“Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.”
Hebrews 4:14
“So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.”
Hebrews 5:5-10 KJV
it’s why Jesus became flesh we didn’t have an intercessor
the levites we’re priests of
Moses law Jesus is not a Levite and could not be preists over the law being of Judah and excluded by the word of the law
“If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?”
Hebrews 7:11 KJV
Even the priests were replaced , along with the sacrifices and the word itself To study the book of Hebrews with Moses law and the prophets answers all questions regarding the priesthood and law .
Hebrews is about the two seperate covenants from word to priesthood to sacrifices Jesus has fulfilled all of it and given the new
the significance of the priesthood order presiding over is immense
melchezidek was never a preist of Moses law
he in fact makes only one appearance in scripture and it is about 450 years before the law of Moses was added because of the transgression of the people. Melchezidek was the priest of God who blessed Abraham.
but when Moses comes and delivered the children of Israel Aaron is made the priest and the levites are proscribed as the order of Aaron and not melchezidek levites are written clearly without dispute the only priests of the law of Moses with Judah the tribe being excluded from Priesthood services in the law.
melchezidek is connected to the lromkse made to Abraham 430 years before the law was added through Moses and the leviticle sinful priests of the law of Moses took presidence there was something before the law was added that’s what the gospel is the doctrine that goes with what was before the law
under the order of melchezideks priesthood and the sacrifice of The lamb made from the beginning the law came afterwards and was only a loose prophetic pattern the levites priests are a pattern of jesus the high priest of melchezideks true order in heaven.
the entire law is a pattern of what is true and was before but it’s seen through the veil of sin over the eyes of fallen sinners Moses was shown a pattern of truth Christ is the reality of the patterns
“Now of the things which we have spoken
this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
A minister of
the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
…For
if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are
priests that offer gifts according to the law:
Who serve unto
the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
But now hath
he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.”
Hebrews 8:1-2, 4-6 KJV
the law was an earthly temporal carnal pattern of the truth of the gospel and the priesthood is just one element that was fulfilled in him the Passover, the sin sacrifice the sacrifice of atonement , the mediator of the covenant , he is priest , lawgiver , mediator , apostle and sacrifice of the new covenant he fulfills all Of it even the word