Melech-Tsedeq .... Melchisedec.... has come?

Qumran Bet wishes to inform you that we do not accept the NT nor do we see any Savior but YHWH however we all must start somewhere. May what is written here help you on your journey.

Do we indeed have a righteous king leading us today rather than men like Aharon or Mosheh?

Something to consider, did YHWH appoint heavenly beings to direct us? Did He appoint 'Angelic Beings' as Kings?

Did He not in fact use mortal man to achieve His purposes?

In TN'K, we find mentioned this 'King of Righteousness' or even 'King of Peace' or 'King of Yerushalayim' and then there is the book of Hebrews...

Here we are told that the 'human' Aaronic priesthood has been destroyed in favor of this 'heavenly priesthood'.

From whence did this book of Hebrews originate?

From Enclyclopedia Britannica:

The writing called the Letter to the Hebrews, which was known and accepted in the Eastern church by the 2nd century, was included also by the Western church as the 14th Pauline epistle when the canon of East and West was assimilated and fixed in 367.

Hebrews has no salutation giving the name of either the writer or the addressees, although it does have a doxology and greeting at the end, which suggest that at some point the writing was sent as a letter to a community known to the author.

There are also numerous admonitions in the text that appear to be directed to a definite circle of addressees and some admonitions to the church at large. In chapter 6, verses 4-8, is a severe warning against the sin of apostasy for which there is no second repentance. Even so, Hebrews is essentially more a theological treatise than a letter. It is homiletical in style and calls itself a paraklesis, which has many meanings: consolation, exhortation, sermon, advocacy, and even intercession.

The thoughts, metaphors, and ideas of Hebrews are distinct from the rest of the New Testament, with closest affinities to Stephen's speech in Acts, chapter 7.

It attempts to prove the superiority and ultimacy of the revelation in Christ and the perfection of his offering of himself once and for all supersedes and makes obsolete any other revelation.

Hebrews gives strength to its readers through the example of Christ and the hope and promise of free access to God and to eternal rest, an access in which Christ is High Priest and mediator forever.

Such promise, on the basis of Christological developments and new covenant hopes, enables endurance in persecution, but its vocabulary is that of the sacrificial language of the Old Testament.

Another theme is a typological analogy with the wilderness wanderings of Israel in which, despite their murmurings of unbelief and the hardening of their hearts in their trials, they persevered. Thus, the church, as the pilgrim people of God, travels toward the future place of Sabbath rest with Christ as their pioneer and perfector of faith.

A "word of consolation" is needed to strengthen faith in time of trouble. Actual persecution leading to martyrdom is seen as not yet come, but the church is sharply warned against apostasy, the sin of all sins. Hope during persecution and trial is expressed in the image of Christ as the perfect everlasting high priest, one of whose functions is to stand as intercessor and protector.

Hebrews was considered a Pauline letter in the early Eastern church.

Clement of Alexandria?, a theologian of the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries, held that Paul had written it in Hebrew for the Hebrews and that Luke had translated it into Greek.

Origen , Clement's successor as leader in the catechetical school at Alexandria, commented that its thoughts reflected Paul but that it was written at a later time with a totally different style and phraseology, and he stated "who wrote the epistle, God knows."

Paul, for example, uses the term mediator only once and in a negative sense, in Galatians, chapter 3, verse 19, but Hebrews uses it several times of Christ as mediator of the new covenant.

In the West, Tertullian, a North African theologian of the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries, suggested Barnabas as the author, because Hebrews, called a "word of consolation," might have been written by Barnabas, whose name is translated by Luke as "son of consolation" in Acts, chapter 4, verse 36.

After Hebrews' acceptance into the canon in the mid-4th century, it was considered Pauline, but doubts persisted; and because of basically different content and style in contradiction to Paul, various authors have been suggested for Hebrews--e.g., Apollos (a Jewish Christian Alexandrian), or a follower of Stephen and the Hellenists, who had come into conflict with those not sharing his universalistic ideas.

Hebrews, however, remains anonymous. The title "To the Hebrews" is secondary and may reflect either an idea as to its addressees or that it was influenced by its extensive Old Testament material.

According to internal evidence, Hebrews was written in a second or later generation of Christians. Persecution references suggest a time after Nero's persecution and about the time of the emperor Domitian but early enough to be quoted or alluded to in the First Letter of Clement (c. 96), thus suggesting a date of c. 80-90.

The place of the addressees may be Italy, because 13:24 is understood as a greeting sent home from one writing from abroad, but this is not certain. The addressees were probably Gentile Christians who needed instruction in "the elementary doctrines of Christ" and concerning faith in God.

Hebrews constitutes the first Christian example of a thoroughly allegorical, typological exegesis (critical interpretation) of the Old Testament. There were precursors of such a methodology in Jewish Alexandrian biblical exegesis (e.g., Philo), and Platonic tendencies found in Hebrews can also be found in Jewish-Alexandrian methods of interpretation of the Old Testament.

The language of Hebrews is extremely polished, elegant, and cultured Greek, the best in the New Testament. Linguistically and stylistically, it shows only a slight influence of the Koine (common Greek).

The Attic style is broken only in passages in which Hebrews quotes the Septuagint. Plays on words and synonyms with similar beginnings for emphasis show the author's literary craftsmanship.

Below is from the book of Hebrews. I submit to you that if Paul did not write Hebrews, then one of his followers did. It was most necessary to undermine the teachings of Torah and the statutes and admonitions given in TN'K or the historical facts that it was necessary to 'do away' with the old... establish a new, with the teachings of Paul holding center stage.

The Church of Rome had to destroy the Jewish G-d, in order to establish their own. All the customs, traditions, Laws, Heros, Servants and Priests of the Jew must be destroyed so that in their place may be set this 'new king, god and priest'

A vacuum is always filled so in order to control the space, when one was eliminated, another must quickly be established.

There was one waiting in the wings. He was created by Paul to fill all the necessary positions. In Roman history, the Emperor was King, Deity and Priest and the book of Hebrews makes clear that Paul's 'jesus christ' would fit the bill perfectly. A brilliant coup de gras.

Heb 7:11-8:13

11 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?

12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.

14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there arises another priest,

16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

17 For he testifies, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

18 For there is truly a disannulling of the commandment going before due to the weakness and unprofitableness of it.

19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; and it is by this better hope that we draw near unto God.

20 And it was not without an oath he was made priest:

21 (For those priests (the Aaronic priest) were made without an oath; but this (the new priest) with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swore and will not repent, You art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not able to continue by reason of death:

24 But this man, because he continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood.

25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

27 Who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

28 For the law makes men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, makes the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

CHAPTER 8

1 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;

2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

5 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, said he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.

6 But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8 For finding fault with them, he said, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, said the Lord.

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

13 In that he says, A new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away.

We are told that we are under a 'new covenant', a 'new priesthood' that the 'old covenant' and the 'old priesthood' have passed away.

"Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:..........For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:.........

And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest."

Someone please tell me the House of Israel and the House of Judah are now under this 'new covenant'... They all know him... His Law (Torah) is written in their hearts and in their minds. All Israel and Judah are now subject to YHWH. They all bow before Him.

No, there is no way anyone can say this has happened. What has happened instead is that the Hellenistic ways of Greece, then Rome, then the modern church have entered in and have once more 'led them away captive'. The wilderness journey, captivity, the diaspora is not over, my friends.

The 'New Testament', the Book of Hebrews' Paul and the modern day followers of his teachings may tell you, it is over, we are in a new dispensation, we are 'under grace', the law is done away, it has been nailed to the cross.... close your ears to such seducers.. they hiss and they twist and they lead you away. Humanity has always been under YHWH's mercy. If it were not so all would have been destroyed long ago.