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Melchizedek: The King-Priest Who Appears Without Beginning
The figure of Melchizedek appears in Genesis 14 without warning. No genealogy. No origin story. No explanation. He blesses Abraham, receives tithes, and then vanishes from the narrative—only to resurface centuries later in Psalm 110 and become the centerpiece of Hebrews 7’s argument about Jesus as our great high priest.Most Christians skip past Melchizedek entirely. Second Temple Judaism tried to contain him by inventing a genealogy. But the author of Hebrews refuses both approaches and instead presents Melchizedek as a deliberately enigmatic figure pointing forward to Christ—a king-priest…
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