Saturday prophecy 1 Melchizedek

Each Saturday I will take a break from verse and discuss the numerous prophecies of Old Testament prophecies regarding Christ, unless they will come up in the verse lists. So here is first not covered there.

Genesis 14:18-20
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.) 19 And he blessed him and said,
“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;
20 and blessed be God Most High,
who has delivered your enemies into your hand!”
And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

Hebrews 7:1-3
Chapter 7
The Priestly Order of Melchizedek
1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. 3 He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.

Hebrews 7:15-22
This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek, 16 who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is witnessed of him,
“You are a priest forever,
after the order of Melchizedek.”
18 For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness 19 (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
20 And it was not without an oath. For those who formerly became priests were made such without an oath, 21 but this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him:
“The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind,
‘You are a priest forever. ’”
22 This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.

SIS

Psalms 110:4
The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind,
“You are a priest forever
after the order of Melchizedek.”

Romans 8:3
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Romans 3:20
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Hebrews 10:22-23
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 8:6
But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.

Hebrews 12:24
and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

HIJ

So a priest who came centuries before God had given the Law, or set up the sacrificial system or the Levitical or Aaronic priesthood, and he provides an early foreshadowing of Jesus, who has the office of Priest and King. Jesus, like Melchizedek, did not come from the priestly Levitical family line.
Our High Priest and Lord was the ultimate exception and completion of what God had promised all along; an eternal Priest, who would offer the last and best sacrifice to atone for sin, which happened at the cross, and confirmed and accepted by the resurrection.