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Basically pulling an Obama (Thanks Calminian!)
You may well be right that the book of Jubilees counts a Jewish myth Paul warned about, but that doesn't mean your book of Jashar isn't one too, or the tradition that Melchizedek was Seth.The Jewish fables to beware of are those found in Jubilees, where the "Law" is the "be all and end all", which book of Jubilees was written by Judaisers with blinders on, who believed, like Saul of Tarsus, that the Law was the end goal itself, for all time and eternity. Their book was written using bits of real history interwoven with contradicting doctrines to the Torah and the Gospel. Jubilees was really big, supplanting Torah, almost, when Jesus the Christ came incarnate. Even Peter was indoctrinated with it, and the LORD weaned him away over time, not all at once, and the vision of the unclean foods to "kill and eat" given to Peter was a powerful show and tell that what Jubilees taught about separation from the Gentiles was not from God.
While the OT does have the concept of kinsman redeemer, how do you jump from that to saying Melchizedek's priesthood was a kinsman redeemer priesthood passed down from from Adam and that Melchizedek was Seth?And my "claims" are found in Scripture, from the beginning, as the theme of restoration of all things lost in the fall, by the Kinsman/Redeemer, who ransoms the kingdom, atones for the lost seed of Adam and adopts them as His own sons, who are made clean by receiving the Gospel and obeying it; and who is established as "High King and Priest" of it, in the position of Firstborn, as the Everlasting Father who ever lives to make intercession for His own before the Glory above. -That is what it means to be in the office of Melche/King Zedek/[of]Righteousness forever, as an undying King of Righteousness, the King and Lord of Peace.
Isaiah 59 simply describes God as redeemer, it doesn't say anything about Adam, Eden or firstborn. You are reading all this into the text because that is what Jasher says. It isn't what the bible teaches.The Father swore the oath to the Son, that He was established as High Priest forever, in the manner of King of Righteousness. It is the office of Firstborn of earth, which Adam became defiled irrevocably for ever fulfilling, when he ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, and was cast down from the Garden which is planted in Eden, of the heavenly realm where the Tree of Life is. Isaiah 59 shows that YHWH would come and fill that office, as Firstborn, and as Kinsman/Redeemer.
Seth wasn't Adam's seed?No seed born in Adam could fill that office for the race of Adam, as intercessor before God for man, because of the fall, and it was promised in Genesis 3:15 that the Seed of the Woman [Zion above, personified] would come and fill it, and ransom the earth and restore all things. Until He came, the office was held in temporary succession by righteous, elect patriarchs, from Adam Through Seth,.....Noah, Shem..Abraham....Isaac, Jacob, .........Levi....Judah......Christ in flesh as Second Man.
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