A brief exegesis into the mystery of Melchisedek

1. THE MYSTERY of MELCHISEDEK
The man called Melchisedek, which by interpretation means King of
righteousness and King of Salem is another route to discovering the
mystery of Jesus.
We will begin our analysis by looking at the history behind His
personality and its implication for Christians:
The existence, appearance, and otherwise of Melchisedek is a big
puzzle. For instance, I can not help but ask, “Where was Melchisedek
during the preaching of Noah, during the flood or even when Noah
acted as Priest (Genesis 8:20-21)? Yet He has always been there. Still
in this direction, “who were the congregation that Melchisedek
ministered to in the light of the fact that GOD had recently chosen
Abraham from among the grand-sons of Noah – a people devoted to
satisfying their desires and ambitions (Genesis 11:3-6; 13:12)? Yet He
has always been a Priest from day one.
Evidently GOD was not satisfied with the world even after the deluge
hence His desire to pick one man from it to communicate His ways,
and from the records Abraham himself was called of GOD as a priest
(Genesis 12:7-8; 13:4, 18; 15:9-11; 18:22-23; 19:27; 20:7, 14, 17;
22:1-14). He (Abraham) could impart tithing (Genesis 28:22)
because he himself paid his tithe regularly (Genesis 14:20). If
Abraham as a priest paid his tithe to Melchisedek, it means he
recognised that Melchisedek’s priesthood was higher than his.
But who could have inspired Abraham that a priesthood that had no
standing congregation and possibly with no other known disciple was
better than his?
Some theologians have surmised that Melchisedek was a Canaanite
priest but evidence from the Bible does not support this. The Bible
rather shows that the people of Canaan were idolatrous from day one
so much so that GOD had to warn the House of Israel against
interacting with them. There is therefore no way Melchisedek could
have been a priest of the Most High among a people that did not know
the Most High. GOD is not known for duplicating the Dispensations
of Grace; even Judaism had to give way to Christianity at the
appointed time, thus there is no way He could have chosen Abraham
to teach His ways when Melchisedek already knew enough about Him
to be a priest in Canaan – at least not when the priesthood of
Melchisedek was perfect and eternal. Moreover the LORD GOD with
His own mouth proclaimed that He called only one family – that of

2. Abraham and Sarah, to reveal the mystery of GOD (Isaiah 51:1-2).
It is said that Melchisedek’s priesthood is from everlasting but just
how old was His first act as a priest and who could tell when He will
do the last? And how old was Canaan when eternity was born? This
effectively eliminates the possibility of Him being a priest of Canaan.
The Bible says that Christ was sacrificed right from the foundation of
the world but who performed the sacrifice?
If Melchisedek, a High Priest with full human characteristics has no
end, where on Earth is He right now? Have you started seeing the
mystery embedded in The Man Melchisedek?
Apostle Paul was at a loss on how to explain to his audience the
mystery of Melchisedek because it was not yet time but thanks to the
one who chooses the foolish things of this world to make known His
wisdom in His time and to confound the wisdom of the world; the
revelation of the person behind the mystery called Melchisedek is
given to this generation: He is GOD the Father in His Divine
transcendental Material form – the one that can appear and disappear;
walk through matter, space and time to where He was not previously
existing, simultaneously and leave whenever He chooses; the same
form The Resurrected Jesus assumed, nay went back to. He is The
Pre-incarnate Material Manifestation of God.
That is the form that no human law of existence can control.
Melchisedek is the only body that GOD made for Himself prior to
creation; He is the one that refuses to go away no matter how much
we do to put Him aside – we will first need to take ourselves out of
existence before we loose our earthly awareness of Him yet He will
still be there and His majesty then so near and the awesomeness so
fearful we will desire mountains to bury us out of His sight; yet in the
rubbles of the mountains He will be waiting! That is the Man we have
to contend with.
For those who may want to dispute that Melchisedek is The Pre-
incarnate Material Manifestation of God , let’s consider the following:
His Uncaused Existence
Hebrews 7:3 shows that Melchisedek had no father, mother or
genealogy. There is no other essence that aptly fits this description
than GOD except we are insinuating that there are two individuals
who have this attribute but one of them is not God. To wit, even
Adam had a line of descent – from GOD, the Uncaused Cause of all
existence. If Melchisedek is not descended from Adam, then He
wasn’t a human though He had a human form.

3. Everlasting Existence
Melchisedek has neither beginning nor end. In other words, He lives
continually as the Ancient of Days – the one who has seen and will
see innumerable days (Hebrews 7:3, 16). He is the Alpha – the
beginning of timeless past, and the Omega – the end of endless end. It
is all too glaring; this is the attribute of GOD and since there is no
room for two such individuals in one universe, it can only mean that
Melchisedek was an introduction to the time when humanity will
experience GOD in the flesh. And as Matthew Henry would say of
Jesus, “He not only had a being before He was born of a virgin but He
had a being before all time”
King of Righteousness and Peace
It is a foregone conclusion that there is non righteous but GOD. If
Melchisedek was just another human, then his righteousness would
have been like a filthy rag; thus making Him unqualified to be titled
and addressed as the King of Righteousness (Hebrews 7:2) – a title
that is synonymous with: the Righteous King, the Originator of
Righteousness, the King of Righteous-land and the ‘GOD of
Righteousness’. The same argument holds for the title ‘the King of
Salem’ because it is only GOD’s kingship that guarantees unending
and satisfying peace; the type that Jesus calls My Peace!
The Order of Perfection
It was GOD who instituted the Levitical priesthood with all the rites
and ordinances meant to purify the priests and the people of Israel
unto perfection yet He wasn’t satisfied with the level of perfection
because imperfect human mediators were involved (Hebrews 7:11,
16). But why would God certify Melchisedek The Perfect Priest if he
was yet another human which would have made Him unaccepted as
the perfect mediator; if not to show us a model of Jesus’ priesthood.
What was GOD teaching here? Melchisedek was not descended from
Adam so He didn’t inherit the sin-gene from him. Here GOD was
teaching an everlasting truth: we are imperfect not because we are on
Earth but because of the seed of sin we inherited. This implies that we
can get perfection from Him who is perfect just by being descended
from Him; because just like Melchisedek, Jesus did not inherit the
sin-gene because He was neither descended from Adam nor from Eve

4. (read the Affirmation of Luke Gospel for an insight on this assertion).
May we drive home our argument thus: only one man is The Source
of perfection and that is GOD. Hence if GOD Himself to attribute
perfection to Melchisedek, it can only mean that He was talking about
Himself!
Eternal Priesthood
Since Melchisedek has eternal existence and perfection, any office He
assumes, He holds in perpetuity; including of course the Priesthood
(Hebrews 7:3, 21, 23-24). When a person holds an office for life it is
either because he has absolute power, absolute right, there is no
worthy opposition, no rival, or there is a unanimous concurrence that
he is the only one best suited for the job. For Melchisedek’s
Priesthood to be uninterrupted, it means He is the best man for the
job, or there is no other power to stop Him. Since GOD has the
ultimate power and the best brain in whatever He chooses to do, it
follows therefore that Melchisedek is who He has been proven to be –
the Material Being of the Pre-incarnate GOD; the same that is Priest
and King upon The Throne of God (Zechariah 5:12-13)
Compare the source of authority for the Levitical Priesthood and that
of Melchisedek: the one that was caused gave way to the uncaused;
the one with delegated authority gave way to the one with absolute
authority; the human stepped aside for the divine; the temporal bowed
to the permanent; ordinances gave way to grace.
That is the Priesthood of Melchisedek, nay Jesus – the GOD of
Heaven and Earth.
Endless Spiritual Power
Hebrews 7:16 states that the Priesthood of Melchisedek is Spiritual;
with endless power and life – that is, the life of the spirit is unlimited,
same as the power of the spirit behind the priesthood. For a man to
hold spiritual office, he must be in control of the spirit behind the
office. But to be in control of unlimited spiritual power, you have to
be the source of such spirit. By deduction, Melchisedek was holy by
his own power (Hebrews 7:26). By inference He was the source of the
Spirit behind His Priesthood. What comes from a holy source is holy;
hence Melchisedek is the source of the Holy Spirit and therefore
GOD.
His Right to Tithes

5. It is incontrovertible that Melchisedek demanded and collected tithes
from Abraham who himself was another High Priest. By doing so He
showed that His Priesthood was higher than Abraham’s and his
descendants’. If Melchisedek, a High Priest had the right to collect
tithes from other High Priests and lay Priests as represented by
Abraham, Aaron and the other Levitical Priests, who exactly was He
claiming to be? Malachi 3:10 reveals that the one who demands and
collects tithes is the LORD GOD Himself – He is the only one to
whom every Priests (High, Ordinary and adopted) must pay its tithes
to. Melchisedek demanded and collected tithes from Abraham and
therefore, from all the children of Israel; biological and adopted. Isn’t
it evident that the Collector of collectors is superior to all, and that the
only person who is superior to all in the commonwealth of Israel is
GOD?
Whenever you stop to pay your tithes, you are questioning His right to
have collected full tithes from Abraham, and hence His right to be
GOD. Note how Melchisedek describes GOD – the Possessor of
Heaven and Earth, so GOD doesn’t demand for tithes because He
wants you to add to His riches or because He is poor; but because He
wants you to accept that all possessions come from Him, and because
He is waiting to give you more from His storehouse of unlimited
possessions (Genesis 14:18, Malachi 3:10-11). Whenever Abraham
paid His tithes, he was confident to reject gifts from the ambassadors
of Satan, lest Satan stakes a claim to the stupendous blessings that
comes with being faithful to the true giver of good gifts (Genesis
14:21-23). Get wise lest He consumes you.
Whether you call Him Melchisedek, YHWH or Elohim; He is the
only one with undisputable right to tithes, and therefore the LORD
GOD.
The Relationship between Jesus and Melchisedek
The next phase of our argument is to draw a straight line connecting
Melchisedek to Jesus: Hebrews 5:6, 10-11; 6:20 and 7:15 all aver that
Jesus was called to the Order and similitude of the priesthood of
Melchisedek. Does this presuppose that an eternal Melchisedek has
ceased to exist? Does this resemble eternity? You are right,
impossible!
For someone to hold an office similar to another, the two offices must
be similar in almost all scope and function except in the actual
persons operating the office. But the comparison of Jesus to
Melchisedek yields an unusual result – He resembles the physical

6. form of Jesus; as Hebrews 7:3 (RSV) puts it, “…resembling the Son
of GOD…” You heard right, Melchisedek looked a lot like Jesus
even though Jesus manifested later!
In other words Melchisedek had a form that could only be likened to
Jesus’; isn’t this strange? A father does not resemble a son for the
simple reason that the father is the model upon which the son is made,
nor does a later event act as a model for implementing a former event,
rather it the son that resembles the father!
I hope we can get the message here: Jesus simply assumed a form He
had always had. This also proves that the Material Body of Jesus was
the model upon which humans were created. Little wonder we are
told in Genesis 1:27 that we were made in God’s own image and
Colossians 1:15 calls Jesus the Image of God!
By Hebrews 7:23 account, the former priests were many in number
because they were prevented by death from continuing in office but
Jesus holds His office perpetually (Hebrews 7:17, 20-21). If, it is only
death that prevents a High Priest from continually holding his office,
and Melchisedek is not dead; isn’t it self evident why only Jesus was
called to the Priesthood of Melchisedek? Jesus’ mission on Earth was
therefore to complete what He had started in the spiritual plane. In
fact we can say that GOD swore by Himself that He will take a
physical body with which to show publicly what He did before the
foundations of the universe were laid, and true to his character, He did
(Zechariah 6:12-13, I Thessalonians 3:13, I Peter 2:24-25, Hebrews
7:20, 25).
Hebrews 7:2 calls Melchisedek the King of Righteousness while
Jeremiah 23:6 calls Jesus the LORD of Righteousness; yet Jesus is the
King in Jeremiah 23 :5 and Zechariah 6:12-13. Again in Hebrews 7:2
Melchisedek is the King of Peace; Jesus is the Prince of Peace in
Isaiah 9:6 and yet the King of Peace in Isaiah 9:7 and Zechariah
9:9-10. Obviously GOD was trying to teach us something in advance
with the temporal manifestation of Melchisedek and all the
symbolism attributed to Him, and therefore point us to Jesus. Hence I
can safely deduce that the mystery of Melchisedek was meant to teach
that the King of Peace refers to that divine body that existed from all
eternity and the Prince of Peace; the incarnate of that divine body. It
also teaches that the incarnation did not take away the presence of the
King from Heaven since the Prince is still the King of Kings and the
Lord of Lords (Revelation 19:16). Little wonder then that the King
calls the Prince my Fellow – my other me! (Zechariah 13:7). The
mystery of Melchisedek only shows one GOD simultaneously

7. operating in different dimensions of existence, the spiritual and the
physical. Now I understand why the Prince said, “I only do the things
I see my Father doing”.
In retrospect, Melchisedek did His first physical priestly duty when
He killed a lamb in order to cover the nakedness that disobedience
had brought upon Adam and Eve; He completed it when He offered
Himself as a lamb so that He can cloth the nakedness and shame that
sin brings to us, with His righteousness. On that fateful day,
Melchisedek the King offered Melchisedek the Prince; yet
Melchisedek the Prince is the everlasting High Priest who offered
Himself by The Holy Spirit! (Hebrews 7:26-27, 9:14). Have you
gotten any wisdom?
That is the mystery encoded as the Trinity and why GOD is God.
I lay this essay to rest by saying that the Bible is an Encyclopaedia on
the Divinity of Jesus and His divine love for the human race, because
it has various ways to teach men that Jesus Christ is the only wise
GOD working in different dimensions and dispensations in service to
frail humanity.
When He needed to explain the importance of tithes, and to give a key
for the future unveiling of the Person of The True GOD to end time
Christians, He picked the enigma called Melchisedek.
As seen by His servant;
Michael Elkana Nkanyi Uyeh.