Rev. Dr. John Tweedie calls on Christians to express love in action to the people of Israel by presenting a biblical perspective of God’s plan for Israel and the church.
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - Melchizedek: Mysterious King and Priest of Salem (Jerusalem) | June 19, 2026
- In the distance.
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- Jerusalem.
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- Jerusalem means peace.
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- But why is the city called
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- By this name when it has known so much war?
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- Next on israel, the prophetic connection.
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- Soft music
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- The name
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- Jerusalem appears 806 times in the holy bible.
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- 660 times in the old testament.
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- And 146 in the new.
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- But a thousand years before king david ruled from jerusalem,
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- The city had a very mysterious priest and king.
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- His name was melchizedek.
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- And there is a prophetic connection between him
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- And jesus of nazareth.
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- Jerusalem is at least
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- 4000 years old, but the city was founded
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- In an age when people believed in many gods.
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- Yet, surprisingly, the earliest chapters
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- Of the bible record a meeting which occurred 4000 years ago
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- Between two men who believed in only one god.
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- The first man was called abraham.
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- He would become the father of a nation called israel.
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- This second man's name was melchizedek.
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- The bible says he was not only the king of jerusalem,
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- But also the priest of god most high regarding melchizedek.
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- How we in hebrew pronounce it.
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- Melchizedek.
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- And the hebrew gives us a little bit of understanding
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- What we're talking about.
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- Melchizedek means king of righteousness,
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- And he rules over this town,
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- This biblical city called shalom.
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- Shalom means home.
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- So that means united as opposed to a divided city.
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- It's a united city.
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- And this shalom is even more ancient
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- By a thousand years than king david.
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- It is the original kernel of jerusalem, and melchizedek
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- Is a righteous king who shares abraham's
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- Understanding of the most high god.
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- Abraham and melchizedek first met by the gates of jerusalem.
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- Was this merely a chance encounter,
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- Or was it a divine appointment arranged by god,
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- One with prophetic implications for the future?
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- Well, first
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- I would like to pay attention to a very interesting thing.
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- We've got a monotheistic person, abraham,
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- Coming to visit a specific canaanite king,
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- Which is referred to as a high priest for one lord,
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- Which means, in a way, monotheism.
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- Basis is infrastructure.
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- Here in the valley of shevat,
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- The place which, if i translate, that would be equilibrium.
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- So the valley of shiva, which is where we're standing,
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- Is the meeting point between the first two monotheists
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- People in the world. and that's here in jerusalem.
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- But who was this
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- Mysterious king and priest of ancient salem?
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- It's very, very important to understand that melchizedek was.
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- He was believing in one.
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- God was king of salem.
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- And if you talk about king of salem, salem, it's jerusalem
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- And jerusalem in that time built around the gihon spring.
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- This is the only place where you have a living water.
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- And i think from the excavation, that market to
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- The build is citadel around the given spring.
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- He built that with a huge wall.
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- The bible records that when abraham and melchizedek met,
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- They exchanged gifts.
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- But the very nature of these gifts
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- Adds even more prophetic mystery to this encounter,
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- And to the identity of a man who appears in the bible
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- Not merely as a king, but literally as the king
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- Of righteousness.
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- If we're looking at melchizedek and we're looking at the bible
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- Itself, it says something which is interesting.
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- And that's verse 18,
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- Coming right from chapter 14 of that book of genesis.
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- And then look, is
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- It is described as a person who's got one higher lord
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- Above all.
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- And that means he pays respect to abraham, to abraham,
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- Who's coming to visit him in the valley of shiva.
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- Now, if i may give you two insights here.
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- First lady of shiva
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- Is mentioned elsewhere as the value of the king.
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- The book of genesis describes it that this valley of shiva,
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- Which is the valley of the king, that if the king is mentioned
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- When absalom escapes david after betraying him,
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- And that happens in second samuel 1818.
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- So we know from the bible
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- That the valley of chauvet is the valley of the king.
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- Now ask me, how is this important?
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- And i will tell you, my friend, it is because the
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- First commentators of the bible from the time of the mishnah
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- Says specifically that the valley of shiva,
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- That is the valley of the king, is the ancient
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- Biblical valley of kidron.
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- They knew it in the name kidron, which refers to the same spot
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- Where we are right now under the great walls of melchizedek,
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- Which comes out of his canaanite
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- Fortress to greet abraham next to the spring.
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- Now please do ask me what does he offer abraham?
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- And if you did, i will answer.
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- He offers bread and wine.
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- Think about the snack alone for a second.
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- Think about jesus sitting in the synagogue on top of mount
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- Zion, referring to the bread and the wine
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- As the ultimate sacrifice, as his flesh and blood.
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- Do you get the idea that 1800 years prior to that time,
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- Abraham, the first monotheists, actually establishes
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- The understanding of what bread and wine is all about.
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- He's been offered bread and wine as a gesture
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- In the city of shalom, to the first monotheistic person
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- Ever lived upon the earth,
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- And the bread in the wine would go a long with it.
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- In jerusalem.
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- From the times of abraham
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- To the times of king david, the great ancestor king of jesus,
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- And then to the time of jesus himself.
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- The possibility that there's a prophetic connection
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- Between melchizedek, this ancient king
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- And priest of salem,
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- And jesus of nazareth, who came to jerusalem some 2000 years
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- After that mysterious encounter
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- Between abraham and melchizedek, suggests
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- That the bible contains many prophetic threads that link
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- The past to the present and beyond.
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- Melchizedek is a very mysterious figure in the scriptures,
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- And his identity is cloaked in mystery.
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- However, it's clear from his name
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- That he is the king of righteousness,
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- And i believe what he represents in scripture
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- Is a picture of god himself ruling on earth.
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- And i believe
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- That was recognized by abraham when he met this man.
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- And he knew that this man, what he represented
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- Was god's kingdom on the face of the earth.
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- And so from abraham, from his heart,
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- He gave a 10th of all that he that he had
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- And all that he had gained.
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- He gave a 10th to melchizedek.
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- I believe it's a foreshadowing
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- Of what god would institute through his torah with israel
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- In the days that when he would come
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- And give his law to israel through the prophet moses.
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- So i think melchizedek is a picture of of god on earth,
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- And abraham way before the law, understood in the spirit,
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- Understood by faith, that when you meet god's righteous
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- Ruler, you give and you you offer him your obedience,
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- And you offer him a sacrifice and an offering.
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- And in abraham's case, it was one tenth of what he had,
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- Which was a foreshadowing of the law that would be to come.
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- While the bible has only a few fleeting
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- References to melchizedek.
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- The mystery surrounding him continues to cast a long shadow
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- From his pagan times until today.
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- But who was this first king of jerusalem?
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- And what was his connection to jesus of nazareth?
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- Don't go away.
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- In the distance you can see
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- The holy city of jerusalem, where the golden dome is used.
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- That's roughly the place where the temples once stood.
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- And just in front of the dome,
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- The southern wall of the temple mount.
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- And the lord is difficult to distinguish from here.
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- Just below that wall, the original city
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- Of jerusalem known as salem.
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- Later, as the city of david, but also known when it was
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- A jebusites stronghold as the stronghold of zion.
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- And abraham came to that place to mount moriah.
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- And there he was tested by god,
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- As god said, sacrifice your son.
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- And of course,
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- God gave a substitute sacrifice instead of isaac.
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- He provided a ram that was caught by its horns
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- In a thicket.
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- But so much happened over there.
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- And i want to go all the way back to the story of abraham,
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- As it is found in genesis 14.
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- And in fact, we discover that there is a great battle
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- For kings against five that occurs
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- In the dead sea valley basin.
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- And there are captives taken in this battle.
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- And one of the captives is lott, who was abraham's nephew,
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- And he's carried away.
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- He and his family, presumably, and all of his goods.
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- And they're taken so someone escapes from the battle.
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- And in verse 13 of genesis chapter 14,
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- Then one who would escape came and told abraham the hebrew,
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- That's the first reference in the bible
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- To a hebrew, or if you like, a jew,
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- And it's in connection with abraham, who became abraham,
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- For he dwelt by the terrible trees of memory,
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- The amorite brother of eshkol, and brother of honor.
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- And it goes on from there.
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- And it says in verse 18, as abraham retrieves
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- Lot and his goods and brings him back, he approaches
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- Salem, the site stronghold.
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- But it has a king, a mysterious king,
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- Who at the same time is a priest.
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- His name is moat kills the deck.
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- And as abraham approaches the wall, returning
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- From retrieving lord and his family
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- Who had been taken captive, we read that in verse 18
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- That melchizedek king of salem, brought out bread and wine.
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- That's very interesting, though that could be seen simply
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- As hospitality, in the near east.
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- But maybe there's more to that
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- Than meets the eye,
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- And i'll come back to it
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- Later when i move in to the new testament.
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- And he was the priest of god most high, and he blessed him.
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- So here we have
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- Abraham, who believes in the one true god, and melchizedek,
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- Who also believes in one, in the one true god.
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- And he may be much more than he seems,
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- More than king and priest of salem.
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- Because as we read on, it says,
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- And he melchizedek, blessed him.
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- Abraham.
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- So whoever he was, he had the ability
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- To bestow the blessing of the god of all creation.
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- Because remember, israel is not yet established.
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- God has promised abraham he'll become a great nation
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- And if you like, the nation is in his loins.
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- And of course, you'll have a son, grandson.
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- And then there'll be 12 tribes of israel.
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- But at this stage of biblical history, israel doesn't exist.
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- We just have the dream and the vision that god gave
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- Abraham of the nation that is to come from him.
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- So melchizedek says to abraham, blessed be abraham of god,
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- Most high, possessor of heaven and earth, and blessed be god
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- Most high, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.
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- And he, abraham, gave him melchizedek,
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- A tithe of all meaning, a 10th of the spoils of war.
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- Now we know that later moses will introduce the tithe
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- As required of the children of israel,
- 00:13:44.850 --> 00:13:47.453
- And it in turn will support the levitical priesthood of israel.
- 00:13:47.453 --> 00:13:50.956
- But this is long before then,
- 00:13:50.956 --> 00:13:52.958
- And before the tithe is actually established.
- 00:13:52.958 --> 00:13:55.361
- So abraham gives a 10th of the goods of the spoils
- 00:13:55.361 --> 00:13:58.430
- Of war to this mysterious melchizedek,
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- Who seems to be god's representative on earth.
- 00:14:02.234 --> 00:14:06.138
- Now, much there's much about this man that is mysterious.
- 00:14:06.138 --> 00:14:10.609
- Some suggest that this was christ
- 00:14:10.609 --> 00:14:13.812
- As a theophany and appearance of christ
- 00:14:13.812 --> 00:14:16.048
- Before his incarnation, later a birth in bethlehem.
- 00:14:16.048 --> 00:14:19.752
- But there are other places
- 00:14:19.752 --> 00:14:21.186
- Where it says that melchizedek was like the son of man.
- 00:14:21.186 --> 00:14:24.223
- Which is to say, he's not the son of man,
- 00:14:24.223 --> 00:14:26.692
- The messiah jesus.
- 00:14:26.692 --> 00:14:28.193
- But he's like him. his nature.
- 00:14:28.193 --> 00:14:29.962
- Perhaps his spiritual nature is like him,
- 00:14:29.962 --> 00:14:33.399
- But he's a mysterious figure who appears here
- 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:36.902
- And then just as quickly disappears.
- 00:14:36.902 --> 00:14:39.238
- And as far as i can determine, there's only one other reference
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- To him in the old testament, and that is found in psalm 110.
- 00:14:42.441 --> 00:14:48.013
- Now, this is a psalm of david, who, interestingly
- 00:14:48.013 --> 00:14:51.083
- Enough, is an ancestor of jesus.
- 00:14:51.083 --> 00:14:54.687
- And so david is speaking prophetically, writing
- 00:14:54.687 --> 00:14:57.623
- Prophetically in verse one of psalm 110.
- 00:14:57.623 --> 00:15:01.427
- He's actually announcing messiah's reign.
- 00:15:01.427 --> 00:15:04.830
- The lord said to my lord, sit at my right hand
- 00:15:04.830 --> 00:15:07.733
- Till i make your enemies your footstool.
- 00:15:07.733 --> 00:15:10.169
- The lord shall send the rod of your strength out of zion.
- 00:15:10.169 --> 00:15:13.872
- Zion, a synonym for jerusalem and
- 00:15:13.872 --> 00:15:16.608
- Of israel, rule in the midst of your enemies.
- 00:15:16.608 --> 00:15:20.145
- Your people should be volunteers in the day of your power,
- 00:15:20.145 --> 00:15:23.782
- In the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning.
- 00:15:23.782 --> 00:15:26.585
- You have the jew of your youth.
- 00:15:26.585 --> 00:15:28.988
- The lord has sworn and will not relent.
- 00:15:28.988 --> 00:15:32.458
- You are a priest forever, according to the order
- 00:15:32.458 --> 00:15:36.261
- Of melchizedek.
- 00:15:36.628 --> 00:15:38.364
- The lord is at your right hand.
- 00:15:38.364 --> 00:15:40.332
- He shall execute kings in the day of his wrath.
- 00:15:40.332 --> 00:15:44.670
- Now that is all that is mentioned of melchizedek.
- 00:15:44.670 --> 00:15:48.807
- Until we get into the new testament period.
- 00:15:48.807 --> 00:15:51.643
- And we come to the writer of the book of hebrews
- 00:15:51.643 --> 00:15:54.713
- Who is an identified. he's writing a letter to the hebrews.
- 00:15:54.713 --> 00:15:57.383
- Perhaps he is a hebrew himself.
- 00:15:57.383 --> 00:15:59.985
- And the things that he has to say
- 00:15:59.985 --> 00:16:01.420
- And the things that he writes.
- 00:16:01.420 --> 00:16:02.788
- He doesn't want to identify himself
- 00:16:02.788 --> 00:16:04.623
- Because they challenge the traditions of israel.
- 00:16:04.623 --> 00:16:07.292
- And of course, he writes much about jesus, who he claims
- 00:16:07.292 --> 00:16:11.096
- Is a great high priest, another priest.
- 00:16:11.096 --> 00:16:14.967
- And so here's
- 00:16:14.967 --> 00:16:16.068
- What he says in hebrews chapter seven and verse one
- 00:16:16.068 --> 00:16:18.637
- For this melchizedek king of salem.
- 00:16:18.637 --> 00:16:22.541
- Now remember, the last reference to melchizedek was psalm 110
- 00:16:22.541 --> 00:16:26.311
- A thousand years earlier.
- 00:16:26.311 --> 00:16:28.213
- And suddenly he's writing about him.
- 00:16:28.213 --> 00:16:30.582
- And he couldn't have known this
- 00:16:30.582 --> 00:16:31.917
- Unless it had been revealed to him
- 00:16:31.917 --> 00:16:33.786
- By the holy spirit, by god himself.
- 00:16:33.786 --> 00:16:37.423
- For this
- 00:16:37.689 --> 00:16:38.857
- Melchizedek king of salem, priest of the most high god,
- 00:16:38.857 --> 00:16:41.093
- Who meant abraham, returning from the slaughter of the kings
- 00:16:41.093 --> 00:16:44.296
- And blessed him, to whom also abraham gave a 10th part of all
- 00:16:44.296 --> 00:16:49.568
- Being, first, being translated king of righteousness.
- 00:16:49.568 --> 00:16:53.005
- That's what it means.
- 00:16:53.005 --> 00:16:54.573
- He's king of righteousness,
- 00:16:54.573 --> 00:16:57.543
- And then also king of salem, meaning king of peace.
- 00:16:57.543 --> 00:17:02.915
- Without father, without mother, without genealogy,
- 00:17:02.915 --> 00:17:06.652
- Having neither beginning of days and or end of life, but
- 00:17:06.652 --> 00:17:09.621
- Made like the son of god, not the son of god,
- 00:17:09.621 --> 00:17:12.991
- But made like the son of god, remains a priest continually.
- 00:17:12.991 --> 00:17:17.229
- And this idea of having no father
- 00:17:17.229 --> 00:17:18.897
- Mother bills into the scripture
- 00:17:18.897 --> 00:17:21.400
- The mystery of who this man really was.
- 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:25.604
- Now consider how great this man was to whom
- 00:17:25.604 --> 00:17:28.740
- Even the patriarch abraham gave a 10th of the spoils.
- 00:17:28.740 --> 00:17:33.378
- And then he goes on to make a comparison between
- 00:17:33.378 --> 00:17:36.281
- The levitical priesthood, the tribe of levi.
- 00:17:36.281 --> 00:17:38.984
- Aaron was the brother of moses.
- 00:17:38.984 --> 00:17:40.419
- He was the first high priest.
- 00:17:40.419 --> 00:17:41.854
- His sons became priests and their sons became priests,
- 00:17:41.854 --> 00:17:45.290
- And it carried down through the tradition.
- 00:17:45.290 --> 00:17:47.526
- But jesus was not of the tribe of levi.
- 00:17:47.526 --> 00:17:50.395
- He was of the tribe of judah.
- 00:17:50.395 --> 00:17:52.030
- So he could not qualify
- 00:17:52.030 --> 00:17:53.932
- In an earthly sense to become a levitical priest.
- 00:17:53.932 --> 00:17:57.202
- But this writer has something
- 00:17:57.202 --> 00:17:58.804
- Far more glorious than that in mind for jesus,
- 00:17:58.804 --> 00:18:01.740
- And he begins to mention it here, verse five.
- 00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:05.711
- And indeed those who are of the sons of levi,
- 00:18:05.711 --> 00:18:08.380
- Who receive the priesthood
- 00:18:08.380 --> 00:18:09.948
- Have a commandment to receive tithes from the people
- 00:18:09.948 --> 00:18:12.751
- According to the law, that is from their brethren,
- 00:18:12.751 --> 00:18:16.722
- Though they have come from the loins of abraham.
- 00:18:16.722 --> 00:18:19.791
- For he whose genealogy is not derived
- 00:18:19.791 --> 00:18:22.261
- From them received tithes from abraham,
- 00:18:22.261 --> 00:18:25.264
- And blessed him who had the promises.
- 00:18:25.264 --> 00:18:27.699
- This refers to monkeys today.
- 00:18:27.699 --> 00:18:30.335
- Now, beyond all contradiction, the lesser is blessed
- 00:18:30.335 --> 00:18:33.672
- By the better.
- 00:18:33.672 --> 00:18:35.007
- Here mortal men receive tithes, but there
- 00:18:35.007 --> 00:18:37.876
- He receives them, of whom it is witness that he lives.
- 00:18:37.876 --> 00:18:41.980
- Even levi, who received ties, paid ties to abraham,
- 00:18:41.980 --> 00:18:45.717
- So to speak, for he was still in the loins of his father.
- 00:18:45.717 --> 00:18:49.521
- When melchizedek met him, then he makes a comparison.
- 00:18:49.521 --> 00:18:54.660
- Therefore, if perfection were through
- 00:18:54.660 --> 00:18:56.595
- The levitical priesthood,
- 00:18:56.595 --> 00:18:58.330
- For under it the people received the law.
- 00:18:58.330 --> 00:19:00.632
- What further need was there that another priest
- 00:19:00.632 --> 00:19:04.069
- Should rise according to the order of melchizedek,
- 00:19:04.069 --> 00:19:07.706
- And not be called
- 00:19:08.140 --> 00:19:09.374
- According to the order of aaron, meaning
- 00:19:09.374 --> 00:19:11.743
- The levitical priesthood,
- 00:19:11.743 --> 00:19:13.445
- But the priesthood being changed of necessity.
- 00:19:13.445 --> 00:19:16.348
- There is also a change of the law, for he of whom
- 00:19:16.348 --> 00:19:20.285
- These things are spoken belongs to another tribe,
- 00:19:20.285 --> 00:19:24.223
- From which no man has officiated at the altar.
- 00:19:24.223 --> 00:19:28.193
- He's alluding to the tribe of judah from which jesus comes.
- 00:19:28.193 --> 00:19:32.798
- And he's saying, clearly, no one from the tribe of judah
- 00:19:32.798 --> 00:19:36.568
- Had the right to officiate as a priest at the altar,
- 00:19:36.568 --> 00:19:39.771
- Or in fact, in the tabernacle or the temple.
- 00:19:39.771 --> 00:19:43.542
- And then in verse 14, he's even more specific.
- 00:19:43.542 --> 00:19:46.345
- For it is evident that our lord arose from judah,
- 00:19:46.345 --> 00:19:49.114
- Of which tribe moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
- 00:19:49.114 --> 00:19:53.352
- And it is yet far more evident if in the likeness
- 00:19:53.352 --> 00:19:57.489
- Of melchizedek there arises another priest who has come
- 00:19:57.489 --> 00:20:00.792
- Not according to the law of a fleshly commandment,
- 00:20:00.792 --> 00:20:04.296
- But according
- 00:20:04.663 --> 00:20:05.731
- To the power of an endless life, for he testifies.
- 00:20:05.731 --> 00:20:09.201
- Notice how the writer of hebrews picks this up from psalm 110,
- 00:20:09.201 --> 00:20:14.473
- Quoting directly, you are a priest for ever,
- 00:20:14.473 --> 00:20:18.810
- According to the order of melchizedek.
- 00:20:19.645 --> 00:20:23.048
- So what is his point?
- 00:20:23.048 --> 00:20:25.284
- His point is there is an earthly temporal priesthood,
- 00:20:25.284 --> 00:20:29.187
- The sons of levi.
- 00:20:29.621 --> 00:20:31.857
- But melchizedek preceded that
- 00:20:31.857 --> 00:20:34.526
- Temporal order, and he is of a spiritual order.
- 00:20:34.526 --> 00:20:37.763
- In fact, he seems to be the first in the spiritual order.
- 00:20:37.763 --> 00:20:40.799
- So jesus then is referred to as being of the spiritual order.
- 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:46.571
- Or, if you like, the heavenly priesthood
- 00:20:46.571 --> 00:20:49.141
- After the order of melchizedek.
- 00:20:49.141 --> 00:20:52.311
- And the writer will say in other places here that jesus
- 00:20:52.311 --> 00:20:55.514
- Is our great high priest, and because of him and he,
- 00:20:55.514 --> 00:20:58.784
- Of course, because zedek was king of righteousness.
- 00:20:58.784 --> 00:21:02.788
- Jesus is the king of righteousness,
- 00:21:02.788 --> 00:21:04.589
- And as well the prince of peace
- 00:21:04.589 --> 00:21:07.092
- Because of what he accomplished in this holy city.
- 00:21:07.092 --> 00:21:09.461
- You and i can come by his blood into the presence of the lord.
- 00:21:09.461 --> 00:21:14.099
- Remember when melchizedek went out to meet abraham?
- 00:21:14.099 --> 00:21:17.269
- He brought bread and wine, and at the last supper,
- 00:21:17.269 --> 00:21:20.339
- Jesus shared bread and wine with his disciples
- 00:21:20.339 --> 00:21:24.309
- And instituted a new covenant,
- 00:21:24.309 --> 00:21:26.478
- Replacing the old covenant, if you like.
- 00:21:27.312 --> 00:21:29.915
- And he is always and forever
- 00:21:29.915 --> 00:21:32.984
- After the order of melchizedek.
- 00:21:32.984 --> 00:21:38.824
- Stay tuned for more from doctor
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- There are many biblical mysteries as well.
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- One is the mystery of
- 00:23:02.674 --> 00:23:04.443
- That ancient priest in king of jerusalem, melchizedek.
- 00:23:04.443 --> 00:23:08.180
- Who was he, really?
- 00:23:08.180 --> 00:23:10.715
- We have hints in scripture about trying to define him
- 00:23:10.715 --> 00:23:13.985
- Adequately. is impossible.
- 00:23:14.553 --> 00:23:17.289
- There were mysteries the apostle paul didn't understand either,
- 00:23:17.289 --> 00:23:20.525
- And he explained it this way to the church of corinth.
- 00:23:20.525 --> 00:23:24.062
- In first corinthians chapter 13 and verse 11.
- 00:23:24.062 --> 00:23:29.267
- When i was a child, i spoke as a child.
- 00:23:29.267 --> 00:23:31.303
- I understood as a child i thought as a child.
- 00:23:31.303 --> 00:23:34.139
- But when i became a man, i put away childish things.
- 00:23:34.139 --> 00:23:38.009
- For now we see in a mirror dimly.
- 00:23:38.743 --> 00:23:41.613
- But then, presumably, he's speaking of eternity.
- 00:23:41.613 --> 00:23:45.417
- But then, face to face.
- 00:23:45.417 --> 00:23:46.952
- Now i know in part.
- 00:23:46.952 --> 00:23:48.353
- But then i shall know, just as i also am known.
- 00:23:48.353 --> 00:23:53.492
- Paul seems to be suggesting that there are things
- 00:23:53.492 --> 00:23:56.328
- That we cannot fully understand on this side of heaven,
- 00:23:56.328 --> 00:23:59.831
- Or the coming and fullness of the kingdom of god.
- 00:23:59.831 --> 00:24:02.934
- But one day, the things we don't understand now
- 00:24:02.934 --> 00:24:06.037
- We'll understand more fully then,
- 00:24:06.037 --> 00:24:07.639
- Because we'll have the greatest teacher
- 00:24:07.639 --> 00:24:09.474
- The world has ever known,
- 00:24:09.474 --> 00:24:10.876
- Jesus the lord.
- 00:24:10.876 --> 00:24:13.812
- And it was jesus who, on the night in which he was betrayed,
- 00:24:13.812 --> 00:24:17.382
- Met with his disciples in an upper room in jerusalem.
- 00:24:18.383 --> 00:24:21.386
- Some were presumably over there, over my right shoulder.
- 00:24:21.386 --> 00:24:25.790
- And we read these words
- 00:24:26.291 --> 00:24:28.059
- And he would go from there to the garden of gethsemane.
- 00:24:28.059 --> 00:24:30.795
- From there he would be arrested, tried,
- 00:24:30.795 --> 00:24:33.732
- Convicted, crucified, and buried.
- 00:24:33.732 --> 00:24:37.168
- But he would rise.
- 00:24:37.168 --> 00:24:38.303
- On the third day he would rise again,
- 00:24:38.303 --> 00:24:41.172
- And he would later ascend into heaven.
- 00:24:41.172 --> 00:24:43.441
- And so he met with him, and we call it
- 00:24:43.441 --> 00:24:45.277
- In our christian tradition, the last supper.
- 00:24:45.277 --> 00:24:48.046
- Verse 22 of mark 14 and as they were eating,
- 00:24:48.046 --> 00:24:51.816
- Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it,
- 00:24:51.816 --> 00:24:54.252
- And gave it to them, and said, take, eat, this is my body.
- 00:24:54.252 --> 00:24:58.456
- Then he took the cup, and when he had given
- 00:24:58.456 --> 00:24:59.958
- Thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
- 00:24:59.958 --> 00:25:03.261
- And he said to them, this is my blood of the new covenant,
- 00:25:03.261 --> 00:25:06.431
- Which is shed for many.
- 00:25:06.431 --> 00:25:08.466
- Assuredly, i say to you,
- 00:25:08.466 --> 00:25:09.801
- I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine
- 00:25:09.801 --> 00:25:12.971
- Until that day when i drink it new in the kingdom of god.
- 00:25:12.971 --> 00:25:17.175
- And when they had sung a hymn,
- 00:25:17.175 --> 00:25:19.678
- They went out to the mount of olives,
- 00:25:19.678 --> 00:25:22.480
- And over my left shoulder.
- 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:23.982
- The mount of olives, signified by the very tall tower.
- 00:25:23.982 --> 00:25:28.219
- And that means that as
- 00:25:28.219 --> 00:25:29.254
- He and his disciples
- 00:25:29.254 --> 00:25:30.455
- Crossed the valley of kidron from jerusalem, the holy city,
- 00:25:30.455 --> 00:25:35.560
- Over to the mount of olives, and
- 00:25:35.560 --> 00:25:38.363
- Jesus liked it over there because he could find refuge
- 00:25:38.363 --> 00:25:41.666
- From the busyness of the city,
- 00:25:41.666 --> 00:25:44.302
- A place of peace and quiet.
- 00:25:44.302 --> 00:25:47.038
- But it's this reference to the cup and the bread
- 00:25:47.038 --> 00:25:50.942
- That intrigues me,
- 00:25:50.942 --> 00:25:52.410
- And thinking
- 00:25:52.410 --> 00:25:53.511
- Back to that encounter between abraham and melchizedek
- 00:25:53.511 --> 00:25:56.147
- So long ago, when the king of salem,
- 00:25:56.147 --> 00:25:59.484
- Who was also the priest of salem, came out to welcome
- 00:25:59.484 --> 00:26:02.621
- Abraham carrying bread and wine.
- 00:26:02.621 --> 00:26:05.624
- Now we know that that was the proper way
- 00:26:05.624 --> 00:26:07.692
- To greet guests in the ancient world to show hospitality.
- 00:26:07.692 --> 00:26:11.796
- But was there more to it than that?
- 00:26:11.796 --> 00:26:13.665
- Was it symbolic of a new covenant
- 00:26:13.665 --> 00:26:16.201
- That would be made later on, an old rugged cross,
- 00:26:16.201 --> 00:26:19.571
- And preceded by this making of the covenant?
- 00:26:19.571 --> 00:26:22.540
- As jesus said when he broke the bread
- 00:26:22.540 --> 00:26:24.709
- And offered them the cup, and they all drank from it.
- 00:26:24.709 --> 00:26:28.546
- There are many prophetic connections in scripture,
- 00:26:28.546 --> 00:26:31.783
- But some of them we just get hints, clues,
- 00:26:31.783 --> 00:26:34.919
- And the rest of it remains a mystery.
- 00:26:34.919 --> 00:26:38.256
- But it does no harm to try to make the linkage
- 00:26:38.256 --> 00:26:41.526
- Of what happened long ago.
- 00:26:41.526 --> 00:26:43.361
- What happened in the life of jesus,
- 00:26:43.361 --> 00:26:45.430
- And how these events apply to us today.
- 00:26:45.430 --> 00:26:49.467
- We want to unlock the mysteries of the bible, but only
- 00:26:49.467 --> 00:26:52.604
- As the spirit of the living god allows us to.
- 00:26:52.604 --> 00:26:56.207
- And we want to take the word of god to the nations.
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- And in addition, we want to raise funds to help
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- The people of israel be strong
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- In the land in preparation for the coming of the messiah.
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- You can help us.
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- There are numbers on the screen.
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- There are our websites where we have
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- Many resources to offer you, to enlarge your understanding
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- And to help unlock more of the mysteries that we find.
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- This side of heaven.
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