February 6, 2026
Please use the comment section on this page to share insights from today’s reading OR your own personal Bible reading.
Reading along with us in Job & Hebrews? Here’s today’s reading:
Hebrews 7 (NIV)
Melchizedek the Priest
1 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, 2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness”; then also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.”……Continue Reading
As you read the OT you see the importance of the law and tradition to the people, in some cases where the law even took priority over the One who gave it. But Jesus was a new way, a new priest. No longer a man who could make mistakes and lead people astray but rather a perfect Savior for the people. The law is the standard but not the solution. Jesus is the only way to salvation. Still people need rules, standards, and expectations or else we are just sheep wandering about getting into trouble. Balance comes from the relationship with our Shepherd, knowing His voice and following His commands but always recognizing He did the work no man could do for us or that we could do on our own to save us.
Job 3,4,
Hebrews 7
The writer of Hebrews must establish why Jesus can be considered our High Priest when He is not a decedent of Aaron or Levi. But the Old Testament speaks of another priesthood established in someone else and that is Melchizedek. He is more like Jesus in having no origin and coming from ancient times. And who better than Abraham to validate his credentials as a priest by giving him an offering. And Jesus is a more complete priest anyway, because His priesthood was established in the perfect life He lived and the oath that came from God Himself. And who better to represent us before God than Jesus Who understands us as humans, but also represents God to us because He is God. And He doesn’t offer sacrifices like other priests. He offers Himself. Thereby He is the best sacrifice and He is able to establish a more perfect relationship with us and God through Him giving us His life.
Hebrews 7
Psalm 75; Job 1-4; Ezekiel 6; Hebrews 6-7
Hebrews 7
Jesus was a different high priest as was Melchizedek. Unlike the Levitical priests, he did not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. Instead, he sacrificed his perfect self for our sins once and for all. He is able to save us completely, those who come to God through him, because he is alive and is always interceding for us.
To read this that all the priests that lived in the past died, and that prevented them from continuing in their priesthood, but in verse 24, Jesus lives forever therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him because he always lives to intercede for them. There is no better news that men will ever read or hear
Hebrews 7
Jesus is both King (through Judah and David) and priest (in the order of Melchizedek). The Jews would argue He is not able to be a priest, not being a Levite, but the argument of a superior, eternal order of priest is established way back with Moses to Melchizedek .