Aaronic High Priests And Jesus Analysis
QUESTION to REFLECT on
• What contrasts and similarities are made between Aaronic high priests and Jesus?
HEBREWS 7:1-10: MELCHISEDEC GREATER THAN LEVI
VERSE 1
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the Most-High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the Kings and blessed him;
For: Links the following discourse with Hebrews 6:20. The words and historical setting have already been dealt with when commenting on Hebrews 5:1. and blessed him: He blessed Abraham. This meant that he spoke highly of Abraham. It is the aorist tense to indicate a momentous, once for all action.
VERSE 2
To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness and after that also King of Salem, …show more content…
He is neither to be considered a celestial being, nor an angel nor even the angel of the Lord. Rather it means that his father’s name is not revealed. It is not important that his father’s name be known to validate his priesthood. This is in contrast to the importance of knowing a man’s family line if he is to attain to the Levitical priesthood. Nehemiah brings this point out well: 63And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife and was called after their name. 64These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore, were they as polluted, put from the priesthood (Neh …show more content…
This will not happen because we have the proper high priest, namely Jesus and his people are a holy and royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:4, 9). His sacrifice produced the perfect salvation. In any case, there are no Levites and no temple records to indicate who would be in the priestly succession. They were destroyed in AD 70 when General Titus, later Emperor Titus, took Jerusalem, killed the priests, but more importantly razed the temple to the ground and burnt the records. A bit like our Births, Deaths and Marriages Registries being bulldozed into the ground and every record, both paper and electronic, being shredded, burnt and
• What contrasts and similarities are made between Aaronic high priests and Jesus?
HEBREWS 7:1-10: MELCHISEDEC GREATER THAN LEVI
VERSE 1
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the Most-High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the Kings and blessed him;
For: Links the following discourse with Hebrews 6:20. The words and historical setting have already been dealt with when commenting on Hebrews 5:1. and blessed him: He blessed Abraham. This meant that he spoke highly of Abraham. It is the aorist tense to indicate a momentous, once for all action.
VERSE 2
To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness and after that also King of Salem, …show more content…
He is neither to be considered a celestial being, nor an angel nor even the angel of the Lord. Rather it means that his father’s name is not revealed. It is not important that his father’s name be known to validate his priesthood. This is in contrast to the importance of knowing a man’s family line if he is to attain to the Levitical priesthood. Nehemiah brings this point out well: 63And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife and was called after their name. 64These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore, were they as polluted, put from the priesthood (Neh …show more content…
This will not happen because we have the proper high priest, namely Jesus and his people are a holy and royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:4, 9). His sacrifice produced the perfect salvation. In any case, there are no Levites and no temple records to indicate who would be in the priestly succession. They were destroyed in AD 70 when General Titus, later Emperor Titus, took Jerusalem, killed the priests, but more importantly razed the temple to the ground and burnt the records. A bit like our Births, Deaths and Marriages Registries being bulldozed into the ground and every record, both paper and electronic, being shredded, burnt and