Study 8 From The Book of Hebrews Is: Hebrews 7:1-14
1. Verses 1:10. On what grounds is
Melchizedek said to be greater than Abraham and consequently superior to the
Levitical priesthood? By what the scriptural record both does and does not tell
us about him, in what ways is Melchizedek made to resemble the Son of God?
2. Verses 11-14. Why could not
Jesus possibly be a priest after the order of Aaron? What does the promise in
the Old Testament of a new order of priesthood (see Ps. 110:4) imply concerning
the existing Levitical priesthood? If the priesthood is changed, what must
inevitably be changed as well?
Notes
1. Verse 1. ‘This Melchizedek,
king…priest’: among the Israelites these two offices were never held by the
same person.
2. Verse 2 ‘First…righteousness,
and then … peace’: Is. 32:17.
3. Verses 12. The priesthood was so fundamental to the old
covenant between God and His people, that any change in the order of priesthood
must of necessity involve a change in the whole constitution; i.e., it implies
nothing less than an accompanying new, and indeed better, covenant. See 7:22.
