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541. The Mystery of Melchizedek: Angel, Priest, and King

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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505. A Royal Priesthood | Embracing Our Identity as Sons

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Let’s recognise our identity as sons, and our position in heaven, seated in heavenly places, functioning in the order of Melchizedek.

We are functioning as priests and kings, and as oracles and legislators. We are close to the Father’s heart. We know the Father’s heart. We establish the Father’s heart through government. We work that as an oracle. We call it into being creatively, and we legislate for its function on the earth. These are the outworkings of our sonship through the order of Melchizedek.

We are a royal priesthood. We are oracles and legislators. We found things on truth. When we become the word made flesh, effectively, Jesus is the Word of God made flesh, dwelling among us, full of grace and truth. In the same way, we are to operate as sons of God, having the power of speaking for God, as his voice. When we speak with his voice, creation responds. The quantum realm collapses into reality. We change the reality of things. Quantum wave functions collapse into choices that are aligned with the heart of God. That is our sonship. That is what we are called to do. That is who we are.

We establish it in heaven because we are seated in heavenly places, aligned to the Father’s heart in heaven. Then we begin to bring heaven to earth, to outwork heaven on earth through our lives, and corporately through those who are together with one mind, the mind of Christ. Our sonship identity comes out of love. We need to know our origin in God. We need to know who we are, who we were and who we are going to be, so that we can outwork our identity as those made in the image of God in a creative way. We are created in God’s image to be creative, to establish co-heirship in everything.

Therefore, we need to know who we are. But we are only going to know who we are if we know who God is. In knowing who God is as love, the way we do things will change, so that we do everything aligned to love. That changes the whole way we respond to the world’s situation and how we outwork government, not in a controlling or warfare-type way, but in a legislative, loving way that brings peace and rest.

It can seem like utopia. It can seem like it is a million miles away from where we are. But you do not know what is going on underneath. You only see what is on the surface. Things are beginning to shift. People are beginning to awaken. Enlightenment is taking place. The balance is beginning to shift. You do not see it until enough weight is added to the other end of the balance. If you keep adding weight, it only takes one feather to tip the whole thing.

What we are seeing is people becoming enlightened to their identity in sonship, adding weight to God’s kingdom. Once the balance tips in favour of God’s kingdom, everything begins to flow. At the moment it can feel like everything is going uphill, going against the tide, against the stream. It feels like hard work, as though darkness has the upper hand and we are trying not to slip back into it. But actually it is not like that anymore. It does not take much to tip it. Then everything begins to flow from heaven to earth, as it was designed to do.

This requires us to see with the eyes of the spirit, the eyes of our heart, and not to panic by only looking at the world and its symptoms. We need to recognise that God is at work. The kingdom is expanding and increasing. God’s government is increasing. People are becoming enlightened to the true nature of who God is and to their true identity. Enlightened people will shift things. Enlightened people will tip the balance.

It does not require equal numbers, because enlightenment is exponential. Twelve enlightened people operating at the level of Jesus would tip the whole world. At present there may not be people fully enlightened as Jesus was, but even getting halfway there would make a huge difference. If people reach eighty per cent, it would make an even greater difference. Enlightened people can change things significantly. I believe that is what is happening.

You may not see it. Those who are not wise or discerning look at the world and panic and become fearful. But if you look with the eyes of faith and the eyes of enlightenment, you see what God is doing. There is far more going on than people generally see, and it is preparing the way for changes that are coming. Enlightened people will establish God’s government, not narcissistic, power-hungry people with agendas that are not God’s kingdom.

Trying to make better versions of the world’s failing systems is not the answer. They are still fundamentally flawed. We need a new government, a new kingdom, established on earth as it is in heaven. As sons, we are responsible for that, in alignment with the Father’s heart. People are beginning to awaken. Some are awakening who do not even call themselves Christians, yet they know God, even if they do not yet know him as Jesus. Sometimes their relationship is more truthful than religious relationships.

People are awakening, and ultimately they will discover that Jesus has made a way to the Father. Our sonship is found in coming to the Father and discovering who we are. Jesus opened the door to the Father so that we could have relationship with him. People are beginning to discover that relationship and awaken to the truth.

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