Kingdom Come

Like almost all the men in the Order of Melchizedek, Moses is never explicitly called Melchizedek, but he doesn’t need to be. His function as Sacred King / Priest King leader of the Hebrew nation representing God to the whole world defines his position in this order.

There are just too many verses using different words to express various aspects of Melchizedek of the Most High God’s salvation through identification with his Righteousness and Reconciliation that they can’t all be quoted here. Or to convince anyone who is not ready to accept a new idea. It’s like the classic story of three blind men only being able to lay hold of one part of an immense elephant and arguing amongst themselves that the others got the elephant’s features wrong. You’ve got to spend time exploring the entirety of the identity.

Moses is explicitly called the LORD’s priest.

“The LORD reigneth…let the earth be moved…Moses…among his priests…” (Psalm 99:1-6)

Moses was Melchizedek Priest-King over the Hebrew nation. The passages in the New Testament letter to the Hebrews apply as much to Moses as it does to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Moses functioned as Priest-King before the Levitical priesthood was set up for the nation of Israel.

“the LORD…said…thou shalt be to [Aaron] instead / Representative / of God.” (Exodus 4:14-16)

“And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. And he put upon him / Aaron the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim. And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses. 

And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them. And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them. And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.” (Leviticus 8:6-12)

Moses is also explicitly stated to be the king, which is, after all, a given, in an era and culture when all lawgivers, AKA rule-rs, were autocratic kings.

“Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together…

Jeshurun is “the era of the Upright Ones of the eternal God.” This is not a place, but a golden time when things were at their best.

There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.“ (Deuteronomy 33:4-5, 26-27)

Note how the LORD identifies himself as one with Moses through shared responsibility for his people, as, in an oxymoronic way, they toss responsibility back and forth like parents of misbehaving children – “your” children.

“And the Lord said unto Moses…thy people, which thou brightest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves…Now therefore, let me alone that that my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them.

And Moses said…why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people which thou has brought forth out of the and of Egypt?

And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. (Exodus 32)

This includes the evil that had been called down upon the Levites by Jacob’s curse. God turns the curse itself into a blessing.

“The priests, the Levite, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance…the LORD is their inheritance.” (Deuteronomy 18:1-2

How did Moses rise to that height of power from the depth of failure?

“By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God…Esteeming the reproach of The Promised Redeemer / Messiah / Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. (Hebrews 11:24-26)

Christianity generally categorizes every “reward” as being eternal life, however at that time and in that place Moses was down and dirty seizing the reward of the LAND in the here and now promised to Abraham’s heirs.

Moses is repeatedly called “the man of God”, where “man” is translated from the Hebrew word “ish“.

The online concordance referenced above translates this Hebrew word אִישׁ as simply “man, male.” However, note that this translation is not consistent across Bible versions.

The King James Version, translated 4 centuries before modern versions, by translators steeped in the ancient languages and cultures, is the only version to translate the Hebrew word “ish” to express “the identical nature of one to another.”

• The first wife to the first husband because she was taken out of / cloned from him, becoming the prototype for all successive relationships in which “two become one” (Genesis 2:23, 24, 3:16)
• The first seed of the woman, which Eve considered, in a rush to judgment, as being the replacement for the original ha-Adam with the power to destroy the serpent: ” a man /another like the first from the LORD”. (Genesis 4:1)
• “every one” who speaks the same language. This can be understood abstractly as well to mean “those who understand the same deeper meaning” contrasted with those to whom the message remains a mystery. (Genesis 10:15)

When Moses is defined as אִישׁ, it must be that he also is identified as…YHVH.

Blasphemy!? Examine the evidence.

“And the LORD spake unto Moses [his] face to [Moses’] face, as a man / one of an identical pair speaketh unto his friend / another like himself. (Exodus 33:11)

This is consistent with Melchizedek being the Seed of the Woman, Adam’s heir in a succession of mortal Melchizedeks, each one being the Only Begotten Son / Chosen Heir of God.

Whoa! Isn’t the plurality of “Melchizedeks” intrinsically incompatible with “Only” Begotten Son?

That’s God for you. We four dimensionals have trouble wrapping our heads around String Theory, let alone the Singularity.

I’ll let Christianity’s exclusive Only Begotten Son explain it.

“And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are…as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me…

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one…I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved [joined identity with] them, as thou hast loved me.” (John 17)

“Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth:

• but I have called you friends; for…I have made known unto you…all things that I have heard of my Father.
• I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit / be productive, and that your fruit / product of your work should remain:
• that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. (John 15:14-16)

This is a replication of Jacob’s face off with YHVH.

“Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed….And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” (Genesis 32:27-30)

What did these Melchizedeks all have in common? Most certainly not innate righteousness.

It was being cursed.

“And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart…then will I slay my brother (Genesis 27:41)

This is replicated by another one [get it?] of YHVH’s Chosen Saviors / Yeshua haMessiachs about 1,500 years later.

“Pilate knew that for envy they had delivered Jesus… And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it…and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.” (Matthew 27:18-26)

“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:” (Galatians 3:13)

Now do you understand?

The whole plan of salvation is the Righteous Savior joining his God-granted righteous identity with the cursed sinners needing to be saved!

This is expressly stated by YHVH’s Chosen Savior / Yeshua haMessiach.

“this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent…as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us…even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one.” (John 17)