MELCHIZEDEK - Part 2

After considering the account from the Book of Enoch, Melchizedek becomes very significant, and is the importance of genetics. From chapter sixty-eight about, “Enoch, his own favored servant, even so that they might hand it on to their own sons, from generation to generation, from age to age.” Enoch was favored. He was not only shown mysterious scientific knowledge but neither would he ever die.

Enoch had been taken up to heaven, came back and wrote it down, and then returned to heaven without ever experiencing death. The people celebrated at Akhuzan where Enoch was translated into Paradise. Hence, for them, Akhusan was made a holy place as demonstrated by the alter there in front of which they celebrated three days. They surely celebrated Akhuzan as the entryway to heaven, and that because Enoch went to heaven, their hope forthwith was that access to heaven would be right there at Akhuzan.

The hope from Enoch’s experience in heaven and defeating death was that it would be genetic for all generations, or that his sons would be engendered from above (born again) in the same fashion.

Joseph, as supposed, was the father of Jesus. Luke wrote the genealogy of Joseph back to God, and it was through Enoch (Luke 3). It was supposed that Enoch passed down his genes many generations to Joseph, the alleged father of Jesus, but it was through Mary.

Thus, Jesus was the generation that would experience translation in the same manner as Enoch. However, Jesus, unlike Enoch, experienced death, but after he was Resurrected, he arose from that same City of Enoch, Zion. Akhusan is likely Zion, and hence, Jerusalem was not the City of Enoch but a celestial city above that was later called “New Jerusalem:”

Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the Name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my New Name.” (Rev 3:12)

 It appears that God’s old Name was Melchizedek, and His new Name was Jesus! Now back to Enoch.

What did Enoch do? He overcame the world when he was taken to heaven without suffering death. Because Enoch did so, so can the living children of God at the rapture; after the dead in Christ are glorified, those still alive in Christ will be translated to heaven (raptured like Enoch).

Enoch had parents and as such he was not the Messiah. However, with Enoch gone, God did supply a replacement on Earth for him. His new name was Melchizedek. He came from the City of God, the same great city of Zion — the City of Enoch that truly exists nowhere but in heaven.

Rather than the people celebrating Enoch, in effect, they were celebrating Melchizedek, who can be deduced as an appearance of God in the Flesh. He was as much “Jesus” as Jesus himself because he was God manifested in the flesh. However, there was one big difference; Melchizedek was a God in imperishable flesh, but Jesus wore perishable flesh so that He could feel the “sting of death.”

Good Friday was good for several reasons: (1) Satan lost his host, Judas, that day when he suffered death as well, (2) mankind was supplied with new genes that day and with a new name — Christians, and (3) The flesh of Jesus experienced the “sting of death.”

When anyone thinks of a “sting,” they think of bees or perhaps pricking of some sort. Paul was accused of Jesus of some act, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks” (Acts 26:14).

On a personal note, I thought about the sting of death. Before, I thought of death as a sting that would hurt terribly, but it occurred to me out of the blue, that the sting of death, for some, would be pleasant. Since “to die is gain,” for Paul (Phil 1:21), that implies that the sting of death for Paul and others in Christ is pleasant. Then it struck me; the sting of death is experiencing the Divine Impulse as the person is regenerated at rebirth. I had always thought that born again was on Earth, but discovered that for those in Christ, rebirth is at death: “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” (1 Pet 1:23). Hence rebirth is when the new flesh is acquired after death. The “sting” is when the genes of God are Divinely acquired which should be quite joyful!

Enoch was “born again” without ever dying. The Divine Impulse of God made his flesh incorruptible, and that condition has been passed down genetically to this day. Those who trust God need not fear, like Enoch, if Jesus would come down again, like Melchizedek, the sting would not kill but overcome death.

Enoch could not save others because he was not the Messiah. He did not even save himself. God provided the Divine Impulse as Enoch was “stung” by God but never died. There was a need for a Messiah, and before the Earth would be destroyed, the Messiah came to save the world!

In chapter sixty-nine, the people asked Methuselah to be glorified — to put on incorruptible flesh. Although that man would live longer than any other, 969 years, so long as that is; it is not eternal life. Methuselah lived so long as it would take, and it would be Melchizedek who would save mankind.

Melchizedek would arrive glorious from another realm just in time to prepare Noah for the crucial event; that God “gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). Only Noah found grace (Gen 6:8) but like Adam long before, he provided his own virtue to his sons, genetically. Noah had felt the Divine Impulse without dying like Enoch and passed it along genetically to his sons, just as the people worshipping at Akhusan had requested of Noah.

And God was faithful — Noah, and his brother Nir were the progeny of Enoch. Each would serve a purpose: for Noah, “his same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed” (Gen 5:29). “And Methusalam summoned Nir, the son of Lamekh, Noe’s younger brother, and he invested him with the vestments of priesthood in front of the face of all the people, and made him stand at the head of the altar of the LORD … He will be in front of your face from the present day as a prince and a leader.”

So, there were two bothers with two purposes: Noah was to build the ship to safety and Nir had a special, princely-priestly assignment. Nir was the priestly offspring of Enoch, but he was not meant to be the Prince of Peace but one of dissension.

Like Abraham and like Joseph years later, Nir would be the reason for the genes of Enoch to be passed down. The biogenetics would be passed down through Noah but the Divine Impulse, through Nir, as the supposed father of Melchizedek.

What is in that name? It is theophoric, just as the Name, “Jesus.” The name Melchizedek means, “My King Is [the god] Sedek.” Sedek was the god of the Phoenicians, not the God of Nir by any means.

Why is that significant? The true God, Jesus, was not a “carpenter” per se, but a “tekton” (Greek). Jesus is the “Technician,” having the ability to do all things, one of which may have been carpentry. Noah was essentially the “hands of God” who would build the Ark to save mankind, but Melchizedek was the “Technician.” What would Melchizedek do? He would take care of all things, even designing the Ark.

Sedek was the “god of ship building” as described in literature, “Sydyk is described as the father of the ‘Dioskouroi or Kabeiroi or Korybants or Samothracians’ who are credited with the invention of the ship” (Fandom 2004-2022).  So not only was Sedek the King of Righteousness but the King of Shipbuilding. Who gave Noah the technicalities to build the Ark?

¹³ And God said unto Noah, “The end of all flesh is come before me; for the Earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the Earth. ¹⁴ Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. ¹⁵ And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of… (Gen 6:13-15)

 Now add two plus two: Melchizedek was a ship building God, was from out there, and was righteous. He was there for Noah. What purpose would Melchizedek serve? He would be the Technician that designed the Ark. He was the Almighty God who instructed Noah, not Sydyk of the Phoenicans. Who would need a God of ship building alone when right there was a Righteous King and Priest whose role was to be the Voice of God!

As such, God came to save mankind in the flesh of Melchizedek. Just as Melchizedek means “King of Righteousness,” Jesus means “Yahweh saves” and in this case, Yahweh saved mankind by providing the instructions to build the ship! Note that it was God who saved, and neither the boat nor the water. If it was the boat, then credit would be given to Noah, and if it was the water, credit would have been given to the “God of Water,” Poseidon. Like Poseidon, Sydyk had nothing to do with saving mankind.

 

picture credit: LDS Scripture Teachings, "The God Zedek")

Note: I am not a Mormon but a traditional Christian.