[Music] and with this all in mind is background you can see why the psalm for today is surprise surprise psalm 110 the only other place when Melchizedek is mentioned in the Old Testament if you read the song you'll see it's attributed to David so it's set during the Davidic Kingdom and in this case though what does it say someone 10 verse 4 the Lord has sworn and will not change his mind you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek what does that mean well in context you remember from the time of Moses to
the time of David the only people who give you priests were Levites so at the time of the exodus from Egypt although before the exodus any member of any tribe of Israel could be a priest after the sacrifice to the golden calf in Exodus 32 in a sense God Leia sizes HIDA frocks eleven of the twelve tribes and he gives the priesthood just to one it shrinks and it's only now for the anyone who's a member of the tribe of Levi you have to be a descendant of Aaron who was a Levite but then when
David comes along a thousand years later around 1000 BC he starts acting as if he himself is a priest he offers sacrifice in 2nd samuel chapter 6 in the book of chronicles it even says that David's sons were priests it was kind of mysterious what is David doing he's acting like he's both King and priests well why you know why is he doing that well think about it we're what city is David King / Messiah well what is ion it's Jerusalem or what's Jerusalem it's Salem who was the first king of Salem Mokey's attic was
he just a king no he was both King and priest so David when he comes and brings the ark up to Jerusalem he's acting like he is a new kind of priest or actually an old kind of priests he's in a sense restoring the priesthood not after the order of Levi that's a later thing at Moses time but after the order of Melchizedek and unlike the priests of Levi who only serve for a few decades priests of Melchizedek is gonna be a priest forever right now that all falls apart and and the temple gets destroyed
within a few hundred years and the monarchy is falls apart I mean it all kind of crumbles but David is an anticipation of another priest king in Jerusalem who will also restore the priesthood to all 12 tribes and it's not gonna be a Levitical priesthood it's gonna be a milk is a dekyon priesthood and that priest is of course Jesus Christ who will come to Jerusalem at the end of his life as the true king of righteousness who will gather twelve apostles who represent the twelve tribes around him and unlike those twelve tribes who were
Leia sized in the book of Exodus Jesus is going to ordain them he's going to consecrate them in Luke chapter 22 as the Lord coveted a kingdom to me so I covenant to you that you might sit on twelve Thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel and he takes bread and he takes wine he identifies it as his body and his blood and then in Luke he says do this in remembrance of me he commands the twelve to offer a sacrifice of his body and blood and thereby constitutes them priests not after the order of
levon but according to the order of Melchizedek because Jesus is the new Melchizedek he's the new and the true king of righteousness the king of Jerusalem and if you have any doubts what kind of sacrifice does he offer in Jerusalem it's bread and wine and boy they sacrificed unbloody sacrifice of bread and wine in Thanksgiving for the victory over his enemies you're not earthly Kings sodom and gomorrah but the principalities and powers of the darkness right over the angelic powers of the kingdom of Satan with which Jesus is at war throughout the gospel of throughout
the gospel account of his public ministry [Music] you
