Mike Parsons
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Engaging with Melchizedek as a being, I would say he is a created angelic being, and I’m using that term loosely to mean a created being that’s not human. From the perspective of having no genealogy, that’s not really talking about an earthly genealogy. It’s trying to help us understand our identity within the order of Melchizedek as sons. So we also have no genealogy other than God, from that perspective. And of course Jesus is described as a high priest of the order of Melchizedek. So what is the Melchizedek order? I think it describes king and priest. There’s a royal priesthood that is the heavenly and earthly working type of position. We are kings and priests, and Peter calls us a royal priesthood. So it’s tying together our function and our identity.
Now there are those who say Melchizedek was there in the beginning before God created others, that he was there with wisdom, and that Melchizedek was involved in receiving Jesus’ offering of himself before the foundation of the world. I don’t know whether that is true, and I don’t have any issue with it potentially being true, but the context of it is that Jesus didn’t die as God before the foundation of the world. He did, however, present himself to the Father on behalf of mankind, so that mankind would always be predestined to be restored to a face-to-face relationship with God. And when you read about wisdom, Proverbs also indicates that wisdom was there in the beginning. The beginning of what? Not the beginning of God, but perhaps the beginning of God’s thoughts about creation, and then the outworking of those thoughts in the beginning of creation. You could also say that we were included in God, in his thoughts, when creation began. So there are illustrations of us seeing creation from God’s creative perspective. All these things are a little bit in the category of unprovable. No one can prove any of it. You could go and ask Melchizedek himself, and what he would tell you is probably that which God wants him to relate to you, and how it would relate to you.
The order of Melchizedek
I definitely don’t believe Melchizedek is anything to do with Jesus as such, because Jesus is the high priest of the order of Melchizedek, and Melchizedek was a priest. Now, one of the other roles that Melchizedek seems to have within the twelve High Chancellor’s houses is that of the Treasury House. He is the High Chancellor of the Treasury House, helping to release the resources that are available to us in the fulfilment of our destiny within the order of Melchizedek, which encompasses priest, king, prophet, and oracle legislator. These are the functions in which we operate out of that order, and those are some of the things that I think are around Melchizedek.
You can find vast teachings on Melchizedek, and quite a lot of esoteric material out there as well, but I would try and keep it simple. The focus isn’t Melchizedek. The focus is us being of the order of Melchizedek, and Jesus being the high priest of that order. Our focus is never going to be on Melchizedek, but on Jesus. But I don’t believe Melchizedek was a human being. I believe he was a created being, a function within God’s order, and I think that’s what the description of him is trying to convey.
It’s not trying to make it difficult for us to understand. It’s actually saying, here’s something you can relate to when you see yourself as a son from that perspective of God, rather than trying to work it all out and asking what it means that he had no genealogy, therefore he was not born, and so on. I think that has confused the issue for a lot of people, because then they try and fit Jesus into the picture. And of course Jesus was born, so he had a genealogy, which was written in the Bible. But personally, I don’t believe Jesus carried the genetic record of man in that way, whether from Mary or from Joseph. He was, in that sense, an implanted life that came from God.
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