#281 - Melchizedek

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Melchizedek and Abraham


I do not know why I am so tired. No idea. t may well be because of the weekend with Prem, probably is, but I am so fecking tired it isn't funny.

But I AM up and that's what counts. I am here. I am standing.

Last night we were talking about Melchizedek. Who was he? It seems that he prefigures Christ. I have never ever given this any thought at all. I am discovering so many things about the Old Testament. It is so interesting given that we are also doing Ancient Mesopotamia in school. Fascinating stuff.

So the Elohim were a Trinity, a multiplicity of gods. They were three men, very clearly, it says so in the passage and they were there right at the start. Yahweh, or God, or Lord, was a lesser God - part of the Trinity - there was God Most High - higher than Yahweh - and then there are the Elohim who made the Cosmos.

It seems so strange that I only come to this now.

Melchizedek prefigures Christ - in fact he IS Christ. Christ who has superseded Yahweh.

Christ who is both man and God.

It is fascinating - to think there is a whole branch of Christianity which I did not know of.

It is called Christophany - the appearance of Christ in other parts of the Bible before he appears as Christ.

So, what did I think Melchidezek was in the first place, seeing how I was so fascinated by him? He was always this esoteric figure who was an important gatekeeper. Of all the Old Testament characters, I have read about him THE MOST. And yet I have managed to somehow completely miss this link between him and Christ even though now when I go back to it it is stamped all over the place.

I have always been fascinated by his name. There is something in the sound, the shape even, which fascinates me. There are the Elohim, Melchiedek and Yahweh. This Trinity. The idea that the Hebrews only have ever had one God is now receeding further and further, especially when we make these parallels between Sumerian mythology.

I can't think, my head is buzzing so badly. I must really be careful with my weekends and what I do with them.

Just seemed to have lost everything. Well, today, I get it back.

Also Ghin being sick doesn't help. The routine is broken and I am bad with broken routines.

What else?

I need to finish the lesson plans.

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