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The priesthood of Melchisedek is superior to that of Aaron for more reasons than there being a single sacrifice of Christ. As awesome as the contrast of one sacrifice is, the priesthood issue goes even further than that.

Aaron's priesthood involved a work that could not open the holiest of all for more than a few moments one day every year. Christ's present Melchisedek priesthood has opened the holiest up for us all.

Furthermore, Melchisedek was PRIEST actively interceding for Abraham WHILE KING AT THE SAME TIME. Christ is KING on the throne NOW. And He is priest while on that throne as well. Christ was not King until the ascension. He is only Priest and King while on the throne.

Zec 6:13 KJVR Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

Hebrews also shows us that Melchisedek's order awarded Christ an UNENDING PRIESTHOOD. He ever lives to make intercession. That statement alone proves He is presently interceding. It's so plainly stated.

The entire concept of how we can come to God by Him involves the statement that He ever liveth to make intercession for us. And note that saving to the uttermost is mentioned. THAT IS MORE than simply "coming out of Egypt", spiritually. It is getting into Canaan, spiritually.

Heb 7:25 KJVR Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

This is not merely getting saved from the world. It is SALVATION TO THE UTTERMOST. Hebrews is about OUR LIFE that CAN ENJOY the HOLIEST OF ALL. Heb 6 focuses on the entire theme of the book by saying we can enter the most holy place. And as we read Hebrews, entering the most Holy Place is actually living in such transcendent power and victory, that so many believers never experience, let alone KNOW ABOUT IT.

Note verse 25 above. The only way this makes sense is to realize that people can come to GOD -- TO THE UTTERMOST -- BY HIM NOW because HE IS ACTIVELY INTERCEDING FOR THEM NOW.

We all understand our advocate picture. Like a lawyer actively pointing to the once shed blood to appeal for anyone who trusts in the cross, JESUS ACTIVELY AND PRESENTLY STLL INTERCEDES.

1Jo 2:1 KJV My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

He did not DIE to act as intercessor, but HE EVER LIVETH to make intercession. Death did not accomplish that. An unending LIFE does this. Don't focus on the death, here, but THE LIFE.

People WHO COME TO HIM NOW are able to be saved to the uttermost BECAUSE HE LIVES NOW AS INTERCESSOR for them. If He was only intercessor for them at his death, we would not read of Him EVER living to make intercession, and we would not read that this is the reason people who COME TO HIM NOW can be saved to the uttermost!

Saving us to the uttermost is going FAR PAST salvation from sin. It is saving us to such a degree that we overcome sin everyday of our lives! And we read at the end of Hebrews 6 how Jesus has entered for us into the holiest, past the veil, as forerunner. He is in there now, seated as King and High Priest. And when we truly believe Him for all He is there for us to experience, we have this victory over sin. And that is spiritually saying we entered with Him into the Holiest. Having total victory, so as not to turn back, as many of the Hebrews had, and others were in danger of doing, is spiritually called dwelling in the most holy place.

Heb 6:18-20 KJV That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: (19) Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; (20) Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

When some claim his work on the cross and shedding of blood alone is where the intercession occurred, they actually lower Christ's priesthood to that of Aaron. His work on the earth on the cross in death was a priestly work similar to Aaron's Levitical priesthood. But the present priestly ministry beyond the veil, seated in the holiest of holies is a work foreshadowed by the Melchisedek Priesthood. It is not a ministry to purge us from sins, since that is already done. It is a ministry to lift us to absolute victory NOW.


Notice the terms associated with Melchisedek's priesthood! They are BEYOND THE VEIL terms. THEY ARE UNENDING LIFE terms, NOT DEATH terms.

Yes, Christ died, but the association with the Melchisedek priesthood is not focusing on death. BUT UNENDING LIFE.


Again, it is not a priesthood to purge us from sins, since that is done. It is to give us total victory NOW before we leave this world for glory. Aaron's stopped at dealing with sins. Melchisedek's priesthood goes beyond that to save us to the UTTERMOST in daily living! THIS uttermost situation is why Christ ever intercedes! We ARE NOT THERE YET!!!! 99% of believers are not in the UTTERMOST position of indwelling the holiest of holies, spiritually speaking. Again, this indwelling in this place is speaking of absolute victory.

Please notice this. It's not intercession to simply see shed blood remit sins. It is beyond that to intercession to COME TO THE UTTERMOST, to which we have not yet experienced in the practical sense. His intercession is not for weakly sinners, but saints who have not yet come to the place of victory in everything. THAT is the context of why He intercedes. Had it been a context of association with sins, Aaron's did that. But Mel's DOES far more!

READ OF MEL'S MEETING WITH ABRAHAM and you can see the reason for intercession NOW!!!