Who is Melchizedek

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Who was Melchizedek and why was he so important?


Melchizedek | Story, Meaning, Priesthood, & Bible Verse ...


Melchizedek, in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), a figure of importance in biblical tradition because he was both king and priest, was connected with Jerusalem, and was revered by Abraham, who paid a tithe to him.

A Strange Story concerning Melchizedek -

Noah had a bother called 'Nir', Nir had a wife called 'Sopanim' who became pregnant in her old age.
She is embarrassed by this pregnancy and hides herself until the child is due. When Nir discovers she is pregnant he rebukes her and intends to send her away because she has disgraced him, but instead she falls dead at his feet.


Noah discovers this and tells Nir that the Lord has “covered up our scandal.” They bury Sopanim in a black shroud in a secret grave.
However the child was not dead and came out of the dead mother as a fully developed child. This terrifies Nir and Noah, but since the child is “glorious in appearance” they realize the Lord is renewing the priesthood in their bloodline. They name the child 'Melchizedek'.


Melchizedek is only with Nir for forty days, then the Lord instructs Arc Angel Michael to go and take the boy up to heaven. The Lord calls him 'My Child Melchizedek'.

The child is to be placed in Paradise forever. Nir is so grieved by the loss of his son. He also dies leaving no more priests in the world, allowing the world to become even more evil. Noah is therefore instructed to build the ark.

This strange miraculous birth story for Melchizedek is part of an interest in the King of Salem (Salem - Later to become known as Jerusalem) first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 14:18.
 

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Where did you hear this story?

I'm not sure where I first heard of this story, I must have been researching Melchizedek and found it online.

But you can Google it & it does come up as authentic.
 
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Noah had a bother called 'Nir' ?

The bible says only 8 people survived the flood.
(Nir) nor Noah's ( Father) was on the ark.

This story is easy proven false.

 
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The Bible doesn't say that he did, so this is speculation.

The Bible doesn't mention a lot of things, but it doesn't mean it's not true.

Try reading a few of the lost books of scripture (Apocrypha).
 
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Try reading a few of the lost books of scripture (Apocrypha).
No thanks. I'm interested in God's word, not in documents whose authorship and content can't be verified.
If they had been considered to be authentic and true to the Apostles' teaching, they would have been included in the Bible.
 
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No thanks. I'm interested in God's word, not in documents whose authorship and content can't be verified.
If they had been considered to be authentic and true to the Apostles' teaching, they would have been included in the Bible.

There were reasons for there removal, the reason being that there was info that was too close to the truth that they did not want the masses to know about or believe.

Take the book of Enoch for instance, he wrote about how the earth & the heavens truly work.
Look how much money NASA would lose, if the masses really understood this.

Then there's the book of Jasher, he wrote about the killing of a half human & half horse animal, they cant have the masses knowing that Genesis 6 is actually true.

Anyway Enoch and the book of Jasher are mentioned in the Bible.
 
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Assuming for a minute that Salem = Jerusalem, then Melchizedek is a Jebusite priest-king. We know Jebusites controlled Jerusalem before being conquered by David (2 Sam 5:6-16). And we have an example of another name quite similar to Melchizedek, a certain Adonizedek, who was also a Canaanite ruler of Jerusalem (Josh 10:1, 3). So, Melchizedek, like Adonizedek, was a Jebusite ruler of Jerusalem.
 
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There were reasons for there removal, the reason being that there was info that was too close to the truth that they did not want the masses to know about or believe.
You appear to think there are a lot of conspiracies going on.
"THEY don't want people to go to Antarctica"
"THEY don't want people to discover other lands".
"THEY don't want people to know the truth."
You don't have any evidence that "THEY" are trying to keep things from us or control our lives.

Take the book of Enoch for instance, he wrote about how the earth & the heavens truly work.
Nonsense.
If the book of Enoch was written by Enoch, he lived in OT times. They didn't have a fraction of the technology that we have today; I doubt he knew.

Anyway Enoch and the book of Jasher are mentioned in the Bible.
Being mentioned in the Bible means nothing.
Baal is mentioned in the Bible - rather a lot. He was still a false god.
Jezebel is mentioned in the Bible - she was an evil, idol worshipping woman.
Cain is mentioned in the Bible - he killed his brother.

The books of Enoch and Jasher are not included in the Bible - they are/were not considered to be authentic. You might wish that they were in Scripture, but they're not.
If you are serious about God's word then you will read that, instead of "Bible related" books, which, it seems, contradict the message of the Bible.
It could be that it is these "related" books that lead to to form baseless, and ridiculous, theories such as Noah taking DNA samples into the ark.
 
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The elite , leaders of the world, Governments & Royals etc.
Which ones? They are changing pretty fast in the course of history. How does this constant change fit into your simplistic world view "them vs us"?
 
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The elite , leaders of the world, Governments & Royals etc.
As if.
They have enough problems of their own without trying to tell the rest of us what to think/believe. They'd never be able to do it anyway.
 
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Nonsense.
If the book of Enoch was written by Enoch, he lived in OT times. They didn't have a fraction of the technology that we have today; I doubt he knew.

Enoch was written in the 2nd temple period and not written by the actual Enoch. "Enoch" wrote about a 364 day solar calendar that was observationally wrong.
 
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