The Messiah and the Order of Melchizedek

Many times I have wanted to pour my heart out to God and have struggled with finding the adequate words to express my deep emotion. In the back of my mind, I know that God already understands what I’m desperately trying to communicate, but there is a need within me to write it down and see it on paper. Inevitably, I turn to the Psalms and within its 150 hymns I find the inspiration and comfort I have been searching for. This need to cry out to God, to communicate with Him, to essentially worship, is not exclusive to me only. David, Moses, Solomon, Ethan, Asaph, and Korah, the psalmists, whose psalms are found within the book of Psalms, were inspired by God to emotionally communicate with Him. God designed us to be emotional beings. Not only did He give us logic and a mind, he also gave us a heart, so that we might feel. Martin Luther, in some of his writing, expresses similar thoughts:

Where does one find finer words of joy than in the psalms of praise and thanksgiving? There you look into the hearts of all saints, as into fair and pleasant gardens, yes, as into heaven itself. There you see what fine and pleasant flower

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Abram rightly gave God the glory for his victory and refused to take any of the spoils of war for himself (vv. For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man has officiated at the altar.

Psalm 110:1-2 The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand till I make Your enemies Your footstool.

The graphic description of filling the land with corpses is a natural battle-field description. David was of the line of Judah and reigned while the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were united from 1010-970 B. ” The Hebrew text uses the word ’adonay (not the letters YHWH with the vowels for “Lord” under it as usual for God, but the actual word “my lords”).

Melchizedek

Psalm 110:4 “The Lord has sworn and will not relent; You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. The Bible indicates that there will be one final great battle in which the coming Lord of Glory will bring an end to it by his power (see Zech.

The Jews used the Psalter in their worship. It is here that Christ’s role is as the king-priest is fully explored and expounded on.

The “way” that He follows in the verse may refer to the “way” or the activity that He is following rather than an actual roadway.

Not only will the Messiah destroy the kings, the psalm tells us that He will judge among the nations, filling the valleys with the bodies and destroying the heads of many countries. The promise was first made in Genesis 3:15 which said that the head of the serpent would be crushed. Consequently (“therefore”) this king will find honor and glory as God’s King.

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