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Why Melchizedek Matters—Feat. Dr. Josh Mathews

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The Priesthood Is Failing and Kingship Is Failing

I think the paradigm I kind of came into reading the Bible was the way God set this all up with the priests and everything. But then these two characters come in as kind of like these shining examples of like this is what it should have been. So somehow we get from that role of Melchizedek. Then much later in the second temple period, hundreds of years, Israelites are meditating on these texts. And they start to see him as an exalted heavenly figure.

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