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Without ending of days. The source, the well spring of eternal life. He is life and gives life to those who believe on Him. John 17:2 The fact that Jesus is the author of life is well proven by His death, burial and resurrection. Had He not possessed the life of God, Calvary would have been the end of His life. Because He is life. His physical body was laid in the tomb but on the cross he said that He surrendered His spirit nature into the hands of the Father and as He did, He quoted Psalms 31:1. Luke 23:46 The spiritual entity, His essential eternal nature, that which made Him equal with His Father lived on, in the presence of the Lord, until the day of His resurrection. The power of an endless life is vested in Him. Heb. 7:16 In all reality John taught that He could be called or named “Eternal Life.” That which was made apparent. That which had been seen and heard. It is of that One that we bear witness and testimony and show to you that life and light are to be found in Him. 1 John 1:2 Was the domicile of the Father in hell? Jesus said that He was going His way to the one who sent Him. John 16:5 Then He became a little more specific and declared that He was going to the Father. John 16:10.
Made like, the same as the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. How many times must the similarity have to be declared before we come to the right conclusion that Melchisedec and Christ are one and the same. Such powerful proclamations as to their similarity and likeness express the truth that the two are one and the same. It is noted of Melchisedec that His office and calling before the Lord was that He was a priest of the most high God (Elyown El, the Almighty) Gen. 14:18 Most assuredly that would remove Him from being a heathen priest of some of the religious nations in the time of Abraham. Melchsidec is recognized as possessing an eternal perpetual ministry and priesthood, if he was not the Son of God, then he could not have a continuing priesthood. The Lord Jesus did not come to fulfill the office of another, He is the office. By His single act as an High Priest, in the offering of Himself, He elevated those who believe in Him to eternal life. Heb. 10:24.
Melchisedec was of higher status than Abraham this was made apparent in the giving of the tithe by Abraham and the invocation of the blessing of the Most High upon him by Melchisedec. Heb. 7:7 Abraham having met the Son of Man in the person of Melchisedec rejoice when he looked down the corridors of time and saw the Lord Jesus as the Messiah. John 8:56.