all things, is, above all, by translation, "King of Justice" and then also king of Salem, meaning "King of Peace." Being fatherless, motherless, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days or end of life, but having been made like the Son of God he remains a priest forever. "-Hebrews 7:1-3. As mentioned, Melchizedek was a real human, so real as Abraham, with whom he had direct contact. (Genesis 14:17-20, Hebrews 7:4-10) In these circumstances, the Melchizedek have parents, a father and a mother, and could have childless. Therefore, as a human being who had a genealogy or family tree. He also had an end of physical life. Sometime Melchizedek died, according to the apostle Paul statement in Romans 5:12, 14. But we do not know when Melchizedek died and left him to serve as a priest, in this respect served no purpose is known. In Hebrews, Paul made comments about Melchizedek when discussing the role of Jesus Christ as high priest of a superior. Referring Melchizedek as a type, or pattern of Jesus in the priestly, Paul said: "Jesus… has become a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. "(Hebrews 6:20) In what sense? Paul must have realized that the Bible record gives no details about the family lineage of Melchizedek their ancestors or descendants as possible. This information is not only a question of the Bible record. From the point of view of what Paul knew or know, therefore, well Melchizedek might say "without genealogy" (New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, American Standard Version) "without table of descent" (WJ Conybeare), or without "family tree" .- JB Phillips. How is Jesus like that? Of course, we know that Jesus' father was Lord God and his human mother was Mary of the tribe of Judah. However, there was a similarity between Melchizedek and Jesus. How so? Jesus was not born in the tribe of Levi, the tribe of the priests of the nation of Israel. No, Jesus had not become a priest through the human genealogy. Nor was Melchizedek that had become a priest, "according to the law of a commandment, depending on the flesh", ie being born in a priestly tribe and family. (Hebrews 7:15, 16) Instead of becoming a priest through a human father who was a priest, Jesus had been "specifically called God's High Priest of the order of Melchizedek. "Hebrews 5:10. On the other hand, Jesus has no descendants or successors of his priesthood. In this sense, was without genealogy. He will eternally carry out his priestly ministry as an instructor for help. Paul commented on this perpetual service, saying: "[Jesus], because to be alive forever has his priesthood without successors. It is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he is always lives to make intercession for them. "-Hebrews 7:24, 25. Our review of Paul's words in Hebrews 7:3 should therefore be more than just a piece of knowledge to store away in our heads. We must reinforce our appreciation for the loving disposition that Jehovah God has done for us for the forgiveness of sin forever and by the way it has provided to us for help and guidance in perpetuity.

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