Hebrews Summary (Nasb)

12 For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also.

13 For the one concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

14 For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.

15 And this is clearer still, if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek,

16 who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

17 For it is attested of Him, “YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.” PROPHET, PRIEST, KING

“Calvin addresses also the issue of Melchizedek's identity in his commentary on Genesis. According to Calvin “many imagine Melchizedek to have been Shem; to whose opinion I am, for many reasons, hindered from subscribing. Thus, Calvin disagrees with Luther, but agrees most nearly with Theodoret, Chrysostom and Augustine. In conclusion we can say that Moses never mentions that Shem migrated from the east to Judea, and again, Melchizedek according to the author of Hebrews has no bloodline in order to be identified with Shem.”

https://mironclaudiu.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/633/

WESLEY: The Rabbins say, that Melchizedek was Shem the son of Noah, who was king and priest to those that descended from him, according to the patriarchal model. Many Christian writers have thought that this was an appearance of the Son of God himself, our Lord Jesus, known to Abram at this time by this name. But as nothing is expressly revealed concerning it, we can determine nothing. He brought forth bread and wine.

www.godrules.net/library/wesley/wesleygen14.htm

6: 1 Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the]Christ, let us press on to]maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

2 of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead.

3 And this we will do, if God permits.

4 For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. (NOT ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED) BAPTISM, LIKE JEWISH WASHING, THEN MUSLIMS.

6: 19 “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil” (The temple veil was torn from top to bottom – Matthew 27: 51

Psalm 110:4 “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind” LIKE Hebrews 7:21 “THE LORD HAS SWORN AND WILL NOT CHANGE HIS MIND, ‘YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER’”);

Heb 8: 8 Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.

JESUS LEARNED AS SHOULD WE. “ALWAYS LIVING AND LEARNING” MWS

9: 5 and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but of these things we cannot now speak in detail.